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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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One day in August 2017, a smart-looking envelope dropped through the letterbox of 78 Pall Mall, an 18th-century building converted to an office block in the heart of London’s Clubland. It contained a secret message from Michael Fawcett, one of the most senior aides to our then future King Charles, …
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Presented with crown, sceptre and sword (carried with great poise by a lady in a striking blue outfit), serenaded by a magnificent repertoire of music both sublime and uplifting, the King must have felt a slight sense of deja vu. The rest of us certainly did. Didn’t we just go …
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