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Page ELIZABETH R 1926-2022 Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022

My heartfelt form the bearer party carrying the
coffin from the catafalque at West-
minster Hall through the North
Door to the waiting 123-year-old
byERNEGRBOLYEAILSCEDHCITOAR thanks for allTHE King thanked the public last state gun carriage, which will be
your comfortnight for their ‘comfort and sup- drawn by 142 Royal Naval ratings
port’ as he and his family prepared along the route to the Abbey.
and support, bysorCastleaspartofaseriesofportraits
to say their ‘last farewell’ to Queen Led by 200 musicians, the proces-
Elizabeth II today. sion will go through Parliament
His heartfelt message came as Bucking- Square, where it will be saluted by
ham Palace released an unseen picture of a guard of honour.
the late monarch, taken in May at Wind-
From here, the King, his siblings
to mark her historic Platinum Jubilee. and children, as well as loyal mem-
The smiling 96-year-old sovereign is pic- bers of Her Majesty’s household,
King Charleskind words and gestures since his mother will march behind the coffin.
tured sporting an exquisite pair of diamond
and aquamarine Cartier clips that were an Princess Charlotte and Prince
18th-birthday present from her parents, George will be driven to the Abbey
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. with the Princess of Wales and the
In his message to the nation, King Charles Queen Consort, to join the family
expressed his sincere thanks for so many party outside.

passed away on Thursday, September 8. Inside, the gothic splendour of
He said: ‘Over the last ten days, the cathedral will be packed with
my wife and I have been so deeply more than 2,000 VIPs, including
touched by the many messages of with their parents, the Prince and including a lifeboat volunteer who sung at the Queen’s wedding to world leaders and foreign royals.
condolence and support we have Princess of Wales; helped save a dozen lives, an anti- Prince Philip in 1947. Among them will be ‘everyday peo-
received from this country and  The Duchess of Sussex will join knife campaigner and a lawyer who ple’ who have served the country,
across the world. senior royals to follow the coffin as delivered 1,200 free meals in the More than a million people are including NHS heroes who worked
it processes through the Abbey; pandemic, will be among the expected to descend on the capital tirelessly through the pandemic
‘In London, Edinburgh, Hillsbor-  The new Queen Consort made a mourners at today’s funeral; today for their chance to be part and Armed Forces veterans.
ough and Cardiff we were moved moving tribute to her late mother-  The Order of Service for both the of history.
beyond measure by everyone who in-law, highlighting the ‘difficult’ The hour-long service will con-
took the trouble to come and pay job she had as a ‘solitary’ woman Billions are also due to tune in clude with the Last Post, followed
their respects to the lifelong serv- leader and revealing the Queen’s from all over the world, with major by a two-minute silence observed
ice of my dear mother. ‘brilliant’ sense of humour; networks running rolling live cov- across the nation and the national
 The Duke of York issued his own erage on their main channels all anthem – in which Abbey mourn-
‘My wife and‘As we all prepare to say our lasttribute to his ‘Dear Mummy, day – as well as on their digital and ers will hail our new King.
Mother, Your Majesty’, praising her radio platforms.
farewell, I wanted simply to take ‘love, compassion and care’; A haunting lament played by the
this opportunity to say thank you  Mourners scrambled to be among About 10,000 military personnel Queen’s Piper, ‘Sleep, Dearie,
the last to see the Queen’s coffin will be involved in the funeral, Sleep’, has been included at her
I have beento all those countless people who while hundreds of heads of state personal request. Afterwards the
and dignitaries will have front-row coffin will embark on the last stage
have been such a support and seats of the spectacle. of its journey, travelling 25 miles to
comfort to my family and myself in her beloved Windsor, where she
will finally be laid to rest.
deeply touched’this time of grief.’ It came as:
last night as the public farewell to The committal service will be
Her Majesty comes to an end at smaller and far more personal, with
the Instruments of State – the
Imperial Crown, Orb and Sceptre –
removed from the Queen’s coffin
and placed on high altar, symboli-
cally ending the Elizabethan reign.

The Lord Chamberlain, who is
the most senior official of the Royal
Household, will then symbolically
‘break’ his wand of office and place
it on the coffin to signify him offi-
 Hundreds of heads of state, royals Ahead of the service, the tenor cially losing office.
and dignitaries flew in to pay their bell will be tolled every minute for The Queen’s coffin will be low-
respects at today’s State Funeral in 6.30am today; State Funeral and then the Queen’s 96 minutes, reflecting the years of ered into the Royal Vault, ready to
an precedented display of pomp  Hardy royal fans defied no-camp- more intimate committal at St Queen Elizabeth’s incredible life. be privately reunited later this
and majesty, the likes of which are ing rules ahead of today’s funeral George’s Chapel, Windsor, were At 10.44am sharp, the late mon- evening with her beloved Philip,
unlikely to be seen again; procession from Westminster Hall released, revealing a mix of tradi- arch’s coffin will be moved the her parents and her sister in their
 The Palace revealed that two of to Westminster Abbey and then on tion – from the five Sentences, lines short distance to Westminster family chapel.
the Queen’s great-grandchildren – to Windsor, as people of all ages set of scripture set to music that have Abbey in time for the funeral serv- ‘Us four’ – as King George VI
Prince George, nine, and Princess up tents and deckchairs to grab been used at every state funeral ice to start at 11am sharp. famously referred to his family – will
Charlotte, seven – will walk behind premium seats for the spectacle; since the 18th century, to the The Queen’s most senior guards- become ‘us five’ in the afterlife.
her coffin at Westminster Abbey  Around 200 ‘everyday heroes’, deeply personal: one of the hymns men, the Grenadier Guards, will Comment – Page 26

George and Charlotte to walk behind coffin

By Royal Editor Attending the funeral: The Queen’s great-grandchildren George and Charlotte Your guide to
the funeral PAGES
PRINCE George and Princess Charlotte years of Queen Elizabeth’s life. The service and Love Divine. Lessons feature 1 Corinthi-
will make a surprise appearance at their will, Buckingham Palace said last night, pay ans 15 20-26, 53-end and John 14 1-9a, with 12-17
great-grandmother’s funeral today, tribute to the Queen’s remarkable reign and all aspects personally chosen by the Queen.
walking behind her coffin into Westmin- lifetime of service as head of state, nation Taste And See, which was composed by
ster Abbey. and Commonwealth. A specially commissioned choral piece, Ralph Vaughan Williams for the Queen’s
Like As The Hart, composed by the Master Coronation in 1953.
The Daily Mail understands that the Prince It will be conducted by The Very Reverend of The King’s Music, Judith Weir, will be
and Princess of Wales thought ‘long and hard’ Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster, with sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey. The Archbishop of Canterbury will give a
about whether their two eldest children, aged hymns including The Lord’s My Shepherd The choir will also sing a short anthem, O reading, while Prime Minister Liz Truss will
nine and seven, should join them. read the second lesson, with prayers from
leading clerics including the Bishop of Lon-
But after George and Charlotte attended don and Archbishop of York.
their great-grandfather’s memorial in March,
William and Kate decided they could cope Tears are sure to flow at The Last Post and
with the solemnity of the occasion. Louis, Reveille, as well as the first major public
the couple’s youngest, is just four and will rendition of the National Anthem.
not be joining.
A rendition of Sleep, Dearie, Sleep played
‘As parents they have, of course, thought by the Queen’s piper will have huge signifi-
long and hard about whether their children cance to her family.
should accompany them,’ a source said. ‘Of
course little Louis is too young, but they After the service, the bells of Westminster
think George and Charlotte are up to it.’ Abbey will be rung, fully muffled, as is the
tradition following the sovereign’s funeral.
It is understood the children will also be in The coffin will then continue its last journey
the congregation for the committal service through London and out to Windsor. The
at St George’s Chapel at Windsor this after- committal service at St George’s Chapel at
noon. A decision is to be taken about 4pm will be smaller and far more personal.
whether they feel up to taking part in the
procession there, too. And with no cameras present, the Royal
Family will gather for a private interment
George and Charlotte will travel by car to at 7.30pm.
the Abbey with Kate and Camilla, before
joining the foot procession as it enters.

Before today’s state funeral service at
11am, a bell will toll 96 times, reflecting the

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 V1 Page

RADIANT: Buckingham Palace last night
NEWLY released this unseen picture of
RELEASED the Queen, taken before the
PICTURE Platinum Jubilee. She wears her
TAKEN AT favourite three-strand pearl
WINDSOR necklace, pearl earrings and
IN MAY her aquamarine and diamond
clip brooches, above, an 18th
birthday present from her
father George VI in 1944. The
two art deco-style pieces
were made by Boucheron

Picture: RANALD MACKECHNIE

Page ELIZABETH R 1926-2022 Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022

Picture: JAMIE WISEMAN

Presidents, prime 4.15PM
ministers, princes and
princesses join the...

RECEPTION
OF THE
CENTURY
KING Charles welcomed By Ryan Hooper
world leaders and American arrival: Joe Biden and wife Jill at Buckingham Palace
royalty last night as Saturday. His motorcade and Hand on heart: The couple pay respects at the Queen’s lying-in-state
Buckingham Palace police entourage was later
hosted the reception of spotted travelling through
the century in memory Tottenham in north London.
of the Queen.
Yesterday, an hour before the
US President Joe Biden reception, Mr and Mrs Biden
and First Lady Jill Biden, visited the Queen’s lying-in-
France’s president state at Westminster Hall.
Emmanuel Macron and first
lady Brigitte Macron, and He then signed the book of
New Zealand prime minister condolence at Lancaster
Jacinda Ardern were among House, where he claimed the
the hundreds of guests Queen reminded him of his
invited to the palace ahead mother and added: ‘You were
of the Queen’s funeral today. fortunate to have had her for
70 years, we all were. The world
The Prince and Princess of
Wales and other working mem- ‘You were
bers of the Royal Family – fortunate to
including the Earl and Countess have had her’
of Wessex, the Princess Royal
and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy is better for her.’ Many world
Laurence, and the Duke and leaders were given a VIP time
Duchess of Gloucester – joined slot to observe the lying-in-
Charles and the Queen Consort state, meaning they avoided
at the reception. the long queue.

