What’s this? On Tuesday, a group of 72 female MPs, the great majority of them Labour, issued an open letter of solidarity with a leading member of the Royal Family. In normal circumstances, no one would be more delighted than me, since the signatories include hard-Left Labour frontbenchers such as …
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The Duchess of Cornwall played her part in ‘smashing the patriarchy’ by having a go at a ‘feminist coconut shy’. On a visit to the inspirational Mulberry School for Girls in East London, Camilla was asked to try and knock down coconuts labelled with themes such as stereotyping and oppression …
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So febrile have been the scenes in Parliament in recent weeks that the economic statement by Chancellor Sajid Javid on September 4 has gone almost unnoticed, yet it was scarcely what we have come to expect from Tory governments. Declaring ‘the end of austerity’, Javid unveiled the biggest spending spree …
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Kate Middleton has advised Meghan Markle that ‘every royal goes through a bad patch’ but she must ‘learn from her mistakes and move on’, royal expert claims Duchess of Cambridge told Meghan that ‘every royal goes through a bad patch’ It comes after the Duchess of Sussex, 38, confessed that …
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Lindsay Lohan’s father insists his daughter’s relationship with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, is ‘platonic and respectful’. The 33-year-old actress had been linked to the Saudi royal following reports they were regularly texting and he was showering her with gifts including a …
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Thailand’s king fires royal ‘bedroom section’ guards for adultery a week after his official concubine was stripped of all titles for ‘disloyalty’ Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn fired two male guards from the ‘bedroom section’ In total he sacked four royal guards, two for ‘adultery’, in a fresh wave of purges …
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The Queen’s chemist has been condemned as ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ for claiming homeopathic remedies can provide a ‘complete alternative to vaccination’. Ainsworths, which has two royal warrants, prints and sells a book for new mothers which claims homeopathy ‘will strengthen the child’s immune system more ably than any vaccine’. The …
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A cracking coin, Gromit! Royal Mint releases new coin to mark 30 years of Wallace and his animated companion New coin is based on original short film ‘A Grand Day Out’ which aired in 1989 Has Latin inscription ‘caseus praestans’ which translates to ‘cracking cheese’ Makers of the new coin …
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Stunning colourised video has been produced from the earliest existing footage of Queen Victoria as part of a series bringing to life archive clips of the Royal Family. The series also reveals the earliest known original colour footage of the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, playing in a Piccadilly garden in …
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She’s been making a string of glamorous red carpet appearances in the last few weeks, as she promotes her upcoming Netlfix noir mystery, Earthquake Bird. And Alicia Vikander, 31, kept the precedent going on Monday, when she stepped out in eye-catching style for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s opening ceremony. …
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