The three-household limit on bubbles over the Christmas period may pose a challenge to the Queen’s usual festive celebrations. For the last 33 years, the monarch, 94, has travelled up to Sandringham for the holidays, where she hosts close family members, after the Christmas party for extended family members at Buckingham Palace in December. But … Read more
Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his first novel Shuggie Bain – a ‘powerful and moving’ story based on his own experience growing up in 1980s Glasgow. The writer, 44, is the second-ever Scot to win the £50,000 award after James Kelman scooped the prize for How Late It Was, How Late in 1994. … Read more
The fifth episode of the new series, which launched on Sunday, opens with global news reports of a break-in at Buckingham Palace: an intruder had climbed over a fence and into the palace grounds, before scaling a drainpipe and entering the royal quarters. During the episode, Tom Brooke’s Michael Fagan struggles to cope with the breakup … Read more
Duchess of Cornwall WILL watch the new series of The Crown with a ‘glass of wine’ and won’t be ‘fussed’ by how she’s portrayed, friend tells Vanity Fair Duchess of Cornwall, 72, will be watching new series of The Crown, friend claims Camilla is portrayed by actress Emerald Fennell in the hit Netflix show Series … Read more
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby condemns Martin Bashir for the ‘bizarre and awful’ way he exploited ‘troubled’ Princess Diana for Panorama interview Veteran journalist slammed Bashir for using ‘deception and lies’ to secure Diana He said Bashir should have taken greater care over her emotional vulnerability BBC announced this week it would launch a full inquiry into … Read more
Princess Diana’s bodyguard claims she was ‘battered into submission’ by the public breakdown of her marriage and was ‘used’ by Martin Bashir for tell-all Panorama interview Lee Sansum, 58, guarded Diana a month before she died on holiday in St Tropez Claimed that the scrutiny of her marriage to the Prince of Wales left her … Read more
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles become the first British royals to attend remembrance ceremony in Berlin to mark Germany’s national day of mourning Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall greeted at Berlin’s Bellevue Palace by Frank-Walter Steinmeier Wearing face masks, trio and Steinmeier’s wife Elke Budenbender posed outside 18th century building Charles expected … Read more
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are welcomed by Germany’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier ahead of a remembrance ceremony to commemorate the war dead Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall greeted at Berlin’s Bellevue Palace Couple met with Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Budenbender Wearing face masks, foursome posed for picture outside 18th century building … Read more
Prince Charles will call on Britain and Germany to ‘reaffirm’ their bond and make striving for a ‘better tomorrow’ their ‘common cause’ during a ceremony marking Germany’s National Day of Mourning on Sunday. Charles and Camilla jetted into Schönefeld – just south of Berlin – in the ministerial plane RAF Voyager this evening ahead tomorrow’s event – and were … Read more
Friends of Prince Charles launched a blistering attack on The Crown last night, accusing producers of the hit Netflix drama of ‘trolling on a Hollywood budget’. Some of the Prince’s closest confidantes have accused the streaming giant of exploiting the Royal Family’s pain for financial gain and raged that ‘fiction is presented as fact’ in … Read more