Mystery woman in portrait identified after 300 years as King Henry VIII’s mistress Mary Boleyn

Mystery woman in Royal Collection portrait is finally identified after 300 years as Mary Boleyn, who was Henry VIII’s mistress before her sister Anne married the womanizing king The sitter for Portrait of a Woman has been identified after hundreds of years  It has been reunited with an original set of 14 paintings owned by … Read more

Why Henry VIII was king of the lockdown, reveals author Dame Hilary Mantel

Why Henry VIII was king of the lockdown and would have been only too aware of the risks posed by scourges such as the plague, reveals author Dame Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mantel believes life in a crisis under King Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell would have been even tougher She explained Tudors knew more … Read more

Regina King rocks a sporty look in knee socks as she takes dog Cornbread for walk during quarantine

Regina King rocks a sporty look in knee socks as she takes dog Cornbread for walk during break from quarantine By Glenn Garner For Dailymail.com Published: 04:55 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 04:55 BST, 30 May 2020 Regina King has been quite the busy multi-hyphenate, making her feature directorial debut earlier this year. But … Read more

Historic England grants £25,000 to save King Henry VIII’s Mary Rose

King Henry VIII’s Mary Rose gets a £25,000 cash injection from Historic England to stop the iconic warship from falling into disrepair as income from visitors dries up during lockdown Money will allow employees to continue maintaining systems protecting ship CEO of Mary Rose Trust warned it may not survive ‘this financial year’ It has … Read more

Forget Tiger King, Kenya offers the real deal and here’s how to see it in Out of Africa style

Tiger King on Netflix has been stealing all the headlines, with its crazed tales of ‘big cat’ owners in the States. It highlighted the startling statistic that there are more big cats in private ownership in the US than in the wild. It was against this backdrop that I set out on safari to see … Read more

Meghan King can’t contain her smile as she goes ‘Instagram official’ with new beau Christian Schauf

Meghan King can’t contain her smile as she goes ‘Instagram official’ with new beau Christian Schauf By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 20:09 BST, 27 May 2020 | Updated: 20:09 BST, 27 May 2020 Meghan King has moved on from her ex Jim Edmonds and is making it official. Marking a new ‘chapter’ in her … Read more

Asia’s ‘King of Gambling’ billionaire dies at the age of 98

Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in Macau and became one of Asia’s richest men, has died at the age of 98, his family said on Tuesday.  Known as the ‘godfather’ of Macau’s casinos, Ho was instrumental in turning the semi-autonomous city from a sleepy Portuguese outpost into the world’s … Read more

Asia’s ‘King of Gambling’ dies at the age of 98

Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in Macau becoming one of Asia’s richest men, has died at the age of 98, his family said on Tuesday.  Known as the ‘godfather’ of Macau’s casinos, Ho was instrumental in turning the semi-autonomous city from a sleepy Portuguese outpost into the world’s biggest … Read more

Meghan King Edmonds tells new BF Christian Schauf ‘you inspire me’ after Memorial Day tribute

Meghan King Edmonds has slowly been opening up about her new love interest as she is still in the process of a long and often nasty divorce.  And the 35-year-old mother of three gushed over her boyfriend Christian Schaufe after he shared a sweet tribute to soldiers on Monday.  Underneath the musicians lengthy post about … Read more

Jenny Colgan, Lily King, Susie Steiner and Shubhangi Swarup: This week’s best new fiction  

From Jenny Colgan’s latest to Writers & Lovers by Lily King, a mystery by Susie Steiner and Shubhangi Swarup’s debut, this week’s best new fiction By Madeleine Feeny and Hephzibah Anderson and John Williams and Max Davidson Published: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 23 May 2020 Five Hundred Miles From You … Read more