These boys are barely recognisable from the angelic tykes we saw in 2007: Harry, now 17, is a lolloping 6 ft A-level student, while 15-year-old Charlie is taking his GCSEs.
These boys are barely recognisable from the angelic tykes we saw in 2007: Harry, now 17, is a lolloping 6 ft A-level student, while 15-year-old Charlie is taking his GCSEs.
The latest example comes from Swedish superstore Ikea. Anyone with an old Billy bookcase destined for the scrapheap should cancel their trip to the tip. Ikea will now reclaim old furniture.
There’s been a well-trodden and much publicised exodus from cities since the pandemic struck, with hundreds of thousands of Londoners heading for the countryside. Coastal towns, in particular, are proving to be enticing destinations. ‘Walking around Dartmouth at Christmas, before the third lockdown, I decided this was where I wanted to live,’ says Penny Lowe, … Read more
BIOGRAPHY DISNEY’S BRITISH GENTLEMAN: THE LIFE AND CAREER OF DAVID TOMLINSON by Nathan Morley (History Press £20, 255 pp) Where this country excels is in its reliable character actors — Ian Carmichael, John Le Mesurier, Richard Wattis, Robert Morley and, among others, David Tomlinson, whom Noel Coward unforgettably described as looking like ‘a very old … Read more
Lady Lucinda Lambton was so angry that her brother, Ned, inherited the family’s £35 million estate as well as the Earl of Durham title that she and two of her sisters took him to court. Happily, there are no such problems with the will made by her husband, the former newspaper editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, … Read more
Lady Lucinda Lambton was so angry that her brother, Ned, inherited the family’s £35 million estate as well as the Earl of Durham title that she and two of her sisters took him to court. Happily, there are no such problems with the will made by her husband, the former newspaper editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, … Read more
Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce will be the largest division of assets since Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie split in mid 2019. The Gateses are worth an estimated $130 billion, making them the fourth-richest people in the world, behind Bezos, Elon Musk, and French luxury goods owner Bernard Arnault. When the Bezos divorce was finalized … Read more
The biggest divorce since Bezos: Bill and Melinda Gates will have to divide his Microsoft fortune which made him the world’s youngest billionaire at 31 – before he pledged to give it away rather than leave it to his kids Bill and Melinda Gates are worth an estimated $130 billion, according to Forbes The couple, … Read more
Antiques Roadshow Rating: The Great Garden Revolution Rating: At a stately home on Mars, some time in the 22nd century, in the warm ember glow of its two moons, a polite crowd will gather with armfuls of domestic treasures for another edition of Antiques Roadshow (BBC1). Some of the valuation experts will be triple-headed extraterrestrials … Read more