But there was no invitation Mr Macron and his first lady
for the Duke and Duchess of strolled through central Lon-
Sussex, who allegedly found don, flanked by aides and
out they were ‘uninvited’ to security guards, before attend-
the event by reading press ing Westminster Hall – where
reports. It was reportedly they arrived wearing trainers –
decided that only working and then the palace.
members of the Royal Family
should attend. Ukrainian first lady Olena
Zelenska also paid her respects
It is believed the Duke of at Westminster Hall, with her
York was also not present. husband Volodymyr Zelensky
expected to attend the funeral.
Guests – many of whom She was also hosted at the pal-
travelled to the palace in ace yesterday afternoon by
coaches from Royal Chelsea Kate, the Princess of Wales.
Hospital, which became a
drop-off point for the dignitar- In a nod to her homeland,
ies – were asked to wear lounge Mrs Zelenska arrived at Buck-
suits and morning dress. ingham Palace reception last

Leaders from across the
globe descended on the capi-
tal over the weekend. The US
President was among the first
to jet in, landing at Stansted
Airport just before 10pm on

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page

6.10PM Drop-off point:
Buses take

guests from
Royal Chelsea

Hospital

Controversy: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
al-Maktoum and minister Reem al-Hashimy

Comfort first: France’s night wearing a gold pin inspired by a
rushnyk – fabric embroidered with
Emmanuel Macron Ukrainian symbols. Prime Minister Liz
and wife Brigitte Truss held talks with world leaders yes-
change from terday before a private audience with the

trainers into King ahead of the reception.
formalwear UAE’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
al-Maktoum, a controversial figure, also
attended the event. He was found to
have ‘ordered’ the kidnapping of his
daughter Princess Latifa in 2018 by a UK
High Court. Other guests included King
Abdullah II of Jordan and Queen Rania. Red carpet: King Abdullah II and Queen Rania

Page ELIZABETH R 1926-2022 Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022

Kate’s solemn moment with Ukraine’s

Pictures: KIRSTY O’CONNOR/PA WIRE

Stateswomen: The Princess of Wales hosts Olena Zelenska, the wife of president Volodymyr Zelensky, at Buckingham Palace yesterday

Moving minute’s
silence ... but Big
Ben didn’t bong

Time to reflect: At 8pm last night firefighters in London’s Notting Hill mark a national minute’s silence as the PM and her husband Hugh O’Leary
pause at No 10. But Big Ben did not sound due to a technical issue. A Parliament spokesman said it had been resolved in time for today’s funeral

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page

First Lady... as the King greets his PM

Royal reception: King Charles welcomes Liz Truss with open arms as the two hold a private audience

By Kumail Jaffer Diplomatic headache seating
Political Reporter

SEATING more than 500 foreign Iran, Israel and the two Koreas
dignitaries at today’s funeral
without causing a diplomatic between certain nations. Care- Mr Herzog recently suggested and India’s president Droupadi ‘This should have been
row could be one of the big- ful thought will have gone into that Iran is behind global ‘dark Murmu are due to attend. thought through better’
gest challenges for govern- the placement of South Korean forces of hate’.
ment officials. president Yoon Suk-yeol and Tensions also exist between
the North Korean ambassador. Another flash point for plan- Greece and Turkey over recent
With many world leaders ners could be Pakistan and clashes in the Aegean Sea.
invited to Westminster Abbey, Also attending will be the Ira- India’s decades-long rivalry.
the seating plan – which could nian ambassador and Isaac And Saudi Arabia and Qatar
only start being drafted on Herzog, the president of Israel. Pakistan’s prime minister are locked in a battle for influ-
Thursday when RSVPs closed – Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif ence in the Middle East.
could be crucial to avoid
inflaming existing tensions

Page ELIZABETH R 1926-2022 Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022

I will treasure
my Mummy’s
love for ever,
says Andrew

By Jim Norton
HIS mother’s care, compas-
sion and confidence in him
will be blessings he ‘treasures
for ever’, the Duke of York said
in a heartfelt tribute to
the Queen.

Addressing her as ‘Mummy’,
Prince Andrew said he would miss
her ‘insights, advice, and humour’
as well as her infinite knowledge
and wisdom.

The statement comes just days
after he was allowed to wear military
dress in order to hold a moving vigil
at her coffin alongside his siblings in
Westminster Hall.

The late monarch’s second son –
who was forced to step down from
royal duties over his connections
to convicted sex offender Jeffrey
Epstein – has often been talked about
as her favourite.

His statement was released along-
side a black-and-white photo of the
Queen cradling him as a newborn in
March 1960, gently resting her cheek
on his head.

It read: ‘Dear Mummy, Mother, Your
Majesty, three in one. Your Majesty,

‘I will miss your Poignant: Duke issued this photo Nature’s own memorial: A rainbow appears yesterday over Westminster Abbey
insights, advice of himself as a baby with Queen
and humour’
tribute to her late husband Prince
it has been an honour and privilege Philip in March.
to serve you.
At various memorial events since
‘Mother – of the nation, your devo- the Queen’s death on September 8,
tion and personal service to our the duke has worn civilian clothes.
nation is unique and singular; your
people show their love and respect But on Friday evening, the Falk-
in so many different ways and I lands War veteran was allowed to
know you are looking on, honouring attend a vigil in his military uniform
their respect. alongside his siblings the King, Prin-
cess Anne and Prince Edward.
‘Mummy, your love for a son, your
compassion, your care, your confi- It is thought that the new monarch
dence I will treasure for ever. lifted the ban on Andrew’s dress as a
‘mark of respect for his mother’.
‘I have found your knowledge and
wisdom infinite, with no boundary The duke’s tribute comes just days
or containment. after his daughters Princess Beatrice
and Princess Eugenie released an
‘I will miss your insights, advice and emotional statement thanking their
humour. As our book of experiences ‘Grannie’ for her service.
closes, another opens, and I will
forever hold you close to my heart It read: ‘We, like many, thought
with my deepest love and gratitude, you’d be here for ever. And we all miss
and I will tread gladly into the next you terribly.
with you as my guide.
‘You were our matriarch, our guide,
‘God save the King.’ our loving hand on our backs leading
Prince Andrew was stripped of his us through this world. You taught us
military links and royal patronages by so much and we will cherish those
the Queen in January ahead of a US lessons and memories for ever.
lawsuit in which he was accused of
sex abuse. It was settled out of court ‘For now dear Grannie, all we want
the following month. He strongly to say is thank you.
denies any allegation of wrongdoing.
But the duke continued to remain ‘Thank you for making us laugh, for
close to his beloved mother’s side, including us, for picking heather and
including escorting her into Westmin- raspberries, for marching soldiers, for
ster Abbey for a memorial service in our teas, for comfort, for joy.

You, being you, will never know
the impact you have had on our
family and so many people around
the world.’

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Splendour in the sky ...
on funeral’s eve,a
rainbow over
the Abbey

Picture: ALEX DOHERTY

and Parliament, echoing the uplifting spectacles seen at Buckingham Palace – a double rainbow – and Windsor on the day of the Queen’s death

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Harry ‘left devastated
by vigil uniform snub’

Queen’s initials were removed from his ceremonial military outfit

Distinctive:
William’s jacket
bears the EIIR
cipher on Saturday
but it is missing from
Harry’s shoulder

by REBECCA
ENGLISH

ROYAL EDITOR

AN EXTRAORDINARY row over
the decision to remove the
Queen’s initials from the shoul-
der of Prince Harry’s military
uniform has laid bare the depth
of his rift with the Royal Family.
The prince was said to have been
left ‘devastated’ after receiving his
ceremonial dress of the Blues and
Royals from Buckingham Palace
without the distinctive EIIR cipher
on the shoulder.
He wore the uniform to Saturday night’s
vigil over the Queen’s coffin alongside the
monarch’s seven other grandchildren.
Such was his despair, Harry is even said
to have considered wearing a morning
suit as they were leaving in order to avoid
the ‘embarrassment’.
A friend told The Sunday Times: ‘He is
heartbroken. To remove his grandmoth-
er’s initials feels very intentional.’
Others have suggested the move was
‘petty and personal’.
William and Harry, both dressed in mili-
tary uniform, stood at either end of the
coffin on Saturday night.
They were joined by cousins Zara Tin-
dall and Peter Phillips, Princesses Beat-
rice and Eugenie, and Lady Louise
Windsor and her brother Viscount quitting royal duties and handing wear the insignia of an ADC on ciations in January. A spokesman honorary appointment where uni-
Severn. Harry, who saw action on back his military appointments. his uniform. said it was a personal appointment form has been authorised to be
the front line during two tours of A Personal Aide-de-Camp is an by the Queen. worn for the duration of the
duty in Afghanistan, had previ- appointment bestowed only on Much has been made of the fact appointment. Under the current
ously been told he would have to members of the Royal Family hold- that the shamed Duke of York was Questions will undoubtedly be circumstances there may be
wear a morning suit as he is no ing military rank, including the seen in his ADC insignia at Friday raised, however, as to why Harry various exceptions or special cases,
longer a working royal and has Prince of Wales. night’s vigil by the Queen’s chil- was forced to hand the honour all of which would be for the Pal-
been stripped of any honorary mil- Nowadays, it is an honorary role back, when his uncle was not. ace to decide.’
itary appointments. with few duties or responsibilities, ‘Shamed Duke
However, his father, King Charles, although historically it would have of York wore A source told the Mail yesterday: On Saturday, Prince William was
granted permission for his son to signified close proximity to the the insignia’ ‘The Duke of Sussex may be upset wearing the Blues and Royals,
wear his old uniform at the vigil monarch. Harry was awarded the but everyone is simply following No.1 Uniform, the Garter Sash, the
inside the Palace of Westminster honour in 2018 and it was seen as a dren. Andrew was permitted to rules laid down by the military. Garter Star, Golden, Diamond and
as a show of respect and unity to sign of his growing responsibility wear it because, unlike Harry, he What has happened shows how Platinum Jubilee medals and RAF
the late Queen. within the monarchy. did not give the honour back when delicate the situation is with any- Pilot Wings.
While Buckingham Palace has But following his acrimonious he relinquished his military asso- thing to do with the Sussexes.
declined to comment, the Daily decision in 2020 to quit as a work- Harry was wearing the Blues and
Mail understands no personal ing royal and seek his fortune in ‘Even a simple procedural matter Royals, No.1 Uniform, KCVO Neck
slight was intended. the US, the Queen insisted he can suddenly become a personal Order and Star, Afghanistan Oper-
The cipher was removed simply withdraw from all responsibilities slight. It doesn’t bode well for ational Service Medal, Golden,
because Harry is no longer an aide- and appointments. It means he the future.’ Diamond and Platinum Jubilee
de-camp (ADC) to the Queen after is simply no longer entitled to medals and Army Pilot Wings.
A defence source stressed:
‘Retired service personnel and vet- Harry will, however, wear civilian
erans are not entitled or allowed to dress for today’s funeral.
wear uniform unless they are in an

Palace hits back in row over ‘last-to-know’ prince

PALACE aides reacted angrily to claims last Minister Liz Truss. The Daily Telegraph sug- rare statement on such a private matter, a was because he was on a flight to Scotland
night that Prince Harry had been given gested this was a further example of the spokesman for the King stressed: ‘The pub- and therefore not contactable.
just five minutes’ notice of his grandmoth- rift between the prince and his family. lic was only informed after every family
er’s death before it was made public. member had been informed.’ Last night, the original story had been
But there was clear irritation at Bucking- taken down from The Telegraph website.
A newspaper report said the devastated ham Palace that such claims had emerged The Mail understands that while it is true An amended one was then published claim-
royal had been the last to know about her on the eve of the Queen’s funeral, which that Harry was told shortly before the ing that Harry was not treated differently
passing – and was even told after Prime was considered hugely disrespectful. In a news became public, the reason for this to other family members.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 11

Pictures: AARON CHOWN/PA WIRE Grieving:
William leads

the Queen’s
grandchildren

at the vigil

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HER FINAL RESTING PLACE: QUEEN’S WINDSOR

1 WINDSOR Queen Mother
PROCESSION CASTLE Reservoir
Windsor
3pm Procession forms up on the Heathrow
fringes of Windsor, at Shaw Farm Airport
Gate on Albert Road. M25
Albert
3.06pm State Hearse approaches and Road Old Wraysbury King George VI
joins the procession. Windsor Reservoir Reservoir
ar3e.n0ad6cphprmeosWTcHhWeaeelskiLasnoridonssgneor, London
■ The State Hearse is flanked by pall makes way down River Road (A30)
bearers and an escort party consisting of The Long Walk Thames
two officers and 24 rank-and-file soldiers to the castle
of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. Windsor Road
(A308)
■ The Queen’s Company Colour, the
Royal Standard of the regiment of J13
Grenadier Guards, and a Sovereign’s
Standard of the Household Cavalry, are The Savill Runnymede Staines
positioned immediately in front of and Garden Englefield Green
behind the hearse.

