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It's emerged that the then Prince Charles and Princess Diana disagreed on both of their sons' names as the King wanted to call them Arthur and Albert.

The UK vending market, having recovered from lockdown, is experiencing huge growth – but is not yet in Japan’s league

A former civil servant makes a persuasive case for dropping economy-wide emissions targets and focusing on tipping points where green technologies become affordable

The Time Traveler’s Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage

A new book by Robert Jobson alleges the late Queen was not happy with her grandson who chose to defy her wishes against heirs to the throne travelling together.

James Norton elevates Ivo van Hove’s knotty adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller. And to the sea as Cordelia Lynn’s breezy new play sets a family adrift

According to a new book, the Swiss leftwing extremist Bruno Bréguet was hired by the US intelligence agency to spy on his infamous boss – and contributed to his capture

The book is set in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

The award-winning author of ‘Harmless Like You’ returns with a lyrical, haunting third novel. She speaks to Annabel Nugent about writing her real life into fiction, letting go of the ‘default white guys’ that she used to write – and the messy politics of being confused for her mixed-race characters