Which royals will be chosen for the Queen’s Christmas bubble? 

The three-household limit on bubbles over the Christmas period may pose a challenge to the Queen’s usual festive celebrations. For the last 33 years, the monarch, 94, has travelled up to Sandringham for the holidays, where she hosts close family members, after the Christmas party for extended family members at Buckingham Palace in December.  But … Read more

Booker Prize: Scot Douglas Stuart wins with debut novel Shuggie Bain

Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his first novel Shuggie Bain – a ‘powerful and moving’ story based on his own experience growing up in 1980s Glasgow. The writer, 44, is the second-ever Scot to win the £50,000 award after James Kelman scooped the prize for How Late It Was, How Late in 1994. … Read more

Buckingham Palace intruder slams The Crown for ‘having a pop at the Queen’

The fifth episode of the new series, which launched on Sunday, opens with global news reports of a break-in at Buckingham Palace: an intruder had climbed over a fence and into the palace grounds, before scaling a drainpipe and entering the royal quarters.  During the episode, Tom Brooke’s Michael Fagan struggles to cope with the breakup … Read more

Buckingham Palace intruder slams The Crown for ‘having a pop at the Queen’

The fifth episode of the new series, which launched on Sunday, opens with global news reports of a break-in at Buckingham Palace: an intruder had climbed over a fence and into the palace grounds, before scaling a drainpipe and entering the royal quarters.  During the episode, Tom Brooke’s Michael Fagan struggles to cope with the breakup … Read more

Duchess of Cornwall ‘WILL watch the new series of The Crown’

Duchess of Cornwall WILL watch the new series of The Crown with a ‘glass of wine’ and won’t be ‘fussed’ by how she’s portrayed, friend tells Vanity Fair Duchess of Cornwall, 72, will be watching new series of The Crown, friend claims Camilla is portrayed by actress Emerald Fennell in the hit Netflix show Series … Read more

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby condemns Martin Bashir for exploiting ‘troubled’ Diana for Panorama

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby condemns Martin Bashir for the ‘bizarre and awful’ way he exploited ‘troubled’ Princess Diana for Panorama interview  Veteran journalist slammed Bashir for using ‘deception and lies’ to secure Diana  He said Bashir should have taken greater care over her emotional vulnerability  BBC announced this week it would launch a full inquiry into … Read more

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby condemns Martin Bashir for exploiting ‘troubled’ Diana for Panorama

Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby condemns Martin Bashir for the ‘bizarre and awful’ way he exploited ‘troubled’ Princess Diana for Panorama interview  Veteran journalist slammed Bashir for using ‘deception and lies’ to secure Diana  He said Bashir should have taken greater care over her emotional vulnerability  BBC announced this week it would launch a full inquiry into … Read more

Princess Diana’s bodyguard claims she ‘battered into submission’ by public breakdown of marriage

Princess Diana’s bodyguard claims she was ‘battered into submission’ by the public breakdown of her marriage and was ‘used’ by Martin Bashir for tell-all Panorama interview Lee Sansum, 58, guarded Diana a month before she died on holiday in St Tropez Claimed that the scrutiny of her marriage to the Prince of Wales left her … Read more

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles welcomed in Germany ahead of historic remembrance ceremony

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles were welcomed in Berlin today ahead of a remembrance ceremony to commemorate Germany’s National Day of Mourning – the first British royals to ever attend the service. The couple were officially greeted by the country’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Budenbender at Berlin’s Bellevue Palace this morning, having … Read more

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are welcomed in Germany ahead of remembrance ceremony

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles become the first British royals to attend remembrance ceremony in Berlin to mark Germany’s national day of mourning Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall greeted at Berlin’s Bellevue Palace by Frank-Walter Steinmeier Wearing face masks, trio and Steinmeier’s wife Elke Budenbender posed outside 18th century building  Charles expected … Read more