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By Matt Drake

Published: 09:08 EDT, March 22, 2024 | Updated: 9:30 AM EDT, March 22, 2024

The father of Kate Middleton’s new stable master has admitted his son bears a striking resemblance to tennis superstar Roger Federer.

Royal fans were quick to notice how much Lt. Col. Tom White resembles the 20-time Grand Slam champion.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, his father Garry said friends first noticed the resemblance when Federer first became world number one in 2004.

“He looks like Roger Federer – all our friends comment on it,” Garry said outside his home in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Quite a few people have said that many times.’

The dashing former Royal Marine Commando, who was this week appointed the new Private Secretary to the Princess of Wales, is also a talented tennis player – but not quite up to the level of his doppelgänger.

Garry, 66, a former government official, said: ‘He has played tennis, but not at the level of Roger Federer’ before adding: ‘I wish he could play like him.’

Garry said his son was a keen sportsman and while he did not talk about his new royal role, he could not hide his pride in his military career.

“At the end of the day he is a Royal Marine Commando and we are very proud of what he has achieved,” he said. He had quite humble beginnings.”

White and his 37-year-old wife Stephanie’s love of sports is evident in photos on their social media. One photo shows the happy couple smiling as they enjoy a snowboarding holiday in Vermont in the US.

Other photos are from their wedding day ten years ago, with a cheerful photo of the couple walking arm in arm.

Another shows his comrades from his regiment forming a guard of honor with their ceremonial swords as the smiling couple leaves the church.

In another photo, Stephanie posed with half a dozen of his regiments supporting her in their arms as she lay horizontally outside the church for a fun photo.

The couple, who now live in London, own a £635,000 house in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire and have a young daughter.

They had previously lived in Exeter, near White’s regiment, 42 Commando, and close to his parents in Portsmouth.

Royal fans were quick to comment on the similarity in appearance between White and the 42-year-old Federer when his appointment was made public.

The Swiss star has built a close friendship with the princess, an avid tennis player and fans, over the years.

The pair played on court together last year as part of a film celebrating the role of the ball boys and girls in the tennis championship.

Kate even served up the winning shot in a friendly doubles match, prompting the eight-time Wimbledon champion to shout ‘Amazing’.

Federer, who retired from competitive tennis in 2022, also gave Prince George a few lessons.

Once Kate recovers from her surgery and resumes her royal duties, it will likely be Federer, and his doppelgänger will no doubt come face to face at Wimbledon this summer.

The resemblance has already been noticed on social media, with one user on

Another wrote: ‘He’s so handsome.’

Lt. Col. White will likely fit seamlessly into his new role as Kate’s right-hand man.

He is no stranger to royal duties since joining Buckingham Palace in 2020.

While he was equerry to the late Queen, he was seen with her at many events and welcomed Boris Johnson to Balmoral when he stepped down as Prime Minister to pass the role to Liz Truss.

His mother Kay, 67, told MailOnline that her son marched past the Queen’s coffin during her funeral.

“He was with the queen until the end,” she said.

Her son became the frontrunner for the coveted role of equerry to the princess when he was invited to join her for an upcoming engagement last November.

In addition to a dashing appearance, White is also a decorated war hero.

He helped avert a tragedy in Helmand province in 2009 as a member of 42 Commando, after the Taliban rigged an explosive booby trap in a school.

Wires for the device, which would be activated by a pressure plate that would go off if the padlocked schoolroom door were broken open by his troops, were spotted by the elite forces.

When he was 22, Lieutenant White, the commander of 7 Troop, said afterwards: ‘It turns your stomach to think what could have happened if we hadn’t found the bombs.

“These people knew they could have blown a lot of kids into the air – and they didn’t care.

‘I have a rather low opinion of someone who would bomb a school. They don’t value young life at all.’

In his new role, Lieutenant Colonel White has been appointed Director of the Prince and Princess of Wales Royal Foundation.

The foundation is the primary philanthropic and charitable vehicle for the royal couple focusing on conservation and mental health.

TOP jockey James Doyle looks set to team up with leading trainer Roger Varian this Flat season.

The Classic-winning driver recently quit his job as Godolphin’s number two to work as a jock for ultra-wealthy Qatari Wathnan Racing.

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However, Wathnan will only have a small squad of horses at his disposal, with several major trainers interested in securing the services of 35-year-old Doyle this summer.

