The royal week

Ahhh Twixmas – it’s always a funny time of year, isn’t it? The days are short, the nights are long and have we really not finished all the cold turkey yet?! The royals deal with this time of year by g

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are walking a tightrope that could define their future...

KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow

There was more celebrating on January 22 when Princess Beatrice gave birth to a daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose, several weeks premature and weighing only 4lb 5oz (2 kg). “Nothing quite prepares you f

The founder of White House Farm Garden and Arboretum in Kent on his enduring love of woody plants and hopes for the future I grew up amid rolling farmland, surrounded by birds, flowers and trees, and

As the Princess of Wales prepares to celebrate her 44th birthday on 9 January, three things will be at the forefront of her mind as she looks to the year ahead: spending as much time with her loved on