3.10pm Procession steps off,
along The Long Walk to
Windsor Castle, which is lined with The
thousands of mourners. Long
Walk
■ Minute guns are fired by The King’s Troop, Private East
Royal Horse Artillery, from a position Chapel Lawn
on the East Lawn as the coffin moves
in procession. Inner State
Hall Entrance

■ Both the Sebastopol Bell Quadrangle
and the Curfew Tower Bell
are tolled.

ST GEORGE’S Round
CHAPEL Tower

The
Long
Walk

Galilee ST GEORGE’S
Porch

CHAPEL

Curfew ■ Leading the procession, walking ahead of the
Tower coffin, are a dismounted detachment of the
Household Cavalry Regiment, left, followed

immediately by a mounted division
of the Sovereign’s Escort, a massed
pipes and drums of Scottish and
Irish Regiments, the bands of the
Coldstream Guards and The
Household Cavalry, officers of the
Household Division, officers of

arms, along with officers and
senior members of the Queen’s
household such as her Private
Secretary, the Palace Steward
and her Master of the Horse.

HORSESHOE WEST
CLOISTER STEPS

3.40pm At the castle Quadrangle, ■ Further back are more
the procession is joined mounted and dismounted
by King Charles and other royals. detachments of the
Household Cavalry.
■ As in London, the King again leads ■ The Queen Consort with
members of the Royal Family, walking the Princess of Wales, and
directly behind the coffin. the Duchess of Sussex with
the Countess of Wessex
■ Behind them, members of the once again follow by car.
Queen’s, the King’s and the Prince of
Wales’s households follow.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 15

JOURNEY TO LIE WITH HER BELOVED PHILIP

KING GEORGE VI THE CLERGY MINUTE GUNS
MEMORIAL CHAPEL
■ The service will be led ■ Minute Guns will be fired by the

by the Dean of Windsor, King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery,
the Rt Rev. David Conner, from a position on the East Lawn as
left. The blessing will be the coffin moves in procession from
Shaw Farm Gate to the West Steps of
pronounced by
Justin Welby, the St George’s Chapel.

Archbishop of 3
Canterbury, right BURIAL

Albert 4pm Committal Service
Memorial begins – televised.

Chapel ■ Procession enters
chapel and proceeds down
Lincoln centre aisle to catafalque
Chapel in the Quire.

Garter Knights High ROYAL ■ Service is conducted
Banners and Crests Altar VAULT by the Dean of Windsor,
with prayers from the
Rector of Sandringham,
the Minister of Crathie
Kirk and the Chaplain of
Windsor Great Park.

The Tombs of THE ■ Prior to the final hymn, the
Organ Henry VIII QUIRE Imperial State Crown, the Orb and the
Loft and Charles I Sceptre are removed from the coffin
by the Crown Jeweller. With the
Bargemaster and Serjeants-at-Arms,
they are passed to the Dean who
places them on the altar.

■ After the final hymn, the
King places the Queen’s
Company Camp Colour of
the Grenadier Guards
on the coffin. The Lord
Chamberlain ‘breaks’
his wand of office.

Electric ■ As coffin is lowered
lift into the Royal Vault, the
Dean of Windsor says a
THE psalm and the
NAVE commendation, before
Garter King of Arms
pronounces the styles and
titles of the Queen.

■ Sovereign’s Piper plays a
lament from doorway between
the chapel and the Dean’s Cloister.
He walks slowly towards
the Deanery in the Cloister
so the music inside the chapel
gradually fades.

SOUTH Bray ■ Archbishop of Canterbury
DOOR Chantry pronounces the blessing.
Followed by singing God
Save The King.

2 Royal Vault: George III, 7.30pm
CONGREGATION George IV and William IV
are buried here ■ Private burial
service – not
2pm Doors of St George’s 3.25pm Royals not walking in ■ Guard of televised – is
Chapel in Horseshoe Cloister the procession arrive at honour conducted by the
open for the general congregation, the West Door and are escorted to welcomes coffin, Dean of Windsor,
comprising members of Her Majesty’s their seats in the Quire and the Nave. consisting attended by the
household past and present including of three King and
personal staff who work, or who have ■ In Horseshoe Cloister, Windsor officers and 110 members of the
worked, on the private estates. Castle Guard is turned out, facing rank-and-file Royal Family.
the guardroom, and presents arms soldiers from ■ Her Majesty is
■ On duty are the Military Knights of for the arrival of royals. the 1st Battalion buried together
Windsor, the honorary bodyguards. Grenadier Guards. with her
3.53pm Procession halts at ■ Household late husband,
3.20pm Governors General and the bottom of the Cavalry Mounted the Duke of
realm prime ministers West Steps of St George’s Chapel. Regiment lines Edinburgh, at the
arrive at the West Door, St George’s Bearer party lifts the coffin from the steps. King George VI
Chapel, and are escorted to their the State Hearse. They carry Memorial Chapel.
seats in the Nave. it up the West Steps.

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Dedication: Tents line The Mall as Tina Foster, of Horley, Surrey, has breakfast on Horse Guards Road, where she pitched her tent on Saturday

Carry on camping! Fans
defy tent ban on The Mall

By Ryan Hooper 66, and his wife Sue, 58, from Alton
in Staffordshire, arrived at The
HARDY royal fans defied no-camp- Mall at 11am yesterday to claim
ing rules ahead of the Queen’s their spot – although they said
funeral today, as people of all ages they would sleep in deckchairs
set up tents, deckchairs and even a rather than pitch a tent.
makeshift minibar to grab pre-
mium seats for the spectacle. Mr Rhodes said: ‘The only other
Scores of people began bedding in to time I’ve queued overnight for
line The Mall in central London over anything was when Stoke City got
the weekend, despite rules – seemingly to Wembley for the cup final in
loosely enforced – preventing people 1972, and I waited overnight at the
from setting up camp.
Several said friends and family told them ‘My kids said
they were ‘mad’ to carry out the overnight we were mad; it
vigil, but they insisted they would not miss had to be done’
the occasion.
Among them were school friends Chris- club shop with my friends to get
tine Manning, 75, and Dianne Donohue, tickets. People have said we’re
73, from Leek in Staffordshire, who slept in mad, but sanity is relative.’
a pop-up tent.
Mrs Donohoe, a retired housewife and Mrs Rhodes said the couple’s two
grandmother-of-three, said: ‘Yes, the advice adult sons had been concerned
was not to camp but we disobeyed. We’ve about their parents ‘roughing it’
had a good catch-up, we’ve enjoyed it. overnight in London, but said: ‘I
‘We were sleeping in the tent and at told them we were going to do it
4.30am I woke up and asked Chris Happy campers: Dianne Donohoe, 73, and Christine Manning, 75, from Staffordshire anyway – when has their mother
ever done what she was told?’
if she was awake – she was, so we used. They said we were idiots. I and Kate’s wedding in 2011, and Alford, 40, paid around £1,300 for a
had a whisky and lemonade and a said it had to be done.’ resumed their same spot together last-minute flight to London on Paulette Galley, from Boston
pork pie. The Mall was a frenzy of activity on Saturday. Thursday, and said she would in Lincolnshire, said she was deter-
‘A couple more hours’ sleep, then yesterday, as people arrived to lay Miss Shirley said: ‘We do all the camp out until after the funeral. mined to stay on The Mall over-
on to the prosecco. We had to take flowers nearby, get a glimpse of royal events together, it’s like She said: ‘You don’t come all this night. The 54-year-old kitchen
our tent down at 7am because the Buckingham Palace and Horse we’re a family. way and then watch it on the TV. I assistant, originally from south
police told us to, but we couldn’t Guards Parade, and bag their van- ‘I saw Tim at the Queen’s Jubilee want a front row seat for history. London, said: ‘I might not get any
do it, so we had to get some lad to tage points for the funeral proces- and we said that the next time ‘My mum said, “I can’t believe sleep, but I don’t care.
help us. sion as it makes its way from West- we see each other would probably you’re doing that.” I said, “I can’t
‘We’re out of pork pies sadly but minster to Windsor. be at the Queen’s funeral – believe you didn’t think I would ‘She was my Queen, and I want
we’ve got sausage rolls, and we’ve Tim Thompson, 35, from New we didn’t expect it to be three do that”. Everybody thinks I’m to pay my respects to her. There is
got some gin now the whisky’s run Brunswick in Canada, and Charlie months later.’ crazy, but I managed five-and-a- no way I wouldn’t be here.’
out – we’re chipper.’ Shirley, 36, from north London, Mr Thompson said: ‘I keep four half hours of uninterrupted sleep
Miss Manning, a retired waitress, also slept in a tent on the Mall. days’ holiday a year for royal on my first night camping out here,
added: ‘My kids said we were mad. The pair became friends after sit- events, so I had to be here.’ so I’m fine.’
Well, “mental” is the word they ting next to each other for William American businesswoman Nicole Semi-retired teacher Ian Rhodes,

