Proud to be British Read more from journalists who champion our culture, history and values One year for £25. |  | Hannah Furness Royal Editor | The word “change” has been on every royal watcher’s lips this week.
Prince William has said it is “on my agenda” for his future kingship, in which he will ditch the traditions that no longer serve the monarchy (he didn’t specify which ones) in favour of proving its worth now.
His words, delivered over a genial pint with an actor for a TV travel documentary, have inevitably been seized upon as a manifesto for his own brand of monarchy.
William is not, however, the only member of the Royal family pondering change.
The King, in not so many words, has been ushering in his own “evolution”.
Like Doctor Who, his senior aides say, each monarchy must regenerate in a way that is fit for its own day.
A few weeks ago, I started looking at how the King and his team have managed what could have been a very difficult accession indeed – and what the history books will say about him.
From the advice of the late Queen (“Don’t look down at your feet... look at the horizon”) to the travails of his staff (“he wants to fit another 50 per cent in and we have to magic time out of nowhere”), here is how the King is gradually reshaping the monarchy.
Read the full essay here ➤ |  | Ben Riley-Smith Political Editor | The document before Kemi Badenoch embodies her leadership approach – a seven-step plan for tackling illegal immigration, with a fitting acronym as its title: Borders.
Each letter aligns with a pledge: B for the Ban on asylum claims from migrants who arrived without permission, O for getting Out of a raft of international agreements.
The print-out is sitting before the Conservative Party leader in Parliament’s shadow cabinet room as she talks to The Telegraph on the eve of the Tory party conference.
It was here that Lord Cameron plotted the painstaking path back from opposition to government. Can Mrs Badenoch do the same?
This set of proposals is designed to answer in the affirmative. Mrs Badenoch, 45, always pitched her leadership as a five-year project, modelled on Lord Cameron and Margaret Thatcher.
Not for her the “Post-it note” policies with little consideration to back them up. Deep thinking – and time – was needed to come up with a new Right-wing prospectus for the challenges of 2029 and beyond.
Hence the Borders plan – her most detailed policy announcement since taking over what remained of the Conservative Party after it collided with the electorate last summer.
At its heart is a move long-signalled but now official – a Badenoch government would pull the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The five tests she set out – does the ECHR make it harder to control the asylum system, legally protect veterans, prioritise Britons for public services, pass tough prison sentences and limit vexatious legal challenges – came back with five crosses.
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Plus, here is what is happening today at the conference:
• 8.30am Mrs Badenoch is expected to take part in the traditional pre-conference media round
• 2.45pm Mrs Badenoch makes the first of two speeches to the Tory faithful, this one focusing on migration
• 3.30pm James Cleverly, the shadow housing secretary, appears at a panel on the homes Britain needs
• 6pm Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice delivers his verdict on the Tories’ current polling woes and the future of the party | | Janet Daley By demonising patriotic, working class voters Sir Keir Starmer may just have unwittingly created a path to No 10 for Kemi Badenoch Continue reading ➤ Zoe Strimpel Spare us your ‘shock’: Manchester was bound to happen Continue reading ➤ Jake Wallis Simons Trump may just have given Gaza peace a chance Continue reading ➤ | Time spent wisely See another side to today’s biggest stories with Britain’s leading comment writers One year for £25. | | In the second extract from Eli Sharabi’s powerful new book about his kidnapping by Hamas, he details the horror of being kept underground for months on end. Sharing meagre scraps of soap, struggling to find strength on tiny amounts of food, navigating life in darkness, Eli takes comfort from being with other Israelis – men with whom he can form a bond. They share a message that keeps hope alive: “He who has a why can bear any how.” But, as Eli reflects later: “Hope is never something that comes easily. It’s always something you’ve got to fight for, to work on.” Continue reading ➤ | |  | | Lord Iveagh’s family has quite a legacy. Beyond being on the pump in thousands of pubs, and the subject of a new Netflix series, it also stands grandly as the 22,500-acre Elveden estate in Norfolk, owned by the Guinnesses for 131 years. In a rare interview, he tells The Telegraph what it’s like to be a part of the famous clan, and gives us a glimpse of the grandeur of the family pile. Continue reading ➤ | | | Maria Shahid has paid little attention to her pension since having children in the mid-noughties, but has built up a decent pot over the years. Now that her son’s school is costing £1,500 more a term thanks to Labour’s VAT raid, the 55-year-old sees cashing out her lump sum as a