SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Mystery of the foreign tycoon and the Queen’s grandchildren

The Queen’s grandchildren Zara Phillips and her brother Peter have always relied on making their own money after their mother, the Princess Royal, expressed the hope that they would lead lives which would be as ‘normal’ as possible.  But they have not always avoided pitfalls.  Earlier this year, Peter was ridiculed for appearing in a … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Mystery of the foreign tycoon and the Queen’s grandchildren

The Queen’s grandchildren Zara Phillips and her brother Peter have always relied on making their own money after their mother, the Princess Royal, expressed the hope that they would lead lives which would be as ‘normal’ as possible.  But they have not always avoided pitfalls.  Earlier this year, Peter was ridiculed for appearing in a … Read more

RICHARD KAY: Oh Harry, how we miss the way you were: So often now Prince Harry appears careworn.

Royal photographs seldom say too much, but once in a while they say everything. Yesterday all over the world a picture issued to mark Prince Harry’s 36th birthday was being studied with both affection and fascination. Affection because the image shows Harry, his brother William and sister-in-law Kate with their faces wreathed in joyous smiles, … Read more

RICHARD KAY: Oh Harry, how we miss the way you were: So often now Prince Harry appears careworn.

Royal photographs seldom say too much, but once in a while they say everything. Yesterday all over the world a picture issued to mark Prince Harry’s 36th birthday was being studied with both affection and fascination. Affection because the image shows Harry, his brother William and sister-in-law Kate with their faces wreathed in joyous smiles, … Read more

Chinese firm has data on 40,000 Brits including Boris Johnson and the Queen ‘to be used by spies’

Boris Johnson and the Queen are among 40,000 Britons listed on a database compiled by a Chinese tech firm with reported links to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks, it can be disclosed.  Files on senior British politicians including the Prime Minister, members of the Royal Family, UK military officers and their families, and religious leaders … Read more

Chinese firm has data on 40,000 Brits including Boris Johnson and the Queen ‘to be used by spies’

Boris Johnson and the Queen are among 40,000 Britons listed on a database compiled by a Chinese tech firm with reported links to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks, it can be disclosed.  Files on senior British politicians including the Prime Minister, members of the Royal Family, UK military officers and their families, and religious leaders … Read more

Estranged wife of Dubai royal pleads for help saying officials are trying to ‘snatch her children’

The wife of a prominent Sheikh from Dubai’s royal family has posted a harrowing video pleading for help crying that she has been persecuted since leaving him nine months ago with officials trying to snatch her three children. Sheikha Zeynab Javadli made the startling revelations in a series of moving videos to her 15,000 Instagram … Read more

Estranged wife of Dubai royal pleads for help saying officials are trying to ‘snatch her children’

The wife of a prominent Sheikh from Dubai’s royal family has posted a harrowing video pleading for help crying that she has been persecuted since leaving him nine months ago with officials trying to snatch her three children. Sheikha Zeynab Javadli made the startling revelations in a series of moving videos to her 15,000 Instagram … Read more

RICHARD KAY: All pretence is gone, Harry and Meghan have no Royal future

For more than a year, it has been the millstone around Prince Harry’s neck, a gold‑plated slice of taxpayers’ largesse that reeked of privilege and entitlement. But to Harry and Meghan, the £2.4 million of public money — our money — that was lavished on renovating Frogmore Cottage, only for it to be shuttered and … Read more

RICHARD KAY: All pretence is gone, Harry and Meghan have no Royal future

For more than a year, it has been the millstone around Prince Harry’s neck, a gold‑plated slice of taxpayers’ largesse that reeked of privilege and entitlement. But to Harry and Meghan, the £2.4 million of public money — our money — that was lavished on renovating Frogmore Cottage, only for it to be shuttered and … Read more