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The inside story of Sarah Ferguson’s ‘toe sucking’ scandal: ANDREW LOWNIE reveals pictures of Duchess of York with ‘financial advisor’ lover were taken over THREE days and royal party was warned about lurking photographers

On August 9, 1992, Duchess of York flew by private jet to the French Riviera with her ‘financial adviser’ John Bryan and her young daughters Princess Beatrice and Eugenie. Sarah Ferguson, who had recently separated from Prince Andrew, was going to enjoy a week-long summer holiday. Also with her for …

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The House of Mountbatten reigned… until it didn’t: How idle boast ensured Prince Philip’s children and the Royal Family would NOT formally adopt his surname – prompting him to say: ‘I am nothing but a bloody amoeba’

It was an idle boast made amid the Royal Family’s grief following the death of King George VI. At a party at his home, Lord Louis Mountbatten had proclaimed that the ‘house of Mountbatten now reigned’. It was a reference to how his nephew Prince Philip, as the husband of …

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As David and Victoria Beckham celebrate 25 years of marriage, the hilarious reasons why Buckingham Palace was inundated with letters for them… and why the Queen and Philip avoided their thrones at 2012 Jubilee pageant writes CLAUDIA JOSEPH

Their £1million union was splashed across the pages of OK! magazine and was described as the ‘wedding of the decade’ after it outshone the nuptials of Prince Edward and his bride Sophie Rhys-Jones. Now, as David and Victoria Beckham celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, it has emerged that Buckingham Palace …

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