Tom Parker Bowles’ book features more than 100 recipes spanning from Queen Victoria’s reign to King Charles III

Tom Parker Bowles has revealed a simple recipe that Queen Elizabeth savoured during her Coronation 72 years ago, while also lamenting how it’s been butchered over time. Despite acknowledging the ‘vile’ alterations to the dish over the years, Tom chose to focus on the original version crafted by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume.

“I know, I know it really wouldn’t be a royal cookbook without this so-called regal ‘classic’,” he wrote in his 2024 book, Cooking & The Crown. “…Now the original version, as below, is perfectly civilised, but as the years went on, all manner of base and vile things were done to this perfectly innocent recipe, adding almonds and sultanas, lashings of turmeric and God knows what else, until it became a banana-hued, sickly-sweet aberration, the abject filling for a thousand sorry service station fillings.”

The dish in focus is Poulet Reine Elizabeth, or as we know it, Coronation Chicken sandwiches. While Spry and Hume are credited with its creation, the exact source of their inspiration remains a mystery.

Back in 1935, George V was served Jubilee Chicken, a concoction of mayonnaise, chicken, and curry powder. This has led some to speculate that it might have influenced the creation of Coronation Chicken, although concrete evidence is scant.

Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation took place at Westminster Abbey in 1953, just a year shy of rationing’s end after 14 years of post-war austerity. Chicken wasn’t exactly an everyday staple back then, which made the Coronation dish quite the indulgence.

For anyone fancying a taste of Royal history, Tom’s book lays out the uncomplicated recipe. Whilst boiling and shredding chicken is standard fare, nailing the sauce might take a bit more finesse.

You may be surprised to learn that the original filling contains more than just chicken, mayonnaise, and curry powder. It also includes tomato paste and red wine, amongst other components.

Bay leaves, lemon juice, and the usual salt and pepper seasoning are added for additional flavour before the mixture is served on brown bread. Tom explained the crusts must be cut off to enjoy sandwiches the Royal way.

“Remove the crusts and cut each sandwich into three fat fingers,” he added, according to a previous OK! article. Tom’s book Cooking & The Crown provides a more detailed step-by-step recipe and ingredient guide to creating the Coronation classic.

Beyond Poulet Reine Elizabeth, it features more than 100 recipes spanning from Queen Victoria’s reign to King Charles III. Whilst many of these seem rather lavish, including ‘Pommes Elizabeth’ and ‘Pudding au Pain et aux Cerises’, there are numerous simpler recipes to attempt at home.

More information can be found here.

Three individuals have been detained during a SWAT operation just 1.9 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson, Arizona home, according to reports. 

A man and a woman were pulled from a house in Marana by Pima County Sheriff’s SWAT team in a huge raid Friday night as the search for Nancy Guthrie intensified, Fox News reports.

According to TMZ, the individuals appeared to be a mother and son. 

The second man was detained at a traffic stop nearby, per NewsNation. 

Pima County Sheriff Chamonis Valdez told the Daily Mail that the raid was in connection with the Guthrie case.

The home in question is the only location police are focusing on as of tonight. 

The Pima County Police Department released a statement late on Friday. 

‘Law enforcement activity is underway at a residence near E Orange Grove Rd & N First Ave related to the Guthrie case,’ it read. 

‘Because this is a joint investigation, at the request of the FBI, no additional information is currently available.’

Roads were closed off near the residence as the SWAT raid continued 

Pima County police were seen standing near the blocked off roads

Several media members and law enforcement officials surrounded the home

Nancy Guthrie is the mother of TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie

A source told Fox News that a judge issued a warrant to enter the home, though it remains unclear at this time if the detained individuals are suspects in the missing 84-year-old’s disappearance.

The raid saw officers surround the property and pull the two detainees from the residence, NewsNation reported.

FBI officials told CNN Nancy Guthrie has yet to be located and her abductor has not been identified.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said the operation was part of investigators ‘actively working a lead,’ AZ Family reported.

Roughly two dozen officers, including FBI officials, were seen standing near blocked–off streets in the pouring rain, as one Pima County Sheriff’s Office plane was spotted flying over the Tucson neighborhood.

