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Richard Kay - Daily Mail columnist

Richard, who has worked for the Daily Mail since 1980, spent years as a globe-trotting feature writer, reporting on everything from the Brixton riots and the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana to The Troubles in Northern Ireland and the first Gulf War. He also devoted 20 years to writing about the Royal Family and his coverage of Princess Diana's death in 1997 earned him the title Royal Reporter of the Year in the What The Papers Say Awards. He started a 12-year stint as diary editor in 2003 and now writes heavyweight pieces on a wide range of issues.

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MOST RECENT ARTICLES FROM RICHARD KAY

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Is this a scandal too far for the man Prince Charles can't do without? Ex-valet Michael Fawcett has resigned TWICE before and sailed back into royal service... now his fate again rests in prince's hands, writes RICHARD KAY

05/09/21 09:08

RICHARD KAY: As the chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Maybach purred to a halt, the genial offering of a lift came from the open back window. The voice belonged to Michael Fawcett, Prince Charles's closest aide, who was reclining in the cosseted walnut and leather luxury of the rear passenger seat. The scene was Tokyo where almost two years ago Fawcett, now 58, had accompanied his royal boss, representing the Queen at the enthronement of Japan's new emperor, Naruhito. But while the prince was an esteemed guest at the traditional tea ceremony and other solemn rituals of the coronation, his indispensable 'Mr Fixit' had other business to attend to. Yet the fact that the prince's one-time manservant was being chauffeured around the Japanese capital in one of the world's most exclusive - and expensive - production cars, prompted barely a raised eyebrow. Such has been the rise (and rise) of the man of whom Charles once said: 'I can manage without just about anyone, except for Michael.'...read

Darkness behind the return of Abba's Dancing Queens: It was the relaunch that thrilled the world. But why did it take 40 years? Torment, multiple failed marriages, suicide, a child's fatal car crash - and even a twisted affair with a stalker
03/09/21 09:00
RICHARD KAY: In 1979, at the height of Abba's fame, they split up - to the horror of Abba fans - and, at a stroke, blew away that wholesome image.
The last word in victimhood: As the new version of Finding Freedom - complete with a barb at the Queen - finally hits the shelves, read RICHARD KAY's stinging verdict on the Harry and Meghan book
31/08/21 09:07
RICHARD KAY: Unauthorised it may be, but Finding Freedom does provide one valuable service: come what may the Duke and Duchess of Sussex must always have the last word.
RICHARD KAY: Prince Andrew's silence will only make things worse
10/08/21 09:26
RICHARD KAY: How Prince Andrew must wish he could turn back the clock. But to where and when?
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More bucks than Becks! Jack Grealish has the same shirt number, same hair obsession, same gorgeous girl and same soaring talent as David Beckham. As he becomes Britain's first £100m footballer at 25, could he earn more than him, asks RICHARD KAY
06/08/21 09:19
RICHARD KAY: it is surely no coincidence that he wears the same No.7 shirt worn by Beckham. At just 25, England's most expensive footballer could yet come to dwarf the celebrity lifestyle of Becks.
RICHARD KAY: For $20million, this will have to be a real royal tell-all. And the Palace's great fear: Who'll be in the firing line?
20/07/21 09:00
RICHARD KAY: What can Prince Harry offer, apart from a lot of score-settling with the media? In order to justify the vast sums that are being bandied around, it can only be one thing: the book will be a tell-all.
RICHARD KAY: Sibling rivalry... and the real reasons why Charles will deny his father's long-stated wish for Prince Edward to succeed as the Duke of Edinburgh
13/07/21 09:03
RICHARD KAY: From his first-floor bedroom window at Bagshot Park, Prince Edward can look across acres of parkland to Windsor Castle.
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The poignant promise to Prince Philip behind those radiant smiles: After the lonely grief of her loss, our beaming Queen has heartened the nation. But, as RICHARD KAY reveals, she is simply honouring a loving agreement with her husband
05/07/21 09:04
RICHARD KAY: Just 11 weeks on from Prince Philip's funeral, when she looked so vulnerable and forlorn in her pew at St George's Chapel, the transformation was striking.
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RICHARD KAY: The legacy my friend Princess Diana would really want? For her beloved boys to end their sad divisions
01/07/21 09:08
RICHARD KAY: On the face of it, yesterday's unveiling of Princess Diana's statue was no more than was always intended - a tribute to an extraordinary woman who died too young.