BBC powers funeral coverage Black hats shortage as demand

with eco-friendly veggie oil rockets – and even Beatrice is hit

THE BBC’s massive broadcasting opera- By Imogen Horton and Paul Revoir PRINCESS Beatrice was turned away By Rebecca English Royal Editor
tion at the Queen’s funeral will be fuelled empty-handed from a top store amid a
by eco-friendly vegetable oil. airs from 8am to 5pm, so high-quality shortage of black hats in London. most of London’s top stores have now
footage is preserved for archives. sold out of suitable headwear.
Generators providing electricity for the Demand soared after little more than a
corporation’s 213 cameras at the event Huw Edwards and Fergal Keane will week’s notice was given of the day of the Beatrice had no luck at Fenwick of Bond
will be run on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil present the BBC’s coverage from London funeral, making the black ‘pill box’ one Street last week. A source said: ‘There
(HVO), which emits far fewer carbon while Kirsty Young and David Dimbleby of London’s most sought-after items. was nothing on the shop floor or even in
emissions than regular generator diesel. will be based in Windsor. the stockroom they could give her.
Official invitations require women
The BBC will also save power by using Sophie Raworth will report from Parlia- among the 2,000-plus guests to wear ‘One customer was so desperate she
energy-saving LED lighting in its studios ment Square and Anita Rani from the hats and decorations. Many attending bought a very expensive black hat with
in London and Windsor. Long Walk at Windsor, while JJ Chalmers have flown in from abroad and assumed little crystals that she intends to cut off
will be stationed at Wellington Barracks they could buy one with no problem but to meet the dress code.’
Cameras that film in Ultra High Defini- in Westminster.
tion will be used for the coverage, which

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 19

Queen carved out
her own role in a
male-dominated

world, says
Camilla

THe Queen Consort has By Jim Norton Heart-felt: her mother-in-law was broadcast a rule that she had her private
told of her admiration Camilla in shortly before the national time and her private passions and
for how the Queen carved the day I got married when I prob- last night’s minute’s silence at 8pm. then her public role and I think
out her own role as a ably wasn’t firing on all cylinders, televised that is very important that the
‘solitary woman’ in a male- quite nervous and, for some tribute to the She said: ‘[The Queen] has been diary is planned out so you know
dominated world. unknown reason, I put on a pair of Queen and, part of our lives forever. I’m 75 now when you’re on duty and when
shoes and one had an inch heel right, with Her and I can’t remember anybody you’ve got to do things.
In a televised tribute broad- and one had a two-inch heel. Majesty after except the Queen being there.
cast last night, Camilla marrying ‘Then when she went up to Scot-
remembered her mother-in- ‘So, I mean talk about hop-a-long Charles in 2005 ‘It must have been so difficult for land in August, that was the
law’s ‘wonderful blue eyes’ and and there’s nothing I could do. her being a solitary woman, and moment where it was her enjoy-
‘unforgettable’ smile. I was halfway down in the car daughter-in-law and Charles when there weren’t women prime minis- ment. Although, she was probably
before I realised and she could see he became King. Camilla had ters or women presidents. working, with her red boxes
But she also noted how ‘difficult’ and laughed about it and said, been blamed for the breakdown of throughout, she could have her
it must have been as a female head “Look I’m terribly sorry”... she did her husband’s first marriage to ‘She was the only one, so I think family to stay, she could do the
of state at such a young age have a good sense of humour.’ Diana, Princess of Wales, but the she carved her own role. She made things she loved.
when there were no women prime public mood towards her has
ministers or presidents. Camilla also said: ‘[The Queen’s] since softened. ‘Her real passion was racing. She
got those wonderful blue eyes that was able to escape to Sandring-
Her heartfelt tribute – recorded when she smiles, they light up After marrying Charles in 2005, ham. She had the stud next door.
earlier in the summer – revealed her whole face. I’ll always remem- she has slowly taken on more royal She could go every day, see her
how the Queen worked hard to ber that smile... that smile duties, including sitting next to the foals, work out the next meetings
keep her public role and private is unforgettable.’ Queen during her Diamond Jubilee for the year. I think she always
passions separate. carriage procession in 2012. kept that as her private bit.
On the eve of her Platinum Jubi-
It was her escapes to Balmoral lee in February, Queen elizabeth II The Queen Consort’s tribute to ‘You wouldn’t dare question her
and Sandringham that gave her had endorsed the then Duchess of or argue with her on how her
huge enjoyment, she said, allowing Cornwall as ‘Queen Consort’ for horse was bred or how it ran
the Queen to have family members when the time of succession came. because you’d get a very steely
to stay and ‘do the things blue-eyed look.’
she loved’. Hoping to ensure as smooth a
transition as possible, she called
She told of her love of horse rac- on the public to back both her
ing – and the steely glare one would
receive if they dared question her Support grows for annual Elizabeth Day
on how to look after her studs.
CALLS are growing for an annual bank holiday to port when Parliament resumes this week. Histo-
Paying tribute to her ‘good sense celebrate the memory of Queen Elizabeth II. rian and broadcaster Dan Snow backed the cam-
of humour’, she also described how paign, saying: ‘We haven’t always been great as a
the Queen had once found it highly Campaigners, historians and MPs have added country at celebrating what binds us together.
amusing when, in a fit of nerves on their support alongside a 140,000-strong This is a moment to change that and create a day
the day of her wedding to the then petition. Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan that will represent the principles of together-
Prince of Wales, Camilla had left Smith has lobbied Downing Street, declaring it a ness and service that Her Majesty personified.’
for the church in odd shoes with ‘brilliant idea’, and plans to rally cross-party sup-
different sized heels.

Speaking to the BBC, she said: ‘I
remember coming from here,
Clarence House, to go to Windsor

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After six days, end

Picture: TREVOR ADAMS

By Izzy Lyons

Mourners scrambled to be
among the last to see the Queen’s
coffin last night as the public fare-
well to Her Majesty came to an end.
Desperate well-wishers piled into
southwark Park in south-east London
and headed towards Westminster on
the last day of the lying-in-state, which
closed at 6.30 this morning.
Despite suggestions that the queue would
close early yesterday afternoon, thousands
of panicked mourners rushed down the
banks of the Thames after 7pm to pay their
respects to Her Majesty.
They were seen running towards Tower
Bridge as word continued to spread that the
queue would be closed imminently. Cheers of ‘Monday the 19th of September
‘we made it!’ rang out as the mourners col- 2022 will forever be etched
lected their prized wristbands and started on my memory’
the long journey towards Westminster Hall. Last-minute dash: A single mourner, top, at the Tower Bridge end of the queue yesterday
Above: The line earlier in the week, when waiting times had reached nearly 24 hours sprung up near Buckingham Pal-
on their way, many were greeted ace after Green Park was closed
by former home secretary Priti yesterday to stop crowds from
Patel, who was a volunteer mar- back of the queue. But more than got to Waterloo Bridge and it was to miss it. I could have joined overwhelming stewards. When the
shal near Waterloo Bridge. six hours later, streams of deter- a four-hour wait away and if I where I dropped out at Waterloo park’s gates closed at 1.30pm,
mined mourners were still descend- didn’t go then I wouldn’t be able but I didn’t want to queue-jump thousands of mourners hoping to
The queue, dubbed the elizabeth ing on southwark Park. to take him to university, and just because I waited seven hours lay flowers joined an unofficial line
line, had waiting times of between that’s so important,’ she said. before. so I have started from the hoping that it would reopen.
nine and 14 hours on its last day as The experience was so popular beginning of it. I am doing it
vast numbers of the public refused that some decided to do it more ‘But I am ready to queue again, because as a little girl in Ireland, st John Ambulance offered medi-
to be put off. than once. for 14 hours this time. As I was all I can remember is watching cal support to 259 people in the
driving round the M25, coming Charles marry Diana. queue on saturday. overall, 403
The historic event is expected to Philomena Groome, 56, rushed back from stoke - on-Trent, I people in the ‘ceremonial areas’ in
have attracted bigger crowds than towards the end of the line yester- thought, I have to do it again. ‘I was very lucky back in 1989 to London needed medical support
day to queue for the second time. and nine were taken to hospital.
The Irish-born nurse queued for ‘I could hear them on the radio be sponsored by The Prince’s
seven hours on Friday but had to saying don’t leave home, they are Trust to set up a balloon company
drop out to take her 19-year-old son considering closing the queue. I and I ran in for 26 years.’
‘I thought, to university in stoke-on-Trent. ‘I panicked and thought I was going A second hours-long queue

I have to Queue here for a rather
do it again’ unlikely royal romance

the 301,000 who viewed the lying- WITH all those hours waiting to pay likened online to Richard Curtis’s Queue Actually: Jack Ciuro and Zoe will watch today’s
in-state for George VI in 1952. respects to Her Majesty, sparks were 2003 rom-com Love Actually, with funeral in London together to be a ‘part of history’
bound to fly. social media users nicknaming their
Pop star James Blunt, 48, was meeting ‘Queue Actually’.
there yesterday with his wife sofia That’s exactly what happened for
Wellesley, 39, the granddaughter of Jack Ciuro and Zoe who hit it off in Asked if they would stay in touch,
the 8th Duke of Wellington. Blunt the five-mile queue on Saturday. Zoe told Channel4 News: ‘Yeah, 100
became friends with Prince Harry per cent.’ Jack added: ‘We’re going
after they both served in The Despite the solemnity of the to the funeral together on Monday.’
Household Cavalry. He also stood occasion, Zoe said meeting Jack, a
guard at the coffin of the Queen graduate sports therapist, was a ‘It’s going to be mixed emotions,’
Mother in 2002. ‘blessing in disguise’ as they Zoe said. ‘It’s something that is part
entertained each other with ‘crisps, of history so we want to be there
At noon yesterday, the Depart- stories, having laughs and banter’. and share that moment with
ment for Culture, Media and sport someone else.’
issued the first of several warnings Their budding romance has been
urging people not to set off for the

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 21

of Elizabeth line

In his Cub’s cap,
boy of 8 who was
the last in queue
to see George VI

A place in history: Mickey Bran sleeps in the line to see the King

By Ryan Hooper

CLOAKED in an enormous blanket and security.’ Mr Bran said he and wife Royal ties: don Fire Brigade, including meeting the
dutifully ready to remove his Cub’s cap, Brenda would have loved to have joined Mickey Bran in Queen in 1977. Mr Bran, inset, who has
eight-year-old Mickey Bran earned a the queue again to see the Queen lying 1952, above and
minor place in royal history as the last in state, but he could not because of a far left, and in two daughters, two grandsons and
person in the queue to see King George VI long-standing knee injury which 1977 with the two step-granddaughters, said:
lying in state. required major surgery at the week- Queen, left ‘When I joined the Navy, I
pledged my allegiance to the
Now, 70 years on, Mr Bran remembers end. ‘And I would have been up there Queen and the country.
the occasion with a heavy heart. for the funeral, but I just can’t ‘And even when I served in the
do it,’ he said. Mr Bran had several fire service, we met the Queen
‘It was daunting,’ the 78-year-old mili- brushes with royalty during his and Duke of Edinburgh then. It
tary veteran said from his home in Gos- 12 years in the Royal Navy and means a lot to me, the Royal
port, Hampshire, after being tracked 19 years working for the Lon- Family. Seeing the coffin
down by the Daily Mail. in the hall again, it
really gets to you.’
‘I walked into Westminster Hall and had
never seen anything like it before in my
life. And I never thought I’d see it again.
But now we’ve seen it on a TV and it brings
back memories.’

