Bathtime pictures won’t save Prince Andrew
As the furore about Prince Harry and Spare finally shows some signs of dying down – the book’s second week…
Why does Princess Eugenie want her son to be an activist?
The furore surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has made it easy to forget about the other younger members of…
Will Prince Harry and Meghan spoil the King’s Coronation?
As the furore caused by the publication of Spare may – or may not – be dying down, there are…
Is Prince Harry blackmailing his family?
For all of the noise that Prince Harry has made over the past few days (weeks, months, and years) about…
The Royal silence over Prince Harry can’t go on
Even Prince Harry’s critics must concede that his memoir Spare has been an enormous success. The book is the UK’s…
Prince Harry’s Spare ends with a whimper not a bang
The epigraph for Spare, Prince Harry’s frenziedly awaited memoir, is from William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun. It states simply ‘The past is never dead. It’s…
Prince Harry’s ITV interview shows why there won’t be a royal reconciliation
It’s fair to say that last night’s ITV interview – imaginatively entitled Harry: The Interview – between Prince Harry and his long-standing friend, the journalist…
The war between the Windsors hits a new low
It was inevitable, with a book as highly anticipated as Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, that there would be a leak…
What is Prince Harry’s latest sulk trying to achieve?
A new year, a new grudge. Or, at least, a new expression of an old one, which is pretty much…
The King has inherited his mother’s sense of duty
For the first King’s speech since 1951, the King might have been forgiven for striking a downbeat note in his…
Elon Musk will have the last laugh
It ended, as many things do these days, with a poll. Apparently on a whim, Elon Musk, while attending the…
Do Harry and Meghan really think they’ve done nothing wrong?
Not for the first time, it was Jeremy Clarkson’s fault. The weekend news, which began with a forensic dissection of…
Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show is worse than the Royals could ever imagine
At the end of the sixth episode of the interminable, grotesquely self-indulgent wallow in self-pity and score-settling that constitutes Netflix’s…
Harry and Meghan have stepped up their war on the Windsors
The first part of the Harry and Meghan show on Netflix was something of a let down. Over three tedious…
Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show is a tedious, narcissistic wallow
The opening scenes of the eagerly anticipated – or keenly dreaded – Netflix series Harry & Meghan set out the…
A tale of two royal couples taking on America
When the incendiary story about Lady Susan Hussey’s ill-judged remarks broke this week, a detail that many were quick to…
The unbelievable narcissism of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary
‘Why did you want to make this documentary?’ That is the question – over portentous piano chords – that begins…
The generation gap over J.K. Rowling
I’ve often thought that a candid fly-on-the-wall documentary about the production of the Harry Potter films would be considerably more…
Lady Hussey’s resignation and the pressure to reform Buckingham Palace
It’s a story that sounds as if it could have come from half a century ago, rather than today. Ngozi…
Harry and Andrew are out in the cold
King Charles has announced, to mark his 74th birthday, that he will be asking Parliament to amend the Regency Act…
The afterlife of a painting: Molly & the Captain, by Anthony Quinn, reviewed
Novels about art are often strange, vain affairs. After all, writing about artists, especially fictional ones, can seem like a…
Prince Harry's 'Spare' is making the Royals nervous
The title of Prince Harry’s long-awaited memoir will be enough to make the royal family nervous. Spare, which was originally…
Just Stop Oil doesn’t understand protest
After Just Stop Oil’s recent attack on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery, the association has become emboldened by…
Meghan makes it all about herself, again
Since the Queen’s death last month, the Duchess of Sussex has found it hard to maintain her usual vice-like grip…
Why Harry has been allowed to wear his military uniform
P.G. Wodehouse once wrote that ‘it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray…
