Princess Diana escaped by doing Wayne Sleep’s dishes

Princess Diana would go to Wayne Sleep’s flat to do his dishes, the dancer has claimed. Speaking to the BBC, Sleep said: “Whenever we saw each other again, the shoes came off at my flat, she’d do the dishes, it would be fun and we’d giggle.” He added that the royal “came to me for a break”. Sleep, who said the princess saw her visits as an escape, danced with the Princess of Wales to Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl on stage at the Royal Opera House in 1985, noted The Telegraph.

Mexico president tweets ‘picture of mystical elf’

The president of Mexico posted a photo on social media showing what he said appeared to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “did not seem to be joking” when he posted what he claimed was a photo of a mischievous woodland spirit, said Arab News. He wrote that “everything is mystical”. The Aluxe is a mischievous woodland spirit in Mayan folklore.

Crochet fans break record in Derby

An impressive 960 crochet fans gathered in Derby to practice their hobby at the same time and break a Guinness World Record. Guinness World Records confirmed that the event at Derby Arena broke the record of 604 people set in Australia in 2017. The event was the part of BBC Radio Derby’s Make A Difference: Make A Blanket campaign, which urged crocheters across the country to knit and crochet blankets over the winter to help people in need.

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