Sarah Oliver

Sasha Walpole, the mystery lover in Duke of Sussex's memoir, recalls the fallout from their romp

The digger driver who took Prince Harry’s virginity spoke last night of the embarrassment of having to tell her father that she was the ‘older woman’ described in the duke’s explosive memoir. Sasha Walpole, now 40, laughed with her sister the morning…

Sasha Walpole says she almost fell off her sofa when teenage romp with prince became headline news

Prince Harry did not do Sasha Walpole the courtesy of telling her he was revealing their long-ago sexual liaison in his memoir Spare, she reveals today. The 40-year-old married mother-of-two was watching television when she found out via a WhatsApp…

How Prince Harry and Sasha Walpole's friendship blossomed... on wild nights at the Rattlebone Inn

It was the most unlikely alliance. Prince Harry had the pick of the world’s best polo ponies. Sasha Walpole’s parents scrimped to buy her a naughty dapple grey called Beano and made her a horse box from an old British Telecom Luton van. Their shared…

'I'm the older woman who took Harry's virginity': Digger driver Sasha Walpole, 40, comes forward

It was a passionate, tipsy – and very probably ill-advised – encounter between two friends who snuck out of a pub for a crafty Marlboro Light and ended up clambering over a fence to make love in a field, shielded from sight by a dense summer…

Did doctors kill Charles II ...with a cocktail of quack cures?

The list of cures prescribed for a sickly Charles II in the last week of his life sounds more like ruin than remedy. The Merry Monarch was bled, burned, and fed ground-up human skull and bezoar stone, which is a hairball from a goat's stomach.…

HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain's biggest warship - and BBC cameras caught all the drama on board

'Living the dream, serving the Queen,' says Able Rating Ronnie Lambert, saluting to himself in the bowels of HMS Queen Elizabeth while the late monarch – her tomato-red coat leaping out against the battleship grey of her namesake – makes a poignant…

Dame Vivienne Westwood penned a powerful message on wedding dress of Stella Assange

Dame Vivienne Westwood contacted Julian Assange in prison just weeks before her death on Thursday to tell him she was seriously unwell, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The pair had been close friends for more than a decade and last saw one another…

Glamorous brunette whose love affair with rogue MP who faked his own death rocked 1970s Britain

A life of obscurity has long-suited Sheila Buckley, pictured here running errands in a quiet Hampshire market town. Once, however, she was the glamorous young brunette whose love affair with rogue MP and Communist traitor John Stonehouse scandalised…

How one millionaire MP proved the inspiration for the iconic character from A Christmas Carol

He’s as notorious today as when introduced to the reading public in December 1843 – the ‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’ at the heart of A Christmas Carol. But if Ebenezer Scrooge is a supreme feat of…

A riveting new Wagatha Christie drama reveals the real battle between barristers WAGs

So vivid is our collective memory of the Wagatha Christie trial in which Rebekah Vardy sued Coleen Rooney for libel, it’s strange to think we never saw a second of it live on television. We may have watched the protagonists with their Dior sunglasses…

The £600m feud between Evelyn de Rothschild's children and his widow

The Rothschild family motto is unambiguous: ‘Concordia, Integritas, Industria.’ Harmony comes first in the making and keeping of one of the world’s greatest fortunes. But that ‘harmony’ was stretched to breaking point at the funeral of financier Sir…

The unstoppable Sarah Beeny's found the positives in her cancer battle

Watch any Sarah Beeny programme and her hair has a co-starring role. Whipped up by a Somerset squall, held captive by a woolly bobble hat, or sneaking out from under a building site helmet, it’s always ready for its close-up. ‘My blonde chaos,’ she…

The hellraising renegades who formed the SAS are brought back to life in a new series

Cairo, 1941. There are soldiers and spies, Montgomery and Rommel, way too many fingers of whisky in a standard serving and a bravado which for once is justified as a bunch of British renegades take on the Nazis in the Western Desert – and win. They…

Ben Shephard is one of the safest pairs of hands in TV and it's down to an almighty battle of wills

You wouldn’t think, would you, that Good Morning Britain presenter Ben Shephard has just put his shoulder out wrestling with a face flannel. Or that he wooed his wife Annie 20 years ago mostly wearing a leotard and tights. Or that he hates his own…

Charles III and Prince William both delighted to spot Paddington Bear among the mourners

He has become an unlikely Royal mascot after a heartwarming TV appearance with the Queen – so both Charles and William were delighted to spot Paddington Bear among the mourners yesterday. The new Monarch and his son stopped to greet him during an…

Greta Scacchi reveals how later life has given her a fresh perspective on her career

You can tell mid-life is having a moment when two of the sexiest stars of the 80s come together on-screen as oldies, hitting the open road to a soundtrack of bangers by Blondie and the percussive clink of a case of Australian white in their motorhome…

A new TV show explores claims Prince Victor bedded his aristocratic best friend's wife

So very much about Prince Victor Duleep Singh was immaculately English. The plus fours and shooting socks. The cool linens and jaunty boater. Eton, Cambridge and the Royal Dragoons. There was his high-society wife, Lady Anne Coventry, and his…

Camilla's not aloof, she's authentic and fun says MICHAEL WALDMAN

There's a dastardly deed with a teddy bear dating back decades, homegrown white peaches, a snifter of vodka, a longing for a handbag big enough to steal a Munnings masterpiece and some serious husband and wife rivalry over who did what best. This is…

Jenny Agutter reveals how it feels playing a grandmother in the Railway Children sequel

It says something about Jenny Agutter's evergreen allure that, as she looks ahead to her 70th birthday this year, she still has a note on her website warning fans that any, er, unsuitable photos they send in will be returned, unsigned. You might…

Is Noel Clarke one more victim of cancel culture - or a predator who just got what he deserved?

Noel Clarke's twin Bafta statuettes sit on the bookshelves of his West London home. Once they represented the pinnacle of his achievement as an actor, writer, producer and director. Today the bronze faces stare blankly out over a career that lies in…