Diana's last birthday: Billionaire suitors wooing her, bombarded with gifts, a gaffe by Donald Trump... and two phone calls to RICHARD KAY when she sang 'Happy Birthday to ME!'
30/06/21 09:17
On July 1, what would have been Princess Diana's 60th, the world will be watching the sons she adored reunite to unveil a statue of their mother at Kensington Palace where they grew up.
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RICHARD KAY: Sajid Javid's appointment as Health Secretary is another victory for the FoCs... that's Friends of Carrie (and the corridors of power are now full of them)
27/06/21 09:28
RICHARD KAY: Ever since Sajid Javid's departure from the Treasury, Carrie has been pestering Boris to find another job for him.
Harry's home! Prince is whisked from Heathrow to begin five-day self-isolation ahead of awkward reunion with William at Diana memorial launch
25/06/21 01:48
The Duke of Sussex arrived at London Heathrow Airport this afternoon in time to serve out his 'amber list' quarantine at Frogmore Cottage ahead of the unveiling on July 1.
Princes slash Diana ceremony guest list: William and Harry drastically scale back unveiling of the statue of Princess of Wales because of Covid rules
24/06/21 09:07
The brothers were due to put aside their bitter rift to host an elaborate ceremony on July 1 at Kensington Palace, Princess Diana's former home, on what would have been her 60th birthday.
RICHARD KAY: Can't Harry and Meghan do anything without starting a row? Only the Sussexes could end up calling in the lawyers over their new baby's name
09/06/21 09:15
RICHARD KAY: Is there nothing Harry and Meghan do that doesn't involve a row? How desperately sad that even something so uplifting as the birth of their new baby is accompanied by thundering controversy.
After such rancour, can this baby repair the royal rift? The healing power of baby Lili could be vital to resolving the sadness at the heart of the Royal Family, writes RICHARD KAY
06/06/21 09:09
RICHARD KAY Never has a royal baby arrived with quite so much anticipation - or with so much seemingly depending on her.
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Insatiable greed of the vulture capitalists: Private jets, property empires, art collections... and Jagger or McCartney singing at their parties. Private equity fat cats live in luxury while High St brands are stripped to the bone, writes RICHARD KAY
30/05/21 11:53
Not long before he acquired a sizeable stake in Debenhams, the former bankruptcy lawyer turned private equity baron David Bonderman decided to do some celebrating.
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Paranoid. Fearful. Isolated. The words Prince William used this week to describe how Martin Bashir's lies ruined his mother's life. RICHARD KAY, who witnessed Diana's torment, reveals the intimate story behind his fury
21/05/21 09:32
From Kensington Palace, Prince William can just about look out on the patch of grass where he and Harry played as boys - these day the area is screened by hedges, writes RICHARD KAY.
How Princess Diana came to fear the man she called 'The Poison Dwarf': RICHARD KAY details the explosive inside story of the aftermath of her interview with Martin Bashir
20/05/21 09:35
RICHARD KAY: Many of the Princess's circle believed Martin Bashir had duped or tricked her into giving her interview in the first place, while questions were being asked in the BBC about his ethics.
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As we sat in the saloon at Althorp, I couldn't believe what I was shown: RICHARD KAY recalls the scoop that triggered BBC inquiry
20/05/21 09:06
RICHARD KAY: Earl Spencer's invitation for me to meet him last November came almost 25 years after his sister had opened the doors at Kensington Palace to welcome in BBC reporter Martin Bashir.
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The charming toff who made Mick Jagger's Marianne un-Faithfull: It was the love triangle that baffled Britain - and drove the rocker mad with jealousy. But, as Lord Rossmore dies aged 90, RICHARD KAY recalls a doomed romance blighted by addiction
09/05/21 09:00
RICHARD KAY: Not long before meeting old Etonian peer Lord Rossmore, Marianne Faithfull had been rushed to hospital after a suspected drugs overdose in Australia
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RICHARD KAY: Toughest gig yet for top aide who put Queen in a parachute
28/04/21 09:04
RICHARD KAY: Former Buckingham Palace courtier Lord Geidt will need all those skills of derring-do as he grapples with Westminster's most incendiary political hot potato.
RICHARD KAY: With friends like these... As Andrew sets up a firm with a banker accused of being a sex pest, why does the duke keep such questionable company?
