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Just weeks into the dawning of the new century and Britain was a country in grief, her empire in mourning and the world in shock. The death of Queen Victoria, Empress of India, in 1901 after 63 years on the throne – a reign longer than any other previous monarch in history – cast the darkest of shadows.
In the years before the instant gratification of the internet and television, it was the newspapers that brought the sorrowful news to an unbelieving public. And one above all. The Daily Mail leading the way with the boldest and most unforgettable coverage.
All this week, to mark the 125th anniversary of our first edition – which falls today – we are reproducing the epic stories that we have brought so vividly to life over the intervening decades – and treating them as though they were happening today with the look of the modern Daily Mail. From the colouring of old black and white photographs to up-to-date headlines and eye-catching designs, it s the histor
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IAN Hislop is a journalist, satirist, broadcaster, the editor of Private Eye and regular on Have I Got News For You.
Here is the story of the man who leaves many in stitches on a Friday night.
3 Ian Hislop has been a team captain on Have I Got News For You for 27 yearsCredit: BBC
Who is Ian Hislop?
Ian, who has a Scottish dad and a mum from the Channel Islands, was born on July 13, 1960, in Mumbles, Swansea.
When he was just five months old, Ian s family began to travel the world - because of his dad David s job as a civil engineer.
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Luis Basualdo, known as the ‘modern-day Casanova’, the good-looking Argentinian polo-playing playboy who had an eye for beautiful, wealthy women, has died aged 75. As Richard Kay revealed in the
Daily Mail, ‘for all his faults he was certainly a life enhancer.’ Indeed, he came to Britain from Argentina in 1968 as
The Times describes, ‘with two polo ponies, a dashing smile and bundles of charm’, soon becoming immersed in the polo scene that saw him causing scandal through society circles.
Nigel Dempster, the late gossip columnist, once named him ‘the Bounder’ because of his appetite for rich heiresses, with a friend once observing that ‘his eyes register dollar signs like a fruit machine,’ whenever he met a glamorous woman.