Mr Bran said he was in the queue on
February 15, 1952, with his father Bernard
to pay his respects when he was
approached by the press.

‘The Press came up and they wanted
somebody to go through last and make a
story of it, so that was me.’

Mr Bran, who grew up in Colliers Wood,
south London, said he spent around two
hours waiting before he filed silently in to
see the coffin.

‘It was all different in those days –
there were a couple of policemen,
nobody was armed, there wasn’t all this

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Royal staff For years, he’s been a half-hearted monarchist.
upset as
celebs and But after queueing for 11 hours to pay his respects,
MPs beat
the queue PETER HITCHENS had a powerful epiphany
I saw the glory
By Rebecca English of nations, the
Royal Editor by PETER

JunIor members of the royal house- majesty ofHITCHENS
hold have been left ‘upset and disap-
pointed’ at not being able to see the suppose that I had
Queen lying in state.
death and itsmore or less taken leave
Her staff say it is a ‘kick in stomach’ that
Mps have been allowed to jump ahead of of my senses as I set
the queue – and take four guests with them out for Bermondsey on
– when many of those who served her loyally
for years have not even been able to pay I saturday afternoon to
their respects.
queue for the Queen’s
There has also been much criticism of television
presenters phillip schofield and Holly Willoughby inevitability,lying-in-state.
using a priority media queue to view Her The decision was a mixture of
Majesty’s coffin. bravado, instinct and careful
plotting. Hoping to evade various the distillation
‘They have the same Queen as everyone else. It’s bans and restrictions, I had turned
pretty galling to see some people being given pri- my old waxed jacket into an item of
ority over others,’ a source told the Daily Mail. luggage, its huge pockets stuffed
with books, in case of boredom, and
The 650 Mps were permitted to jump ahead of weighed down with a phone bank
the 14-hour public queue, as well as members of and a wriggling mass of wires,
the House of Lords. Jacob rees-Mogg was seen because my mobile would certainly of 1,000 years
accompanied by three of his young children last go flat on me during the long night.
week using the ‘fast track’ system, as was former
prime minister Theresa May and deputy Labour Before setting off, I wolfed a
leader Angela rayner. bacon cheeseburger in the (correct)
belief that I would then not feel
some parliamentary staff were also permitted hungry for hours. Thirst would be a

different problem.
Why was I doing this? As a

monarchist, I am cool to the point of
chilliness, with no special love for

of kingship, stillIwasdamned
if I was going to

astonishinglymiss this moment
alive in an age
Criticised: Holly Willoughby and Phillip the actual Windsor family. I have
Schofield used a priority media queue never owned a Coronation mug.

to beat the crowds. However, it was pointed out It is more or less pure reason,
that cleaners and security guards who work in combined with the joyful duty of
parliament had been told to queue as they are defeating republicans in argument,
employed by contractors. which causes me to rally to Crown
and sceptre. But I was damned if I which neither
The House of Commons said priority lay with was going to miss this and so spend
the public. In a statement, it said: ‘It is not the rest of my life wishing I had
possible to open up further access (for staffers) been there.
without the risk of impacting access for queueing
members of the public.’ I have been at some odd events —
from the Grosvenor square rally
royal sources told the Mail that the 1,200 plus against the Vietnam War in 1968, to
royal staff who worked for the Queen, many of several mighty convulsions in the understands
whom who have been on duty since she died, famous and beautiful cities of east-
would have appreciated the chance to pay ern europe, as Communism fell.
their respects.
But I had envied, for almost
The Queen’s lying-in-state closed at 6.30am this 60 years, those who had been in per-
morning to prepare for the funeral procession. It son to see the mighty ceremonies
is particularly galling as staff working at both of farewell to sir Winston Churchill,
Buckingham palace and Clarence House now the funeral of the British empire and
face redundancy because of the change in reign. — until now — the greatest such nor much likes it
event to take place in my life.
Another source said: ‘There are a lot of people,
particularly at Her Majesty’s estates, who have And here I was, with the chance of
been dealing with household matters or marshal- passing through Westminster Hall
ling the public wanting to come and lay tributes, and seeing the coffin of the Queen
that haven’t been able to pay their own respects. guarded with the last splendours of
our ancient, troubled kingdom.
‘It’s definitely left a bad taste in their mouths, It was not just that I might
especially when many of them have served her never see such a thing again of our tradition they may on workful missions, feeling p o w e r o f i t s a n c i e n t
loyalty and are now facing redundancy through while I live. It was that nobody devour and destroy. that I was too insignificant to architecture, or the lingering
no fault of their own.’ might ever see it again at all, Goodness, Westminster Hall be allowed in. echoes of our nation’s long and
as the pestilent modernisers is perhaps the most astonishing I had never yet seen anything often bloody struggle to be
However, palace sources stressed there had and reformers prowl round, room in england. I have happen there that even began sovereign and free — echoes
been ‘several opportunities’ for staff members to seeking which remaining parts scurried through it many times to equal or deserve the sheer that are to be found there on
pay their respects to the Queen.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 23

The final splendour: In solemn silence, the public file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state in Westminster Hall Pictures: REUTERS/HANNAH McKAY/YUIMOK/PA WIRE

of companion pilgrims with they agreed. Soon afterwards, I
whom I was destined to spend wondered if I had in fact died and
the next 11 hours. gone to Hell, which I have always
thought was the origin of all
Thank heavens for them, a b u r e a u c r a c y, q u e u e i n g a n d
delightful reminder of how many jobsworthery. Surely a modern
sensible, funny, knowledgeable, Hell is far more likely to involve
helpful people we have in this being in a queue where your
country; the sort who somehow destination never gets any closer,
never seem to get near the seats than a place of medieval demons
of power. The pleasure of their and unquenchable fire?
company made the long hours of
marching, trudging and simply And yet it was a day of great
standing about pass far more b e a u t y, w i t h t h e t i d e a t f u l l
quickly than I could have imagined. flood and the Thames looking as
lovely as I have seen it in my life,
We laughed at in the heartbreaking light of
ourselves and late September that conjures up
memory more than any other
each other sort of weather.

I hardly found time to read the And every so often we would all
books I had brought with me. pause and consider our object;
We laughed a lot, as British remember why we had come.
Long wait: Rows of fences help to manage the large numbers of people waiting to pay their respects people do, at ourselves and each Mainly it was because we knew
we would not afterwards be able
quiet days and especially late at as ‘zig-zagging’ but it is not. be urged into another of these other and at the absurdity of life. to bear it if we had not done so.
night. But the death of a monarch, Zig-zagging would have been much peculiar corrals, trudging up and We gave each other food, bought Whether it was pilgrimage,
and the solemn commemoration more sensible, as it would at least down past each other, in opposite coffee and tea for each other, demonstration or mourning I am
of it, that might measure up. have involved some serious directions, seeing the same faces sniggered as we were yet again not sure, but it was a privilege to
forward motion. over and over again. (Who was the barked at by some fluorescent be part of it.
Anyway, there I was in South- woman with silver stars painted patrolman or patrolwoman to
wark Park at 2pm, crazily putting As it was, the system, having on her face? I must have passed ‘keep to the right’, as if it even And then at last, at around
myself at the mercy of whatever begun by making us walk even her at least 60 times. But too fast mattered slightly. 12.40 am, all ‘security’ was at an
fiendish mind devised the system further away from Westminster to start a conversation.) end. There were no more barking
of queueing for the lying-in-state. than we already were, now com- We would all have got there officials, just the silent courtesy
pelled us to get there as if we were Whether they were trying to quite easily without any of this o f We s t m i n s t e r ’ s o w n f r o c k-
By great good luck, there was no crustaceans, or some other crea- waste our time or to exhaust us bossiness, and much quicker, too. coated guardians, guiding us
queue for the queue when I arrived, ture which enjoys going sideways. into weary submission, I have I can say now it is all over that the gently and without a word into the
yet I and hundreds of others were, no idea, but at least it helped to wristband I was compelled to wear final splendour.
even so, compelled to take part in Every time we appeared to be bond me with the small group — supposedly the key to getting
a sort of Alice-in-Wonderland making good progress, we would into the Houses of Parliament — Did I see, or much care about,
lunatics’ quadrille. was never once properly examined the crown, the orb and sceptre?
It is hard to describe, but we by any of the ‘security’ staff. Could I follow the elaborate steel
were forced by rows of fences to At one point, as we were being ballet of the changing of the guard
force-marched between fences yet around the catafalque which I was
The company of my fellow pilgrimswalk at speed back and forth more privileged to see? Not really.
than 20 times over a piece of again, I said to my companions
ground we could have crossed in that I had completely forgotten I saw instead the glory of nations
what I had come there for, and and their passing, the majesty of
made the hours pass far more quickly30 seconds. This is officially known death and its inevitability, the
distillation of 1,000 years of king-
ship, still astonishingly alive in an
age that neither understands nor
much likes it. And I held my breath,
bowed my head, crossed myself
and walked out into the peaceful
night with one backward glance.

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He’s travelled the length Sept 9 London: Viewing the tributes
and breadth of his new outside Buckingham Palace the
day after the Queen’s death

kingdom — covering a

breathtaking 1,900 miles —

since his beloved mother

died. Here we chart...