27/04/21 09:10
RICHARD KAY: For someone who has taken such a public pummelling over the company he keeps, Andrew is drawn to those who raise questions about his judgment.
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She gives him confidence, he delights in her popularity: With fresh accounts from those close to the couple, RICHARD KAY and GEOFFREY LEVY on the teamwork behind William and Kate's triumphant first ten years
23/04/21 09:31
Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy explore how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge enforced their own ideas about the kind of life they would lead as modern royals, as they celebrate their anniversary.
RICHARD KAY: A funeral masterstroke by Charles that may just reunite his warring sons
18/04/21 09:01
RICHARD KAY: As the limousines drew up to take mourners from the porch of St George's Chapel back to Windsor Castle Prince Charles used the briefest of gestures to send them away.
'Make sure she's your best friend first': With rare new insights, two brilliant Mail writers chart the romantic saga of a royal love affair - starting with Prince William's mother's invaluable advice
16/04/21 09:31
As the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrate their tenth anniversary, Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy explore how their romance blossomed. Kate had qualities Diana taught William to cherish.
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She's left Buckingham Palace for Windsor, is allotting mementoes from Philip to family, writing to friends on black-rimmed cards... and a 'soft' new regency by Charles has already begun. RICHARD KAY's remarkable portrait of Her Majesty as a widow
16/04/21 09:15
They had spent their last weeks 'reminiscing like mad', sifting through family photographs and old cine camera film which the duke had had digitised, writes RICHARD KAY.
How HAS it come to this... and what on earth would Prince Philip think? Duke's family will be in mourning clothes for his funeral with not a flash of ceremonial gold stripe on view to honour his war service, writes RICHARD KAY
14/04/21 09:49
RICHARD KAY: On Saturday, when the nation comes to a halt for the funeral of one of its last bona fide Second World War heroes, not one of Prince Philip's family will be clad in military uniform.
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A tale of two tributes: RICHARD KAY decodes Princes Harry and William's very different tributes to Prince Philip... and sees no healing comments to repair royal rift
12/04/21 09:04
RICHARD KAY: At its heart, Saturday's funeral for Prince Philip at Windsor Castle is no more, and certainly no less, than what was always intended - the family farewell to an extraordinary man.
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So can Prince Charles cut it as CEO of the Firm? Heir to the throne might at last see the value of being pragmatic, writes RICHARD KAY and GEOFFREY LEVY
11/04/21 09:08
RICHARD KAY and GEOFFREY LEVY: Prince Philip complained of Charles's 'separateness' from the rest of the family, not realising, perhaps, that he himself was probably the cause.
'Fondest love, Pa': That's how Prince Philip signed all his letters to Diana as - with typical bluntness, but surprising warmth - he tried to save her marriage to Charles. RICHARD KAY reveals the most intriguing royal friendship of all
11/04/21 09:00
RICHARD KAY: Theirs was, perhaps, the most intriguing, most unlikely relationship in the entire royal drama. Prince Philip was a decisive and worldly man whose frankness Princess Diana admired.
RICHARD KAY & GEOFFREY LEVY: How will the Queen cope without the man she has adored since she was a little girl?
09/04/21 09:00
One can only try to imagine the depth of loneliness of the Queen without the man she married in 1947. It will be daunting for her to continue her reign without his companionship.
The sun on his face and a rug on his lap: RICHARD KAY reveals Prince Philip's final days at Windsor Castle with his 'Lilibet' - the Queen - as he neared 100
09/04/21 09:00
RICHARD KAY: Even with failing health signalling that his life was drawing to a close, the Queen and Prince Philip were still able to enjoy time with each other as they always had.
Who WAS Prince Philip's favourite? How Charles's stubborn nature, Anne's iron will, Andrew's martial courage and Edward's artistic talents were all inherited from their father
09/04/21 09:00
RICHARD KAY and GEOFFREY LEVY: Prince Philip may have spent his married life walking one step behind the Sovereign, but he was head of the family.
RICHARD KAY: Of all those smeared by the BBC's Martin Bashir Princess Diana scandal, none has been so wounded as Tiggy Legge-Bourke with his fake abortion smear
29/03/21 09:00
All she ever wanted was a contented life as an ordinary loving wife. But Tiggy Legge-Bourke has never been able to escape the consequences of her time as nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry.
