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A FORMER Buckingham Palace cleaner has revealed the 69p hack she used to keep the royal windows streak-free.
When gazing through the windows on a visit to the famed royal palace, it is impossible not to notice that the glass is always gleaming.
And although you may be forgiven for thinking that the cleaners use expensive tools to get the windows sparkling, this is not in fact the case.
Anne Simmons, 57, worked at Buckingham Palace for 10 years, and was part of a discreet team that maintained over 700 windows in the palace.
Speaking to Pure Window Cleaning, she said: “There’s a misconception that royal cleaning is all high-tech and high-budget.
“But many of the methods we used day to day were things you’d find in any ordinary British home.
“Because the goal wasn’t just to clean — it was to preserve.”
Anne revealed that she and the other palace cleaner never used glass spray to tackle the windows, as this leaves streaks.
She said: “We never used supermarket glass sprays.
“They leave streaks and residues on older glass.
“We used distilled water — always — mixed with a small drop of washing-up liquid. No fragrances, no colours. It cut through the grime without damaging anything.”
Anne revealed that washing up liquid and water was used on both the interior and exterior window panes, especially ones which were delicate and old.
To try out this method yourself, pick up some washing up liquid (69p from Tesco, a drop of it in a spray bottle, alongside distilled water and spray it on your windows.
For a streak-free finish, make sure to use a flat, microfibre cloth to wipe down the glass.
Another budget method Anne and her team used on the palace windows was old newspapers.
She said: “It was the best thing for buffing glass.
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“Microfibre is good, but newspaper lifts grease without dragging fibres across the surface.
“It gave everything a gleam — especially on sunny days when reflections mattered.”
To try this method out at home, simply buff your windows with an old newspaper, after cleaning them with washing up liquid and water.
Perhaps one of the most unusual of Anne’s cleaning methods is using frozen microfibre towels to scrub windows.
She explained: “We’d keep a set of microfibre cloths in the freezer — especially in the summer.
“The cold helped prevent fogging when cleaning indoors, especially in rooms with heavy drapery or lots of guests.
“It also helped reduce static, so dust didn’t settle back onto the glass.”
ROY KEANE left Ian Wright in stitches after making a joke about Thomas Tuchel’s England tactics.
The Irishman was on punditry duty for ITV last night as England beat Latvia 3-0 at Wembley.
It saw new Three Lions boss Tuchel record his second win from as many games, having also beaten Albania 2-0 on Friday.
The win over Latvia saw England make several changes to their starting XI, with goal scorer Reece James and Marc Guehi replacing Kyle Walker and Dan Burn in defence.
Further forward, Jarrod Bowen and Morgan Rogers came in for Phil Foden and Curtis Jones.
While Ebe Eze finally came off the bench before netting England’s third goal.
Talking after the game, Keane and fellow pundit Wright discussed Tuchel’s rotation tactics.
But Keane left his pal in stitches after cracking a funny joke in the process.
The former Manchester United captain declared: “I’m a great believer in squad rotation.
“I believed in that as a player… but once I played!
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“(Rotate me?) No, not in my position. You can rotate everybody else!
“Look, I see the bigger picture. But do you enough that you can’t leave me out.
“You rotate the others, not me!”
As Wright continued to laugh, fans also reacted with delight.
One posted a series of chuckling emojis.
While another declared: “Keane and Wrighty are the best about.”
GARRON Noone has broken his silence and reactivated his popular social media accounts after causing major controversy online.
The country musician put out a video on TikTok last week saying that there’s “an immigration issue in Ireland” and received a huge amount of backlash online from all sides of the debate.
Garron, who boasted 1.7 million TikTok followers, made the video after fans asked him to give his opinion on Conor McGregor‘s St Patrick’s Day White House appearance.
And while Garron stated he doesn’t think McGregor is “a good person”, he said he wasn’t “surprised” that some people agreed with some of the fighter’s opinions.
Garron re-joined TikTok and Instagram last night, after previously deactivating his accounts, to finally clear his name and said: “I stand by what I said in my first video.”
The 30-year-old explained how he needed to take a “few days away” as if he responded straight away it would have been “purely based on emotion”.
He added: “So I decided that the best thing to do was to just remove myself from it for a little while and clear my head.”
Garron thanked everyone for their support and “generosity” from “not only from Irish people, but from people who had immigrated to the country”.
The Mayo native made sure to take “some accountability” saying: “While I think that most people did understand what I was trying to get across in the video, I do think some of my points were too vague. I think they were too open to interpretation.
“It’s clear to me that I definitely could have communicated it better. And that is 100 per cent on me. I absolutely should be held accountable for that.
“I have a very large platform.”
Garron spoke about the wave of personal attack calling him “racist”, “fascist” and “anti-immigrant” and said they’re “absolutely not true at all”.
He added: “I’m sure some of you seen some of the far right people who were misappropriating what I was saying and trying to use it to bolster their own agenda, which was obviously absolutely horrifying to me, and the last thing that I would want.
“While most people understood what I was saying and were perfectly respectful, there was a very large backlash. It got very personal.
“People were trying to completely misrepresent what I was saying. I found that to be very upset and very hard to look at.
“To have very large groups of people making out that I have some of the worst beliefs that I can possibly think of, it was difficult.”
Garron clarified again that he never said he was “anti-immigration” or that “immigrants are criminals”.
He explained: “What I said is that the towns and the cities are becoming much less safe. And I believe that to be true.
“There’s a lot of anti-social behaviour being unaddressed. There’s a lot of problems with drugs. The types of drugs have changed.
“There’s many, many factors to why people feel things are getting much more unsafe.
“There’s perfectly reasonably a case to be made for that. It’s something that a lot of people feel.
“When we’re not talking about what people are feeling, what people are seeing, what people are concerned about, you allow people to hijack the conversation and drive it up into that hysterical level
“People can disagree with me. I encourage that. I didn’t appreciate the way that I was being made to look by a lot of people and some of the personal attacks, but by all means, disagree with what I said.”
Garron finished off his statement saying that he’s “going to go back” to doing what he “normally does”.
The influencer’s friends and fans all welcomed him back on social media.
Ireland AM star Eric Roberts posted a video of himself, Garron and Kayleigh Trappe dancing and said: “Garron’s back… order has been restored.”