It’s a well-cemented rule that the royal family avoid giving interviews with the media, but that could change in the wake of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s groundbreaking tell-all with Oprah. According to the Daily Mail’s Sebastian Shakespeare columnist, Prince William, 38, has “privately made clear” he will go against …
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The Queen is ‘constantly frustrated with Prince Charles’ who will ‘never live up to her sense of duty’, a royal expert has claimed in a new documentary. Clive Irving, author of the new biography The Last Queen, believes no members of the royal family have ‘measured up’ to Her Majesty’s …
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Princess Eugenie may be called upon to act as peacemaker between the Royal Family and the Sussexes – despite Prince Harry’s apparent disdain for her father. In the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Harry distanced himself from the Duke of York last year, saying: ‘Whatever he has done or …
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Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. HARPO PRODUCTIONS/Reuters At the outset of the greatest TV interview of the 21st century, Oprah Winfrey reaches out at her frenzied audience of middle-aged fangirls and chastises them. “You’ve got to calm yourselves. You’ve got. To calm. …
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Here is a sweet piece of palace trivia to start the week: The royal family receives hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail every year. In this day and age, there is something quite touching that a veritable army which spans the globe still goes to the real trouble of …
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Married to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth since 1947, Prince Philip was the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s first born child has been named after Prince Philip and both parents’ great-great-great-great-great grandfathers – Prince Albert and Reverend Edward Hawke Brooksbank. …
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Princess Eugenie is set to give newborn son middle name Stamp in honour of 19th century Governor of the Bank of England Princess Eugenie gave birth to baby boy on Tuesday at Portland Hospital The 30-year-old is yet to announce the name of the lad, 11th in line to the …
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How Royal divorces made John Major dither over replacing the Royal Yacht Britannia Major administration was concerned at public anger over cost of a new vessel Debate began after marriages of Prince Charles and Prince Andrew fell apart In March 1996, Sir John’s private secretary, Alex Allan, described rationale PM did …
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A doting father and his two daughters are relaxing in the Caribbean sunshine. These never-before-published photographs show Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, with Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, then aged 12 and 11, on holiday in the Bahamas in the week following Easter Sunday, 2001. They were taken by the …
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Monday, April 9, 2001, saw a day of extreme weather across New York City. Lowering skies, thunder, lightning and hailstones ‘the size of dimes’, one observer noted. It would prove a suitably sulphurous and doom-laden backdrop to the arrival in town that lunchtime of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, …
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