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Lunch together was my mother’s idea. I was 18 and had returned home briefly between trips to Israel and America on a gap year before university. How lovely, I thought. Perhaps this was a chance for us to get to know one another better, because although she hadn’t been a bad mother, our relationship was … Read more
The year was 1976, figure skater Dorothy Hamill was dominating the Winter Olympics, and in suburban Reading my mother was giving her unwilling daughter an approximation of Hamill’s short pageboy bob. I always wanted long, curly hair, because the little girl who lived next door told me that angels had hair like that. But what … Read more
Best of luck to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, who will this week appear on Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time with a query about certain types of Scottish lavender. This is a timely and burning issue around my way. After all, we have just lived through one of the worst crises in living … Read more
‘We are at war… People are dying!’ Pierce Brosnan, 67, sadly reveals he’s lost two lifelong friends to coronavirus By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 16:55 BST, 12 June 2020 | Updated: 16:55 BST, 12 June 2020 He’s been isolating with his wife Keely Shaye Smith in their family cottage on the island of Kauai … Read more
The film star Catherine Deneuve kept up a lifelong affair with the rock singer Johnny Hallyday behind his wives’ backs, it has been claimed in their native France. The pair became lovers when they were teenagers, and their passionate trysts continued right up until the ‘French Elvis’s’ death three years ago, aged 74. Hallyday frequently … Read more
Aston Villa manager Dean Smith’s father, 79, dies from coronavirus as club pay tribute to the ‘lifelong supporter’ after his four-week fight with COVID-19 The father of Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has died from the coronavirus Villa announced the news on Wednesday that Ron Smith had passed away The 79-year-old contracted the virus four … Read more
Fifty-one years ago this month, a shy young man in a collar and tie climbed the 87 steps of a spiral staircase to his new tutor’s study. The Prince of Wales faced eight weeks of intensive instruction in Welsh: the language, Wales’s history and, crucially, its nationalism. But if the Prince of Wales was daunted … Read more
He recently admitted his greatest triumphs have come from dark places after being struck down with coronavirus COVID-19 symptoms. And in an interview recorded just weeks before he fell ill with the potentially lethal condition, Dynamo reflected on the impact his separate struggle with Crohn’s Disease had on his childhood, and how it strengthened his … Read more
The son of an 88-year-old man who died after testing positive for coronavirus has revealed how he was not allowed to touch his father as he died in isolation. Darrell Blakeley died in hospital in Manchester last Friday, with his son Jonathan only able to spend a few minutes with him after putting on protective … Read more
Just over a year ago Prince Harry was at a Royal Marines base deep in the Dartmoor National Park presenting new recruits with their coveted green berets. It is an annual event of simple ceremony but deep historical significance. Indeed, if there is one occasion that can be said to truly emphasise the near sacred … Read more