The ex-CEO’s resignation from the Prince’s Foundation is his third since he began working with the princeMichael Fawcett’s service to the royal family began in his late teens, when the accountant’s son from Orpington, Kent, became a footman to the Quee…
Prince Charles’s former aide steps down as charity boss amid conduct inquiry
Michael Fawcett, who was CEO of Prince’s Foundation, faces claims about honour for a Saudi businessmanA former aide to the Prince of Wales has stepped down temporarily from his role as a charity boss while an investigation into allegations about his co…
Spencer review – Princess Diana’s disastrous marriage makes a magnificent farce
Kristen Stewart’s entirely compelling Di has no escape from the dress-up game of monarchy in Pablo Larraín’s unreverential movieSandringham, Christmas 1991. Bare trees, frosted fields, dead pheasants on the drive. Inside the grand house the dining tabl…
UK republicans take heart from royals’ recent travails
Campaign group Republic believes bad headlines are increasing support for the abolition of the monarchyIt has been another run of weeks in which the royal family’s open sores have been publicised around the world.Prince Andrew was confirmed to be a “pe…
Prince of Wales charity launches inquiry into ‘cash for access’ claims
Prince’s Foundation investigating claims that individuals could pay £100,000 for dinner with royal heirA charity founded by the Prince of Wales has launched an ethics investigation into “cash for access” claims that middlemen took cuts for setting up d…
Spencer: first trailer shows Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana
The film, set to premiere at the Venice film festival, takes a look at a weekend in the life of Diana from Jackie director Pablo LarraínThe first trailer for Spencer, the much-anticipated Diana, Princess of Wales drama, has been unveiled just days befo…
Portrait of Queen ‘looking like a corgi’ to feature in Lucian Freud exhibition
National Gallery will mark centenary of Freud’s birth by bringing together his most important worksIt was hailed by the Guardian as the finest royal portrait for 150 years. Others thought it made the Queen look like a rugby prop forward or one of her c…
Prince Andrew’s reputation damaged for ever by Giuffre claims, experts say
Lawyers say Duke of York has lost in court of public opinion and is unlikely to engage with civil case in USThe Duke of York faces an “uphill struggle” to combat the impact of the sex offences allegations made against him and has already lost in the co…
In a family so dedicated to children’s charities, is Andrew now the reviled uncle? | Catherine Bennett
The prince consorted with a paedophile as his relatives defended victims of such peopleBalmoral: “Located in Royal Deeside,” we learn from the royal family website, this gigantic granite folly is “one of two personal and private residences owned by The…
The Guardian view on Prince Andrew: he should do his duty | Editorial
The Queen’s son’s inadequate responses to serious sexual allegations are doing reputational damage to BritainThere should be no disputing that, if they are true, the sexual abuse allegations made by Virginia Giuffre against Prince Andrew, the Queen’s s…