By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 17:50 EDT, 19 March 2024 | Updated: 18:00 EDT, 19 March 2024 The death of Queen Elizabeth sent the royal postage bill soaring to £1.2 million, an increase of £100,000. All sympathy letters, cards and gifts must receive a reply. The Coronation and …
Read More »DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The royals need wise heads – and a little more openness
By Daily Mail Comment Published: 22:02 EDT, 14 March 2024 | Updated: 22:02 EDT, 14 March 2024 Another day, another royal public relations nightmare. The good news is that Princes William and Harry were both appearing at a ceremony to honour their late mother last night. The bad news is …
Read More »EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles asked Jimmy Savile to provide the Royal Family with a manual on how to publicly react to disasters like the Lockerbie bombing
By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 18:17 EDT, 18 October 2023 | Updated: 20:57 EDT, 18 October 2023 The BBC’s Jimmy Savile series The Reckoning doesn’t refer to King Charles’s request to the child molester to provide the Royal Family with a manual on how to publicly react …
Read More »NANA AKUA: From the NHS and Royal Mail to HMRC and DVLA, Britain is grinding to a halt
When was the last time you got a timely GP appointment, HMRC bothered to answer your call or a letter you sent arrived on time? The sad reality is that everything in this country takes far too long. Whether it’s the NHS, Royal Mail, HMRC or DVLA, Britain has almost …
Read More »JAN MOIR: The week Charles and William gave Harry and Meghan a lesson in what it means to be royal
There isn’t a situation in the world that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex can’t make worse by eagerly inserting themselves into the narrative. In a statement released on Wednesday, the breathless couple condemned ‘all acts of terrorism and brutality’ following the Hamas attack on Israel. So caring yet also so terribly, …
Read More »JAN MOIR: Since the Queen died, I’ve struggled to see what the point is of the Royal Family any more. Is that wrong?
Since the Queen died, I’ve struggled to see what the point is of the Royal Family any more. Is that wrong? Once this dignified, dutiful, much-loved matriarch left us for the great palace in the sky, she took the last drop of regal charisma with her, along with my devotion. …
Read More »EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Penny Mordaunt has a private chat with King Charles about her plans for three new vessels which are ‘spiritual successors’ to the Royal Yacht Britannia
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Penny Mordaunt has a private chat with King Charles about her plans for three new vessels which are ‘spiritual successors’ to the Royal Yacht Britannia By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 17:04 EDT, 20 September 2023 | Updated: 17:24 EDT, 20 September 2023 Leader of the …
Read More »EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles ‘is reassured Prince Andrew has no plans to rehabilitate his image by writing a book: In return the monarch pledges to help with Royal Lodge repairs’
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles ‘is reassured Prince Andrew has no plans to rehabilitate his image by writing a book: In return the monarch pledges to help with Royal Lodge repairs’ By Ephraim Hardcastle For The Daily Mail Published: 17:05 EDT, 13 September 2023 | Updated: 17:13 EDT, 13 September 2023 …
Read More »Toddler sparks wedding debate after wiping her face on bride’s dress
25 August 2023, 17:25 Footage of the funny scene was shared on TikTok. Picture: Getty “This right here is reason #43 of why you should have a child-free wedding,” joked one TikTok user. A toddler has sparked a debate online over whether kids should be invited to weddings after she …
Read More »CRAIG BROWN: Changing of the guard at royal gift shop
King Charles II, it is said, first learned of his father’s execution when a courtier addressed him as ‘Your Majesty’. Happily, we live in less bloodthirsty times. The transition from one monarch to the next, though still immediate, is less dramatic. Nevertheless, every change of monarch signals a change of …
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