Law enforcement activity increased at the site Friday night as more vehicles arrived, including units believed to be federal agents.

Marked sheriff’s cars were followed by a federal evidence truck, according to CNN. SWAT were seen leaving the scene earlier, while forensic teams remain in the area.

Some earlier reports suggested the home belonged to a former county attorney. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department clarified that these claims were ‘not accurate.’

Swarms of police officers surrounded the property in the pouring rain

Armored SWAT vehicles were seen leaving the scene during the SWAT operation

The SWAT team was reportedly activated around the same time that the aircraft was launched. 

This comes just days after the FBI asked for the public’s assistance in identifying a masked figure seen near Guthrie’s home before she disappeared. 

Doorbell camera images of the individual showed the masked man wearing a black jacket, a backpack and gloves.

Residents within a two-mile radius of Guthrie were asked to check their doorbell and security camera footage dating back to the beginning of January.  

Guthrie was last seen entering her home in Tucson on the evening of January 31 after having dinner with her daughter, Annie, son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, and her grandchildren.

The next morning, she was reported missing when she failed to attend a virtual church service with friends, Nanos said. 

An individual was spotted outside of Guthrie’s Arizona home before she went missing on February 1

Nancy Guthrie has been missing from her home since February 1 

Nancy was last seen entering her home in Tucson, pictured here on Tuesday, on the evening of January 31

On Friday, investigators discovered that DNA found on Nancy’s property during the investigation did not belong to her family or anyone ‘close’ to her. 

‘DNA other than Nancy Guthrie’s and those in close contact to her have been collected from the property,’ the sheriff’s department said, adding that investigators are working to identify who it belongs to and are not disclosing where it was found.

Investigators also found several gloves, ranging from roughly two to 10 miles away from Nancy’s home.

Officials described the suspect as a 5-foot-9-inch or 5-foot-10-inch male with an average build. 

The FBI has offered a $100,000 reward for information in Guthrie’s case. 

The Daily Mail contacted the Pima County Sheriff’s Office for more information. 

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2) Use an extra egg white

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5) Go easy on the oil or butter

6) Use a non-stick pan

7) Stick to medium heat

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Tara Reid has reflected on an incident that took place a few months ago when she claimed she was drugged in a hotel bar in Chicago.

In November 2025, the American Pie actor, 50, was seen being removed from the lobby of the DoubleTree hotel at Chicago O’Hare Airport. She later claimed she had been drugged, with a representative for the actor tellingThe Independent that she had filed a police report.

Speaking to People in an interview published Friday, Reid said that she is currently trying to “keep going” after the incident.

“It was a very unfortunate thing that happened, but I’m just trying to get by and put it behind me because it’s just devastating in so many different ways,” she said. “I try not to talk about it that much and just live my life and live forward.”

The actor also advised people to be better about watching their drinks in public.

“You got to really just check your glasses. You just don’t know. You have to not let your drink out of your hand,” she said. “[But] I’m fine. I’m good. Moving on. Better, bigger things ahead of me now.”

In a police report seen by People, Reid claimed that she passed out after ordering a glass of wine from the hotel. According to the report, Reid said that she remembered speaking to a man who had introduced himself as a YouTuber. She also alleged that the pair swapped phone numbers shortly before she stepped out of the bar with him to smoke a cigarette.

Reid claimed that, when she returned, a napkin had been placed over her drink.

Despite a video from TMZ showing Reid slurring her words before being pushed out of the hotel in a wheelchair at the time of the incident, the police found no evidence that she was drugged.

“While video surveillance showed Tara Reid at the hotel bar, at no time did video show anyone tampering with or adding something to her drink,” Rosemont Police said in a statement given to People in December. “We can confirm that a bartender covered her drink when she left the bar which is standard practice for bartenders to do.”

Authorities added that they were working to obtain any chemical tests conducted by the unnamed hospital that treated her.

“Pending those results or further information coming forward, our detectives will follow up on those leads accordingly,” the statement continued. “At this time there is no criminal act that has been committed and there is no one we are currently investigating.”