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Was he REALLY guilty of being Harman the Horrible? Obituaries painted Sir Jeremiah Harman as a sexist snob and the 'worst judge' in Britain. RICHARD KAY looks back on his life and times
25/03/21 12:43
RICHARD KAY: That he was an amusing and compassionate man in private, always anxious to put strangers at their ease, was barely noted. No excitement in that.
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Hauntingly sad, but a searing reminder that William is Diana's son, too: RICHARD KAY views the poignant Mother's Day cards to Princess Diana from the grandchildren she never knew
14/03/21 10:01
RICHARD KAY: They are just the kind of heart-warming cards that were being opened by mothers up and down the country yesterday: Sweet, affectionate and lovingly homemade.
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Harry and Meghan, the inconvenient truth: Dossier reveals many explosive claims which rocked the Royal Family were contradictory or wrong... so will CBS and Oprah Winfrey now investigate the true story?
12/03/21 10:28
Across the globe, the Harry and Meghan interview has divided families, communities and even nations. Its fallout has been greater than anyone could have imagined.
Sisters-in-war: Again and again in her TV jaw-dropper, Meghan exposed her fixation with Kate, who'd enjoyed such a happy and relaxed friendship with Harry. So, asks RICHARD KAY, is this what really caused a rift?
09/03/21 10:24
RICHARD KAY: Here were two very different women: Kate with her charmingly English reserve in public and Meghan a poised and glossy American performer.
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The only winners from this are those who hate the monarchy: By attacking the Royal Family in such an imperious way, Harry and Meghan have come perilously close to obliterating the whole institution...and they must now lose their titles, writes RICHARD KAY
08/03/21 10:08
RICHARD KAY: Not even the height of the Charles and Diana wars brought such a glow to the heart of anti-monarchists everywhere as Meghan and Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey has done.
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Did courtiers bury bullying claims to PROTECT Meghan? Duchess says she is the victim of a cruel Palace conspiracy - but, asks RICHARD KAY, could the truth be far more tantalising?
04/03/21 10:05
RICHARD KAY: His office in the heart of Whitehall, four miles from Kensington Palace, is too far away for Simon Case to hear the cries of anguish emanating from the royal bunker where he used to work.
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Royals' Meghan 'bully' crisis: As Buckingham Palace launches an unprecedented investigation into sensational bullying claims against Meghan, make no mistake this is a crisis that echoes the Abdication, writes RICHARD KAY
03/03/21 10:17
RICHARD KAY: Never before has the Palace held a member of the Royal Family to account, and its move represents a serious blow to the Duchess's carefully curated status of victimhood.
How CAN Prince Harry's TV show go on while his grandfather is so sick? As Oprah's explosive interview with Harry and Meghan nears - and with Prince Philip still receiving treatment in hospital - RICHARD KAY asks an urgent question
01/03/21 10:01
RICHARD KAY: His comments, recorded last month, that the couple's decision to leave Britain for a new life in Los Angeles had been 'unbelievably tough' are not new.
The secret shoot that sowed Ghislaine Maxwell's downfall: She gave her father these unpublished photos for the yacht he named after her. The tragedy? After his death she craved a replacement - and found one in Jeffrey Epstein...
19/02/21 10:25
Taken almost 32 years ago, the snapshots from the hour-long photoshoot, held at a studio in Holborn, were never destined for public viewing and, until today, have never been made public.
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The Queen pushed to breaking point: Her Majesty has showered Harry with affection and indulgence in a bid for harmony. Yesterday, that was thrown back in her face with outrageous peevishness. And, writes RICHARD KAY, the worst may yet lie ahead
19/02/21 10:01
RICHARD KAY: Evening shadows were falling across the Long Walk at Windsor Castle when the call came through.
Kidnapped: An Arabian princess imprisoned by her father in a Dubai villa who then smuggles a shocking video plea to the world... RICHARD KAY examines the heart-stopping tale that exposes the sordid underbelly of the celebrity influencers' playground
16/02/21 10:10
In a series of shocking videos, Princess Latifa, the 34-year-old royal prisoner, describes how her 2018 escape attempt from Dubai ended in her brutal recapture and forced repatriation.
How Prince Charles fell for Camilla's 'earthy sexiness' over coffee: As the 'aristo-flats' where the royal couple first met face demolition, RICHARD KAY looks back on the early days of their friendship
14/02/21 10:36
If developers get their way, there won't be much left of the Belgravia building where the Prince first set eyes on the woman who was, eventually, to become his second wife - Camilla.
