No one apart from the monarch and her lady’s maid are permitted inside the Queen’s bathroom. So it was a matter of some delicacy when a workman was admitted to this most private of chambers the other day. ...read
Richard Kay for the Daily Mail's recent articles
How Savile seduced the royals: As it's claimed he nearly became godfather to Harry, how the predatory DJ wormed his way into the very heart of Palace life
Just as with the psychiatric hospitals and prisons where he preyed on the vulnerable, the serial paedophile also had a licence to roam in the Prince of Wales’s London base. A footman reveals he was'in and out' of Buckingham Palace, and would often ask for gossip about the royal family. 'When you look back, maybe he was building up information which would be useful to him if he ever needed leverage', he added ...read
Wedding bells again for Pattie Boyd at 71: Model famous for marriages to George Harrison and Eric Clapton ties knot for the third time
She was the woman who inspired three of the greatest love songs of all time and was at the heart of the most famous love triangle in rock history, writes RICHARD KAY. Married to both George Harrison (top right) and Eric Clapton (bottom right), model Pattie Boyd was one of the most envied women in the world. Yesterday at the age of 71, she wed for a third time – with a soundtrack provided by her Irish terrier Freddie who did his best to upstage the bride and her new groom, property developer Rod Weston (left). The setting was very rock and roll; Chelsea Register Office on the King’s Road, where so many of pop’s leading men and women have married over the years. But that’s where any similarity with Pattie’s famous past began and ended. ...read
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