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

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 remote Norwegian island of Myken has become home to a whisky distillery. Home to only 12 residents, Myken’s whisky production has led to a tourist boom, with 1,500 visitors setting down there last

The Braemar hills are alive with the sound of bagpipes as Kyle Randalls, a 6-foot 5” (196cm), 22-stone (139kg) strongman from Falkirk, prepares to throw a 22lb (9.9kg) hammer across the arena. Stood a

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

Anyone who’s read Helen Macdonald’s remarkable memoir H is for Hawk – about grief, nature and training a goshawk – will be aware of its powerful impact. The book has now been turned into a film starri