[ad_1] Since marrying into the Royal Family in 1999, the Duchess of Edinburgh has become one of the monarchy’s most beloved figures. Sophie, a former PR consultant, first met Prince Edward in 1987 at Capital Radio when he was dating her best friend. But it was love at second sight, as the pair became a couple after…
[ad_1] The Duchess of Edinburgh has revealed that she was determined ‘not to tread on toes’ when she first joined the Royal Family. On Wednesday, Sophie visited L’Arche, a south London community of people with learning disabilities and their supporters and Community Shop Lambeth, a ‘social supermarket’ tackling food poverty. It marked her last day of royal engagements…
[ad_1] She’s widely seen as one of the monarchy’s safest pairs of hands, but should she ever decide on a change of career, the Duchess of Edinburgh would, I can confidently predict, be snapped up by her local Waitrose. Packing her bags on a supermarket trip with her great friend Mary Montagu-Scott some time back,…
[ad_1] She was the ‘no nonsense’ Scots nanny, hired by the royal family to look after the young Prince Charles and later his sister, Princess Anne But the job ended in controversy after Helen Lightbody was sacked in a row over the future King’s pudding. And now, a special gift handed to the nanny by…
[ad_1] Mourners lined the cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile today to bid farewell to Janey Godley after her death aged 63. The Scottish comedian passed away on November 2 ‘surrounded by her loved ones’, her management company confirmed earlier this month. Godley found viral fame with her dubbed pastiches of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus news…
[ad_1] A CONVICTED fraudster has set up a new company despite shuttering his last one with a string of debt and allegations of fraud. Brian Goldie, 67, started freight firm Worldwide Airways Ltd in April after claiming he had retired due to a brain tumour. Now using the name Gerald Paterson, the new firm is…
[ad_1] The personal relationships between members of the Royal Family are always shrouded in a veil of mystery. Despite what royal experts and authors would have you believe, no one really knows what goes on behind the closed doors of the Palace. But one of the biggest clues for royal watchers is when the monarch…
[ad_1] One of Scotland’s most famous shopping streets has become ‘lawless’ with a rise in smash-and-grab criminals making off with thousands of pounds worth of high-end goods. Retailers along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile claim they have been left fearing for their safety as the number of organised thefts soared in recent months and called for a…
[ad_1] The Princess of Wales donned Princess Diana’s engagement ring in public for the first time in months at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night. In recent appearances, Kate, 42, has worn a stunning gold ‘eternity’ band, thought to be a gift from the Prince of Wales and set with…
[ad_1] A lip reader has detailed a conversation shared between the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Edinburgh at the Cenotaph this morning – suggesting Kate may have been feeling nervous about one of her first appearances at a public event since her cancer diagnosis. The royal, 42, stood next to Sophie, Duchess of…