An elaborate ostrich fan and a queen’s diamond choker are to be among the displays at a Buckingham Palace gallery.

IF Tom Hardy were to write a book, it would tell of 92 years of hard graft in construction and timber, of “60 fine years” marriage to Winnifred.

1837: Michigan becomes the 26th state of the USA. 1841: Hong Kong is proclaimed as a sovereign territory of Britain. 1857: Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama, is born in Tibet. 1861: Louisiana secedes ...