Brief encounter
ILLUSTRATION BY NICK TAYLOR
Brenda Hale
President of the Supreme Court
What is the first news event you can recall?
The death of King George VI in 1952. We were living in the boarding house of the school where my father was headmaster and the cook came into the nursery I shared with my younger sister crying at the news. He had so endeared himself to the people during the war, which was still fresh in the memory of many.