Damaging winds are once again buffeting the Monarchy. Gales of mockery and criticism threaten to topple the Queen’s two eldest sons like shaky palace chimney pots. Meanwhile, far to the west lurks Hurricane Harry, whipping up a storm with lawsuits and memoirs. Calm amid the tempest, the frail Queen with …
Read More »DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The Royal Shakespeare Company should be ashamed of its woke campaign
More than 30 years after my first visit to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, I can still recall my awe as the last words died away in the darkness. The occasion was a school trip to see Romeo And Juliet, and I can’t pretend I understood every word. But …
Read More »The Queen was RIGHT to axe Prince Andrew for the sake of the monarchy, says AN WILSON
Prince Andrew has finally been stripped of his honorary military titles, and of his royal patronages. He has also agreed to no longer to use the honorific HRH. The Queen has been extremely reluctant to wield the axe but, as her predecessor Henry VIII knew, monarchs sometimes need to use …
Read More »The Queen revealed herself to us as she never has before, says royal biographer ROBERT LACEY
In one sense, it never really matters what the Queen actually says in her Christmas Day broadcast. The important thing is she has joined us personally for those few minutes of chat beside the fire, in the snug, round the kitchen table or wherever, inside our own homes. It’s that …
Read More »RICHARD KAY: Sussexes are to blame for race slur witchhunt
This was never going to be the ideal week for Prince Charles to learn from a new book that he was being accused of questioning the future skin colour of Prince Harry and Meghan’s children. He was, after all, arriving in Barbados representing the Queen at a momentous ceremony to …
Read More »PLATELL’S PEOPLE: How the BBC’s golden boy Amol Rajan conned me into royal hatchet job
Eight months ago, I was introduced to the BBC’s rising star Amol Rajan who asked me to be interviewed for a TV documentary he was making. It was about Princes William and Harry and their relationship with the media after the death of their mother Diana. He said the working …
Read More »RICHARD KAY: The timing of this new royal documentary isn’t just awful, it’s incendiary
Even by the crass standards of the BBC, there is something supremely ironic for it to broadcast a major two-part documentary about briefing wars between members of the Royal Family while the embers of the Martin Bashir affair are still glowing. And how counter-productive and foolish of the Corporation to …
Read More »DAN WOOTTON: Jemima Khan’s loyalty to Diana should shame Prince Harry into cutting ties with Netflix
Jemima Khan is one of Princess Diana’s few remaining genuine friends who has never betrayed her publicly since that tragic Paris car accident. The pair were close, with the then wife of Imran Khan hosting Di on several major trips to Pakistan throughout key moments in her personal life during …
Read More »DAN WOOTTON: Our Queen is making up for lost time but for all our sakes, Ma’am, please slow down
The past 24 hours has given us one of the most fascinating insights into the mind of our great Queen in many years. At 95 years of age, she doesn’t consider herself to be old, despite the furore over her decision to start using a walking stick at some public …
Read More »DAN WOOTTON: Why Kate can thank Meghan for her metamorphosis
With the all-regal glamour of a modern-day Grace Kelly, a sequinned and resplendent Duchess of Cambridge swept down the red carpet at the world premiere of No Time to Die in jaw dropping fashion. What the hell happened to the lovely-but-just-a-little-frumpy Kate? Even James Bond himself Daniel Craig struggled to …
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