The reluctant royal

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

The history of the aristocracy is intertwined with the fascinating history of hunting, Eleanor Doughty discovered while researching her most recent book

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

My only commandment is ‘Thou shalt not bore’

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

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