Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
For those of us who believed that hell would freeze over before the Duke of Sussex was welcomed back into the bosom of his family, it will have come as a surprise when it was revealed that Prince Harry would be telephoning King Charles on his 75th birthday this week. It has been reported that
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The newest episodes deal with the final weeks of Princess Diana and the aftermath of her death
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The director’s continuing ability to challenge, provoke and entertain is a marvel
Happy birthday, Your Majesty. The King turns 75 today but the celebrations will be muted: Charles is spending the day launching the Coronation Food Project, which is designed to deal with the pressing issue of food shortages throughout the country. He’ll also be hosting a reception for NHS nurses and midwives. For a monarch who has been accused of
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As ever with David Fincher, formalism is very much to the fore
Prince Harry has won a small victory in his High Court battle: a judge ruled this morning that his privacy case against Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, can proceed to trial. Harry is part of a group of seven, including Doreen Lawrence and Sir Elton John, who have
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It is now inevitable that there will be a log-jam in post-production facilities
The King’s speech was a damp squib – but for that we should blame Rishi Sunak rather than Charles III. Most of the announcements – from tougher prison sentences to cracking down on smoking – were already known about. But while the Prime Minister’s agenda was far from inspiring, today’s pomp and ceremony did give
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The MCU’s Midas touch appears to be dimming
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If you thought the rivalry between the Rolling Stones and the Beatles died in 1970, you were wrong
It was no coincidence that Kenya was chosen for King Charles’s first state visit as monarch outside Europe. After all, it was at the Treetops hotel in Aberdare National Park on 6 February 1952 that his mother acceded to the throne. As the politician and diarist Harold Nicholson quipped, ‘She became Queen while perched in
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If his legacy ends up being that of ‘tragic Friends actor dies young,’ that is an enormous shame
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It is impossible not to be swept up in the giddy exuberance of it all
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In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
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The Eras Tour ’s success may indicate a path back to profitability for movie theaters, if not movies themselves
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Early reactions to the revised show have been generally positive
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Audiences are not willing to pay their $12 to go and see something new and original
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He played countless iconic and legendary roles over the course of a sixty-year career on stage and screen
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At first glance, this suggests that business as usual can resume, but the actors’ strike continues
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The suspicion remains that the wokery at the show’s heart is being celebrated rather than satirized
