Boris Johnson is being urged to back a new ‘empire-neutral’ public honour as part of plans to reward the heroes of the fight against coronavirus this autumn. The PM was warned that traditional Order of the British Empire medals would deter many worthy recipients from black and ethnic minority communities …...Read More

Newlyweds Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi danced until the early hours with a small group of friends inside a pop-up pub before they spent their wedding night in a glamping pod, it has been revealed. The couple dubbed the marquee The Duke of York and filled it with sofas, …...Read More

With a clutch of Oscars, film director Oliver Stone is a giant of his generation. Last week in the first part of our serialisation of his autobiography, he told how he turned his time as a soldier in Vietnam into one of the greatest war movies. Here, in our final …...Read More

Ricky Gervais has revealed that he wants lions to eat his corpse after death. The comedian, 59, admitted that rather than an official burial he hoped his body would be torn apart at a zoo in front of horrified visitors. Speaking to the Daily Star, he said: 'I do not …...Read More

The boss of Britain’s biggest service station company has called on the Government to slash fuel tax to encourage drivers back on to the roads. Moto chief executive Ken McMeikan has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak with a plea to consider an ‘immediate VAT reduction on fuel’, from 20 per …...Read More

Discreet, dignified and thoughtful — it was hardly the wedding anyone would have expected from the House of York. After all, Princess Eugenie’s 2018 wedding to Jack Brooksbank was a dazzling blend of pomp, pageantry and showbiz with Robbie Williams chewing gum behind the Queen while actress Demi Moore and …...Read More

‘TWO FAMILIES’: Wolfie with dad Edo Princess Beatrice will be a ‘doting stepmother’, friends said last night. Her husband Edo already has a four-year-old son, Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi – known as Wolfie – who was both best man and page boy at Friday’s Royal Wedding. Wolfie’s mother is architect …...Read More

Only close family and a handful of trusted friends are permitted through the high gates of Michael Schumacher's house on the banks of Lake Geneva. And silence surrounds the German's condition since he hit his head while skiing in the French Alps six-and-a-half years ago. Several life-saving operations and 254 …...Read More

It was a neat device – cynical, some might say – to shield Princess Beatrice’s wedding behind the greater event, the knighting of Sir Tom Moore. But the Covid-19 crisis, and the 100-year-old Army captain’s colossal act of gallantry in raising £33 million for NHS charities, happily combined to spare …...Read More

When David and Victoria Beckham got married at an Irish castle in 1999, they perched on matching golden thrones during a lavish £500,000 ceremony. Now their son Brooklyn could be set for an even more extravagant affair when he ties the knot with model Nicola Peltz. His mother, Posh Spice …...Read More