Newswise — Winter Storm Fern swept across a large swath of the southern and eastern United States, delivering not just a wide range of snow accumulation, but also snow types. Experts say one big reason for those differences comes from a meteorological phenomenon — that the same amount of total precipitation can deliver very different amounts of measurable snowfall, depending on the underlying conditions.

Barrett Gutter, a meteorologist at Virginia Tech who teaches classes in weather analysis, weather forecasting, and severe weather, explains that the snow-to-liquid ratio (SLR), or how much moisture is in a snowflake, can be impacted by a number of factors.

“Very dry snow, which often occurs in mountainous terrain and higher latitudes, can have SLR values closer to 20:1 (20″ of snow = 1″ of liquid), while very wet snow, which often occurs in the southeast, can have SLR values closer to 6:1,” he says.

This explains why snow totals in the Rocky Mountains are often much higher than along the east coast ranges. But elevation isn’t the only determining factor.

“Lower temperatures throughout the atmosphere will lead to drier and fluffier snow (higher SLR) since there tends to be less moisture available, while higher temperatures (closer to freezing) will lead to wetter and denser snow.”

Other factors that impact snow-to-liquid ratios include the height in which snowflakes form, moisture content, and wind speed.

This led to record snowfall totals in places like Toronto, which received nearly two feet of accumulation, while the mid-Atlantic got less total snow, but several inches of sleet, which settled into hard-packed ice.

About Gutter
Barrett Gutter is a collegiate assistant professor of meteorology. Gutter teaches a wide variety of courses, including Weather Analysis, Weather Forecasting, Severe Weather, and Radar and Satellite Meteorology. He also leads a two-week storm chase field course during the summer.

Interview
To schedule an interview with Barrett Gutter, contact Noah Frank at nafrank@vt.edu or 805-453-2556.

Donna Corriveau loves her Whispering Pines neighborhood in southeast Aurora and would have stayed there for a long time. But now she’s taking walks not in piney Sampson Gulch, but along the Highline Canal trail in Highlands Ranch, after a health issue forced a sudden switch.

Donna’s husband John, 82, has been an unusually capable guy—seven years as a U.S. Army dentist early in their marriage, followed by a private practice in Illinois while staying active in the Air National Guard, heading their dentistry unit.

When he retired, John switched to winemaking—first using Illinois-harvested grapes, then after the pair moved to Colorado to follow their sons, importing a blend from Australia and New Zealand. Donna marketed their label, and the pair took first prize at the Colorado State Fair, among numbers of other awards.

But a year ago, John showed early signs of memory loss; and Donna attended a seminar on senior moves by The Steller Group, with Senior Solutions Division agents who are experts in those. (They have a seminar coming up Feb. 23 in Lakewood.)

‘Senior moves are complicated and you always need time to plan,” says Blair Bryant, Senior Living Specialist who will hold that home open today.

“But when an emergency moves up the timetable, you’ll likely require a lot more help. And that’s particularly true now, when the supply of senior living options in the Denver area is falling behind demand.”

Around the time Donna began discussing a move with Steller, the pair started the process of decluttering their near-new 3-bedroom/2-bath patio home, and visited Wind Crest in Highlands Ranch, where they put themselves on a waiting list.

But by three months ago, John’s symptoms were worsening and he was switched to a more ambitious drug package. Three weeks later, Wind Crest notified Donna that a nice 2-bedroom unit was available, and that they would need to decide right away.

Now Donna and John have moved into that apartment, where she has already made numbers of friends. “I have a best friend coming in to Wind Crest, too,” she reports. Fortunately, Bryant had seen no fixups necessary for the home, and Steller’s expert stagers have it furnished and staged for today’s open house.

Bryant says that the stars aligned for what otherwise would be an even more difficult move. “The single most important factor in getting a prompt sale in this early 2026 market is that you’re move-in ready,” Bryant says. “No question marks, no projects waiting for a new buyer.”

Bryant says that the business news about real estate this spring doesn’t jibe with what agents are seeing in the marketplace. “We had a home go under contract a few weeks ago at $100,000 more than its list price. And with the unusually favorable weather this month, we’re seeing a very good market.”

