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‘Dodi dead, Di badly injured,’ read the front page of the first edition newspapers that morning. The news that Princess Diana had died in a car crash in Paris broke in the early hours of the morning on August 31, 1997. While the public woke up to the news on the …

Prince Andrew was ‘rude’ to royal staff and once called someone a ‘fat, lardy a***hole’, a former protection officer has claimed. Paul Page, who served at Buckingham Palace between 1998 and 2004, said in new Channel 5 documentary that the Queen’s second son once verbally attacked a fellow protection officer during …

There was a clear sense of the King wanting to reset royal operations after the medical problems which befell the monarchy in 2024. By the end of that year, routine royal news reports would make no mention of his health. He had been around the world, visiting Australia in mid-October …

During her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II presided over every State Opening of Parliament, bar three. She faced the tricky task of flawlessly reading the Government’s legislative programme while wearing the Imperial State Crown, which weighs 2.3lb (1kg). The Mail’s Robert Hardman revealed in his book Charles III: New King. …

Almost exactly 85 years ago, German bombs struck Buckingham Palace. As the Queen Mother stood among the rubble and debris, she memorably remarked that she could finally ‘look the East End in the face’. It became a point of national pride that she and her husband, King George VI, refused …

Royal watchers might have expected Buckingham Palace to celebrate Princess Anne’s 75th birthday with a gun salute, the release of an official photograph or an equestrian event. What they definitely didn’t expect was the palace to mark Friday’s milestone by announcing that King Charles’s sister had two secret stepchildren. Yet, …

When it comes to athletic royals, Princess Anne, Zara Tindall, Mark Phillips, or even Charlene of Monaco may come to mind.  But in 2010, Sarah Ferguson’s eldest daughter became the first royal to complete the London Marathon. And she helped to set a record in the 26.2-mile race in honour of …

Meghan Markle’s close pal has hit out at the “ridiculous double standards” she claims exist within the royal family. Bryony Gordon, who struck up a friendship with the Duchess of Sussex in 2018, called out what she sees as Markle’s unequal treatment compared to other members of the Firm. “Can …

Prince Andrew called a palace staffer working in the royal household a “f–king imbecile” for not referring to the late Queen Mother by her full title, according to a new book. The Duke of York, 65, can be “unbelievably cruel” to staffers behind closed doors, according to an excerpt of …

Jeffrey Epstein, the most notorious fornicator of our era, said of Prince Andrew – younger brother of the King and at one point second in line to the throne – ‘We are both serial sex addicts. He’s the only person I have met who is more obsessed with p***y than …