Among them is Newmarket heavyweight Varian, who was forced to look for a new jockey after David Egan took over the number one job for Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing.

Doyle has ridden several big winners for the yard over the years, including at Royal Ascot at Mountain Angel and in the Balmoral Handicap at Sharja Bridge, and he looks set to benefit from Egan’s departure.

The jockey said: “I rode a short distance for Roger on the Sheikh Obaid horses and we had a great success together.

“We get along great and hopefully that relationship is something we can continue to foster this year.”

The ‘Doyler’ also revealed he would like a shot at the jockey title, although he thinks William Buick and Oisin Murphy will be tough nuts to crack.

But with the backing of a yard like Varian’s – and the occasional ride from old allies Simon and Ed Crisford and even Charlie Appleby – he’ll probably give it a try.

Moreover, he will have a team of talented bluebloods to drive for his new bosses at Wathnan, the racing company of the Emir of Qatar.

They have blown the money on the 2023 sale and already have a team of group class horses in training, including stylish stayers Courage Mon Ami and Gregory.

Doyle, who will be back in the saddle in March after taking some time off due to an ‘issue’, added: “I can’t wait to get started, it’s very exciting.

“Wathnan has purchased a few yearlings from Book One and I am sure they will be looking for more quality as the year progresses.

“I would like to give the jockey championship a chance, but I’ll take it as it comes.

“William is in a good position, I’m sure he and Oisin will battle it out again, but you never know. It’s something I’d love to do someday.

“One thing that goes against me is my weight. I can’t go much lower than nine stone. But heavier jockeys have done it before, so I’ll take it week by week as we get going.

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Like most people, I was saddened to hear of the King's cancer diagnosis. But rest assured, Charles will have access to the best healthcare this country has to offer.

As a prostate surgeon with over forty years' experience, I have seen first-hand the treatment of cancer patients in the NHS and London's top private hospitals.

Of course, NHS patients can expect to be seen by highly trained, hardworking doctors and nurses who have access to cutting-edge medicines.

However, there is no denying that money can buy the very best when it comes to cancer.

Charles will undoubtedly be seen by the country's most talented specialists, who work in elite facilities because that is where they are most in demand – and often receive eye-watering salaries.

But it's not just the doctors themselves who differentiate luxury private cancer care from the NHS.

From expensive medicines to private chefs, read on to find out what King Charles might get that most of his loyal subjects might not.

Wait days, not weeks, before starting treatment

According to the Prime Minister, Charles' cancer was caught early and we also know that he started treatment on Monday. Those fortunate enough to have private health care expect to begin treatment almost immediately.

We're told that although he was recently hospitalized for treatment for an enlarged prostate, he does not have prostate cancer. However, it has not been made public which type of cancer he has.

It would be wrong to speculate further about the nature of his illness. But while he was in hospital, it is highly likely that he underwent blood tests and body scans that could have revealed the disease.

At 75, Charles is the age at which men are at greatest risk of developing cancer, and lung, colon and bladder cancer are common diagnoses in this group. That's why it's important to get checked regularly, especially if you start experiencing unexpected symptoms.

A major problem is that many men do not go to the doctor when they start to have health problems. That is why men generally die younger than women.

Fortunately, Charles seems to have broken that trend. And that gives him a good chance of a positive outcome. However, so does the prompt cancer treatment he will likely receive at a top private hospital.

Most NHS patients diagnosed with cancer can expect to wait weeks or even months before starting treatment, such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other medications.

The NHS has a target that patients should wait no longer than two months before this all starts. But figures from the end of last year suggest that more than 20,000 Britons are waiting longer than 62 days before they can start cancer care.

Research shows that for every month that treatment for an aggressive form of cancer is delayed, the risk of death increases by 10 percent.

However, for most patients, a two-month wait from diagnosis to the start of treatment does not significantly impact survival rates. Nevertheless, waiting can be incredibly anxiety-provoking.

Private cancer care allows patients to escape this fear and begin cancer care immediately. It's no wonder that cancer care is now the biggest earner for London's private hospitals.

Money is no problem when it comes to life-saving medications

NHS doctors have access to some of the best cancer drugs in the world, but there are some drugs that are only offered privately due to their prohibitive costs.

