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Certain things in life make us the person we are. And, for many years, wearing high heels has been one of those for me. So a recent realisation that I no longer enjoy wearing those heels feels ...
It's happened. The day I hoped would never come. The day I can no longer wear high heels. To those who have never loved high heels, this may seem like utter trivia. But those who, like me, have ...
Please, God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won't ask anything else of You, truly I won't. It isn't very much to ask. It would be so little to You, God, such a little ...
Kensington Palace's decision to no longer release details of the Princess of Wales's clothes on public engagements will undoubtedly disappoint many. Following what one of the best-dressed women in ...
As a mother of one son, occasionally in the small hours I fret about what will happen when he marries and I’m shunted into second place by his new wife. What if he falls in love with a South ...
Joan Hannington is the latest in a line of delicious female on-screen criminals. I've just binged the whole ITV series, Joan, where Sophie Turner does a marvellous turn in 1980s jumpsuits ...
When I was the editor of Vogue, my engagements were listed in a large, paper diary by my PA and it sat on her desk. It was only when I left the job seven years ago that for the first time in ...
‘Alexandra, you’ve just won…’ It’ll take the edge of knowing the bookie has got the better of me once again.
Meghan has stolen my sign-off. How can I continue to end emails and letters with the words ‘As ever’, which I’ve happily used for years, now that it would sound like an endorsement for her ...
It's been a noisy week in British fashion. The Princess of Wales presented the Queen Elizabeth II prize for British design dressed in a chic Victoria Beckham trouser suit. Given Kate's ability to ...
How disappointing that Angela Rayner will not be the chatelaine of Dorneywood, the grace-and-favour Buckinghamshire bolthole complete with croquet lawn, swimming pool and sunken lawn. I had been ...
Greggs must be hoping that Nigella Lawson’s endorsement of its Christmas bakery range is more successful than the backing given by world-famous women for Kamala Harris. First, there was the ...