Robert Hardman
@hardmanr
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Journalist, books, documentaries. Author of 'Charles III - The Inside Story’, ‘Queen of Our Times' - Sunday Times Book of the Year 2022
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Joined September 2011
New edition of Charles III. The Inside Story out next week. Today’s extracts in the Mail: the problem with the Sussexes, Princess of Wales’s ‘spiritual’ awareness, funeral planning (good news) and Queen Camilla’s excellent idea for the Palace.
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John Cruickshank VC of Coastal Command - last VC of WW2, last aviation VC, last Scottish VC - has died. In 1944, half dead with 72 wounds plus navigator killed, he pressed on to sink a U Boat. 5 hours from home but got his crew back. Another great baton passes (but to whom?).
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SARAH VINE: My grandfather bore the scars of war with Japan. I wish I'd listened to him more wisely.via
dailymail.co.uk
Friday'S VJ Day 80th anniversary commemorations may have been overshadowed in budget and scale by those to mark D-Day and VE Day - but they were no less moving.
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Stories to make your hair stand on end, flypasts, so much dignity amid so much horror and a 105-year old tearing up the script in front of King and country. An honour to be in the company of this lot. If you didn’t see it live, @BBCiPlayer awaits.
dailymail.co.uk
The final ceremony in the great 80th anniversary commemorations of the Second World War came to a tearful conclusion on Friday, writes Robert Hardman.
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A birthday cake for two - somewhere off the Hebrides. Thoughts on an indispensable royal one-off #Princessroyal
spectator.co.uk
When a previous milestone was looming in the life of Princess Anne, her 21st birthday, the late Queen asked her where she would like to have her party. There was Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle,...
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Hence the Mail’s ‘Stop the SAS Betrayal’ campaign. The Government claim the Legacy Act passed by Parliament to protect veterans is now ‘unlawful’. Leave it alone or replace it properly. But Labour’s plans for a flabby repeal is stirring unprecedented fury.
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Today, the terrorists get ‘comfort letters’ and an amnesty from the Government yet their lawyers are pursuing the SAS through the courts (via millions of Legal Aid) for breaching their ‘human rights’. No wonder so many veterans are heading for Westminster this afternoon.
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Revealed for the first time today: how the SAS saved the life of one of the IRA’s greatest cheerleaders - and her response when they did. Historic moment coming this afternoon as SAS veterans break cover to protest outside Parliament.
dailymail.co.uk
It was January 1981 on a snowy dawn at the end of a dead-end track in Co. Tyrone. Andrew was in charge of a military observation team who had only just disarmed the gunmen responsible.
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I’ve written the words. What is so striking is how unspun it was (half drunk pints of beer sitting on top of the piano; sound conking out for Macca); and the crowd shots - dreadful haircuts but everyone is so thin.
dailymail.co.uk
Edging my way down a packed Wembley Way one Saturday morning in July 1985, I already knew I was about to witness history.
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40 years on, a brilliant new book by my old friend, the photographer Murray Sanders who covered Live Aid start to finish and has found all his old films in the attic. Foreword by Sir Brian May. Live Aid Relived.
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Valiant parliamentary attempt by @aroberts_andrew to spare the Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain from Labour’s obsessive defenestration of the hereditaries. With some excellent quotes.
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Special Forces veterans have reached a tipping point.
dailymail.co.uk
ROBERT HARDMAN: As I retrace the events of that night in slow motion, in the company of someone who knows that operation as well as anyone, I begin to despair of the creeping judicial over-reach.
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Royal Family gathering here in bright sunshine at Buckingham Palace for #TroopingTheColour, (with those in uniform wearing black armbands in memory of Air India 171). Joining @SarahCam3 @bbcnews for the parade.
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