Royal commentator ROBERT JOBSON The only winner in this latest Meghan Markle debacle is billionaire Oprah Winfrey. No wonder the Palace aides tried to keep the chat show Queen and the fame hungry royal duchess apart early in her tenure as a working royal. I watched a live feed of the CBS broadcast as the … Read more
Today is International Women’s Day: and Archewell, the foundation created by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, celebrates this on its internet home page. Harry and Meghan declare: ‘Let’s unleash a groundswell of real acts of compassion for the women in your life.’ How unfortunate, then, that last week allegations of bullying by the Duchess … Read more
Source: PA April 3 2016: The mother-of-one is detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini airport after a holiday visit to Iran where she showed her daughter Gabriella to her parents. July 12 2016: Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, delivers letters to Downing Street for outgoing prime minister David Cameron and his replacement Theresa … Read more
Before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex married, a professional creative, well used to the intricacies and diplomacy involved in working with Royal households, was interviewed for a role by Meghan. A mutual friend ran into the candidate immediately after the interview and asked excitedly how the experience had been. The reply did not sound … Read more
The moment I realised what we were up against was when a student nurse, who had just spent a year on the Covid front line, told me that she wouldn’t have the vaccine because it might prevent her from becoming a mother in the future. She was 21 and already in her third year of … Read more
Last July, in that sunny lull between lockdowns, the Government jubilantly announced that the number of nurses employed by the NHS had increased by 13,502, rising from 282,506 to 296,008. The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, was delighted. ‘This pandemic has shown how proud the entire country is of all our brave health and care workers, … Read more
A prominent New Labour journalist, Roy Greenslade, has finally admitted he is a lifelong supporter of IRA violence. You should care, even though you may think Mr Greenslade is obscure and unimportant. For it is yet another of those lightning-flashes which reveal something I have been trying to tell you for years and which you … Read more
Shakespeare might have been foretelling the events of this past week with these lines from Hamlet: ‘When troubles come they come not single spies but in battalions’. We have had a Budget the like of which we’ve never seen in living memory. We’ve had drama at Buckingham Palace that’s being compared to the abdication crisis … Read more
Even after all these years, it’s still the unmistakable sound of defiance, of bloody-mindedness, of reassurance… and so it was all over again yesterday, for a gallant hero who had the ultimate surprise on his biggest of big days. For most people marking a century not-out, one of the greatest thrills is receiving that congratulatory … Read more
Few things exemplify Britishness more than dear old Marks & Spencer. So when, in May 2018, the Windsor branch changed its name to ‘Markle and Sparkle’ in honour of the marriage of Harry Windsor to Meghan Markle, it felt like the ultimate stamp of approval. Swept away by the giddy excitement of a royal wedding … Read more