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For mums across the land tomorrow, Mothering Sunday will be perhaps the most poignant — and unnerving — they’ve ever experienced. So many elderly parents will be kept away, in self-isolation, from those they care for most. There will be no parties for them, no flowers hand-delivered to mother by those who once depended on … Read more
The chorus of congratulations that greeted the message posted on Carrie Symonds’s Instagram account over the weekend — that she and Boris are engaged and ‘hatching a baby early this summer’ — is as it should be. In essence, here is some good news in a sea of often grim headlines. But, while the friends … Read more
What a shock it must have been for the Duke of Sussex to learn that his adopted host nation Canada would no longer foot part of the bill for his family’s police protection. How could this be? Harry’s and Meghan’s bestie, PM Justin Trudeau, had welcomed them warmly in December. And the country is a … Read more
When I first walked into my early Victorian terraced cottage in North London more than a decade ago, I was so struck by its deep sense of peace that I laid my cheek against the wall. Despite it being rather shabby and neglected, I felt there was something magical about it. And it’s not just … Read more