ANNE, Princess Royal and former UK Prime Minister Theresa May were in and around Gibraltar on Saturday for the international literary festival.

Anne, brother of King Charles III, visited the Citizen’s Advice Bureau, unveiled a plaque at the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Association and another at Bassadone Motors.

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and governor Sir David Steel accompanied her around Gibraltar during her brief stay.

Picardo also met Theresa May before she spoke at the Gibraltar International Literary Festival.

She then talked about her book ‘The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life’ to a packed audience at the John Mackintosh Hall.

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LEGENDARY Benidorm performer, Sticky Vicky, died on Wednesday at the age of 80, her daughter has announced on social media.

The Tenerife-born entertainer became famous for her vaginal magic shows in the resort and retired in 2015.

She had been unwell for some time.

Victoria María Araguess Gadea was also known as Vicky Leyton and never married, but had one son- Eduardo Romero Aragues- and one daughter, Maria Gadea Aragues.

María, who saw her mother’s show for the first time at the age 13, later decided to follow in her footsteps

She posted news of her mother’s death on Facebook, saying: “I regret these words, my mother Sticky Vicky passed away today at 6 in the morning, I can’t believe it.”

“She has gone, surrounded by her family, with all of our love. I thank God for being able to always be by her side, I am left with a broken heart.”

British tourists flocked to see Sticky Vicky’s extreme shows and many have paid tribute following the news.

Responses to Maria’s announcement included: “God bless you and your family your mum put Benidorm on the map when you said Benidorm every one said sticky Vicky what a beautiful woman a true entertainer RIP.”

Another told Maria: “Sending u all love….. saw your mum on my 21st birthday, proper legend in her own lifetime….. May she have the best bed in heaven and rest in eternal peace.”

The El Pais newspaper estimated in 2007 that ‘over six million tourists and many other people had seen her shows’.

Vicky premiered her routine in Barcelona cabarets and was so successful that she performed in northern Spanish cities and many variety theatres abroad.

At the beginning of the 1980s, following her sister’s advice, Leyton moved to Benidorm.

Although she intended to take a break after her career declined, her sister convinced her to perform at a hotel, and her show was so successful that she decided to stay there due partially to its influx of British tourists who loved what she did.

Sticky Vicky would pull several objects from her vagina, including ping-pong balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, sausages, razor blades, and even machetes.

She concluded her act by opening a bottle of beer with her vagina, and pouring it on the stage.

Leyton did not characterise herself or the show as pornographic saying: “To do what I do you must have a lot of delicacy. It is necessary to give it a touch of elegance.”.

Sticky Vicky also appeared on the ITV sit-com Benidorm when she officially opened ‘Mel’s Mobility Shop’.

POP STAR Shakira has cut a deal with prosecutors at the start of day one of her tax fraud trial in Barcelona on Monday.

The singer, 46, told the presiding judge that she accepted the agreement reached between her lawyers and state prosecutors.

She faced six counts of failing to pay the Spanish government €14.5 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014 when she said she lived mainly abroad.

The deal involves her paying a €7 million fine and a three-year-prison term.

The Columbian star however will not go to jail as she will pay an extra fine of €432,000.

The sentence handed down was ‘final’ and it means that the trial on tax fraud charges will not go ahead.

Shakira entered the Barcelona courthouse at 10.00am and the session lasted barely two minutes as a judge reported that a letter of agreement had been reached.

The singer, who won Latin Grammy awards in Sevilla last Thursday, stepped in front of the microphone to purely speak- saying was aware of the agreement, that she agreed to it, and thanked the court.

The deal means that Shakira was a tax resident between 2012 and 2014, and therefore had to pay her taxes to Spain’s Tax Agency.

Shakira’s long-standing argument was that during period she was a nomad who travelled all over the world giving concerts and that her only visits to Barcelona, of a sporadic nature, were to visit her-then boyfriend Gerard Pique.

The Tax Agency carried out an intense investigation by contacting service providers and professionals who assisted Shakira at that stage, and concluded that she spent more than half of the year in Spain, a necessary condition for a citizen to be considered a tax resident.

The trial was going to feature a parade of witnesses who were going to give an account of the singer’s life at that time, but those details will now be spared any public exposure.

Sources close to Shakira suggested that after resisting previous deal offers, she now wanted to put behind her time Barcelona, which left last year to move to Miami with her two children.

A plea bargain deal had been resisted by her on two previous occasions.

Her tax problems with Spanish authorities are however not consigned to history.

Prosecutors charged Shakira in September for her alleged evasion of €6.7 million in tax on her 2018 income.

They’ve accused her of using an offshore company based in a tax haven as an avoidance measure.

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