Meanwhile, although new senior products and communities are still being built in the Denver area, shortages of senior-living units have become a national issue, Bryant says. Steller has a specialty of staying ahead of the availabilities on those and will discuss those at its upcoming seminars on the 23rd and next month, as well.

The Corriveau’s patio home at 8153 S. Ider Court, $685,000, is one of two low-maintenance, senior-friendly listings that Steller can show now in pretty Whispering Pines, off the Gartrell exit from E-470. You can tour Ider Court today; and next Saturday, Feb. 21, you can tour a 3-bedroom/3-bath paired patio home a few blocks away at 25019 E. Alder Drive, $650,000.

Waterloo Regional Police say they have charged a vice-principal in a child luring and sexual exploitation investigation.

Investigators say 50-year-old Michel Pleau was arrested Friday following a probe involving police in Waterloo, Toronto and Sudbury.

They say the suspect is facing half a dozen charges that include possession, production and distribution of child sexual assault and abuse material, invitation to sexual touching and luring a child under the age of 16.

Police say they have notified the school board where the suspect works about the arrest.

The Waterloo Catholic District School Board says it will co-operate with police and is focused on supporting its school community.

Police say the alleged offences are not related to students from the school board.

Anyone with information is asked to come forward.

Two men have been arrested in connection to separate sexual assault cases involving teenage victims they contacted through social media, Winnipeg police said Friday.

A 24-year-old man was charged after officers received information the suspect sexually assaulted a teen he met online, police said in a release.

The man contacted the teen under the username “MANITOBAW” in October, the release said. Their contact later progressed to several in-person meetings during which the teen was assaulted, police said.

Police arrested the suspect in the 100 block of Sadler Avenue in the St. Vital area on Feb. 1, according to the release. He now faces two counts each of sexual assault, sexual interference and obtaining sexual services from a person under 18 years of age.

The 24-year-old was also charged with one count of luring a person under 16 years of age by means of telecommunication, the release said.

Police also announced Friday charges against a 41-year-old man who inappropriately contacted two teenagers under the username “Moon Beam.”

The two teens went to the man’s residence on Sept. 8 after several weeks of contact through a social media platform, police said in a release. They said the man then gave them drugs and alcohol, and sexually assaulted them.

Just over two weeks later on Sept. 25, one of the survivors received sexually explicit images and videos from the suspect, the release said.

The 41-year-old — from St. François Xavier — was arrested in the 100 block of Paramount Road in northwest Winnipeg on Jan. 30, police said.

He faces two counts of sexual assault and two counts of sexual interference, as well as one charge related to child pornography and another related to distributing sexually explicit material to a person under 16.

Both men were detained in custody, police said.

DNA was recovered from several gloves and other pieces of potential evidence, and those DNA samples are now being compared to samples taken from associates of Nancy Guthrie, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told ABC News Friday.

The sheriff said he is hopeful investigators are “getting closer” to solving the case.

“We’ve gotten DNA back,” Nanos said.

“They already have the genetic markers of those that we think had access to the home,” he said, including members of Guthrie’s family and household help.

“Now we have to go through and try to eliminate people,” Nanos said.

Several gloves have been found throughout an expanded search zone within a 10-mile radius of Guthrie’s home, the sheriff said. No gloves were found at her house.

Investigators planned to return to Guthrie’s house as soon as Friday to take additional measurements from the front doorway, where the suspect lurked. They have estimated his height to be 5 feet 9 to 5 feet 10 inches, and now the hope is to determine the man’s weight.

“It is really about just taking that video and frame-by-frame and trying to get as much out as we can,” Nanos said.

Other investigators are trying to trace the point of sale of the backpack sold at Walmart the suspect was seen carrying.

Walmart declined to comment on whether it is assisting the investigation.

The individual detained earlier this week for questioning in Rio Rico, Arizona — who identified himself as Carlos — is not fully cleared even though he has been released and is under no law enforcement restrictions, the sheriff said.

“Nobody’s fully cleared,” Nanos said. “He talked with us, he was cooperative.”

Nanos said the sheriff’s department and FBI are working side-by-side to find Nancy Guthrie.

“We’re not giving up,” Nanos said. “If Nancy’s out there, we’re going to find her. We’re not giving up.”

-ABC News’ Aaron Katersky