Richard Kay

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Richard Kay

Never has that old maxim that every picture tells a story been more revealing. The formalities over, an evening of joy, pride and affection swept over the company. Here was Prince Harry on his wedding day, tie off in open-neck shirt clasping arm in arm the friends who had seen him through good times and bad, all at his side celebrating the happiness of his marriage to Meghan. It was a snapshot of spontaneous exuberance, and the smiles radiating from all seven were genuine.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Richard Kay

Even the most swivel-eyed of Prince Harry’s devoted fans must have been taken aback by the timing. Just as King Charles stood stiffly to attention in the Rome sunshine for the official welcome marking his first visit as monarch to Italy, the historic moment was being overshadowed by the arrival of his son at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Harry was in town for the last roll of the dice in his battle to win back official police protection for him and his family whenever they are in the UK.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Richard Kay

No one has come out well from the Sentebale shambles. Not the chairwoman with her claims of a charity riven by bullying and misogyny and not the trustees who hid behind anonymity to brief against her. Who, though, would have thought the figure whose reputation would suffer most of all would be Prince Harry? It was his youthful passion and determination to build something that would make his late mother proud that first brought Sentebale to life.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Richard Kay

Somehow it was typical of the King that he should wish to hurry straight back to work after his latest round of cancer treatment in hospital. Why shouldn’t he? It has been this way ever since he embarked on a medical programme to treat his undisclosed condition more than a year ago. It was characteristic, too, of a man determined not to let people down. But it also spoke to a deeper truth – and a realisation that every one of his official engagements is precious.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Richard Kay |Simon Trump

On a chilly spring evening outside the Treasury building in the heart of Whitehall, a crowd of demonstrators is chanting, ‘Tax the rich’, as speakers take turns to denounce Labour’s plans to slash welfare spending. The contributors calling for a wealth tax include a Green MP, a union leader, campaigners against the privatisation of public services and other placard-waving activists from that familiar nexus of anti-government politics and protest. So far, so predictable.