Tom Bower’s Harry and Meghan follow-up Betrayal reveals there are plenty more revelations still to be made

It has been described as ‘his latest biographical hit job’, but it is already an Amazon bestseller Meghan and Harry attending an event in London in 2020 before their move across the Atlantic. Photo: Samir Hussein Tom Bower seems quite chuffed with his royal seal of disapproval. “Deranged conspiracy and melodrama” — Meghan and Harry’s … Read more

Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip’s Private Rooms Open to the Public at Holyroodhouse Palace

The private life of Queen Elizabeth II, often shielded from public view, is set to be revealed in a new way. For the first time, visitors to the Palace of… The post Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip’s Private Rooms Open to the Public at Holyroodhouse Palace appeared first on News Directory 3. Source link

The Queen: 100 Years, 100 Stories by Michelle Morgan: Enjoyable biography is both gushing and eye-opening

Beside the embarrassments caused by some of her children, Michelle Morgan’s book is not all heavy going with plenty to interest even those ambivalent to the British royals Queen Elizabeth II in 2011. Photo: Eddie Mulholland/WPA Pool/Getty Some people in public life eventually become so iconic that their name is instantly recognisable, even in shorthand. … Read more

Mary Berry on the death of her son: ‘He drove too fast and he died with his sister in the car. That had a great effect on Annabel’

Meeting Barry Egan in Oxfordshire, she talks about grief, marriage, and gardening Mary Berry. Photo: Britt Willoughby Dyer There’s a framed portrait of the late Elizabeth II hanging on the wall of a private-members club in posh Henley-on-Thames. On the other side of the Georgian-style room sits the other queen, Mary Berry. Source link

A stark message about the shadowy side of machine intelligence – The Irish Times

The big fear with AI is that it’s going to take our jobs. But the concern voiced by Prof Hannah Fry in AI Confidential with Hannah Fry (BBC Two, 9pm) is that machine intelligence is in the process of stealing our souls. Just how pernicious this new technology can be is ominously illustrated towards the … Read more

Norway’s trial of the century begins next week – The Irish Times

At the Quart musical festival in southern Norway in July 1996, the headliner was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. In the crowd was Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby, a 22-year-old waitress from the southern coastal city of Kristiansand. She had yet to tell anyone she was three months pregnant with the child of a man named … Read more

‘I was raped by Lord Mountbatten in Kincora at age 11,’ man claims in new book

Veteran journalist Chris Moore interviewed three victims of the senior royal killed by the IRA in 1979 for his new book on ‘the most enduring child sex scandal in the history of the UK’. He says the story won’t go away despite a huge Establishment cover-up Arthur Smyth and (inset) Lord Mountbatten A man who … Read more

more slivers emerge of Scotland’s sacred Stone of Destiny – The Irish Times

It is a potent symbol of Scottish monarchy and nationhood with debated links to the real-life king Macbeth, who inspired William Shakespeare. It also has an undeniable association with the current British monarch, King Charles, who like his mother Elizabeth was crowned while sitting above it. Now the ancient Stone of Destiny, a sacred 150kg … Read more