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How I became editor of The Spectator – aged 27

Plus: R.S. Surtees, and the first person to give Archduke Franz Ferdinand both barrels

Former editor and Long life columnist of The Spectator, Alexander Chancellor [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 22 March 2014
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