Soldiers and horses from The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery splashed in the sea as they took a break from ceremonial duties in London. The unit, which stars in the new Downton Abbey movie, is the Queen’s ceremonial saluting battery and fires gun salutes for state occasions and royal birthdays. …
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John Humphrys today lifts the lid on ‘institutional liberal bias’ at the BBC. Two days after retiring, the legendary broadcaster accuses the ‘Kremlin’-style corporation of being out of touch. He says its bosses ‘badly failed’ to read the nation’s mood on Europe and ‘simply could not grasp’ why anyone voted …
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Alexanda Kotey has just received a letter from his mother. Among other news she tells him that his teenage daughter in London has ‘finished her GCSEs and is starting college’. Naturally, Kotey is pleased at her progress. But circumstances mean he remains very much a hands-off parent. The letter arrived …
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre has described in detail how she allegedly had sex with Prince Andrew in 2001 when she was 17 in Ghislaine Maxwell’s London townhouse after the royal gave her vodka at a nightclub. In her first television interview, Giuffre, who went by her maiden name Roberts …
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Thomas Cook was on the brink of collapse last night, plunging the holiday plans of hundreds of thousands of customers into turmoil. Despite battling to secure a rescue deal, the 178-year-old travel firm could go bust as early as Sunday, according to insiders at the company which is facing a …
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The family of murdered backpacker Hannah Witheridge has been hit by a fresh tragedy with the sudden death of her sister. Laura Daniels, 30, died in hospital on Monday just five years and one day after her sister Hannah, 23, and fellow traveller David Miller, 24, were murdered on a …
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An elite firearms officer claims his police ex-girlfriend threatened to wreck his career as part of a year-long stalking campaign, a court heard. Debra Mackrell, 43, allegedly harassed Paul Brewster after the end of their relationship in October 2016 and is accused of bombarding him with hundreds of unwanted messages …
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Buckingham Palace aides ‘warn guests not to bring up Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to the Queen’ Courtiers are reportedly steering visitors on to more ‘polite’ conversation topics But a Royal insider was sceptical that guests would get any such warning Queen was recently ‘hurt’ at Meghan’s New York trip, …
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution came under fire yesterday for spending millions of pounds on projects in foreign countries –including buying burkinis for Muslim women in Africa – while slashing more than 100 jobs in the UK. Donations are being spent on swimsuits for devout Muslim women in Tanzania and …
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Courtney Love has claimed Prince Andrew once visited her house ‘looking for sex’ after turning up unexpectedly at 1am. The singer claims the prince rang the bell of her Hollywood home after the pair were introduced by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. In her 2007 book, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney …
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