Meghan Markle’s new podcast is just toe-curling and unsubtle dross
At the beginning of the debut episode of Meghan Markle’s new podcast, she is keen to assert her own identity.…
The true purpose of King Charles’s Italy trip
After some recent bad news for King Charles in the form of an – admittedly fleeting – setback in his…
Prince Harry can’t seem to stay away from Britain’s courts
As flies are to wanton boys, so Prince Harry is to the British legal system. Amidst perhaps the most serious…
If only Meghan Markle’s ‘As Ever’ launch was an April Fool
On April Fool’s Day, it is all too appropriate that the latest announcement from the Duchess of Sussex has the…
King Charles’s hospital visit will prompt concern
The news released last night that King Charles had been briefly hospitalised was an unwelcome surprise. A statement from the…
The sad demise of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity
Prince Harry has had an eventful couple of years. There was the controversy-studded publication of his memoir Spare and a…
Meghan’s online shop is a new low for team Sussex
Earlier this week, I tried and failed to purchase a couple of items from the As Ever range that the…
Why Prince William’s Estonia trip matters
It is a requirement of the Royal Family that they should remain politically neutral. They are, after all, the only…
Does Meghan Markle need another podcast?
‘Success’, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked, ‘is the ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’ If…
Does the King really listen to Beyonce?
Is this really the King’s favourite music? If you’ve ever had sleepless nights wondering what King Charles’s favourite tunes are,…
Greggs is a great British success story
Whenever I’m walking down Cornmarket Street in Oxford – an otherwise unlovely thoroughfare – there is something about the spectacle…
Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is Brand Sussex’s final hope
So here it is, the undistinguished thing, at last. I had hopes that, after its postponement because of the Californian…
A refreshingly apolitical Oscars
It is always nice to have a personal connection to the Oscars, however slight and fleeting it might be; hearing…
King Charles offers his support to Zelensky
This weekend marks perhaps the most turbulent 48 hours that Ukraine’s President Zelensky has ever experienced – and, given the…
The rationale behind Trump’s second state visit
When Keir Starmer greeted President Trump on his visit to Washington, he held a piece of paper in his hand…
Is the Amazon version of James Bond doomed?
So at last the deadlock has been broken. After months, even years, of tension between Amazon MGM, who own the…
Does anyone buy Meghan’s sweet tooth?
Strange though this might seem to long-term Spectator readers, I am beginning to warm to Meghan Markle. Not because she…
Donald Trump has taken pity on Prince Harry
Say what you like about President Trump – and people very much do – but there is little doubt that,…
Meghan Markle’s tone-deaf wildfire video is hard to stomach
The recent fires in California have had many tragic effects. Many have lost their homes, possessions and livelihoods, and it…
Kate Middleton must not become the new Diana
In the inimitable words of The Smiths (or, indeed, Carry On Cleo, where they borrowed it from), stop me if…
Don’t get your hopes up for a WH Smith revival
The news that the high street arm of the newsagent WH Smith is in ‘secret talks’ to be sold –…
The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’
With the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II decided he was best off allying himself with the Nazis, and seeing what he could obtain for his family in the process
Prince Harry has won a Pyrrhic victory over the Sun
So, in the end, Prince Harry folded. His much-ballyhooed case about News Group Newspapers, publishers of the Sun, which was…
What made David Lynch cool
When one of your favourite filmmakers dies, it is hard not to feel a deeply personal sense of loss; the…
The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton
It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made…
