Edward VIII (right) admired Hitler, calling him a great leader, and was intrigued by the way he turned an economic disaster into a thrusting state, writes Andrew Morton who discovered the photograph.

The image of Queen Elizabeth as an 18-year-old in wartime ambulance service uniform is more reflective of her reputation than that of her giving a Nazi salute as a child, writes Sarah Bradford.

Buckingham Palace has launched a hunt to discover how leaked footage of the Queen being taught how to do a Nazi salute in the gardens at Balmoral ended up in the hands of The Sun.

Jessica Rees - who has worked with the National Crime Squad, London's Metropolitan Police and the FBI - has insisted that Her Majesty is only raising her left arm to perform a playful royal wave.

Karen Hall (pictured) said the headmistress at West Cornforth Primary School twisted her arm and threw a tennis ball at her in front of her class following a row over netball practice in 2004.

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The figures were disclosed to The Mail On Sunday by Ben Emmerson, the QC who is the chief lawyer for the vast investigation headed up by New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard (pictured).

The BBC spent £55,000 on tickets to the Baftas. Among the guests was Strictly host Claudia Winkleman, a signatory of the celebrities' letter last week defending the Corporation from cuts.

Jeremy Hunt was accused of breaching patient confidentiality after posting a picture of himself at University College Hospital in London, which captured a board showing patients on the ward.

Medical staff from across the country posted pictures of themselves in uniform with the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy in a bid to show the Health Secretary their commitment.

Brett and Nagmeh King spoke for the first time about their ordeal after being told that a leaked official report into the case accuses them of shortening Ashya's life expectancy.

Calling himself Abu Basir al-Britani,, the British national claims he is in the bombed out remains of Baraghedeh, a small Syrian town situated in the province of Aleppo.

In a powerful speech, Prime Minister David Cameron will warn that 'brutal and vicious' IS wants to send young men to their deaths as 'cannon fodder', while women are raped and enslaved.

Prince Harry drove for several hours for a face-to-face meeting with Pohamba Shifeta after learning his arrival in Namibia without official permission had angered a Government official.

Alison Lane (pictured) was awarded an OBE for her work with street children in Central America but died from a heart attack when her body went into Septic shock after she was bitten by a spider.

The Mail on Sunday reporter was investigated for voyeurism after exposing drug-taking paediatrician Dr Colin Ferrie. But West Yorkshire Police still claims that it was right to interview him.

Corporal James Dunsby's widow Bryer made an impassioned plea for improvements to the gruelling SAS course after the inquest into her husband's death in the Brecon Beacons in 2013.

David Mills, the husband of former Labour Cabinet Minister and London Mayoral candidate Tessa Jowell, has been linked to a criminal network dumping toxic and radioactive waste.

There are now 77,000 single parent claimants eligible for unemployment benefits compared with 111,000 a year ago - a drop of almost a third, says the Office for National Statistics.

Luke Gill had only been working at the firm in Leeds, West Yorkshire, as a life insurance adviser for three months when he was given the scratch card as a reward for good work by his boss.

Dunster in Somerset, one of the best-preserved communities in Britain, put in the new pavements in order to improve pedestrian safety earlier this year.

The veteran documentary-maker and former controller of BBC2 said the the BBC 'has to defend itself' and it seemed 'common sense' to back the warning sent to David Cameron this week.

Transport for London has warned Apple Pay users could be charged the maximum fare for journeys if there is a problem with their iPhone or Apple Watch (pictured).

Panic spread through Labour's backbenchers last week when two private polls put Mr Corbyn ahead. A senior MP is gathering support for a move to stop the contest and write a 'petition' letter.

Nobody in Britain still pays women less than men for doing the same job, claims PETER HITCHENS. So why David Cameron say he wants to 'end the gender pay gap within a generation'?

If it were not for the Freedom of Information law, MPs would still be abusing their expenses and the taxpayer the way they used to, writes UKIP MP Douglas Carswell (pictured).

The shocking video emerged yesterday, and is a blow for the Spanish resort, which had vowed to clean up its image after a teenage girl was filmed performing a sex act on 24 men last year.

Education expert Marvin Berkowitz said singling out puipls for praise can cause 'collateral damage' because other children can resent the recipients who themselves can feel embarrassed.

Mia Worms, pictured, was trying to get home from school in Newhaven, near Brighton, but the bus driver refused the note. Her sister then arrived and gave her a ticket - but he said that was too crumpled.

Bosses at networks Vodafone and EE have claimed that poor reception in parts of Britain can actually be caused by too many leaves on nearby trees, which block radio signals.

The new intake of Tory MPs elected in May are unimpressed by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, with one saying: We don't really see him as a potential leader. He's not serious enough.'

Megan Roberts,16, achieved her dream of wearing a backless dress to her school prom in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, after undergoing a major operation to straighten her spine.

Keith Brown, 23, from Stoke, had denied murder during the six-week trial at Warwick Crown Court and claimed he accidentally 'dropped' Khaleel Hussain while trying to calm him down.

Claiming to be Norwegian or Australian got Channel 4 researchers a significant discount when hiring a car abroad. Channel 4 programme Supershoppers reveals more tricks of the trade.

Ram raiders used a JCB to smash and grab a cash machine from a petrol station shop in Derbyshire. The heavy machinery was used to grab the cash point and lower it into a car with its roof cut off.

The chestnut foal, who was born at the start of May at Fyling Hall riding school at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, has the 'horse' profile running up his left flank and neck, merging into his mane.

Alfie can be seen in the clip energetically running through the waist-high grass, including one sweet moment when his owner yells 'This way!' and his head immediately pops up, ready to find her again.

Marie Andrews is 17in tall while her 19-month-old son Mark is 32in. The 32-year-old, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, suffers from a condition called osteogenesis imperfecta.

Charley Mitchell, from Birmingham in the UK, went 39 rounds with unofficial world heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan in an illegal organised brawl in France in 1888.

The Northumberland property was put on the market by Viz founder Chris Donald, whose magazine won acclaim in the 1980s with its black comedy and toilet humour.

The nautical maps and orders show where the huge Allied armada was to meet in the English Channel before heading for the Normandy coast.

The selection forms the 20 most-liked pictures on the Reuters Instagram account so far this year, announced by the news agency today.