There has been a revolution in cancer treatment thanks to the development of precision medicine: targeted therapies designed to attack specific aspects of certain types of cancer, and immunotherapy, which are drugs that help train defensive cells in the body to attack cancer to track down and destroy.

They can be used alongside conventional treatments, such as chemotherapy, or on their own. Even in advanced, incurable cancers, they have proven remarkably successful in prolonging life and in some cases even providing a cure.

These new drugs are also extremely expensive and many are not offered by the NHS, or if they are, only in very limited circumstances.

According to Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, medical director of the Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK, an example of this is the immunotherapy drug ipilimumab, which costs around £15,000 per injection and is given once every three months for as long as there is benefit.

It is offered to NHS patients with melanoma, skin cancer and some types of lung cancer, but Professor Arkenau says: 'Currently there are some bowel cancer patients who could benefit from ipilimumab but cannot get it on the NHS.

'It is likely that these types of medicines will eventually be offered to bowel patients on the NHS, but there are often delays in their rollout as the NHS has to negotiate to bring these costs down.

'The private sector does not have to do that, because the patient pays.'

In addition, many newer cancer treatments require doctors and nurses trained to administer them.

If your local NHS hospital doesn't have a doctor who knows how to use the cancer treatment you need, you're likely to be referred to a specialist hospital down the road.

King Charles will not have this problem as the specialists he needs for his cancer care will come to him.

Most cancer tests are the same wherever you are treated, but there is technology that NHS hospitals cannot afford.

Private patients may also be offered genetic testing: analysis of tumor cells that can identify which treatments are most likely to be effective.

Similar tests can also warn patients if they carry a gene that increases the risk of cancer. This is important knowledge because this gene can be passed on to children.

Due to the prohibitive cost of carrying out these genetic tests, the practice is only reserved for the NHS's neediest patients.

However, private hospitals can offer genetic testing to any patient willing to pay for it.

It is important to note that many patients, especially men, will not benefit from genetic testing.

Although doctors now know which types of mutations are linked to aggressive breast cancer, scientists have been less successful in identifying key mutations linked to men with prostate and testicular cancer.

Private patients may also be offered more advanced scanning technology than NHS patients.

An example is a scanner known as a 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging machine. This produces much clearer and more detailed images than standard MRI, allowing doctors to more accurately diagnose diseases such as prostate cancer.

However, these machines can cost millions of pounds. For this reason it is considered too expensive for the NHS, but it is the kind of care a private patient could expect.

Five star treatment and a private chef

Many private clinics are more like five-star hotels than hospitals.

The Cleveland Clinic has spent an astonishing £2 billion on a new hospital in central London.

The exclusive centre, which overlooks Buckingham Palace, cares for fewer than 200 patients at a time but has almost 1,500 staff, including 350 consultants.

When you walk in, you are immediately struck by the ultra-modern, almost futuristic design of the American medical company.

It's a far cry from NHS hospitals which often look old-fashioned and sometimes even dilapidated.

Many leading private London hospitals, such as King Edward VII's Hospital in Marylebone, where I am a trustee, have kitchens run by top chefs, serving freshly cooked food for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

It's no surprise that patients are willing to pay a significant premium for this level of comfort.

An increasing number will, of course, have private health insurance – which, depending on the level of their policy, will contribute some or all of their costs.

We don't know how regularly King Charles will need to go to hospital, how long he will stay or what his treatment will entail.

But it is certain that he will feel comfortable and well attended.

But the NHS has its advantages

In the UK, private healthcare doesn't buy everything. Most private cancer patients are treated by one specialist who oversees their care. But on the NHS, patients are seen by a rotating team of specialists, covering everything from cardiovascular health to chemotherapy.

This is more out of habit than anything, as private doctors have traditionally taken sole responsibility for patients, rather than sharing it with other doctors.

I think the NHS is particularly leading the world in this teamwork.

In addition, many private hospitals are generally not optimally equipped for emergencies. This is because they do not have the equipment to deal with a life-threatening situation such as a heart attack or stroke.

In the event that this happens, patients from private hospitals may be sent by ambulance to an NHS facility, which may lead to a delay in emergency treatment.

However, I am confident that wherever Charles receives his cancer care, he will be treated by some of the best doctors in the world, who will give him the best chance of recovery.

Professor Roger Kirby is President of the Royal Society of Medicine

Jamie Gao was tall, handsome and just 20 years old when his dreams of making it big in the underworld led to him being shot dead and dumped in the ocean.

