Letter: Purple and privileged

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 23, 1997| Author: Alan MacColl | Copyright information

Sir: The image of Tony Blair and Chancellor Kohl has an older history than you might think. The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury records that in 1121 Pope Calixtus II ridiculed the antipope Gregory VIII, whose election had been engineered by the German Emperor Henry V, as "that puppet of the king of Germany".

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