After a week she would rather forget – on the back of twelve months we would all rather forget – the Queen deserves a spot of good news. Yesterday, that walked through the Sovereign’s Entrance to Windsor Castle in the form of the Duke of Edinburgh. Having spent four weeks in two hospitals, the duke … Read more
He could have said nothing at all. In the circumstances, it would not have been surprising. The Royal Family do not normally respond to shouty potshots from the media on the basis that a) it only encourages more of the same and b) they are not politicians with an opinion on everything. This week, however, … Read more
Sandwiched between the North Circular Road and the Browning, Jones & Morris plumbing depot, Brent Terrace is, in every sense, a world apart from the gated celebrity estates of sunny Montecito, California. It was here that we found the Prince of Wales back in public yesterday, adopting the time-honoured strategy of royalty in times of … Read more
With a dash of Countryfile, a smattering of The Choir and more than a hint of 3pm on Christmas Day, this was not so much ‘A Celebration for Commonwealth Day’ – as BBC1 called it – as a genuine royal variety performance. We saw the Queen striding happily through Windsor Castle – talking about ‘selfless … Read more
We haven’t had such a bumper day of royal binge-watching since, well, that glorious Saturday in 2018 when Harry and Meghan walked out in to the Windsor sunshine. By any measure, March 7 is going to leave royal-watchers goggle-eyed. And for those of a republican bent, it would probably be advisable to switch off and … Read more
Yesterday’s P45 from Buckingham Palace may have made it very clear where the future of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex lies: outside the royal orbit. But, as ever when it comes to the Sussexes, with clarity come yet more questions Yesterday’s P45 from Buckingham Palace may have made it very clear where the future … Read more
‘He’d be no-nonsense, he’s at the top of the list!’ Ant and Dec reveal they’d want football hardman Roy Keane to appear on this year’s I’m A Celeb By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 01:04 GMT, 19 February 2021 | Updated: 01:05 GMT, 19 February 2021 Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly has revealed they’d want … Read more
Only when you stand next to one of these things do you appreciate what an astonishing prospect this must have been for Victorian Britain. Here is the man-made equivalent of the bumblebee: a mathematically absurd, fundamentally flawed design that cannot possibly work — and then does. What’s more, in the space of an hour, I … Read more
Were it not for the workers’ hi-vis tabards and the occasional fork-lift truck, we could almost be inside Mission Control, Houston – or Europe’s biggest branch of PC World. Stretching out into the distance is row upon row of computer screens – vast banks of them – and they are all showing exactly the same … Read more
ROBERT HARDMAN For a true reading of the prevailing European Union post-Brexit attitude towards the UK, don’t bother wading through impenetrable blurb from Brussels.