Gao was a young man with a bright future after graduating from the selective Caringbah High School in Sydney’s south and being accepted into a business degree at UTS.

But, after a friend gave him a taste of the big money and high life the drug game had to offer, he ditched university believing he could build a similar business with bigger profits and lower risk.

That fateful decision ultimately brought him to a storage unit at Padstow in Sydney’s south west in May 2014, where he was murdered by two former NSW police detectives during a drug deal gone wrong.

Roger ‘The Dodger’ Rogerson and Glen McNamara were found guilty of Gao’s murder and both received life sentences.

They stole 2.78kg of methamphetamine with a street value of up to $19million from Gao after wrapping his body in a tarpaulin and dumping it at sea.

Rogerson, Australia’s most notorious corrupt cop, was also one of the NSW police force’s most decorated, having received more than a dozen rewards for bravery.

He died on Sunday in Sydney’s Prince of Wales hospital at the age of 83 after suffering a brain aneurysm at the Long Bay prison.

McNamara, now 64, worked as a private investigator and claimed that Gao was his informant for a true crime book he was writing on the Hong Kong Triads in Sydney.

Both men maintained their innocence and fought their sentences but ultimately lost separate appeals in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.

Their shocking crime has been detailed in a new book titled Roger Rogerson: From Decorated Policeman to Convicted Criminal – The Inside Story, by Duncan McNab.  An extract is published below.

THE NEW FACE OF CRIME

The criminals that Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara had faced in their police careers were mainly of the old school.

With a few exceptions, they were male, from poor or working-class backgrounds, had a basic education but not the opportunity for university or even six years of high school.

Many came from families who’d been involved in crime for generations. They were shoplifters, housebreakers, car thieves, armed robbers and safebreakers, who learned their trade through mentoring.

Their jobs were risky, the money was sometimes dismal, and the chance of being caught was high.

Prison was a paid holiday and a chance to network and get some professional development. The irony of getting it from someone who’d been convicted escaped them.

The contemporary breed of criminals is very different. They’re enticed into a business dominated by drugs like ice and cocaine, where the profits are staggering and the risk low.

Most finish high school and many have gone on to university – finance or law degree are great sales tools if you’re looking at entering a life of crime rather than the ‘straight’ world.

Unlike the older crims, they don’t factor in getting caught, and many don’t quite understand the dangers and brutality of the world they’re entering.

Jamie Gao was one of these young men.

As he’d find out in 2014, a life of crime wasn’t like the one he’d seen so often in the Hong Kong action films he and his mates loved.

Jamie’s family was well-to-do middle class, originally from Hong Kong. He’d grown up with his mother and grandmother in their large family home in a quiet street in Hurstville.

It wasn’t a flash home, but it was obvious the Gaos weren’t short of a quid.

Jamie went to Caringbah High School, one of the state’s selective schools that, according to the NSW Department of Education, ‘cater for gifted and talented students who have superior to very superior academic ability which is matched by exceptionally high classroom performance’.

Jamie was a tall, handsome lithe young man with long black hair that swept over his face. He was charismatic, funny and had an edge that made him stand out from his studious mates.

As Sydney crime writer and former detective P.M. (Pam) Newton wrote of Jamie in The Drum on 28 May 2014, ‘It’s the face that stays with you. The photo of the bright, beautiful boy, with the funky haircut, the shiny smile.’

And as Newton observed, ‘Sydney’s underworld isn’t glamorous – it’s cruel.’

Jamie didn’t have Newton’s insight, nor does it seem he did any research on the two older men he’d encounter just after his twentieth birthday.

At school Jamie had a close group of mates, and following the HSC they went on to university and stayed close.

For Jamie, his higher education was a business degree at UTS, located near Sydney’s Chinatown.

One of Jamie’s friends, Bing-Jie (known as BJ) Wang, was Jamie’s ticket into the underworld. Around late 2011, Wang was working as a drug dealer, pulling in big money and living the life that Jamie wanted.

BJ and his cohorts, the Lam brothers, ran a drug ring that was likely to be affiliated with one of the Hong Kong Triads, but they were clumsy.

They talked openly of their business on mobile phones and handled the packages of drugs without the sense to use gloves, thus leaving fingerprints and DNA evidence.

