[ad_1] The coronovirus is not going to disappear overnight and there is no chance of a vaccine in the forseeable future. Managing the symptoms might be like experiencing a dose of bad flu or mild pneumonia if you’re fit and healthy, but for the old, vulnerable and the very young it poses a threat to…
[ad_1] Raising a glass of Chinese brand, bottled Jersey milk to the camera, the Queen’s grandson Peter Phillips claims: ‘This is what I drink.’ Is it really? Come off it, Pete, mate. This is what you drink when an advertising agency pays you to do so. We all know it and so do you. Shortly…
[ad_1] For all the turbulence of recent months, the enduring pulling power of the monarchy is undiminished – as last night’s glimpse of a future ‘slimmed down’ House of Windsor made very clear. Here were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosting their first state occasion at Buckingham Palace on behalf of the Queen, supported…
[ad_1] There was perhaps just one consolation for the Prince of Wales yesterday — he was at Birkhall in Scotland, just about as far away from the centre of the royal drama over Prince Harry’s departure as he could be. Time and again at moments of crisis and great sadness Charles has sought solace in…
[ad_1] As with any major negotiation, the devil is in the detail. And the more that we study the new template for 21st century reluctant royalty, the more issues that arise – from heraldry to trademarks and some very odd new titles. The Queen has certainly kept to her side of the bargain, having said…
[ad_1] A new passport has just arrived in the post. I remember my first one, more than half a century ago, almost as clearly as I remember the arrival of my first child — with one big difference. The baby demanded responsibility. The passport promised freedom. For a scruffy kid who’d never actually ventured ‘abroad’…
[ad_1] No one, in seven decades of exemplary leadership, has ever accused the Queen of exaggeration. She trades in understatement. When she says of the departure of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that ‘these are complex matters’, she is talking of profound challenges which she understands better than anyone else. And they are challenges…
[ad_1] Grace Kelly was a huge Hollywood star when she decided to marry Prince Rainier in 1956 The difference in the world-views of the Markles and the Windsors was always evident in the language they employed. After her engagement to Prince Harry, Meghan told Vanity Fair magazine: ‘I was born in Los Angeles, a California…
[ad_1] Talk about history repeating itself. It’s 28 years since Lady Di broke up with Prince Charles and announced she intended to carry on being an independent member of the Royal Family. I can remember writing at the time that it was a bit like Bianca Jagger, after getting divorced from Mick, insisting she would…
[ad_1] While most people might have spent Boxing Day walking off their Christmas lunch or snoozing through a film, Tim O’Donovan was settling down to do some serious arithmetic, as he always does at this time of year. And there can be no margin of error when your annual sums make headline news — as…