What Prince Harry teaches us about dealing with family trauma
Is the millennial method of airing grievances the right one?
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The House of Windsor, presently headed by King Charles III, has been the reigning family of the United Kingdom since it was founded by George V in 1917. The heir to the throne is Prince William.
What is there left of Princess Diana, 25 years after her death?
Twenty-five years after her death, Diana Spencer has been eclipsed by monuments and myth.
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Harry and Meghan are contradicting themselves on privacy law
Once Netflix is invited into your lives, it’s harder to claim newspapers shouldn’t be.
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Britain must finally shed its illusions of greatness
As our public services edge closer to collapse, we need the humility to acknowledge that the country has lost its…
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We’ve given Prince Harry no choice but to sell his story again and again
As Meghan Markle so obviously understands, the modern royal family is first and foremost a branch of show business.
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Netflix’s Harry & Meghan can’t disguise how much of this story doesn’t add up
The show is a Seventies Timotei ad meets The Crown with some light top notes of the Ladybird book of…
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle show the monarchy isn’t fit for the modern world
Of course the royals feel trapped and miserable – the institution can’t be changed from within.
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The innocent insidiousness of “Where are you from?”
People of colour are all too familiar with Lady Hussey’s question to Ngozi Fulani.
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What Charles and Camilla’s dirty phone call taught us about the English language
In The Crown’s reimagining of the intimate exchange, the future King’s longing for linguistic purism caught my ear.
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Notes on a mourning nation
On the streets of London after the Queen’s death, our writer found grief, apathy – and a startling sense of…
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The Queue wasn’t just about grief, but our deep need to be part of something bigger
People were there not merely for the coffin, but for the experience of waiting for it.
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From the NS archive: The ten days
15 March 1952: Fleet Street now speculates which story would be the natural “splash” if war was declared on the…
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Britain’s final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II
However her life is memorialised, the Queen has become a conduit for the grief many feel about relatives who have…
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The Queen’s funeral: timings and details
The Westminster Abbey service will be one of the century’s great diplomatic events.
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The world’s longest reigning monarchs in world history
Only France’s Louis XIV served for longer on the throne.
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Who will be attending the Queen’s funeral?
The guest list is expected to include previous prime ministers, world leaders and European royals.
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The royal family aren’t meant to be like us mortals – that’s their power and their problem
Holiday parks will close and hospital operations cease without anyone even needing to ask. This is what having a monarchy…
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For those of us who are neither monarchists nor republicans, this is the strangest time
We’re happy to watch the funeral and raise a glass to His Majesty, but mostly we want a return to…
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Keir Starmer’s response to the Queen’s death shows he can speak for modern Britain
Starmer has doubled down on Labour’s support for the monarchy but this does not mean the status quo will prevail
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The remarkable reconciliation between the royal family and Sinn Féin
In dark times, the warmth between Irish republicans and the monarchy is an inspiring reminder of progress.
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