The Prince of Wales has followed up his recent cameo as a TV weatherman with a spot of DJing while on tour in Toronto, Canada. During an official visit to mark the Queen’s upcoming Diamond Jubilee, the increasingly humorous prince was filmed spinning some tunes at a Yonge Street Mission youth skills workshop, ITV reported. […]

Schapelle Corby is looking forward to ‘the sand between her toes” and a “cleansing swim” at her favourite beach when she returns home to Australia. Corby’s plea for clemency was approved by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday and her family is hopeful she could be back home by August. A letter confirming the clemency […]

He’s known as the calm and sensible royal, but Prince William was so excited the night before his wedding that he slept for just 30 minutes. William, 29, stayed at Clarence House the night before the royal wedding, and says the crowds outside — combined with his own nerves — made for a restless night. […]

Schapelle Corby has been granted clemency by the Indonesian government and could be free within three months. The 34-year-old could be released from Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Jail as early as August, the Daily Telegraph reports. Schapelle will apparently receive a letter approving the clemency later today. The clemency will see Schapelle’s sentence slashed by five […]

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I think I had been writing gardening columns for about five years before a kindly subeditor pointed out that I couldn’t spell ‘fuchsia’. But grow them? Yes — any brown-fingered novice gardener can grow fuchsias. But exactly how? Fuchsia’s spelling comes from being named in honour of a German botanist called Herr Fuchs by a […]

The days are short, my toes are cold and all too many gardens are winter bare just now.

Queen Elizabeth pays people to wear in her new shoes, her stylist has revealed. Stewart Parvin, who has been designing dresses for the queen for 11 years, has revealed some of her style secrets in an interview with the UK’s Sunday Times. While it seems almost Dickensian to force your servants to get blisters so […]

Robin Gibb, one of the three brothers in the Bee Gees has died in London at age 62. Gibb’s family announced in a statement on Sunday that: “Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery”. Gibb was admitted into hospital in October last year for abdominal pains. He subsequently had […]

This year is all about Queen Elizabeth, but the younger generation of royals couldn’t help but steal the spotlight last week. Despite being among the lowest-ranking people in the room, William, Catherine and Harry stood out from the crowd at a special Diamond Jubilee luncheon at Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Cambridge looked particularly lovely, […]