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Sunday front pages hinge on Earl Spencer’s forthcoming Diana memoir and his claim that Charles III gaslit him, triggering palace pushback and a flurry of reaction from papers; the coverage also notes a planned tell-all by Madeline McCann suspect Christian Brueckner and aside political and social headlines including EU rejoin polling, knife seizures, and defence spending debates.
A three-month-old girl died while camping with her family in a Staffordshire woodland; Staffordshire Police say the death is being treated as unexplained, with paramedics and an air ambulance attending and officers remaining at the scene to carry out inquiries and reassure the local community.
On the 29th anniversary of Princess Diana's death, Harry and Meghan return to the UK with their children, visit Diana's resting place and Kensington Palace, as Earl Spencer prepares a memoir to counter untruths about Diana, underscoring ongoing royal tensions after Megxit.
Prince Harry has resigned from the board of the African wildlife charity African Parks amid a scandal over abuses by its rangers; he served as president for six years and joined the board in 2023, and while stepping down he remains a supporter as he plans to move back to the UK.
Security camera video shows police vehicles pursuing a car minutes before a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way on the A66 collided with a marked police vehicle near Middlesbrough, killing seven people including two officers. The chase appears to have been abandoned, and the crash involved a police car that was not part of the pursuit.
Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank have welcomed a baby girl born at a hospital in Lisbon on Monday evening, weighing 6lb 9oz. The infant is the couple’s fifth grandchild and 15th in line to the throne and will not be an HRH; a name has not yet been announced.
A 28-year-old man has been arrested in South Yorkshire on suspicion of murdering former minister Ann Widdecombe, who was found with serious injuries at her Devon home. A previous 26-year-old suspect had been arrested and then released, and police say terrorism is not suspected as the live investigation continues with heightened security around Widdecombe’s property.
A girl was injured in a Southend park in a 'loading vehicle' incident, while a separate court case sees Daniel Day denying charges of intentionally or recklessly causing a public nuisance by scaling the Elizabeth Tower, with the Big Ben climb costing taxpayers £67,000.
A 17-year-old girl was stabbed in a street attack in Lancashire; in a separate case, Joe McCaldon was jailed after speeding caused a car crash that killed his friend Max Greenhouse, also 17, days after McCaldon's driving test.
Essa Suleiman, 45, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with attempted murder of two Jewish men, Shloime Rand and Moshe Shine, in Golders Green, plus a separate charge of attempting to murder Ishmail Hussein earlier the same day and a knife-possession offence; prosecutors say the incident is treated as terrorism. Rand has been discharged from hospital, Suleiman remains in custody, and the case is headed to the Old Bailey with a preliminary hearing set for 15 May. The terror threat level has been raised to severe.
Christine Dawood, mother of Suleman and Shahzada Dawood, says the Titan submersible victims’ remains were recovered as ‘slush’ and delivered in two shoebox-like boxes; DNA testing by the US Coast Guard separated the remains, and she says they did not receive the bodies for nine months.
An inquest concluded that Aleisha Rochester would likely have survived if she had received the correct antibiotics for sepsis, prompting the NHS to apologise for the death.