RICHARD KAY: Oh Harry, how we miss the way you were: So often now Prince Harry appears careworn.

Royal photographs seldom say too much, but once in a while they say everything. Yesterday all over the world a picture issued to mark Prince Harry’s 36th birthday was being studied with both affection and fascination. Affection because the image shows Harry, his brother William and sister-in-law Kate with their faces wreathed in joyous smiles, … Read more

RICHARD KAY on the Queen’s decision to ‘downsize’ to a Sandringham farmhouse with Prince Philip

Usually it is the most poignant of departures, but there will be no such wrench when the Queen leaves Balmoral later this month. Her stay in Scotland has been all too brief and stripped of many of the pleasures that make summer days on Royal Deeside so memorable.  Unable to welcome friends and family to stay … Read more

RICHARD KAY: All pretence is gone, Harry and Meghan have no Royal future

For more than a year, it has been the millstone around Prince Harry‘s neck, a gold‑plated slice of taxpayers’ largesse that reeked of privilege and entitlement. But to Harry and Meghan, the £2.4 million of public money — our money — that was lavished on renovating Frogmore Cottage, only for it to be shuttered and … Read more

RICHARD KAY: On David Blaine’s balloon stunt and Lawnchair Larry

This was certainly one way to beat the rush-hour traffic. Nonchalantly clutching 52 gas-filled balloons in one hand, illusionist David Blaine soared almost five miles into the bright blue sky above Arizona, instantly writing another chapter in his colourful life as a publicity-loving performer of flamboyant stunts. When he finally let go — at the … Read more

Peter Kay pens new Car Share sketch which sees John break down in tears during brain cancer scare

Peter Kay has penned a new emotional Car Share sketch for a tribute book about the National Health Service.   The comedian, 47, wrote about his character John’s cancer scare, with the supermarket assistant manager telling cashier Kayleigh about having a brain scan.  The moving story is published in book Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say … Read more