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Prince Harry should admit defeat in his legal fight with the Home Office

Many of us believe that Prince Harry and his recent actions could fairly be described as ‘frankly hopeless’. Now, a High Court judge can be added...

16.04.2024 4

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Alexander Larman

Netflix’s Scoop is a reminder of the Prince Andrew problem

If the royals weren’t going through enough problems at the moment, another one is about to be added in the form of Netflix’s Scoop. It contains a...

05.04.2024 20

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Alexander Larman

The King’s reassuring Easter appearance

Most years, the royal family’s attendance at the Easter Mattins service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor is nothing more than a well-received...

31.03.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

Will the slimmed-down monarchy cope without Kate and the King?

The reaction to the Princess of Wales’s courageous and affecting video, in which she discussed her cancer diagnosis, was largely as might be...

25.03.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

The enormous dignity of the Princess of Wales

The statement, when it came, was remarkably simple and delivered with enormous dignity. Dressed simply and sitting outside, the Princess of Wales...

22.03.2024 6

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Alexander Larman

Will the conspiracy theories about Kate ever die?

At last, the matter should have been settled. After the innumerable articles, social media posts and television pundits all speculating as to what,...

19.03.2024 3

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Alexander Larman

Can Meghan reinvent herself as a ‘lifestyle queen’?

It is a known, and lamented, fact that the rivalry between the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Sussex has led to a series of incidents of...

15.03.2024 2

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Alexander Larman

The Princess of Wales’ ‘manipulated’ photo is a disastrous own goal

The photograph of Kate Middleton surrounded by her family was supposed to reassure the public. ‘Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support...

11.03.2024 30

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Alexander Larman

The unhelpful timing of Gary Goldsmith’s Big Brother stint

It’s safe to say that at the moment the royals are besieged by controversy and difficulty – partially through bad luck, and partially through...

05.03.2024 20

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Alexander Larman

Prince Harry’s court defeat is another embarrassment for the Royals

Prince Harry’s failed High Court challenge against the government over his security protection heaps more embarrassment on the royals. The Duke of...

28.02.2024 3

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Alexander Larman

Kate / Where is the Princess of Wales?

Tuesday’s statement about Prince William was terse to the point of being unhelpful. ‘The Prince of Wales has pulled out of attending the memorial...

27.02.2024 9

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Alexander Larman

Is it wise for Prince William to wade in on the Israel-Gaza war?

The Prince of Wales’s statement on the Israel-Gaza conflict raises more questions than answers. William has announced that he is ‘deeply concerned...

20.02.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

Could Harry become an American citizen?

If I was the producer of Good Morning America, I would feel disappointed by today’s appearance of Prince Harry on my show. The Duke of Sussex came...

16.02.2024 3

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Alexander Larman

Books / Lord Byron had many faults, but writing dull letters wasn’t one of them

In 1814, at the height of his fame, the poet, libertine and freedom fighter Lord Byron had his head examined. Not by a proto-psychiatrist but by the...

15.02.2024 20

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Alexander Larman

Why is Meghan launching another podcast?

In one of the many quotations spuriously attributed to Winston Churchill, the former prime minister was supposed to have said ‘success is the...

14.02.2024 3

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Alexander Larman

Will anything reconcile William and Harry?

In this most eventful of weeks for the Royal Family, the unanticipated return of Prince Harry to Britain has created new drama. Indeed, so...

07.02.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

Now is the time for Harry to reconcile with King Charles

Amidst the news of King Charles’s cancer diagnosis, there have been any number of reactions, including the sincere sorrow and compassion felt by...

06.02.2024 30

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What should Buckingham Palace do now?

The news, when it came, was as stark as anyone could have imagined. As a Buckingham Palace statement observed: ‘During the King’s recent hospital...

05.02.2024 6

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Alexander Larman

Netflix rides to the rescue for Meghan and Harry – again

After a catastrophic 2023, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have taken some time to regroup and rethink. Now they have decided to grace us with their...

03.02.2024 7

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Alexander Larman

Panorama / Martin Bashir continues to haunt the BBC

In the annals of those connected with the contemporary Royal Family, it is hard not to see the journalist and broadcaster Martin Bashir as occupying...

31.01.2024 4

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Alexander Larman

The hubris of Harry and Meghan’s Jamaican photoshoot

What is it like to be Prince Harry? Spare gave us a peerless insight into the unhappy, loveless life of a frustrated young man who was saved from a...

25.01.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

Prince Edward has ‘gone on a journey’

Say what you like about Prince Edward, but he has never usually been one for stepping into the limelight – in contrast to his siblings and nephews....

24.01.2024 3

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Alexander Larman

Prince Harry’s libel case humiliation

As flies are to wanton boys – and this particular boy is as wanton as it gets – so Prince Harry is to court cases. Most Spectator readers would...

