‘THE CROWN’ CRITICS ACCUSE NETFLIX’S HIT SHOW OF ‘LIES AND HALF-TRUTHS
AS ELIZABETH DEBICKI PLAYS DIANA ‘THE CROWN’ CRITICS ACCUSE NETFLIX’S HIT SHOW OF ‘LIES AND HALF-TRUTHS’ Elegant in a figure-hugging red dress during a Mediterranean...
hiking from village to village across Bhutan
Having closed its borders when Covid hit, the little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan finally opened them again to tourists in September. Those that come must...
American Midnight: by Adam Hochschild
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis It can be too easy to forget the dark periods that our republic has survived...
THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS STAR AND HER MODEL HUSBAND
KIMBERLY WYATT AND MAX ROGERS TREAT US TO SOME EXCITING NEWS AT THEIR ‘FOREVER HOME’ - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS Showcasing a collection of spooky...
Abyss by Max Hastings
The “heart-stopping story” of the Cuban Missile Crisis has been “told many times before”, said Saul David in The Daily Telegraph. But never has it...
Adventures in recovering wild places
Patagonia’s Atlantic shoreAlong the coast of Argentine Patagonia, the distances seem “fathomless”, the landscape, “timeless” – and few places on Earth are as beautiful or...
The Koh-i-Noor: a 105-carat controversy
The Koh-i-Noor “is neither the biggest diamond in the world, nor the most beautiful”, said Anita Anand in The Guardian. But it is “arguably the...
Three Times a Countess by Tina Gaudoin
Raine Spencer is chiefly remembered as “Princess Diana’s ‘wicked stepmother’”, said Marcus Berkmann in the Daily Mail. In the 1980s, she became a “tabloid hate...
SEX AT THE SEASIDE …But Fred Paid A High Price
It should have been one of the happiest nights of Fred Gill’s life. Nellie Rickaby, the girl he was courting, at last allowed him to...
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service,” vowed a fresh-faced Princess...
Ascot Shocker : HORROR AT HOLLY COTTAGES
A phone call from a “Mr. Farnsworth” to a hardware shop in Slough asked for 56lbs of nails to be delivered to two desolate cottages...
A PRINCESS IS BORN
When she was born on 21 April 1926, in Bruton Street, London, nobody could have foreseen that the first child of the Duke and Duchess...
Henry Marsh
Like many doctors, Henry Marsh had come to believe that serious illness was something that “only happened to patients”, As a result, the neurosurgeon spent...
Dining out on Mallorca
Mallorca long ago shrugged off its image among the English as a place for sun, sangria and drunken teenagers. We finally realised what the Spanish...
The Price of Immortality by Peter Ward
The idea that humans can live for ever has long been central to religion, But increasingly, it “has other devotees”. Progress in the nascent science...
The perfectly pitched charms of Lake Iseo
Northern Italy’s largest lakes – Como, Garda and Maggiore – are beautiful and glamorous, but crowded in the summer. Smaller neighbours such as Orta and...
Gun violence: a shocking week for Liverpool
“Disbelief, despair and pure, unadulterated anger.” That was the mood in Liverpool last week, when the city learnt that a nine-year-old girl had been shot...
a spectacular road trip in southern Colorado
Most visitors to Colorado come for the Rocky Mountain National Park, or renowned ski towns such as Vail, Breckenridge and Beaver Creek. Less well known...
Bernd & Hilla Becher Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
“For the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the aesthetics of a tipple or water tower rivaled anything that a curator could set on a pedestal,”...
Inventor of the Future: by Alec Nevala-Lee
Buckminster Fuller, the architect, inventor, and futurist, “could come across as almost a secular saint,” In the hours-long talks he gave around the world after...
Hollywood Stalker… London Shooter
ANTHONY FLETCHER was having a hard time. A 33-year-old former Grenadier Guardsman, he was finding work difficult to get as a Wimbledon building contractor. The...
Michal Worke at Goodman Gallery
The female figures in these paintings by the Ethiopia-born, Tel Aviv-based artist Michal Worke exude a sense of calm and purpose. Even when they are...
The enchanting isles of Titicaca
There is something thrilling about the thought of Lake Titicaca – a vast body of water, 200 miles across, 900ft deep, wreathed in legends of...
Tourists : by Lucy Lethbridge
“Travel for pleasure was once the preserve of young aristocrats taking the Grand Tour,” But in the early 19th century, a crucial change took place:...
THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL
Despite last week’s recordbreaking temperatures, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall kept their cool as they made their annual visit to Devon...
Once home to Clan Jardine
Built in 1450, Spedlins, in the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland, is thought to be one of the most haunted buildings in Britain, and...
Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison
Roald Dahl is “very easy to cast as a villain”,He was arrogant and overbearing, a “distant and wayward husband”, and an “unforgivable anti- Semite”. Yet...
HISTORIC TOWNS WINCHCOMBE
In February 2021 Winchcombe was struck by one of the few meteorites to land in Britain, yet this was just the latest significant event to...
Twenty years on : Holly and Jessica
It's been 20 years since the quiet town of Sohamin Cambridgeshire was rocked by the horrific deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. The bodies...
ANOTHER BRAVE PASSER-BY SHOT DEAD
Three masked men had raided a jeweller’s in Charlotte Street in London’s West End. They had beaten the shop owner about the head with a...