Their stupidity resulted in them being arrested in May 2012 for drug trafficking, but the arrest of his friends didn’t deter Jamie Gao.

Instead of learning that crime was a dangerous business – by being arrested and also risking offending brutal gangs such as the Triad – he went the other way, believing that he was smarter and could build a similar business with greater profit potential and less risk of being caught.

It’s likely Gao’s relationship with Wang also put him on police radar.

The Daily Telegraph of 31 May 2014 reported the AFP had been interested in him from around late 2011 because of his connection to drug importations.

One legal source told me Jamie had also come to police attention because of a few deals he’d done with large numbers of cheap mobile phones used for pay-as-you-go customers – popular in the drug trafficking business for single use then discarded, thus making electronic surveillance difficult.

Police also confirmed they were looking at links between Jamie and casino high roller Peter Hoang who was shot dead at Croydon Park on 7 September 2014, and the former Bakers Delight franchise holder Paul Nguyen, who went missing on 1 May 2014.

Police were suspicious the three were involved in drug trafficking and money laundering.

In early 2014, Jamie met Misaki Takebayashi who was from Japan and studying at UTS. Misaki had rudimentary English and even less Cantonese and Mandarin, but the two fell fast for each other.

However, while she knew her boyfriend had interests other than study and her, she had no idea of his growing involvement with drug trafficking.

Jamie had his first direct brush with police when he was arrested for unlawfully detaining 19-year-old student Jaiwei Yu, and assaulting him causing actual bodily harm.

Gao and two other young men went to Yu’s home unit in Sydney’s Carlton, allegedly to sort out one of Yu’s flatmates, Alex Li, over his bust-up with a girlfriend.

Yu said the girl had wanted revenge and Jamie had taken on the job as standover man and punisher.

Unfortunately for Yu, Alex wasn’t home at the time, so Gao decided Yu would do.

The three men took the slightly built man out to their car, manhandled him into the boot, took him for a brisk drive around, and finally stopped at a park where he was unloaded, and taken into the park where Jamie punched him in the mouth.

The three left him.

Unfortunately for Jamie and his crew, Yu and Li weren’t intimidated and went to the police. Gao was arrested on 22 March and faced his first time in court on a criminal charge at Kogarah court on 15 April 2014.

The case was later adjourned to 10 July and then withdrawn, because by then Jamie was dead.

Another lawyer source told me the incident with Yu wasn’t Jamie’s only standover venture, telling me he’d kidnapped and assaulted a Sydney businessman over a debt.

The police had also visited Jamie’s home in early 2014 with a search warrant looking for drugs, but the visit hadn’t resulted in charges.

His mother Katherine said in a statement, ‘Since the drug search with the police I would talk to Jamie about drugs and he told me he wouldn’t do that. He was cranky that he was involved in this and kept saying that the police always have eyes on him and that he hasn’t done anything wrong.’

In late February Jamie flew to Hong Kong where he caught up with a mix of Sydney and Hong Kong friends and relatives, and allegedly with Triad connections made probably through BJ and the Lams.

It was on this trip Jamie was likely to have started work on the deal that would eventually lead to his murder. T

The original deal he put to the alleged Triad heavies was 10 kilograms of ice on credit, with payment in full as soon as it was sold.

Jamie, by that stage well entrenched with the Rogerson/McNamara team, had a tantalising opportunity for the Triads – access to the outlaw bikers and their distribution networks.

The bikers didn’t mind where the product came from so long as it was of good quality, and for the Hong Kong criminals, traditionally insular in who they dealt with, it was an opportunity to plug into Australia’s most successful distributors.

It was a win for everyone – in theory.

However, the Triad heavies had generations of experience behind them and decided that while they’d risk a shipment to a new network, the risk would only be three kilograms.

If that deal worked to their satisfaction, then the amount would increase. Jamie didn’t have a choice and readily agreed.

The Hong Kong connection would arrange for the drugs to be couriered to Sydney from their sources in mainland China and delivered to Jamie.

Two trusted Triad henchmen would be sent to Australia to keep an eye on Jamie and the deal. Gao’s likely involvement in organised crime was why the NSW Police Robbery and Serious Crime Squad became involved when his disappearance was finally reported.

Roger Rogerson: From Decorated Policeman to Convicted Criminal – The Inside Story, by Duncan McNab, is available now from Hachette online: RRP $22.99 in paperback and $11.99 in e-book 

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