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‘No love lost’ between the Spencers and the Windsors: ‘Stark divide’ was laid bare after Earl Spencer attended Harry’s Invictus service while the Royal Family stayed away, expert says

The divide between the Spencers and the Windsors was highlighted by those who did and didn’t attend Prince Harry’s Invictus Games service, an expert claimed today. Harry gave warm hugs to his uncle Earl Spencer and aunt Lady Jane Fellowes at St Paul’s Cathedral before the event to celebrate the …

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The insider’s guide to Balmoral for those who missed out on a £100 ticket! ROBERT HARDMAN on what it’s really like inside – and what tourists won’t see as it opens its doors for the first time…

For all the portraits, busts and fine furniture, I have no doubt that it will be the personal stuff which lingers longest in the public’s memory. As in any stately home, it is the tell-tale signs of family life — a wedding photo, perhaps, or even a trampoline in a …

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The Covid-19 crisis and the virtues of an active state

In 2014, as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sought to take over AstraZeneca, the UK’s second largest ­pharmaceutical company, the British government insisted it would not intervene. David Cameron and George Osborne suggested that the bid was purely a commercial matter for shareholders and refused to ­apply a “public interest test”. …

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