After a five-year wait following their record-breaking victory at the Rio Games, Team USA return to the Olympics with high hopes of another dominant display. Their wait was extended by 12 months, with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic enforcing a year-long postponement. Regardless, Team USA return as champions, having claimed 121 medals in Rio, … Read more
A Japanese super-fan who spent £30,000 on tickets for the Tokyo Olympics has been left ‘heartbroken’ by the ban on spectators which dashed his hopes of setting a world record. Kazunori Takishima, 45, bought 197 tickets for various events before domestic fans were included in the ban in a bid to protect the event from … Read more
‘Together again!’ Swedish Royal Family are the epitome of Scandi-chic as they reunite at their summer residence Solliden Palace ‘after a long time in different places’ due to the pandemic Sweden’s Royal Family have been reunited at Solliden Palace on Öland island A sweet picture of the reunion, taken this month, was shared to Instagram … Read more
‘Together again!’ Swedish Royal Family are the epitome of Scandi-chic as they reunite at their summer residence Solliden Palace ‘after a long time in different places’ due to the pandemic Sweden’s Royal Family have been reunited at Solliden Palace on Öland island A sweet picture of the reunion, taken this month, was shared to Instagram … Read more
A 1936 poster for the Queen Mary The construction of the Queen Mary represented the zenith of passenger ship-building for Cunard. Plans began for a new record-breaking liner to replace the Mauretania as early as 1926. However, it was not until 1930 that Cunard announced that a new 1,000ft, 81,000-ton liner was to be built … Read more
The Tokyo Olympics may have begun earlier this week but there is no doubt that Friday’s opening ceremony will properly kick off the summer festival of sport once and for all. After a year’s delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, this is the moment that Team GB stars have waited five long and laborious years … Read more
The Tokyo Olympics may have begun earlier this week but there is no doubt that Friday’s opening ceremony will properly kick off the summer festival of sport once and for all. After a year’s delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, this is the moment that Team GB stars have waited five long and laborious years … Read more
Max Whitlock knows better than anyone how the feats of our Olympians can captivate the country. When the Team GB gymnast received his second gold medal of that dizzying day in Rio five years ago, a staggering 10.4million people were watching on the box back home – the biggest British television audience of the first … Read more
Taylor Swift has topped Billboard‘s highest-paid musicians of 2020 list. Following a year with a lack of live shows due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 31-year-old superstar singer returned to the US Money Makers list with an estimated $23.8 million, but it is a decrease from the $99.6 million when she was last on the … Read more
Daisy May Cooper has reportedly split from her husband Will Weston. The This Country star, 34, is said to have grown ‘tired’ of her marriage to her partner, amid the pressures of the coronavirus lockdown. A source told The Sun: ‘Daisy said she had grown increasingly tired of married life and was struggling in her … Read more