Charles’s
first ten
gruelling
days as
the King

by INDERDEEP
BAINS

Deputy Chief Reporter

OVER the past ten days King Charles III has led the
country in mourning and travelled some 1,900 miles as the
new monarch – all while grieving his ‘darling mama’.
His demanding schedule has seen him journey from castle to
cathedral, and walkabout to reception, in more than 30 engage-
ments across the land since the Queen’s death.
And even yesterday as he prepared to bury his mother, the King was
working until the last moment on the eve of her funeral.
After holding meetings with Prime Minister Liz Truss and leaders of
the realms, His Majesty last night hosted a huge official state reception
at Buckingham Palace. He welcomed world leaders and foreign royals
who had arrived to pay their respects to the late Queen.
Accompanied by senior working royals, His Majesty hosted VIPS
including US President Joe Biden and Canadian premier Justin Tru-
deau late into the evening. It was the last
of his engagements ahead of the funeral.
Those engagements were laid out long nied by Camilla, the Queen Consort. In moments before she passed away. With
between his duties as the new monarch, little time to reflect, the very next day he
ago in a detailed ten-day plan for the he has led the Royal Family in honouring was in London to meet the Prime Minster
aftermath of the Queen’s death. Code- before being proclaimed King.
named London Bridge, the operation fea- the Queen in a string of ceremonial events
tured dozens of events marking the fare- watched by the world. He then flew to Edinburgh to lead his
well to the Queen as well as the King’s The meticulously-timed strategy was siblings in a poignant funeral procession
accession to the throne. put into action with the words ‘London along the Royal Mile, followed by a serv-
Little could have prepared the King for Bridge is down’ when the Queen died on ice and vigil. Here he began his tour of the
such an emotional and exhausting sched- September 8. nations visiting Scottish Parliament,
ule. The past week has seen His Majesty Charles rushed some 150 miles from meeting the First Minister and attending
dash around on a tour through Scotland, Dumfries House in Cumnock to Balmoral a reception.
Northern Ireland and Wales, accompa- to be by his mother’s side in the precious
The next day, accompanied by the

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Sept 12 Edinburgh: Leading the Sept 13 Northern Ireland: Greeted by members of the public
vigil at St Giles’ Cathedral including a woman with a pet corgi named Connie

Sept 17 London: Chatting with people in the queue near Lambeth Bridge to see the Queen lying in state

HIS MAJESTY’S RELENTLESS SCHEDULE AS HE MOURNED HIS MOTHER

1 Sept 8 The then 4 Sept 11 Remains and attend a reception. Buckingham Palace to 100 miles
Prince of Wales rushed at the Palace where Later that evening Westminster Hall.
more than 150 miles he hosts high he returns to lead the Balmoral 2 Aberdeen
from Dumfries House commissioners from the vigil over the Queen’s Attends service airport
in Cumnock to Balmoral Commonwealth. coffin at St Giles’. followed by vigil Dumfries 5
to be by his mother’s with siblings. House 1 Edinburgh
side as she passed 5 Sept 12 He attends 6 Sept 13 The King
away. engagements at leaves Edinburgh for Travels to Highgrove Belfast
Westminster Hall Belfast where he is in Gloucestershire. 6
2 Sept 9 His Majesty before travelling to driven to Hillsborough
then travelled from Edinburgh airport. Castle. 8 Sept 15 Day of rest. Hillsborough
Aberdeen airport to Castle
London to meet From here he drives to Engagements include 9 Sept 16 Travels to
Liz Truss at the Palace of meeting leaders, Cardiff via helicopter Highgrove RAF
Buckingham Palace. Holyroodhouse where a walkabout and from Highgrove to 98 Northolt
he takes part in the attending a reception. conclude tour of nations Cardiff
3 Sept 10 Charles III is procession along the visiting Llandaff London
proclaimed King at St Royal Mile and the Returns to RAF Northolt Cathedral and Welsh 34
James’s Palace. thanksgiving service at in time to meet the Parliament.
St Giles’. Queen’s coffin after it 5 7 10
He later hosts the arrives by air. 10 Sept 17
Archbishop of He later drives to Back in London
Canterbury at Scottish Parliament to 7 Sept 14 Leads foot to greet mourners
Buckingham Palace. meet the first minister procession from in the queue.

Queen Consort, he embarked on play of homage to the late Queen moment of pause. While the King public duties with his crucial first filling such duties unfathomable
the second leg of the tour, flying to during a majestic procession. did retire to Highgrove House in visit to Wales as King on Friday. after losing a parent. He added:
Belfast airport. Gloucestershire on Wednesday Travelling to Cardiff via helicopter ‘The courage of him doing that is
Watched the world over, the new night, he spent his brief respite from Highgrove he visited Llandaff extraordinary but also it demon-
He was driven to Hillsborough monarch marched behind her cof- from public duties working on rela- Cathedral and Welsh Parliament strates his... service to the people.’
Castle to meet Northern Ireland’s fin followed by his siblings and his tions with world leaders. before returning to London.
leaders before rushing back to sons, delivering his mother to the One source close to the King told
London in time to receive the care of the nation for four days He devoted most of Thursday to The Archbishop of Canterbury the Daily Mail: ‘The last few days
Queen’s coffin, which landed at lying-in-state. speaking with more than eight last week paid tribute to King have blown even us away. His
RAF Northolt at 7pm on Tuesday. presidents and governor generals Charles’s ‘extraordinary courage’ stamina has been astonishing and
On the seventh day, a break from and was said to have made calls in the wake of the Queen’s death. the fact that he has been able to do
The next day in London’s first big the demanding ceremonial events late into the evening. it all while grieving his mother is
ceremonial event, King Charles led was set aside in Operation London The Most Rev Justin Welby said just remarkable. He is a fine man.’
the Royal Family in a public dis- Bridge to give the monarch a The next day he quickly resumed the average person would find ful-

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COMMENT Look at all the leaders
at today’s funeral and
Last sad farewell for try telling me we’re the
a truly global Queen paltry little country our
bien pensant detractors
IT IS fashionable among the liberal elite to would have us believe
depict Britain as a country of waning power
and influence, sliding inexorably into the S O THE day has by Stephen national stage just now — as
wings of the world stage. come. A day of Glover their version of Britain has
mourning and been challenged by events.
This miserabilist movement, with Labour sadness. But also monarch of an insignificant with Irish republicanism)
and the BBC inevitably at its vanguard, of hope. country, however singular and unveiled a banner that They will of course be back
claims the UK is a spent force – a sickly It’s reckoned that about four long-lived she might have was offensive to the Royal with their noisy certainties
international actor living off memories of been? I don’t think so. Family before a Scottish once today’s affecting scenes
its imperial past. The extraordinary global billion people will tune into the Premiership game against St have passed and begin to fade
reaction to Queen Elizabeth II’s death has Queen’s funeral. Tens of Look at the presidents, Mirren. There are thugs and in the public mind. But will
exposed that notion as pure bunkum. millions of Britons will watch monarchs, prime ministers and halfwits everywhere. they be so powerful in the
the proceedings in Westmin- emperors who have flown from foreseeable future?
If Britain truly is slipping into irrelevance, ster Abbey, the procession, all corners of the world for The fact remains that the
why is the late monarch being near- and the committal in Windsor. today’s funeral. Of course they monarchy is one institution There is a final myth which I
universally mourned? If we are merely are honouring the Queen, but that remains genuinely British. think will be undermined by
some dwindling second-rate state, how The pomp and ceremony will they are also acknowledging It has enormous power to hold the Queen’s funeral and the
come the world’s leaders have flocked to move countless hearts. This is the importance of the country us together despite the efforts service in Windsor. This is that
London to attend her state funeral today? a State occasion, which will over which she ruled. of the likes of First Minister we live in an utterly godless
probably surpass in solemnity Nicola Sturgeon to tear us society. Admittedly, it’s not a
The greatest gathering of kings, queens, and magnificence Winston I don’t want to sound apart. I am sure King Charles belief confined to the
presidents and prime ministers ever seen Churchill’s funeral in 1965. But vainglorious but I don’t believe understands this very well. progressive intelligentsia.
will join the 2,000-strong congregation for it is also a Christian service for the death of a distinguished
the solemn service in Westminster Abbey. a deeply Christian monarch. monarch in any other European No, what has happened over Much has been written in
nation — and there are several the past few days suggests to recent days about the Queen’s
Royalist or republican, democrat or Who could have dreamt less — would attract so huge a me that Britain isn’t the sense of duty. What has
despot, every head of state has been than a fortnight ago that it throng of respectful leaders. irrevocably broken, paltry little perhaps been partly missed is
clamouring for invitations. Inclusion is a would turn out like this? For it country that its bien pensant the source of her lifelong
mark of international status. seems to me that in the days Another piece of accepted detractors would have us service. For her it was
following Queen Elizabeth’s wisdom shoved down our believe. Alas, some sensible undoubtedly God.
The impact of Her Majesty’s passing is death one myth after another throats is that the United people may have been
seismic. The global grieving has easily has been exploded. Kingdom is inevitably influenced against their own Grief
eclipsed that which accompanied the fracturing. Here I shall be better judgment by this
deaths of such towering international Today the received wisdom cautious since I certainly don’t false depiction. This is what the Queen said
figures as Winston Churchill, John F that Britain is an entirely believe that the Queen’s death in one Christmas broadcast,
Kennedy and Nelson Mandela. secular country will be chal- has miraculously restored old Look instead at the tens of and it was surely written by
lenged. Even people who don’t bonds which Westminster, and thousands who have waited for her own hand: ‘For me the
The reality, invariably overlooked by those regard themselves as religious other, politicians have done up to 20 hours to catch a teachings of Christ and my
who delight in running the country down, may feel themselves touched much to loosen. fleeting glimpse of the Queen’s own personal accountability
is that the Queen is revered across the by the sacred and divine. coffin in Westminster Hall. before God provide a
planet – from the tiny Pitcairn Islands to But the mourning in all four How often are such people framework in which I try to
the sands of Arabia. Her long reign reads Honouring nations of the Kingdom has taken account of by elites who lead my life.’
like a travelogue. She visited more than 100 been heartfelt. In Scotland, have been adept at seizing
countries and hosted upwards of 150 state The myth that people have which is allegedly on an inexo- hold of our national narrative? Some critics may scoff at the
visits – a successful, often history-making, no time for pageantry in a rable path to independence, idea that a hugely rich woman
exercise in diplomacy and ‘soft power’. utilitarian age has also been the Queen’s death was felt Patriotic with several palaces at her dis-
confounded. The processions, quite as deeply as in England. posal could really follow the
To many around the world, the Queen’s music, uniforms and meticu- Doubtless there were tourists teachings of Jesus, who said
core values – duty, responsibility, self- lous marching have helped to In most of Scotland, the and others in what may have that it was easier for a camel to
discipline and self-sacrifice – are indivisible re-connect us to a largely Queen was evidently regarded been the world’s longest queue pass through the eye of a
from those that Britain represents. forgotten past, and to revive as their sovereign, not an who wanted to be present needle than for a rich man to
our sense of nationhood. import from south of the when history was made, and enter the kingdom of heaven.
A predicted global TV audience of four border. This, of course, is good luck to them.
billion will watch her funeral – around half How they must be gritting correct since the union of the But she could, and she did,
the planet’s population. That is testament their teeth in the progressive two crowns pre-dates by more But I suspect that most of because she wasn’t corrupted
to the huge esteem held overseas for our fiefdoms of our land! There will than 100 years the political them were patriotic Britons, of by great riches, which I think
monarchy, traditions and principles. be forlorn faces in parts of the union of the two countries. all ages and from many diverse was the danger Christ was
BBC (though our State communities, who were united warning against. She used
Whatever the naysayers claim, Britain broadcaster has, almost Granted, there have been a in their love for the Queen, and her worldly position to bring
punches well above its weight geopolitically, despite itself, provided few discordant voices. There their respect for the monarchy. about the innumerable ‘small
economically and culturally. outstanding coverage), in was a smattering of anti- I noticed many crossed them- acts of goodness’ to which
many of our universities, at monarchist jeers among selves on passing the coffin. she referred in another
To Ukraine, who we have given military enlightened newspapers, and Dundee United fans on Satur- Christmas message.
and financial support in their existential in Corbynista strongholds. It day at a football match against As I say, enlightened types
battle against Russia, or the flood-ravaged wasn’t meant to be like this. Rangers, a team regarded as may have been quietly cursing She was fallible and human,
people of Pakistan, where we have sent staunchly unionist. over the past ten days — too of course she was, but she set
vast amounts of aid to help them rebuild, Another commonplace wary, for the most part, to out to live the Christian life.
this country is anything but an irrelevance. trumpeted by our largely left- Yesterday some Celtic fans express their distaste on the And that, I hope, will be what
ist intelligentsia is that post- (whose club is often identified she hands on in her funeral
In their eyes and those of countless other imperial Britain is a small today. My own grief will be
nations, we remain a shining beacon of island, rendered even more DOMINIC LAWSON IS AWAY partly stemmed by the thought
hope, democracy, freedom and friendship. irrelevant by the supposed that such a devout person can
idiocies of Brexit. That precon- have had little fear of death.
But today the curtain falls on the ception has also been routed
Elizabethan Age. We will say a final, by the events of recent days. Tomorrow will be another
sorrowful farewell to the only monarch day. Life will appear to return
most of us have ever known. Would four billion people — to its rough-and-ready self.
or whatever the number may But, in more ways than one,
Up to two million will line the streets of be — interrupt their routines Queen Elizabeth’s death has
London for perhaps the most spellbinding to watch the obsequies of the taught us to look at ourselves
spectacle in this island’s recent history. in another way.

