News about Max Bygraves

With wife Blossom, they lived in Bournemouth, Dorset, for 35 years, and their three children were raised there. They sold the 1930s home for £2 million in 2006 before emig to Australia. Blossom died in 2011 and Bygraves, whose catchphrase was 'I want to tell you a tale,' died a year later at the age of 89. The new owners have upgraded the seven bedroom home in the Alum Chine area and have now listed it for sale at £5.5 million.

Lee Evans has enjoyed a solitary life since he retired from touring, with the comedian making his first public appearance with his wife Heather Nuddds in five years on Wednesday. The comedian, who was once a fixture on British television and the stand-up circuit, has dropped off his regular shows in 2014 to spend more time with his family. Lee, 59, has been able to retire in luxury and now lives in Billericay, Essex, where he has operated both a property business and his production company, owing to amassing a substantial net worth of £6 million.

ROBERT HARDMAN: Monarchs, who have a particular place in history, are still entitled to the dignity of a 'age'. The Georges, Victoria, Edward VII, the Georges, would all come to define not only a time but a period of time, a mood, or even a style of architecture. However, history will tell that one king whose reign defied any such classification. Queen Elizabeth II's reign spanned way much (left is her coronation; top inset is with Diana in 1982, bottom inset as a young princess in 1942, right age two). On her watch, entire eras have come and gone. She had lead her country through the Jet Age, the Space Age, and the crown's unsurpassed stewardship of the monarch came to an end. It is an extraordinary fact that more than half of the world's nations today do not exist in their current state when she assumed the throne. We had long been in Britain, so accustomed to this utterly consistent routine in all of our lives that we had almost come to take her for granted. Queen Elizabeth II, on the other hand, portrayed stability on a massive, enviable scale. Her coronation will occur before their constitutions, national anthems, flags, and currencies. She was history made flesh.