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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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: There are further indications that King Charles is not coercing Prince Andrew out of the Royal Lodge to the smaller Frogmore Cottage By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 16:42 EDT, 23 May 2023 | Updated: 18:01 EDT, 23 May 2023 Further indications that King Charles is …
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One can’t help feeling that Prince Harry’s ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer, was speaking for all of us when this week he revealed his exasperation at having to deal with Prince Harry’s edits to his memoir, Spare. ‘My head was pounding, my jaw was clenched and I was starting to raise my …
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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The King’s retreat to Sandringham and absence from the Royal Windsor Horse Show poignantly marks the post-Coronation regime change By Ephraim Hardcastle Published: 17:01 EDT, 9 May 2023 | Updated: 18:41 EDT, 9 May 2023 The King’s retreat to Sandringham and absence from this week’s Royal Windsor Horse …
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Television cameras did not linger long on the invited guests inside Westminster Abbey eagerly craning their necks to catch every historic moment of the Coronation spectacle. Spectators in row seven, however, had the best seats in the house, immediately behind the Royal Family and next to world leaders. Provided they …
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Of all the unsavoury deeds committed by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their revenge campaign, nothing is more inexcusable than allowing the Queen and Prince Philip to die haunted by false accusations that the Royal Family was racist. There is zero doubt that it was the Duchess of Sussex …
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Now we know the reason Prince Harry held out so long before accepting his invitation to the Coronation. Far from agonising over his duty to King and country, he was obsessed with the seating plan. He needed to know who he and Meghan, if she deigned to attend, would sit …
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Unions risk a first-class debacle for the Royal Mail By Daily Mail Comment Published: 18:27 EDT, 28 March 2023 | Updated: 18:42 EDT, 28 March 2023 The bellicose postal unions may believe they are standing up for oppressed workers against employers out to exploit them. But their …
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Oprah Winfrey is now a sworn enemy of the British Royal Family. So while she might regard herself as the queen of the US chat show, it’s high time she shuts her big gob when it comes to highly sensitive matters relating to the coronation of King Charles. In yet …
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