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Simon Winchcombe Henry Howard Hartley saw the Prime Minister for the first time that morning, and his father for the last time that night. It happened thus: For the past 200 years, the Hartley family had either taken holy orders, ending their days as bishops, or entered the House of …

Elvis Presley died of a heart attack at just 42 when using the ensuite bathroom next to his elaborate bedroom. Since that fateful day on August 16, 1977, the King of Rock and Roll’s private sanctuary has been perfectly preserved as he left it, on the request of his only …

George RR Martin is perpetually busy. The 76-year-old has been working on his penultimate A Song of Ice and Fire novel since 2011, as fans continue to wait for updates on The Winds of Winter. The author infamously doesn’t write when travelling. Instead he exclusively works on his DOS computer …

This week, Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous autobiography From Here to the Great Unknown was published by her daughter Riley Keough. Elvis Presley’s only child, who died last year at 54, gives a heart wrenching account of her father’s untimely death when she was just nine. For four and a half …

Before her untimely death at just 54 in Janaury last year, Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley was writing a memoir with her eldest daughter Riley Keough. Published today, From Here to the Great Unknown features heart wrenching confessions of her father’s final years, before his sudden death at just …

Before her death at just 54 last year, Lisa Marie Presley was working on her tell-all memoir. Aside from being Elvis Prelsey’s only child, she was breifly married to Michael Jackson in the early 1990s. Having hoped to have a better life with someone else in the celebrity spotlight, she …

John Christie is led into West London Magistrates Court to face a charge of murdering his wife Ethel (Image: Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images) Known simply as the 10 Rillington Place murders, they sent shockwaves through post-war Britain. Smartly dressed and bespectacled John Christie appeared an unlikely monster yet he …

He is the only player to have been knighted while still playing football. And Britain’s first global football superstar, Sir Stanley Matthews, is now being remembered by his daughter, who is writing a book about her famous dad as a political pioneer. Jean Gough Matthews, now 85, wants to highlight …

Rick Astley opens up on his traumatic childhood in his new memoir (Image: Andy Prevezer) It’s a desperately poignant way to sum up one’s childhood. “I remember being frightened all the time as a kid,” recalls Rick. He traces the trauma to a grave tragedy in the family before he …

I remember bidding in a Midlands auction house for a set of old fishing flies. The price rocketed and they were eventually sold to a friend. Their value was that they had once belonged to Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister of the brolly and the ill-fated Munich Agreement. Premiership comes …