All she ever wanted was a contented life as an ordinary loving wife and mother. But Tiggy Legge-Bourke has never been able to escape the consequences of her time as nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry. Instead of the happiest of memories, her years with the Royal Family are now tainted with a dark legacy. … Read more
Winner: Kay Mellor’s TV hit The Syndicate begins its fourth series on Tuesday Screenwriter Kay Mellor OBE believes NHS frontline workers should be given a ‘big fat pay rise’ when the pandemic is over – and says she is willing to pay higher taxes to help fund it. Mellor is the writer of hit TV … Read more
From Laura Kay’s nicely written debut to Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, a tender narration by Fiona Mozley and Peter Swanson’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Neil Armstrong and Anthony Cummins and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 27 March 2021 The Split Laura … Read more
That he was an amusing and compassionate man in private, always anxious to put strangers at their ease, was barely noted. No excitement in that. That he was capable of great acts of kindness, once securing the release from Brixton prison of a client so that the man, a farmer, could shear his sheep, was … Read more
EXCLUSIVE ‘I didn’t see that coming!’ Vernon Kay is confronted with fireworks, feathers and flying marshmallows in FIRST look at new show Game Of Talents By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 16:00 GMT, 24 March 2021 | Updated: 18:57 GMT, 24 March 2021 Vernon Kay will add another credit to his family friendly CV this … Read more
Bride-to-be shares picture of her wedding dress because her fiancé isn’t on social media – but she gets flooded with sleazy messages from men Bride-to-be shared a picture of herself wearing wedding dress on Twitter Kay, from Chandler, Arizona, said her fiancé isn’t on social media But after sharing her photo, she was inundated with messages from … Read more
All in all, it has been the most wonderful 24 hours for the cause of republicanism for decades. Not even the height of the Charles and Diana wars brought such a glow to the heart of anti-monarchists everywhere as Meghan and Harry’s sensational but utterly self-serving interview with Oprah Winfrey has done. That such incendiary … Read more
His grand oak-panelled office with its conference table and comfy sofas in the heart of Whitehall, four miles from Kensington Palace, is too far away for Simon Case to hear the cries of anguish emanating from the royal bunker where he used to work. The irony that he left the back-stabbing, hot-tempered intrigue of palace politics … Read more
His grand oak-panelled office with its conference table and comfy sofas in the heart of Whitehall, four miles from Kensington Palace, is too far away for Simon Case to hear the cries of anguish emanating from the royal bunker where he used to work. The irony that he left the back-stabbing, hot-tempered intrigue of palace politics … Read more
When Jason Knauf left the Treasury to go and work for RBS — the bank that had been bailed out with £45 billion of taxpayers’ money following the 2008 financial crisis — he was dubbed ‘gamekeeper turned poacher’. But his silky skills in crisis management were never tested there as they were in his next … Read more