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Royal Maid Rosa joins Queen Elizabeth’s special birthday celebrations
While the King and Queen welcomed centenarians to Buckingham Palace to mark Queen Elizabeth's 100th birthday on 21 April, I couldn't help thinking back to the Queen's 90th birthday garden party when guests included my rosy cheeked royal maid, Rosa Edwards. Both Queen...
Queen Elizabeth and Rosa Edward’s 100th birthday tributes
Two special babies from vastly different backgrounds were born in 1926. While one, a princess, was destined to be our beloved Queen Elizabeth II, in contrast Rosa Edwards was born to a life of poverty, a poor pit miner's daughter in Merthyr Tydfil, never imagining...
Secrets of the Royal Maid is published today!
After months of research and writing, I can happily say that Secrets of the Road Maid is out today with my new pen name, Annie Seymour. It's been a joy and honour to write Rosa's real rags to riches story about leaving behind life of poverty in Merthyr Tydfil to...
Wolferton’s new Royal Resident
Harry Saward is most probably turning in his grave after Wolferton’s newest royal resident moved in under a cloak of darkness. Shamed Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is presently lying low at Wood Farm. It is a stone’s throw from Sandringham House where the royals gather...
When President Zelensky came to Sandringham
While the world watched in shock and disbelief as President Zelensky suffered humiliation from President Trump and VP Vance, the Ukrainian leader’s pain must have been felt strongly by King Charles who welcomed him at Sandringham House at the weekend. It was a display...
My Jean Adamson tribute
It was an honour to be asked by the family of Jean Adamson to speak at her funeral yesterday. I was worried I wouldn't make it as when I went to start my car it had a flat battery, but thankfully a kind neighbour dropped everything to take me there. In this photo...
Prince John, the royal station sweeper
I very much enjoyed the recent TV series on Sandringham – but presenter Nigel Havers only scraped the surface in recounting the extraordinary events that took place at the royal family’s Norfolk estate. Did you know that in real life, Prince John whose tragic life...
Book launch at King;s Lynn library
I had a brilliant book launch for The Royal Station Master's Daughters in Love at King's Lynn library yesterday and was overwhelmed by everyone's warmth. Huge thanks to library manager, Mary Grogan, for the fab display of my books, the yummy cakes and gorgeous...
A forbidden royal love story
I’ve written this love story for today’s Daily Express, a forbidden love between the Prince Eddy, the Duke of Clarence, the eldest son of King Edward VII, and Princess Hélène, a Catholic, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, a pretender to the French throne. They had...