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Zoe Hardman nails springtime glamour in a ruffled white dress and orange sandals as she heads to work By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 10:00 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 10:00 BST, 31 May 2020 She’s been spending the coronavirus lockdown with her former rugby player husband Paul Doran-Jones and their two children, Luna, … Read more
Piled floor to ceiling in a giant Boeing 777, a vital new contribution to the war against the coronavirus arrived in Britain yesterday: no fewer than one million high-quality surgical face masks, courtesy of donors to Mail Force. This 12-ton cargo represents what the head of the National Health Service has called ‘an enormous boost’ … Read more
We will not be able to dance a conga or enjoy a street party — let alone flock to Buckingham Palace, as millions did back on May 8, 1945. Tomorrow, 75 years on, it is going to be an unavoidably subdued anniversary of the day that the UK finally celebrated Victory in Europe. Nonetheless, we … Read more
At the height of the Blitz, Winston Churchill glimpsed a sight which left him sobbing. Driving out of London, he saw people waiting patiently in line by the roadside and so he told his driver to stop. He asked one of his private secretaries, John Martin, to investigate. Martin climbed back in to the car … Read more
Of all the last-minute cancellations caused by the ghastly coronavirus, one of the saddest is the great national gathering which we should all have been enjoying a week next Friday. May 8, 1945 – Victory in Europe Day – will always be one of the great milestones in our national story. Ahead of the 75th … Read more
No peal of bells from an empty Westminster Abbey. No thunderous gun salutes from Hyde Park, the Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle or anywhere else. The only outward hints that it was the Queen’s birthday yesterday were the supersized Royal Standard (special occasions only) flying from the Round Tower at Windsor Castle – plus the … Read more
As every false dawn turns to dusk; as every fresh promise — be it of testing kits, protective equipment or ventilators — falls short, so the cries grow louder: where is the Lord Beaverbrook of our times? For it was William Maxwell Aitken, the 1st Lord Beaverbook, whose bloody-minded, ‘cut-the-c**p’ dynamism transformed this nation’s prospects … Read more
On the day of my breakdown, I was at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, trying to write the political briefing for the Spectator magazine. I’d done it every day for four years, usually in just 30 minutes, and it was read by everyone from the Prime Minister down. This time, I found myself staring … Read more
A hugely popular figure providing much-needed reassurance to those feeling anxious, afraid and missing their loved ones dreadfully. That was the scene at Windsor Castle – back in 1940, at the height of the Blitz. And here she was again last night, performing an identical role an astonishing 80 years later. In the same corner … Read more
This will, surely, go down as one of the most memorable achievements in the history of the National Health Service. It was certainly marked by one of the more memorable opening ceremonies in the long plaque-unveiling history of the House of Windsor. Thus it was that the Prince of Wales opened the 4,000-bed Nightingale Hospital … Read more