way to shore up her family’s finances. Her situation is far from unique, particularly as Labour's next Budget approaches. Continue reading ➤ | | | Curdled cake batter, sunken centres, burnt tops and undercooked middles: baking mishaps can befall even the most experienced cooks. Silvana Franco explains how to avoid, rescue or remedy a baker’s dozen of disasters, from pastry that’s as tough as old boots, to the ultimate cliché – a soggy bottom. Continue reading ➤ | | | After two decades together, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and singer Keith Urban are divorcing. But why? Did they drift apart? Were they too busy? Not quite. If one unnamed (and perhaps judgmental) source is to be believed, it was due to her “bottomless need for sexual attention”. Why, asks Judith Woods, are midlife women still having to explain – and even apologise for – having desires? Continue reading ➤ | | | On his first day as MCC president, Telegraph Sport went to see Ed Smith in the Committee Dining Room at Lord’s. The room was an appropriate place to discuss how Smith views the eternal MCC debate between tradition and modernity. He was fascinating on the MCC’s role in revitalising cricket in schools, the importance of the Hundred for Lord’s and how Middlesex can manage their often tricky relationship with the ground. Continue reading ➤ | | | |  | Every Sunday, Sarah Knapton, our Science Editor, and Joe Pinkstone, our Science Correspondent, demystify your supernatural experiences. From ghoulish encounters to bizarre coincidences, there’s always a scientific explanation and nothing is as strange as it seems...
A baffled reader writes...
“During the 1980s, I had business reasons to visit Nairobi quite regularly. With the BA return flight being very late, I would generally arrange to hire a car and have three-quarters of an hour tripping around the Nairobi game park.
“At Hippo Pools there was a rough car park, and always an askari with a .303 rifle in attendance. “Jambo Bwana” was always our exchange, before walking about 80 metres to a pool, where, perhaps luckily, I never encountered a hippo or anything. In fact, during all my visits, I never saw any big cats.
“On what turned out to be my last ever visit, it was raining when I reached Hippo Pools – no askari. I hopped out regardless and walked down the track. At about 40 metres along, every hair on my neck rose. I stopped, turned around, and walked steadily back to my car.
Unlocked the car, got in, slammed the door, and shook wildly. A close shave? No idea, however, it was the first time I really thanked the Lord for his timely intervention!”
Sarah and Joe answer...
The inexplicable mystery we can tackle here is the reason why you, seemingly without stimulus, retreated to your car after being overwhelmed out of the blue.
But the real cliffhanger (which sadly can’t be solved without a time machine) is if there was, in fact, a real and present danger. Was there a lurking big cat? Were hippos at the pool?
This known unknown means we have a couple of investigations to puzzle out here.
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Plus, send in your questions for them here ➤ | | Aside from her superstar status as an award-winning actress, Kate Winslet has become something of an accidental beauty icon, too. From sticking to low-maintenance hair colours to taking a common-sense approach to fitness, this is how she looks so good at 50.
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Below are two more articles that I hope will brighten your weekend: |  | Patricia Routledge was a grande dame of the theatre, writes Andrew M Brown, Obituaries Editor, but she reached a wider audience in later life playing spinsters in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series and as the snobbish suburban housewife Hyacinth Bucket in the hit 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
In the same period, she took a starring role as the pensioner sleuth in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, and in the mid-1980s she delivered a weekly monologue in Victoria Wood’s sketch show As Seen on TV.
For the character of the domineering Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet, she insisted), Routledge credited the “Northern puritanism” that was bred into her by her parents in Birkenhead – values which included self-control and good manners.
As for those roles rich in pathos that were created for her by Alan Bennett, The Telegraph’s Charles Spencer enthused: “No one is better [than] the redoubtable Routledge... at bringing out every nuance of Bennett’s dialogue, superficially banal and homely yet with a lethal sharpness and precision that make him the Oscar Wilde of lower-middle-class Northern gentility.”
Before screen celebrity arrived, Routledge had enjoyed a long and garlanded career on the stage, displaying obsessive professionalism and a gift for comedy allied to an anarchic streak.
Read the full, gripping obituary here ➤
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Get a head start on today’s Plusword by cracking this clue: Yesterday’s Panagram was GYRFALCON. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor
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