Were Lord Mountbatten’s files suppressed to hide royal affairs? Historian asks why private letters are still sealed because they ‘endanger national security and international relations’ Andrew Lownie says he has spent £250,000 trying to see Mountbatten diaries The Mountbatten files include the private diaries of his wife Edwina from 1921 Mountbatten was the last Viceroy … Read more
Were Lord Mountbatten’s files suppressed to hide royal affairs? Historian asks why private letters are still sealed because they ‘endanger national security and international relations’ Andrew Lownie says he has spent £250,000 trying to see Mountbatten diaries The Mountbatten files include the private diaries of his wife Edwina from 1921 Mountbatten was the last Viceroy … Read more
Give A Little Love was the slogan for John Lewis’s last Christmas campaign. Now customers are using the same tactic in an emotional and even tearful plea to prevent the closure of a branch dating back more than 170 years. The frontage of the John Lewis shop in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, has been plastered in … Read more
‘You are wonderful and I miss you’: Love letters from JFK to his Swedish mistress written just weeks before he married Jackie up for auction Love letters penned by President Kennedy to his Swedish mistress are up for sale Kennedy met Swedish aristocrat Gunilla von Post the summer of 1953 He was a Massachusetts Senator weeks … Read more
Beware of the cat! Feisty moggie puts its paws through the mail slot to stop carrier delivering letters The feisty cat extends its paw through the mail slot at a home in Wisconsin Mail carrier tries to slide the letters through the doors as cat places paw outside Moggie continues to place its paws on … Read more
Married prison teacher, 39, who exchanged love letters with inmate before her own husband reported her to police avoids jail Iryna Durham wrote letters to inmate at HMP Moorland in Doncaster for months Husband found out about relationship and reported her to police in June 2019 Teacher admitted misconduct and was given a four-month suspended sentence … Read more
Queen wrote ‘wickedly funny’ letters from her CORGIS to her former equerry, Alexander Armstrong discovered as he filmed new royal documentary Alexander Armstrong discovered letters in bathroom of former equerry Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson while making documentary The Queen and her Cousins for ITV The Pointless presenter said the letters showed off her ‘wicked sense of … Read more
Queen wrote ‘wickedly funny’ letters from her CORGIS to her former equerry, Alexander Armstrong discovered as he filmed new royal documentary Alexander Armstrong discovered letters in bathroom of former equerry Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson while making documentary The Queen and her Cousins for ITV The Pointless presenter said the letters showed off her ‘wicked sense of … Read more
Anthony Blunt gave his Russian spymasters a collection of Royal letters so compromising, it could have been used to blackmail the Windsors, according to a leading figure in the KGB. Written by the Queen’s uncles, the Dukes of Windsor and Kent, to their German relatives, the correspondence is likely to show the depth of their … Read more
Anthony Blunt gave his Russian spymasters a collection of Royal letters so compromising, it could have been used to blackmail the Windsors, according to a leading figure in the KGB. Written by the Queen’s uncles, the Dukes of Windsor and Kent, to their German relatives, the correspondence is likely to show the depth of their … Read more