Football in Covid-19 carnage as Whitehall and FA send warning to clubs over protocol breaches

The football season was on the brink of collapse on Monday night as the game braced itself for a stern warning from the Government following another weekend of Covid breaches. With Aston Villa’s Premier League match at home to Tottenham postponed — and Fulham angry at being asked to play Spurs instead — it can … Read more

Barack Obama’s former protocol chief was scolded for trying to hold the Queen’s bag

Barack Obama’s former Chief of Protocol has revealed the rather dramatic lengths the Queen’s staff go to protect her privacy – and her signature handbag.    Capricia Penavic Marshall, who worked for former President Obama from 2009 to 2013, advising him on all matters of national and international diplomatic protocol, recalled to People the embarrassing moment … Read more

Schoolboy writes letter to Prince Harry to say sorry for breaking Royal protocol by hugging Meghan

‘I hope you didn’t mind me cuddling your wife’: Schoolboy, 16, writes letter to Prince Harry to say sorry for breaking Royal protocol by hugging Meghan Markle but insists he was just ‘overwhelmed and shocked’ to see the Duchess at his school Head boy Aker Okoye told the Duchess of Sussex she was ‘really beautiful’ … Read more