Since this is the second time in a month (following the Martin Bashir revelations) that royal commentators have felt compelled to move more or less en bloc against an outsider whose methods they deplore, the creation of some sort of organised guild or union is surely overdue. Royal specialists have for years taken sides, but this was always, you gathered, undertaken regretfully, professionally, out of virtually Baghottian reverence for the institution at risk. No passionate Diana or Charles advocate – or adversary – ever intended by their partiality to expose the entire royal family, as The Crown relentlessly does, as cruel, spoilt and silly, essentially a collection of pitiful victims. Payne fled Britain and published the memoir in Europe and the U.S., with the American version featuring the words: "The book the royal family banned in England" typed on the cover. Omid Scobie's scathing book expected to blame embattled civil servant Simon Case for deepening the rift between William and Harry Royal governess Marion Crawford with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret in the 1930s. She went on to write a royal memoir to the family's horror. Bettmann/Getty Images David John Payne - My Life With Princess Margaret

Cent takes a swipe at Diddy after he's sued by a third woman claiming he choked and raped her... shortly after settling lawsuit with ex Cassie Sir Rod Stewart flashes the middle finger at the Celtic v Motherwell football match after he is booed byThe Green BrigadeThis is not to say that 'The Housekeeper's Diary' is uninteresting, it is not, it is quite the reverse for it brings home exactly how this unfortunate marriage unfolded at Highgrove. The amazing fact is that it lasted so long when one reads what was going on and the tantrums that both parties threw at one time or another.

Eventually my parents sold the house and moved to a small but very nice flat. They got a cleaner in once a week, my mother cooked and my father did the ironing. Such is life.

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Even though the wife and I are not that interested in Grand Houses, they do come up and we do visit them in our attempt of getting the most of our English Heritage membership. They always fill me with a sense of awe at whoever dusts and cleaned these immaculate places. The servants quarters, if they are part of the exhibition, usually freak me out. I cannot imagine living in such an environment or what it must be like to live so in the shadow of another's existence. This relationship seems to never be beneficial for the subordinate, result in the exploitation throughout the engagement of these women and ultimately end in hardship. There were very few examples to the contrary. Ah, but there is. It takes its name from Frank "Boss" Hague, the ferociously authoritarian mayor of Jersey City from 1917 until 1947. The secret of Hagueism's strength was the Boss's talent for sabotaging political debate with a smokescreen of mendacious propaganda. "As fast as one direct misrepresentation was answered," Governor Walter Edge of New Jersey complained, "two more leaped up in its place." Olivia Culpo shows off her NFL star fiancé Christian McCaffrey's painful bruises and scratches from the 49ers' Thanksgiving win over the Seahawks Her erratic behaviour took a heavy toll on the royal staff. In the first four years of the marriage 40 officials left the Wales' employment, butlers, valets, private secretaries, bodyguards and chauffeurs. Since Amnesty International has long condemned the inhuman jails in the Caribbean and called for "the most rigorous standards" in capital cases, milord Hoffmann of Amnesty might have been expected to applaud. In fact, he was the lone dissenter, insisting that there was no reason to spare the six men, or to investigate their alleged mistreatment, or to overturn the 1996 precedent.

Burrell's book revealed perhaps most intimately the home life of Diana after her separation from Charles and her mental state in the years leading up to her 1997 death.Smith points out that Lady Susan Hussey, one of Queen Elizabeth's most trusted ladies-in-waiting, was assigned to tutor Diana. Diana, however, turned on Hussey, convinced that she was in love with Prince Charles Fascinating - almost unbelievable -'Banned in Britain' states a banner on the front cover. I can't for the life of me think why because there doesn't seem to be much in the book that the British public didn't know about. I feel sure most of the tantrums, love affairs, arguments, the fairy tale public image etc etc have all been covered somewhere in the press or in other books. Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola sends fans wild with his VERY racy comment to rumoured girlfriend Ellie Leach: 'Did he just say that live on the BBC?'