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Alexander LarmanThe Telegraph |
President Trump lavished praise upon King Charles from the Oval Office at the outset of his four-day state visit to the United States. He called the...
Should you visit your local Waitrose store this week – and hope you don’t witness an altercation between a shoplifter and a member of staff about...
About a decade ago, with my writing career going nowhere fast, I received some savvy advice from my then-literary agent. “Write about the royal...
The news that Gordon Ramsay – that most self-publicising of restaurateurs – has increased service charges at his Lucky Cat restaurant in the City...
There are few stranger public careers than that of Russell Brand, the former ‘comedian’ turned MAGA cheerleader-in-chief. He has given an...
It has, on balance, been one of Prince Harry’s busier fortnights in recent times. As if to upstage his father’s state visit to the United States...
There are few stranger public careers than that of Russell Brand, the former ‘comedian’ turned MAGA cheerleader-in-chief. He has given an...
For decades, the idea of the country house hotel – a uniquely British phenomenon – has held a seductive sway for those who would never dream,...
About a decade ago, with my writing career going nowhere fast, I received some savvy advice from my then-literary agent. “Write about the royal...
Today marks the centenary of Elizabeth II’s birth. Less than four years after she died, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch is still regarded with...
The news that the original Oxfam bookshop on St Giles in Oxford is not to close is not just a relief, but a rare victory in the ongoing battles...
The great Dolly Parton once quipped “get down off your cross, honey, someone needs the wood.” This remark, aimed at attention-seeking...
Not since the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay in 1788 has a visit to Australia been so eagerly awaited as that of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex....
One of the disadvantages of having a daughter who is both given to wayward behaviour in public and named Rose is that my increasingly frantic...
It must be unpleasant to be Prince Harry at the moment. Not only is he waiting on the judgement of Mr Justice Nicklin for his class action...
My ten-year-old daughter Rose is a thoroughly modern child in many respects but one endearingly old-fashioned characteristic that she has is a deep...
When most readers think of the late novelist David Lodge, it is his peerlessly funny and incisive campus novels, such as Changing Places and Small...
Prince Harry used to be fun. It is easy to forget this given the Meghan-Montecito-highly litigious incarnation of the Duke of Sussex, but there was a...
Prince Harry used to be fun. It is easy to forget this given the Meghan-Montecito-highly litigious incarnation of the Duke of Sussex, but there was a...
The news that Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will not be attending the royal family’s Easter service at St George’s chapel in Windsor might...
The actor Andrew Garfield attracted some controversy recently when, promoting his new family film The Magic Faraway Tree, he revealed that he had seen...
The constant parade of shocking and disturbing revelations from the Epstein files has been going on for a considerable time now. It shows no signs of...
The constant parade of shocking and disturbing revelations from the Epstein files has been going on for a considerable time now. It shows no signs of...
Mark Twain famously wrote that “rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated”, and similar rumors have proliferated about King Charles’s...
Stephen Colbert is many things – late-night host, perpetual thorn in the side of President Trump and, some would suggest, a comedian – but few...
When you think about Simpson’s in the Strand (never Simpson’s on the Strand), it is impossible to consider the 198-year-old restaurant without...
After a period of several months in which attention has been mainly focused not on Prince Harry but on his uncle, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the...
The so-called ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States seems to have reached a historically unspecial nadir, in large part...
The results of this year’s Oscars were so predictable as to be entirely unexciting. Months ago, the pundits had called the major results: Paul...
The results of this year’s Oscars were so predictable as to be entirely unexciting. Months ago, the pundits had called the major results: Paul...
Last week, I had the pleasure of heading to the Freud Museum in Hampstead for the launch of Zoe Strimpel’s much-discussed new book Good Slut. Not...
Under normal circumstances, King Charles’s message to the Commonwealth would be a carefully crafted and anodyne series of platitudes, designed for...
Yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the death of Serge Gainsbourg at 62 from a heart attack. The only real surprise is that he ever made it to...
It has been a very long time since Saturday Night Live was in the headlines for a good reason (probably Nate Bargatze’s first hosting stint in...
I have recently returned from a fleeting visit to the City of Light. As usual, Paris itself was a delight. It is an architectural and historic...
For future royal historians, the date 19 February may take on the same totemic significance as the abdication of Edward VIII on 10 December. It was...
The news that Oxford’s main Oxfam bookshop on St Giles in the city has been threatened with closure is one of the most depressing things I have...
Ever since the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, no member of the royal family has been arrested, which makes this morning’s news that Andrew...
Ever since the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, no member of the Royal Family has been arrested. Which makes this morning’s news that Andrew...
The news that the Scottish beer company BrewDog has put itself up for sale has been greeted with a mixture of sorrow and shrugs by drinks commentators...
The death of the actor Robert Duvall at the age of 95 – almost exactly a year after that of his friend Gene Hackman – brings to the end another...
There are relatively few restaurants in London – or anywhere else, for that matter – that have made it to their centenary. There are even fewer...
The sheer weight of allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – all tawdry, all sordid – runs the risk of creating not so much outrage as...
This year marks the anniversaries of two of David Bowie’s most compelling and powerful albums: 1976’s Station to Station and 2016’s Blackstar....