Scones fit for a Queen! The Royal Family’s pastry chef shares the recipe to her famous afternoon tea after this year’s garden parties are cancelled (and the trick is to put jam on FIRST) The Queen’s pastry chefs have shared the recipe for Her Majesty’s fruit scones Scones are usually served at the garden parties … Read more
The Royal Family have shared remarkable black and white pictures of a young Queen visiting the Chelsea Flower Show as it becomes a virtual festival for the first time in its history. Posted to the Queen’s Instagram account, the pictures see the monarch stepping across a pond at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1949, aged 23, … Read more
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are ‘stepping up more than ever before’ and ‘letting their guard down’ to show ‘the future of The Firm’ during the coronavirus pandemic, a royal expert has revealed. Kate Middleton, 38, and Prince William, 37, have made a host of virtual appearances during the crisis as they isolate with … Read more
The Norwegian King and his family donned traditional dress today as they waved flags from the balcony the Royal Palace in Oslo. King Harald V was joined by his wife Queen Sonja, his son Crown Prince Haakon, his daughter in law Crown Princess Mette-Marit and their children Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus to … Read more
Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky raises stake in Royal Mail to £100m as postal service battles biggest crisis since privatisation By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has raised his stake in Royal Mail to above £100 million as … Read more
Police monitor 112 ‘red alert’ stalkers plaguing the Royal Family as number almost doubles in a year amid backlash from Prince Andrew’s Jeffrey Epstein interview and Megxit London Metropolitan Police’s register of people of interest has nearly doubled There are four more names on the category of ‘high concern’ since last year Security experts say it … Read more
The images are strikingly modern, yet timeless; classic yet cute; epoch-defining yet intimate. Bravo to the photographer whose portraits of the royal children will not only illustrate the history books, but rewrite them. Of course, the most astonishing thing about these portraits is that they were taken not by a professional photographer, but by the … Read more
New Royal Mail boss Keith Williams in battle to end strike threat after ‘Flying Postman’ Rico Back is abruptly ousted By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 15 May 2020 Royal Mail has parachuted a veteran of industrial disputes into the top job after the … Read more
The Skype dismissal of Rico Back as chief executive of the Royal Mail should not come as a shock. The very notion of the chief executive of one of the nation’s biggest front line employers sitting it out in Switzerland while postal workers have been on the battleground in the Covid-19 epidemic was unacceptable. Royal … Read more
Royal Mail‘s chief executive Rico Back quit today after two years in charge marked by battles with unions over efforts to restructure the postal service. The 66-year-old German businessman has agreed with the board to step down with immediate effect and will leave the company on August 15. Hamburg-born Mr Back founded and ran the … Read more