RICHARD KAY: Has the curse of Brideshead struck again? Usurped by his brother at iconic Castle Howard, a battle with cancer, near-fatal fall, and even Covid - and now Simon Howard is charged with child sex offences
12/02/21 10:02
From a distance, Castle Howard looks as grand and graceful as ever. But for the family whose home it has been for centuries, it also stands witness to a run of domestic dramas and crises.
RICHARD KAY: A conspiracy? On this evidence, it's hardly compelling
08/02/21 12:20
RICHARD KAY: For years, guessing how rich the Queen is has been a popular - if exasperating - parlour game. The fact is the secrets of the Queen's wealth are stringently opaque.
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Bon viveur who revelled in his 'harem' of society beauties including Nigella Lawson: As Naim Attallah dies aged 89, RICHARD KAY pays tribute to the man who ran the Queen's jeweller and sexed up the world of books
05/02/21 10:31
RICHARD KAY: To the publishing trade, Naim Attallah will go down in history as a genius who 'sexed up' its stuffy reputation and gave the industry a much-needed kick up the backside.
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What monstrous ingratitude! Lord Curzon was the British statesman who left historic properties to the National Trust. Its thanks? To condemn what it calls his 'racist ideology' in the latest example of contempt for our proud heritage, writes RICHARD KAY
04/02/21 11:30
It was always the wish of its former owner Lord Curzon, a Viceroy of India and a nearly Prime Minister, that his childhood home should be opened up to the public.
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The royal home movie that's STILL a drama 51 years later: It was a sensation in 1969 - before being hidden away. Now, as a new YouTube release is censored again, RICHARD KAY examines the film that ruffled feathers at the palace
28/01/21 10:07
RICHARD KAY: For a generation brought up to view the British Queen and her family as remote figures, what unfolded was nothing short of a sensation.
Vladimir Putin's £1bn palace of pleasure: Grander than Versailles, it's a monument to the Russian leader's vanity - complete with lap-dancing room and ice hockey rink... allegedly paid for by oligarchs desperate for his patronage, writes RICHARD KAY
20/01/21 10:01
RICHARD KAY: High on a clifftop overlooking a vast bay empty of shipping, a giant glistening palace built to one man's ludicrous vainglory peeps through a woodland screen
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Hasnat Khan wields the knife: He was Princess Diana's lover as she filmed her secret Panorama interview. Now, inflamed by the unfolding scandal, the heart surgeon gives his first interview in 12 years - and it is devastating
08/01/21 10:13
RICHARD KAY: Intrigued but still busy and on-call with his medical duties, Dr Hasnat Khan arranged to meet Princess Diana and Martin Bashir at the Breakspear Arms in Middlesex.
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'William told Diana: Mummy, Martin Bashir isn't a good person': Princess Diana's lover Hasnat Khan breaks his silence to savage Bashir over THAT interview - and reveals Prince's fury
08/01/21 10:00
Princess Diana's former lover Hasnat Khan said Martin Bashir 'filled her head with rubbish' until Prince William, then a teenager, warned her: 'Mummy, he's not a good person.'
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The masterchef with an insatiable appetite for women: He was the French butcher's son who baked Churchill's birthday cake - and changed Britain's culinary tastes for ever. As Albert Roux dies at 85, RICHARD KAY looks back at his saucy story
06/01/21 11:24
RICHARD KAY: As a boy of 14, Albert Roux was training for the priesthood in his native France when an unholy encounter with a 'smelly' man of the cloth saw him switch to chef's whites.
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Are Blair's antics over Princess Diana the reason the Queen hasn't made him Sir Tony? As the former Prime Minister is absent again from the New Year honours, RICHARD KAY examines the possible reasons for the ongoing snub
03/01/21 11:10
Tony Blair was absent again from the Queen's New Year's honours list. Reports say the Queen is reluctant to confer the honour over resentment at the handling of the death of Princess Diana.
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RICHARD KAY: NOW will they stop wailing? They were the insufferable refuseniks horrified by a democratic referendum (because they lost) who battled to thwart it. Now, before we sail into a brave new tomorrow, a fond salute to Brexit's bitter losers
30/12/20 10:12
Tonight Britain will leave the European Union for good, as the demands of the 2016 referendum are finally met. So, more than 1,600 days after the vote, who are the biggest losers of the Brexit deal?
