Princess Diana’s breathtaking wedding dress has gone on display at Kensington Palace ahead of a new royal fashion exhibition. Royal Style in the Making, which opens tomorrow, will feature never-before-seen items from the archives of some of the most celebrated royal couturiers, set alongside examples of the stylish ensembles created for Princess Diana, the Queen … Read more
Italian man, 43, admits role in £25m jewellery raid at F1 heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s Kensington mansion Alessandro Donati admitted his role in £25m raid at Tamara Ecclestone’s house Italian national, 43, was taken from custody at HMP Wandsworth to court today Donati spoke only to confirm his identity before entering the guilty plea Charge relates … Read more
The Duchess of Cambridge was pictured leaving Kensington Palace this morning amid the ongoing fallout in the wake of Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview. The 39-year-old drove through London early today, after it emerged Prince William was said to be ‘concerned’ that private conversations with his brother will be ‘plastered over American TV’. Earlier this … Read more
Council chiefs rule that hated High Street Kensington cycle lanes will NOT be reinstalled despite Sadiq Khan-led survey claiming more than half of local residents support scheme Temporary lanes installed last year using cash awarded from transport scheme But they were removed in December after some 322 complaints were received This then sparked a huge … Read more
Sadiq Khan has today risked the ire of London’s motorists by urging council chiefs to reinstate the despised High Street Kensington cycle lane. The Mayor of London is attempting to apply pressure on local authority bosses to restarted the loathed project. It comes after the scheme was dramatically scrapped in December amid a row between … Read more
A loathed cycle lane which saw bollards removed after a backlash from drivers and businesses was today blasted as a ‘fiasco’ by a Transport for London board member. The £600,000 lane on Kensington High Street in West London became an unlikely battleground in a row between cycling activists and drivers angry about congestion. Ron Kalifa, … Read more
EXCLUSIVE – Garage on Kensington’s ‘millionaire’s row’ – which was bought for £350,000 two years ago – is transformed into £1.2million pint-sized eco-home The run-down garage on Lexham Gardens was bought by David Lonsdale and business partner Hadi Sarmadi The pair snapped it up in February 2019 and spent £550k turning it into a stylish, 70sq … Read more
Boris Johnson went ‘ballistic’ over the axing of a controversial cycling lane – and his cycling tsar pledged to send the Prime Minister riding down it if council leaders agreed not to remove it, it has been claimed. The cycle lane in Kensington High Street has become the unlikely battleground in the row between cycling zealots … Read more
It’s the narrow battleground that sparked a passionate debate in this newspaper between actor Nigel Havers and broadcaster Jeremy Vine over the cycle lanes springing up all over Britain. After Havers blasted a West London council for turning Kensington High Street into a ‘fume-choked Bedlam’, cycling celebrity Vine hit back by saying that if the new … Read more
TV historian Lucy Worsley leads ‘review’ of royal palaces’ links to slavery including Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Kensington Palace home Historic Royal Palaces review follows similar exercise by the National Trust Review being led by Lucy Worsley, 46, known for BBC history documentaries The historian also described National Trust as ‘ahead of the game’ … Read more