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WENDY HOLDEN: Has the Queen forgiven her governess who wrote the original Royal tell-all book?

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Sheltering from the rain on a half-term break to Northumberland, I was half-browsing in a second-hand bookshop with no particular aim in mind when a book tumbled from a shelf to my feet. Reaching down, I noticed its title: The Little Princesses. This was a Royal blockbuster written by a woman whose breach of the Royal … Read more

Ghislaine Maxwell wrote song for Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday with lyrics about ‘schoolgirl crushes’

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A friend of Ghislaine Maxwell has revealed details of the ‘creepy’ song he was commissioned to perform at the birthday of Jeffrey Epstein – which included lyrics about ‘schoolgirl crushes’ and ’24-hour erections’.   Society writer Christopher Mason, 54, who lives in Manhattan, writes and performs musical roasts and topical satirical songs, and after meeting Maxwell in 1989 was asked … Read more

Composer Ennio Morricone who wrote the music for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly dies aged 91 

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Hollywood composer Ennio Morricone who wrote the music for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly dies aged 91 By Sam Baker For Mailonline Published: 08:27 BST, 6 July 2020 | Updated: 08:28 BST, 6 July 2020 The Hollywood composer who wrote music for the classic film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly has … Read more

Steve Bing wrote a goodbye note to Damian Hurley just hours before his death

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Millionaire philanthropist and film financier Steve Bing left notes for his two children before taking his life on Monday, it has been claimed. Bing wrote to his 18-year-old son with Elizabeth Hurley, Damian. He also wrote to Kira Kerkorian Bing, 21 – his daughter with tennis player Lisa Bonder.  Television host Billy Bush said that … Read more

San Francisco ‘Karen’ calls the cops on man who wrote Black Lives Matter on his own property

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A white make up designer who called the police on a man for writing Black Lives Matter on a wall in front of his own house is facing backlash from businesses who partner with her brand. Lisa Alexander, who owns LA Face Skincare, was dubbed a ‘Karen’ after a video circulated Friday showing her accusing … Read more

Plucky buyer who wrote to owners of a house she liked reveals how she got it

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A social worker with a flair for interior design has revealed how she managed to bag a property she fell in love with – simply by sending the owners a hand-written letter expressing her interest.  Sally Deakin, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who lived in a new-build before she spotted the traditional mid-terrace on Lawn Avenue, … Read more

Family of British soldier killed at Dunkirk receive poignant letter he wrote nearly 80 years ago

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The family of a British soldier who was killed at Dunkirk have finally received a poignant letter he wrote to his mother just days before his death nearly 80 years ago. Private Harry Cole, 30, penned a letter to his mother Rosa on May 26, 1940, predicting with hopeless optimism that German troops would soon … Read more

Back to the grind! 11 yards from place Thomas Hardy wrote Return of the Native back in action

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Back to the grind! 11th century water-mill just yards from place Thomas Hardy wrote Return of the Native whirs to life again to help meet demand for flour during lockdown Sturminster Newton Mill in Dorset was first mentioned in the Domesday Book, which was written in 1086  Wessex author Hardy lived yards from the mill … Read more

Cole Porter wrote songs of such brilliance that we’re still humming them 90 years on

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BOOK OF THE WEEK THE LETTERS OF COLE PORTER Edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh (Yale £25, 672 pp)  Cole Porter was the most debonair of composers and lyricists, emblematic, I always felt, of a perfect dry martini, served straight-up with a twist of lemon peel. He was responsible for such classics as Miss … Read more