The childhood betrayal that forged a master spy writer: He fantasised about killing his conman father, and his mother abandoned him when he was five. No wonder John Le Carré, who has died at 89, was such a sardonic observer, writes RICHARD KAY
14/12/20 10:12
John Le Carré's books are a masterclass in the dark arts of concealment, offering up their secrets stealthily, with one invariably leading on to another.
The bounder who taught Prince Charles the art of seduction: He was the polo-playing Casanova who captivated Christina Onassis and secretly wed a peer's daughter. As Luis Basualdo dies at 75, RICHARD KAY looks back at his colourful life
13/12/20 10:08
Luis Basualdo was a glamorous Argentine playboy who has died at the age of 75. He had his own polo team called the Golden Eagles for whom Prince Charles played.
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How could The Crown exploit a widow's very private tragedy? It was the skiing trip where Charles watched helplessly as an avalanche killed his close friend. Years later, writes RICHARD KAY, the victim's family begged Netflix not to dramatise it... in vain
30/11/20 10:36
RICHARD KAY There is no monument or commemorative plaque to explain what happened, no cairn of stones to mark the spot where a roaring avalanche swept all before it.
RICHARD KAY: She scooped the world when Everest was conquered, wrote sublimely of travel odysseys - and, decades after changing gender, remarried the love of her life. As she dies aged 94, why Jan Morris really was the boldest adventurer
21/11/20 02:23
After gender reassignment surgery that turned her from James to Jan, she remained in love with the woman who had been her wife and borne her three sons and a daughter, and a fifth who died in infancy.
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How The Crown lost the plot: It prides itself on getting all the little details right - but that's what makes the clunking scripts, massive distortions and woeful royal caricatures of this series such a travesty, says RICHARD KAY
17/11/20 10:02
The Netflix show - with its lavish budget, exquisite locations and endless boasts of authenticity - has shaped the way millions of people have come to view the Royal Family.
The Spencer files: In Earl's own notes, Martin Bashir's lies included Prince Edward had AIDS, Queen was ill with heart problems and Prince Charles and his sons' nanny were in love and on a secret holiday, writes RICHARD KAY
06/11/20 10:16
RICHARD KAY: Lord Spencer performed the introductions. This, he told his sister, was Martin Bashir, a 32-year-old reporter for the UK's BBC flagship current affairs programme, Panorama.
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Earl Spencer's damning dossier on Martin Bashir's lies: Crisis for BBC as Diana's brother reveals transcripts of journalist's 32 smears including Prince Edward had AIDS, The Queen's 'heart problems' and claim Prince Charles was in love with
06/11/20 10:01
Martin Bashir allegedly spun an outlandish web of deceit to win British Pincess Diana's trust - and secure the bombshell interview in 1995.
EXCLUSIVE - Who stole BBC's forgeries? Fake bank statements that convinced Diana's brother his own aide was betraying him to the press (and led to THAT interview) were swiped from forger's flat
05/11/20 10:32
The break-in was at the London home of Matt Wiessler, a graphic artist who had mocked up bank statements on behalf of Panorama reporter Martin Bashir.
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Snared in a web of deceit: Earl Spencer says Martin Bashir claimed William wore a watch that recorded Diana, said the Queen and Edward were terminally ill and led Princess to shame Tiggy Legge-Bourke over lost baby, writes RICHARD KAY
02/11/20 10:35
RICHARD KAY: Even now, the words Earl Spencer uttered at the funeral of his sister Princess Diana have lost none of their power.
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ROYAL EXCLUSIVE: Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer sensationally exposes Martin Bashir letter falsely accusing Charles of affair with princes' nanny - and demands an inquiry into 'whitewash' over Panorama interview
02/11/20 10:21
Charles Spencer expressed his outrage at the BBC's 'sheer dishonesty' and accused Bashir, who secured the sensational interview for Panorama in 1995, of 'yellow journalism'.
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The Queen of party planning: As the monarch's cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson dies at 79, RICHARD KAY recalls a relationship that went far beyond ties of kinship
01/11/20 10:58
RICHARD KAY: When the Queen came to call on her cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson for dinner once a month, the house in Notting Hill echoed with laughter, family gossip and memories.
