The Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral will take place next Saturday at 3pm in St George’s Chapel at Windsor attended by 30 members of the royal family including Prince Harry thetimes.co.uk/article/prince…
Just 30 members of the royal family will be able to attend the event and will observe coronavirus restrictions in the chapel.
Government regulations stipulated that guests should wear masks and observe the two-metre social distancing rule, but the Queen will be able to stand close to and be comforted by those in her personal bubble.
The service — which will be a “ceremonial royal funeral” similar to the funeral of the Queen Mother in 2002 — will begin with a national minute’s silence at 3pm and be televised around the world. thetimes.co.uk/article/prince…
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For many people, the pandemic has been a chance to hit the pause button on their busy lives — and some aren't ready to press play again thetimes.co.uk/article/return…
Have you actually enjoyed lockdown?
A small but significant proportion of the population have enjoyed lockdown, according to a survey. Over 16% said on balance they’ve liked lockdown
Exclusive: “I don’t want to be Boris Johnson,” says Keir Starmer.
Has the Labour leader got what it takes to be prime minister? He tells @DeccaJourno about his challenging first year and why he’s trailing behind in the polls. thetimes.co.uk/article/965487…
Keir Starmer has had a very peculiar year. Having inherited a party still reeling from its worst defeat since 1935, he was at first widely praised for restoring stability.
His forensic dismantling of Boris Johnson’s bluster at prime minister’s questions also restored an impression of a viable opposition.
Exclusive: Downing Street today became embroiled in the “biggest lobbying scandal in a generation” after new evidence emerged of attempts by David Cameron to influence the Government.
• Cameron emailed Boris Johnson’s senior special adviser last year within hours of the Treasury rejecting an application from disgraced financier Lex Greensill to access a Covid emergency loan scheme thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…
• Cameron said it was “nuts” to exclude Greensill’s company from a multibillion-pound Covid loan scheme and demanded the government reconsider
• He wrote: “What we need is for Rishi [Sunak] to have a good look at this and ask officials to find a way of making it work”
“As I began writing this in November 2019, I sat in the centre of a political firestorm,” writes Hunter Biden. “The president of the United States was smearing me almost daily from the South Lawn of the White House."
“He invoked my name at rallies to incite his base. ‘Where’s Hunter?’ replaced ‘Lock her up!’ as his go-to hype line. If you wanted, you could even buy a Where’s Hunter? T-shirt.”
The last time I saw Kate Garraway she had just returned in triumph from the I’m a Celebrity jungle, writes @DeccaJourno. Draper talked about their son Billy’s slight difficulty in adjusting to a new primary school
What he said next has lived with me to this day, says @DeccaJourno. “I’d have to say,” he reflected, “it’s the worst thing that has ever happened to us.” Eleven weeks later, on March 30 last year, an ambulance would race Draper to hospital with Covid