19.01.2024 1

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Alexander Larman

Charles, Kate and the changing attitude to royal illness

It was a detail that most novelists or screenwriters would have rejected as being too much. Shortly after yesterday’s announcement that the Princess...

18.01.2024 4

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Alexander Larman

Would William really break with the Church of England as king?

The Royal Family may have hoped that 2024 would begin in a quieter fashion than last year did, but if so, they must be disappointed. Once again, the...

17.01.2024 20

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Alexander Larman

Meghan, Harry and the fresh row over Lilibet’s name

Amidst the endless controversy that surrounds Harry and Meghan, there was at least one topic that seemed to be innocuous enough: the Christian name...

15.01.2024 3

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Alexander Larman

It’s time the King distanced himself from Prince Andrew

During the eighteen months or so that Charles has reigned, there is a great deal to commend him for. Two confidently delivered King’s speeches at...

10.01.2024 10

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Alexander Larman

Royals / The Epstein files heap fresh embarrassment on Prince Andrew

Four days in, and 2024 shows every sign of being yet another annus horribilis for Prince Andrew. After – by his, admittedly reduced, standards – a...

04.01.2024 2

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Alexander Larman

Royal flop / Was 2023 Meghan and Harry’s annus horribilis?

If ever Prince Harry writes another volume of memoir, he may choose to look back on 2023 as his annus horribilis. The year began in high-profile...

30.12.2023 6

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Alexander Larman

The King’s speech was more Christian than his mother had dared

King Charles has been a victim of his own success. His first Christmas broadcast last year, which was both affecting and socially conscious,...

25.12.2023 7

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Alexander Larman

Prince Harry claims another victory in his war on the tabloids

Well, send him victorious-ish. In what amounts to an early Christmas present for Prince Harry, Mr Justice Fancourt has ruled today at the High Court...

15.12.2023 30

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Alexander Larman

The Crown is going out in a blaze of camp glory

Say what you like about Netflix and Peter Morgan, the producers and creator of The Crown respectively, but they’ve certainly gone out in a blaze of...

14.12.2023 3

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Alexander Larman

The convenient timing of Meghan and Harry’s Christmas video

There’s that well-known saying of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’. In what can only be an attempt to upstage the official Royal...

12.12.2023 10

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Alexander Larman

Books / Sex and the Famous Five

Generations of readers of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series have enjoyed the books without having to contemplate the erotic properties of the canine...

07.12.2023 2

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Alexander Larman

The mystery of the ‘royal racist’

Ever since 2021’s absurd Oprah Winfrey interview, in which the Duchess of Sussex coyly suggested that a member of the Royal Family had speculated...

29.11.2023 4

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Alexander Larman

The knives are out for Prince William and Kate

Omid Scobie’s Endgame is now available from a bookshop near you, and no doubt republicans and admirers of Harry and Meghan alike will be flocking to...

28.11.2023 30

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Alexander Larman

Is the war of the Windsors about to blow up again?

The name ‘Omid Scobie’ must be one of the least popular ever uttered in Buckingham and St James Palaces. Not only was the royal reporter’s...

27.11.2023 6

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Alexander Larman

In defence of The Crown

Since 2016, we have cultivated a new national pastime: moaning about the latest series of The Crown. Every time Netflix’s royal soap opera appears...

17.11.2023 40

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Alexander Larman

Could Princes Harry be brought in from the cold?

For those of us who believed that hell would freeze over before the Duke of Sussex was welcomed back into the bosom of his family, it will have come...

16.11.2023 6

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Alexander Larman

Happy birthday, your Majesty, and good job so far

Happy birthday, Your Majesty. The King turns 75 today but the celebrations will be muted: Charles is spending the day launching the Coronation Food...

14.11.2023 6

The Spectator

Alexander Larman

Prince Harry wins his latest legal battle – but at what cost?

Prince Harry has won a small victory in his High Court battle: a judge ruled this morning that his privacy case against Associated Newspapers, the...

10.11.2023 7

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Alexander Larman

Charles’ debut King’s Speech was a triumph

The King’s speech was a damp squib – but for that we should blame Rishi Sunak rather than Charles III. Most of the announcements – from tougher...

07.11.2023 20

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Alexander Larman

Should Charles apologise to Kenya for Britain’s colonial past?

It was no coincidence that Kenya was chosen for King Charles’s first state visit as monarch outside Europe. After all, it was at the Treetops hotel...

01.11.2023 6

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Alexander Larman

Apology / Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’s peculiar apology

Not since the then-couple Johnny Depp and Amber Heard released a pained, hostage-style video in 2016 apologising for bringing their dogs into...

12.09.2023 6

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Alexander Larman

When will Elizabeth II get the memorial she deserves?

After the public grief that greeted the death of our longest-serving monarch Elizabeth II a year ago today, it might be expected that there would be a...

08.09.2023 10

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