Prince Harry details physical attack by brother William in new book | Books
Posted on March 27, 2024
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Books This article is more than 1 year oldPrince Harry details physical attack by brother William in new bookThis article is more than 1 year oldExclusive: Harry writes in new autobiography Spare that William ‘knocked me to the floor’ during confrontation in London in 2019
In his highly anticipated autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry recounts what he says was a physical attack by his brother, William, now Prince of Wales, as their relationship fell apart over the younger prince’s marriage to the actor Meghan Markle.
[Read More]Queen Victoria's risqu side revealed with nude-filled collection | Queen Victoria
Posted on March 27, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Queen Victoria This article is more than 4 years oldQueen Victoria's risqué side revealed with nude-filled collectionThis article is more than 4 years oldRomantic gifts exchanged between Victoria and Prince Albert will be displayed at Isle of Wight’s Osborne House
Queen Victoria is sometimes remembered as prudish, buttoned-up and disapproving, but a new display reveals a woman well in touch with the more sensuous side of her nature.
Romantic and risqué gifts exchanged between Victoria and Prince Albert are to go on display at Osborne House, the couple’s grand seaside retreat on the Isle of Wight, which is stuffed with art and fabulous objects that the couple bought for each other.
[Read More]Scores of hostages released from gang-controlled prisons, Ecuador government claims | Ecuador
Posted on March 27, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
EcuadorScores of hostages released from gang-controlled prisons, Ecuador government claimsPresidency makes announcement nearly a week after wave of violence hit South American country
Scores of hostages have been released from Ecuador’s gang-controlled prisons, the government has claimed, nearly a week after the South American country was shaken by a massive wave of violence.
“All of the hostages have been freed,” the Ecuadorian presidency announced on social media on Saturday night.
[Read More]The Godfather star James Caan dies aged 82 | James Caan
Posted on March 27, 2024
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James Caan This article is more than 1 year oldThe Godfather star James Caan dies aged 82This article is more than 1 year oldActor who played Sonny Corleone in the groundbreaking 1972 epic engineered a comeback after his career went off the rails in the early 1980s
A life in pictures Caan interviewed in 1999 James Caan, the American actor renowned for his role as Sonny Corleone in the mafia epic The Godfather, as well as a string of key films in the 1970s, has died aged 82.
[Read More]The rape survivor who spoke out: Ellie Wilson on the brutal reality of taking an attacker to court
Posted on March 27, 2024
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Rape and sexual assaultLess than 1% of reported rapes lead to a conviction. But this was the case for Wilson – who then waived her anonymity to expose the problems in the criminal justice system
On 26 May last year, Ellie Wilson sat in the witness room of the high court in Glasgow, waiting to be called. As chief witness, the rape victim in the trial of her ex-boyfriend Daniel McFarlane, her anxiety was off the scale.
[Read More]Edwardian porn? Fantastic. Too bad everyone's doing it at 90 miles an hour | Culture
Posted on March 26, 2024
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The ObserverCultureEdwardian porn? Fantastic. Too bad everyone's doing it at 90 miles an hourVictoria Coren finds a series of short erotic films from 1910 liberating but they remind her of her own mortalityAn unfortunate realisation has just dawned: it is possible that I wasted the entire year of 2002. I spent it directing a porn film. I now think perhaps I need not have done so. I've been watching The Good Old Naughty Days, a compilation of erotic short films from 1910 which opens in a London cinema next week.
[Read More]Exonerated US man buys his mom a home after she sold hers for legal bills | Texas
Posted on March 26, 2024
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Texas This article is more than 11 months oldExonerated US man buys his mom a home after she sold hers for legal billsThis article is more than 11 months oldGreg Kelley, who was exonerated in 2019, uses money from settlement to buy 1.3-acre Texas property for his mother Years before Greg Kelley was freed from a wrongful conviction, the Texas man’s mother – Rosa Kelley – sold her home to help pay his legal bills.
[Read More]Im changing and I dont think society helps at all: Christine and the Queens journey t
Posted on March 26, 2024
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Redcar: ‘I don’t owe anyone scars.’ Photograph: Lillie Eiger/The ObserverThe French pop star has endured the death of his mother, record industry resistance and a backlash after adopting male pronouns. In an emotional interview, he talks about the struggle to understand himself and the music he makes
by Miranda SawyerThere are some musicians who seem made for, and by, their work, who make music that lives through them, from their toes to the tip of their quivering quiff.
[Read More]In pictures: The short and difficult life of B of the Bang | Art and design
Posted on March 26, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
The short and difficult life of B of the Bang Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Then Britain's tallest sculpture, Thomas Heatherwick's monument to the 2002 Commonwealth games, B of the Bang, was always designed to make headlines. Today's announcement that it will be dismantled is a sad end to a project that consistently found itself on front pages for all the wrong reasons.
[Read More]Narnia books attacked as racist and sexist | UK news
Posted on March 26, 2024
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UK newsNarnia books attacked as racist and sexistPhilip Pullman dismisses work of CS Lewis as blatant religious propagandaThe Whitbread prize-winning children's writer Philip Pullman has dismissed his best-selling predecessor CS Lewis as "blatantly racist" and "monumentally disparaging of women".
His wholesale attack on the author of the Narnia books, which have been among the most beloved stories in children's literature for 50 years, came at the Guardian Hay festival which reaches the third of its nine days today.
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