Dame Sheila, who was evacuated as a child during the Second World War, is due to appear at the VE day concert on Thursday.

Emergency services received calls alerting them to the blaze at about 2.25pm on Sunday, and firefighters tackled it for almost 24 hours.

In a conversation with veteran Douglas Cracknell at Clarence House, Camilla shared her father’s experience of the war.

Prince Louis lived up to his billing as the funniest young royal when he pulled faces, made funny gestures and appeared to mimic his brother during a rare public outing.

Smuggling off the California coast has long been a risky alternative for migrants to avoid heavily guarded land borders. Small boats with single or twin engines, known as pangas, leave from the ...