The council flat kid who became F1's greatest driver: He had already amassed a fortune of £250Million. Now, after all the tax storms and political rants, Lewis Hamilton has beaten Michael Schumacher's race record
25/10/20 10:36
Even if you know nothing of Formula One and care still less for the high testosterone sport of motor racing, you will have almost certainly have heard of Lewis Hamilton.
Princess Diana's TV thunderbolt: 25 years after that Panorama interview, RICHARD KAY reveals astonishing untold secrets she confided in him - from the master tape hidden in her hat box to her bitter regrets about hurting her boys
16/10/20 09:03
RICHARD KAY: Some figures connected to the broadcast - shown on November 20, 1995 - have suggested 20 minutes of it disappeared. If so, what happened to the master tape and where is it now?
The man who dreamed a dream... and made millions from Les Miserables: He was the Mail's TV critic who became a theatrical giant and creator of pop classics. As the curtain comes down on Herbert Kretzmer's astonishing life, RICHARD KAY pays tribute
14/10/20 09:31
RICHARD KAY: Herbie Kretzmer combined journalism with songwriting and considered them complementary skills because they involved the 'manipulation of language under great constraint.'
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From shy Di to eighties fashion superstar: How The Crown's Emma Corrin perfectly captures the princess in TV scenes so real it's like yesterday
14/10/20 07:30
Next month The Crown returns to our TV screens and, after a lacklustre season three, get set for a right royal roller coaster. Here, a look at the scenes that are just like reality.
A tragic heiress, her opulent mansion... and a VERY racy legacy: His taste is famously blingtastic so why, asks RICHARD KAY, is Donald Trump lobbying the Queen over a Grade II listed property in the heart of the capital?
11/10/20 09:03
RICHARD KAY: While Winfield House has seen countless gatherings - the ambassador's Independence Day party - its renown springs from its first owner, Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton.
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RICHARD KAY: Prince William's 'Earthshot' prize proves he's a world away from Prince Harry
07/10/20 11:01
RICHARD KAY: So many of his speeches are worthy, innocuous and a teeny bit predictable. They have to be. But today it is different. For a brief moment Prince William steps out of his royal role.
Were they kindred spirits after all? Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were said to have a distinctly frosty relationship. But as the creator of The Crown claims they were more like 'twins', RICHARD KAY and ANDREW PIERCE reveal he might just be right
30/09/20 09:10
Of all the relationships between the Queen and her prime ministers, the one with Margaret Thatcher was not just the longest and the most intriguing, it was also the most misunderstood.
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Who'll bail out Boris? Johnson has taken a vast pay cut to be PM, his ex-wife Marina Wheeler is 'cleaning him out' in expensive divorce, he's unable to afford a nanny - and is forced to pay for every No10 meal himself
25/09/20 09:21
With something resembling a genial grunt, the Prime Minister urged his guests to tuck into lunch, Oxfordshire beef fillet with crispy shin, baby leeks and a rich gravy.
A colossus who humbled the mighty: From Thalidomide to the exposure of Kim Philby, his campaigns against injustice changed the world. RICHARD KAY salutes Fleet Street icon Sir Harold Evans, who has died at 92
24/09/20 11:47
RICHARD KAY: Never afraid to speak his mind or challenge authority, Sir Harold Evans matched a campaigning, radical zeal with a love for the hurly-burly of political intrigue and hot gossip.
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The Queen on the couch: The childhood diary of her friend revealed a monarch we've never known... happiest with her parents, prone to teenage crushes, and so shy she used her corgis as a social prop, writes RICHARD KAY
24/09/20 12:24
RICHARD KAY: For eight decades she has been as intriguing as she has reassuring, from the schoolgirl Princess broadcasting out of Windsor in wartime Britain to steadfast monarch.
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Sex-mad, blonde and dangerous to know! Sasha Swire (favourite icebreaker: 'Do you still sleep with your wife?') dazzled men - but can MP's wife behind scurrilous political diary survive social Siberia, ask RICHARD KAY and ANDREW PIERCE
18/09/20 11:52
How frightfully unfair it is on gorgeous, glamorous Sasha Swire to judge her by her conversations with those famous politicians after she jotted down every detail night after night in her secret diary.
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Oh Harry, how we miss the way you were: Often now Prince Harry appears careworn... So how poignant that his family posted birthday greetings online with these beaming pictures, writes RICHARD KAY
15/09/20 09:00
RICHARD KAY: All over the world a picture issued to mark Prince Harry's 36th birthday was being studied with both affection and fascination.

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