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Richard Palmer
@RoyalReporter
I'm the royal correspondent of the Daily Express in London. Views expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers, naturally.
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Jun 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Your regular reminder that this is slightly incorrect. The Queen doesn’t receive any money from the Crown Estate, whose profits have been handed to government since 1760 to reflect the fact the monarch no longer uses them to pay for the costs of the State. The annual surplus from the Crown Estate, which really belongs to the monarch in name only (in the same way they are HM’s warships, prisons, courts, revenue and customs etc) is used as an index - rather than, for example, the inflation rate. The money still comes from taxpayers.
Mar 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived at a military passing out parade in Jamaica. William is wearing tropical No1 uniform of the Blues and Royals for the first time.
Mar 24, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived at King’s House for a dinner hosted by Jamaica’s Governor General. Kate is wearing a green dress by Jenny Packham, jewellery loaned by the Queen, the Royal Family Order, and GCVO Star. ImageImage The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are greeted by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and his wife Patricia.
Mar 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The Duchess of Cambridge meets teaching students at Shortwood Teachers’ College in Kingston.
Mar 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
William and Kate meet Jamaican-born England star Raheem Sterling and Aston Villa and Jamaica winger Leon Bailey in Trench Town. William and Kate with Raheem Sterling and Leon Bailey.
Mar 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Kate is in Roksanda. It’s a bit windy
Mar 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Cambridges prepare to leave Belize. Kate is in a vintage Yves Saint Laurent jacket she bought at university. Pics by @ianvogler. They arrived by helicopter. ImageImageImageImage
Mar 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Kate is wearing a Vampire’s Wife dress and a Maya embroidered handbag. Perhaps carrying rather than wearing the handbag but you get my drift.
Mar 21, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Just back from the jungle and a visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to the spectacular Mayan ruins at Caracol. William and Kate at Caracol. Pics by @ianvogler ImageImageImageImage
Feb 5, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The Queen has used a Platinum Jubilee message to the nation to say it is her “sincere wish” that the Duchess of Cornwall becomes Queen Camilla when Prince Charles accedes to the throne. Charles and Camilla have indicated they will follow her wishes. The message marks a huge U-turn and reneges on a commitment given by the Royal Family in 2005 when Charles and Camilla got engaged. Senior royal aides have spent 17 years telling the public that Camilla will become Princess Consort and didn’t want to be Queen.
Aug 20, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Sir Elton John’s intervention in the controversy over Harry and Meghan’s private jet flights has elevated the story and was greeted with glee in newsrooms yesterday. It’s a fair point for him to assert that the flights were carbon offset but environmentalists are by no means unanimous in support for rich people paying into such schemes.
Jul 5, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
It took 24 hours to get to the bottom of this but in today’s Daily Express we report on how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - and indeed the Queen - are in breach of a legal requirement to make the names of Archie’s godparents available to the public. Details of christenings, including the names of godparents, are normally recorded in parish registers available for inspection on request. It had initially looked like private chapels such as the one at Windsor Castle were not covered by the requirement. In fact, they are.
Jul 31, 2018 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
A thread on the Duchess of Sussex. I started on Twitter back in 2009 because I thought it would be fun to give readers a glimpse of life as a royal reporter. Lately, it has not been much fun at all. At least one of my colleagues has called in the police after threats were made to relatives; another was told she deserved to have acid thrown in her face. We have all faced unpleasant and unfounded accusations of racism towards Meghan.