32 h. ago Queen Camilla's tense encounter with Princess Diana that silenced a room during a birthday bash

Their love lives became perhaps the most famous royal love triangle in history with as many dramatic twists and turns as any best selling romance novel.

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46 h. ago Judge rejects Trump administration request to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts

Judge wrote transcripts from case of Jeffrey Epstein associate couldn’t be released because it would risk ‘unraveling secrecy’ of grand juryDismissing it as little more than a “diversion,” a federal judge in New York has formally rejected the Trump-led US justice department’s request to release transcripts of pre-indictment, grand jury interviews with witnesses in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and associate of Jeffrey Epstein.Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote that the transcripts could not be released publicly – “casually or promiscuously” – as Donald Trump’s government had pushed for because it would risk “unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised”. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Judge denies request to unseal transcripts from grand jury that indicted Maxwell, Epstein's ex

A federal judge in New York has ruled transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell won’t be released

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52 h. ago 'Prince Harry should stop being the victim': Queen's press secretary urges 'impulsive' duke to 'write his own script' because people are 'tired' of how he thinks 'world is against him'

Ailsa Anderson was at the Queen's side for 12 years as her press secretary and worked 'very closely' with Her Majesty's grandson before he met Meghan Markle .

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55 h. ago ‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festivalIn the long history of Hollywood excess, there is no tale as torrid as that of Queen Kelly. This lavish silent melodrama starring Gloria Swanson and directed by Erich von Stroheim will screen as the pre-opening event at this year’s Venice film festival, with a new score by composer Eli Denson. The film is an outlandish saga of illicit love in sordid surroundings – and so is the story of its production.Queen Kelly is set in Europe before the first world war and tells the story of Patricia Kelly (Swanson), a convent girl who falls in love with a prince (British actor Walter Byron) who is engaged to a deranged queen. Patricia is sent away to Tanzania, where she is forced into marriage with a vile character called Jan, later earning the nickname Queen Kelly. It’s a far-fetched tale, whi...

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65 h. ago JD Vance’s attempt to link Democrats to Epstein renews calls to ‘release the files’

Vice-president tries to deflect criticism and blames Biden for doing ‘absolutely nothing’ about convicted sex offenderFour days after JD Vance reportedly asked top Trump administration officials to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he appears to have put his foot in it, sparking a new round of online outrage even as he tried to defuse the furor.In an interview with Fox News broadcast on Sunday, the vice-president tried to deflect criticism of the administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files by blaming Democrats. He accused Joe Biden of doing “absolutely nothing” about the scandal when he was in the White House. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Prince Andrew fears 'formal letter of invitation' from US over Jeffrey Epstein probe

Lawyers representing Epstein's victims have been lobbying US congressmen to haul the royal before a committee looking at crimes perpetrated by the disgraced paedophile financier

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2 d. ago 'We know': JD Vance rips into Bill Clinton over Epstein Island allegations

Vice President JD Vance has added fuel to the GOP's investigation into former President Bill and First Lady Hillary Clinton's ties to former financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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2 d. ago Prince Andrew 'too terrified' for US return as book claims Queen 'knew what was going on'

The Duke of York, once branded 'Air Miles Andy' for his relentless jet-set lifestyle, has not been to North America for more than a decade, as sources say he is 'too terrified' to even contemplate the trip

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3 d. ago Campaigners raise £4,500 from Brits who want to ruin JD Vance's holiday

The group 'Everyone Hates Elon' were behind huge posters of Donald Trump with dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that appeared around the UK to mark the US President's golf holiday in Scotland

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3 d. ago Prince Andrew linked to FOURTH man accused of sex with teenage girls

Jeffrey Epstein’s long-term butler has told how Prince Andrew enjoyed afternoon tea in Saint-Tropez with his boss and disgraced British photographer David Hamilton

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3 d. ago Ghislaine Maxwell's 'lieutenant' lives the high life in $6.5M Miami condo as her boss still stuck behind bars

Sarah Kellen, the alleged 'lieutenant' of Ghislaine Maxwell has skirted the consequences of arranging massages for Jeffrey Epstein as she lives the high life in Miami.

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4 d. ago Prince Andrew’s links to fourth man accused of sex with teen girls through 'pamper parties'

The former butler of the Duke of York's paedophile pal, Jeffrey Epstein, has told how the royal enjoyed afternoon tea in Saint-Tropez with his boss and disgraced British photographer David Hamilton

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4 d. ago The best Queen we never had: On eve of her 75th birthday, secrets of Princess Anne's life

Few will be surprised to hear that Princess Anne is not prone to public displays of sentiment.

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4 d. ago Jeffrey Epstein 'loved life too much' to kill himself and must have been murdered, his butler says as he spills the beans on everyone who visited

Valdson Viera Cotrin, who ran Epstein's home in Paris, said he spoke to his former employer before he died and claimed he had been in good spirits.

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4 d. ago Trump officials reportedly met at White House to discuss strategy around Epstein files

Legal group sues for records related to officials’ correspondence about Epstein documents and about Epstein and Trump’s relationshipAn advocacy group sued the US justice department and the FBI on Friday for records detailing their handling of the sex-trafficking investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The legal organization Democracy Forward is seeking records related to senior administration officials’ communication about Epstein documents and any regarding correspondence between Epstein and Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Princess Beatrice's original name was rejected by the late Queen for being too 'yuppie'

Princess Beatrice could have been named something different if Queen Elizabeth II hadn't stepped in a rejected the original moniker her parents chose for her.

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5 d. ago Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Epstein files are failing | Sidney Blumenthal

The president has tried to distract from the Epstein story – but his ill-conceived Mar-a-Lago tale has undermined himOne of Trump’s preternatural abilities is his apparent animal instinct to lie on the spot whenever he senses he might be cornered. His initial Pavlovian training by his mob lawyer Roy Cohn and subsequent experience in more than 4,000 lawsuits and countless scandals seem to have ingrained in him that lying, the more outrageous the better, buys him time, plays to his credulous followers as insouciant defiance, and wears down his accusers.When Trump’s distractions failed to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files, he offered a story without missing a beat to distance himself from any taint. In his tale, he was traduced by Epstein. Trump was taken advantage of, violated, despoiled. There could be no guilt by association; Trump was a victim, too. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Princess Beatrice’s original name 'rejected by Queen for being too yuppie'

Princess Beatrice, who is celebrating her 37th birthday today, almost went by another name when she was a baby, before the late Queen Elizabeth stepped in

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5 d. ago The Royal Family's connection to acting and Princess Beatrice's surprising Hollywood film debut alongside Emily Blunt

Before her cousin Prince Harry married American actress Meghan Markle, Princess Beatrice was working hard to pursue her own career on the big screen.

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