BBC can’t face the ‘ugly truth’: Beeb boss shut me out of probe into dirty tricks used to land Diana interview, says Earl Spencer Earl Spencer accused BBC of dodging ‘ugly truth’ about interview with his sister Claimed Lord Hall excluded him from inquiry into alleged underhand methods The BBC performed a U-turn on Tuesday … Read more
BBC journalist Martin Bashir misled Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer to secure her 1995 bombshell Panorama interview, sources claim. Nearly 23 million tuned in to witness the Princess of Wales tell Bashir, ‘There were three people in the marriage,’ a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles. But Bashir engineered the scoop of the century by showing … Read more
Prince Edward has stepped out in a plastic face shield for a visit to Surrey as research emerged suggesting they don’t work in stopping the spread of COVID-19. The Earl of Wessex, 56, who lives with his wife Sophie, 55, and their children Lady Louise Windsor, 16, and James Viscount Severn, 12, at Bagshot Park, between … Read more
Being a younger son in an aristocratic family can be hard to take. But for a twin brother, it’s even more galling. Due to being born just a few minutes later, Martin Janson has had to watch his brother Alistair become the 25th Earl of Sutherland and inherit the bewitching Dunrobin Castle, with its 120,000 … Read more
HISTORY THE WHITE SHIP by Charles Spencer (William Collins £25, 352 pp) On a cold but clear November night in 1120, almost exactly 900 years ago, a ship sailed out of Barfleur harbour on the Normandy coast, bound for Southampton. Everyone on board was cheerfully drunk but perfectly optimistic. The tide had turned and was with … Read more
Descendants of Earl behind the maxim an ‘Englishman’s home is his castle’ plan new eco-mansion on 25,000-acre estate that will be powered by solar panels and ‘carbon negative’ in 60 years Jacobean jurist Sir Edward Coke built Holkham Hall, Norfolk in the 18th century He is noted for coining the maxim that ‘an Englishman’s home … Read more
An aristocrat has lost a battle with his stepmother over plans to build a visitor attraction at the castle linked to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Colin Campbell, the seventh Earl of Cawdor, was enraged after his Czech stepmother, the dowager duchess Lady Angelika Cawdor, applied to build an events, exhibition and banqueting venue in the garden of … Read more
It’s a startling move by Allen Bathurst, who succeeded as 9th Earl on his father ‘Barmy’ Bathurst’s death in 2011 He was cut out of his ‘callous’ stepmother’s £33 million will and this week suffered the indignity of seeing her beneficiaries sell some of the family treasures worth nearly £2 million at Christie’s. But, far from … Read more
Pioneering black British actor Earl Cameron who appeared in Doctor Who and Thunderball dies aged 102 Cameron was among the first black actors to forge a successful acting career in Britain The actor’s first major role came in 1951 in the film Pool of London He also starred in the James Bond film Thunderball as … Read more
‘A heart for our little Arthur’: Nick Cave’s wife Susie shares a poignant tribute to her late son as his twin Earl celebrates his 20th birthday By Jack Newman For Mailonline Published: 18:31 BST, 23 June 2020 | Updated: 18:31 BST, 23 June 2020 Nick Cave’s wife Susie has shared a poignant tribute to her … Read more