The magnificent pomp and pageantry of
the ceremonies will surely take the breath
away of even the most cynical republican.

This will be a fitting farewell for a monarch
who guided the nation through 70 turbulent
years with deftness, courage and wisdom.

More than any of her predecessors, she
won her subjects’ hearts through unflagging
hard work and quiet, sober simplicity.

That has been reflected in the remarkable
stream of humanity that has braved long
queues and chilly weather to pay tribute at
her lying-in-state. Also in the impeccably
observed minute’s silence last night.

Amid all the splendour and majesty of the
occasion, however, it is important not to
forget that a family is bereaved.

King Charles said in a poignant message
last night that he was ‘moved beyond
measure’ by the outpouring of grief and
affection for his ‘dear mother’. It had, he
said, been a ‘support and comfort’.

His first days as sovereign have – fountain
pen mishaps aside – been pitch-perfect. If
he follows his mother’s example in the
future, he’ll be a worthy successor indeed.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 27

by JANE
FRYER

With the state funeral of Pictures: GETTY/ BRIDGEMAN IMAGES
our beloved Queen upon
us, King Charles and his
fractured family will be
bracing themselves for
one more show of solidarity. A
united front before the cameras.
A new beginning, we all hope and
pray, for the house of Windsor.
Which is more than can be hoped for the
beleaguered Spanish royal family, for
whom the funeral has caused a right old Tricky: Juan Carlos with
logistical hoo-ha.
the late Queen in Spain.
in short: King Juan Carlos i Inset, his ex-lover Corinna

— Spain’s disgraced former sexual iceberg. in his book, Juan that later emerged — and are hunting trips he loved so much. he Eyad Kayali, a Syrian-
monarch who abdicated in Carlos i: the King Of 5,000 Lovers, covered in the hBO series in foren- particularly enjoyed shooting bears Spanish businessman.
2014 and, since 2020, has been Spanish author Amadeo Martinez sic detail — were just too much. — in 2004, he killed nine in central
living in the UAE in self- ingles claims the king had Romania, one of which was Yet the damage was
62 lovers in a one six-month stint there was also a corruption pregnant. But it was an elephant- done — the cost was twice
As Spain’s former monarch isimposed exile under a cloud ofalone and, during his ‘passionateinvestigation over vast sums ofshooting trip in Botswana, in 2012, the average salary in
period’, between 1976 and 1994, money gifted by Saudi Arabia, all accompanied by his lover, that Spain at a time of terrible
shame — has accepted an slept with 2,154 women. sloshing around in obscure Swiss eventually did for him. recession and 50 per cent
invitation to today’s service. bank accounts, but the case was unemployment among
Most shocking, in evidence given eventually dropped. his daughter’s the trip only became public the young. And the ensu-
sued by an ex-mistress over aBut so has his estranged sonto a parliamentary hearing in 2021,husband, inaki Urdangarin, wasafter he broke his hip and had to ing backlash marked the
ex-police chief Jose Manuel sentenced to almost six years in be flown home for treatment. end of any leeway he’d
and successor, King Felipe Vi, Villarejo claimed that the former prison on charges including graft, Officials were at pains to insist been given by the media.
and his wife Queen Letizia. king had been given testosterone tax evasion, and embezzlement. that the estimated £35,000 cost of
blockers by the Spanish secret the trip had not been met by the two years later, to save
Which all presents more than service after his libido was Not forgetting those horrible — taxpayer, but by Mohamed the monarchy and citing
categorised as a ‘state problem’. and horribly expensive — big-game personal reasons, he abdi-
£50m ‘gift’, after tax scandals andjust a tricky seating arrange- cated in favour of his son,
if philandering had been his only who acceded to the throne
ment issue for those in charge fault, however, the Spanish people as Felipe Vi — taking an
at Westminster Abbey. indeed, might have been able to simply unkind swipe at Prince
put it down to him being a sex Charles on the way out.
affairs with thousands of lovers . . .an eyebrow or two has beenaddict and turn a blind eye.
‘We do not want my son
raised at the decision to invite But the murky financial dealings to wither waiting like
Juan Carlos at all, regardless Prince Charles,’ snapped
of his status as distant cousin the departing King.
of the late Queen.
the shame, of course, is
the 84-year-old former king that Juan Carlos could
has spent the past few years have gone down in history
as a great leader and
Disgracedsteeped in scandals involving visionary. in the early days
of his reign, he had been
everything from a tax rumpus revered for his role in the
to accepting kickbacks, country’s transition to
accusations of embezzlement democracy and restoring
and rumours of extremely the monarchy, overseeing
energetic philandering. a period of change and
development for Spain.
Even now, he’s limbering up
for a hearing in London’s high Ut his need for
Court, where he’s being sued power, money and
women got the
KING OF THEby a former mistress, the better of him.
he’d been born in exile
impossibly glamorous blonde in italy where his grandfa-
German-Danish aristocrat ther Alfonso Xiii had fled
Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein- in 1931 and only arrived in
Sayn, 58, who claims he intimi- Spain when he was nine
dated and threatened her in years old and Franco was
the hope of persuading her to in power. Back then, there
return a £50million ‘gift’. Some- were no great riches or
thing he strenuously denies. fancy trappings.
he was also a bit of a
On top of that, a new three- loner, struggled with
dyslexia and was
SEDUCERSparthBOMaxseries—Saving ostracised from his family
after killing his younger
the King — has just been brother, Alfonso, 14, in
1956, in a shocking
Baired, involving more than 50 accident with a revolver.
two days after making
first-person interviews with him swear on his country
journalists, politicians, ex- that he hadn’t done it on
secret agents and an ex-lover. purpose, his father Don
Juan sent him back to an
And, from the looks of it, austere military academy. their
relationship never really recovered.
who’ll be raisingthey all reveal far more than Ambitious and focused, he
secretly courted Franco and leap-
Juan Carlos would like about frogged his father to the throne.
his lust for money, power, big Not one of his immediate family
game hunting and, perhaps attended his 1975 coronation.
most of all, women. Perhaps it was little wonder,
then, that he wanted nothing
eyebrows in theAKE his longish-term more than financial security and
physical company.
relationship with the At first, it all looked so promis-
late Queca Campillo, a ing. he was fantastically popular.
Spain was on the up, with a mas-
Tbeautiful Spanish pho- sive boom in tourism and con-
struction and, after they joined
tographer. they met on a job, the Common Market, investment.
Which is perhaps why no one
Abbey todayhe phoned later that evening bothered to question how, despite
an apparent lack of assets — royal
saying simply, ‘Do you know estates, palaces and art collections
who i am?’, and that was that.
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Not that it was always easy
— after all, he’s been married
to Queen Sofia since 1962.

‘We had nowhere to meet,’
explains Queca in recorded mate-
rial. ‘So i’d go to the back entrance
of the royal residence [the Zar-
zuela Palace] and meet in a car —
in a van they had.’ in the back of a
van! With the king!?

Undoubtedly, there were a LOt
of women. Some were fleeting.
Others were more meaningful.
Notable amongst them: an encoun-
ter with Maria Gabriella of Savoy,
daughter of the last king of italy;
and Liliane Sartiau, a Belgian
governess whose daughter later
claimed to be his. While just weeks
after he was crowned king of Spain,
in 1975, his wife reportedly walked

Public funds were dished outin on him in a highly compromising

position with Spanish actress and
singer, Sara Montiel.

to the king’s disgruntled loversBut this was just the tip of the

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Could Harry and Meghan lose
Frogmore? Will Andrew be turfed
out of Royal Lodge? Will Charles
ever move into Buck House? And
does ANYONE want Highgrove...
CLARENCE HOUSE
Who’ll get
Comfortable: King and Queen Consort’s current London abode what in the
monarchy’s
H IS succession from heir to the throne to
monarch has happened at lightning speed. But PALACE
one issue will take a little longer to resolve: just
where will King Charles III live? merry go
Traditionally, moving up to the top job means a
corresponding rise up the property ladder. And in Charles’s case it
should mean moving in to Buckingham Palace, the headquarters of
the British monarchy.
But where to live is by no means his only dilemma. He will also have
to choose what to do about the many royal residences now at his
disposal, which could be the most delicate of decisions in these early
days of the new reign.
Central to the King’s thinking is the need to strike a balance between
cost against the importance of keeping this extraordinary portfolio of
palaces, castles and country houses truly ‘royal’ by ensuring they are
used. For Charles, the matter has
to also reflect his avowed intention
to slim down the monarchy.
Inevitably, his success in doing
that may be judged alongside any
equivalent reduction in the number
of Royal Family homes. So who are
the likely winners —– and losers —
in what courtiers waspishly refer to by RICHARD
as ‘Game of Homes’: a royal version
of musical chairs?
It was only a few months ago that KAY
the then-Prince of Wales let it be
known that as King he would live
at Buckingham Palace. It was
intriguing that it even needed to EDITOR AT LARGE
be said, but then uncertainty has
long hovered over his plans. spectacle for an empty building?’
Unquestionably, he has never added the aide. even so, it says
much liked the place, complaining much about Charles’ antipathy to
that it was too large, too impersonal the place that questions about
and too draughty. whether or not he will choose to
This opened the prospect of sleep there are swirling even now.
Charles becoming the first It has been suggested he would
monarch since King William IV not prefer to keep the much smaller
to live ‘over the shop’. Clarence House, which he and
As a bachelor, Charles had Camilla have turned into a
quarters there before moving to comfortable home, while using the
Kensington Palace after marriage Palace as a working base and for round?
to Princess Diana, followed by an banquets, receptions, garden
apartment at St James’s Palace on parties and investitures.
their separation, then settling at In other words, it would be
Clarence House, the home he inher- treated as the ‘office’ and he would
ited from his grandmother the commute there each day up The
Queen Mother and where he now Mall. Supporting this theory is the
lives with Queen Consort Camilla. fact that Charles is also keen on
opening the Palace more to the
ReTURnInG to the public. Would he really wish to live
775-room Palace may like some stately home owners are on the Sandringham estate and mother’s former boltholes where its ancient rooms, accompanied by
not necessarily appeal, forced to — with the sound of pay- Craigowan Lodge on Royal Dee- he likes to spend ten days each the Queen Mother who told him
but as an aide ing visitors traipsing around? side. They add to an impressively summer, Dumfries House, the the history of the treasures and
large number of homes already Palladian mansion in Ayrshire he artworks they displayed.
One factor that may delay any under his control. Apart from saved for the nation, Llwynywer-
proposed move is that Bucking- Clarence House, they include mod, his Welsh cottage and an For many years he kept away
explained: ‘He is firmly of the view ham Palace is midway through a Highgrove, his family home near estate in Romania. because he considered it his late
that it is the most distinct symbol ten-year, £369 million taxpayer- Tetbury in Gloucestershire, and father’s domain and it brought
of the monarchy in the heart of the funded renovation and living his adored Scottish retreat, So what will happen to these back difficult memories. But, after
nation’s capital and therefore it among a building site is not a pros- Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate. homes and how and to whom will the Queen’s health went into
must be his home. pect the 73-year old King is looking he divvy them up? decline last year, he began dropping
He also thinks it would be strange forward to. He has described the stone-clad in regularly to see her, sometimes
to have Buckingham Palace What is certain is that as lodge, which also passed to him The destiny of Windsor Castle, staying in his old suite of rooms in
without royals living there.’ monarch, Charles will pioneer new after the death of his grandmother, for 1,000 years the oldest and the edward Tower, the most out of
The absence of a live-in monarch living arrangements that won’t as ‘a unique haven of cosiness and largest occupied castle in the world the way part of the ancient castle.
would surely raise questions about follow the familiar pattern set character’. But its real charm lies and the home of Britain’s royalty,
the purpose of the daily Changing down by his mother: weekdays at in its grounds, bordering the River is the most intriguing. There has been a suggestion that
of the Guard ceremony, which is the Palace, weekends at Windsor Muick, which he has transformed he is planning to let William and
o n e o f t h e b i g g e s t t o u r i s t Castle and holidays at Sandring- into a peaceful sanctuary. It is said Charles does not like the Kate live there.
attractions in London. ham and Balmoral. castle and finds it too noisy: it lies
‘What would be the point of In addition to these historic prop- Then there is the Castle of Mey in under the flight path for Heathrow However, that will not happen
putting on such a colourful erties, he has inherited Wood Farm Caithness — another of his grand- airport. That was not always the immediately as the new Prince and
case: as a child he loved exploring Princess of Wales have only just

SANDRINGHAM WINDSOR CASTLE

Room to grow: Charles is developing an organic farm on the Norfolk estate Intriguing: It is said His Majesty does not like Windsor and may give it to William

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 v1 Page 29

BALMORAL

Radical plan: King is considering
handing castle over to the nation

Picture: MICHAEL DUNLEA/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO/GRAHAM PRENTICE/TIM GRAHAM/SHUTTERSTOCK/ALAIN LE GARSMEUR/BRIDGESMAN IMAGES/ISF/GARRY TROTTER Harry’s exile has added to the com-
plications. At one stage, Charles
considered transferring Clarence
House to his younger son.

Now, if he does indeed move into
Buckingham Palace he may either
use it to display the Royal
Collection and open it to the public
or place it in mothballs for Prince
George for when his grandson
comes of age in 2034.

Other properties may be simpler
to allocate. The cottage in Wales
may be handed to William, while
the retreat in Romania, which is
run as a guesthouse, will probably
be quietly sold.

As monarch, Charles effectively is
master of all properties on the
royal estates. These include the
grace-and-favour residences let to
old retainers, and the apartments
in Kensington Palace and St
James’s Palace housing his royal
cousins and other relatives.

But there is one home about
which there is more speculation
than most — Royal Lodge, Prince
Andrew’s grand, Grade-II listed
pile in Windsor Great Park.

HIGHGROVE WI T H O U T t h e
protection of the
Sentimental value: Charles developed his love of gardening at Highgrove but Camilla is not very attached, seeing it as Diana’s house Queen, many will
wonder just how
settled into their own home in neglected grounds. It always sad- of Wales, he is technically his crises. It is also where he and long he can remain there. Once the
Windsor, Adelaide Cottage. dened him that neither William nor father’s landlord.) Camilla, who Camilla spent their honeymoon. weekend retreat of the Queen
Harry share his love of horticulture has her own home in Wiltshire, is This could mean a radical change Mother — it was where she died in
For a man who knows that if the nor expressed any interest in tak- said to be less attached to for Balmoral Castle, the royals’ 2002 — the 30-room house on which
monarchy is to flourish in the 21st ing the house on. Highgrove. According to her main home on Deeside and where he has a 75-year lease has been
century, it can’t be seen to be too biographer Penny Junor, she would the Queen died on September 8. Andrew’s since selling Sunninghill
ostentatious, this represents an And in the absence of their inter- ‘not be sad to see Highgrove go . . . Park, his former marital home.
indecently large collection of est he had begun exploring an It is Diana’s house. It is not hers.’ One idea that has been floated is
homes. Of one thing we can be alternative solution. One plan, that the King is considering He spent £7.5 million renovating
certain — Charles simply will not which was being masterminded by This is an irony that will not be handing the castle over to the the property that was the backdrop
have the time to travel between so his former valet Michael Fawcett lost on old friends of the late nation to celebrate the memory of to Princess Beatrice’s 18th
many different houses in such — forced to quit over the cash-for- Princess of Wales. She hated his late mother. This, however, birthday party, where guests
distant parts of his new kingdom. honours scandal — was to turn Highgrove for the same reason: she could put him at loggerheads with notoriously included sexual
Highgrove into an English version considered it Camilla’s. his siblings and their families, who predators Jeffrey Epstein and
His most sentimental attachment of Dumfries House. have grown used to having the Harvey Weinstein.
is to Highgrove, which was pur- Indeed, after the couple parted, castle at their disposal.
chased from Tory MP and publish- It was to be run by the Prince’s Charles had the entire interior Elsewhere, there are other knotty
ing chief Maurice Macmillan on his Foundation and open to the public ripped out and redecorated. But as a courtier cautioned: problems to resolve.
behalf by the Duchy of Cornwall. with Charles using it for five weeks ‘They can take nothing for granted.
or so each year — and paying rent ‘Not much of the Princess of Just because the Queen did it this Will William and Kate retain ten-
During the early years of his mar- for the privilege. Wales remains there today, I can way does not mean the King will.’ bedroom Anmer Hall, on the
riage to Diana it was their weekend tell you,’ says an old friend. Sandringham estate, which was a
home, but the Princess never The idea seems unlikely to come As for Sandringham, Charles wedding gift from the Queen? With
returned after their separation in to pass, as the Duchy is now under Meanwhile the King intends to intends to use it himself. The house their lives now revolving around
1992. It is where Charles developed the control of William who would keep Birkhall as his main retreat in was quietly handed over to him to Windsor and with so many other
his love of gardening, with a stun- have the final say on what Scotland. Its peaceful location has run — he is developing an organic homes potentially available, do
ning transformation of the happened to Highgrove. (As Prince played an important part in helping farm there — some time ago. Prince they even need it?
Charles through many domestic
And what of Frogmore Cottage?
The Georgian house with the
deceptively humble name was
given to Harry and Meghan only
for them to turn their back on
Britain. Since their departure for
California it has occasionally been
used by Harry’s cousin Princess
Eugenie, her husband Jack
Brooksbank and their son August.

As Charles mulls over his plans to
streamline the Royal Family, might
Frogmore Cottage be an early
victim of that modernising zeal?

It is why this Game of Homes is
set to become a new and compelling
royal drama.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROYAL LODGE

The office: But the Queen’s former home may be too large, impersonal and draughty Grand: Prince Andrew’s Grade II-listed home in Windsor Great Park

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ELIZABETH R 1926-2022

Will Queen solve problem of fourth plinth? FROM PAGE 27

IT has hosted a giant ice cream cone, a By Claire Duffin politicians have said Parliament Square were owned by the state — he maintained
bright blue cockerel, a golden rocking his family’s increasingly opulent lifestyle.
horse, and even Nelson’s ship in a bottle. would be a more fitting location for a trib- (Though his ever-deepening friendships
with Middle Eastern countries were
Now the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square Buckingham Palace on ways to ‘perma- ute. Tory MP David Jones said: ‘In my view, perhaps a clue.)
could become the site of a permanent
memorial to the Queen. The plinth was to nently mark’ the Queen’s life of service. being one of four statues in Trafalgar It helped, of course, that for decades
hold an equestrian statue of William IV, but the entire machinery of the state
remained empty due to insufficient funds. These are expected to include at least Square is not good enough.’ cleaned up after him and protected
him from his own acts and scandals,
Downing Street sources said that, after one statue in London – the only full-size But former security minister Sir John the Press was gagged and, much more
today’s funeral, discussions will begin with importantly, in Spain, the king
statue of her in the UK stands at Windsor Hayes will urge the Government to pro- can legally do no wrong — immune,
U-turn unaccountable and inviolable.
Great Park. Other suggestions include the vide funding for a statue, paid for through
And the richer he became, the more
renaming of streets, parks, racecourses public subscription, and said Trafalgar the lines became blurred. Public funds
that should have been spent on fight-
or even Heathrow airport. Some senior Square is ‘the ideal place’. ing terrorism and organised crime
were dished out to disgruntled lovers.
as delegation
from China allowed More than 100 million pesetas (around
to pay its respects £525,000 today) were paid into an
offshore account for a showgirl and
By Kumail Jaffer Spain’s 1971 Miss World candidate
Political Reporter named Barbara Rey, to keep her quiet
about a long-standing romance.
COMMONS Speaker Sir Lind-
say Hoyle has defended the She was also given a prime-time
apparent U-turn on inviting Chi- Saturday night TV show which she
nese representatives to attend introduced in a tight-red corset,
the Queen’s lying-in-state. promising ‘music, humour, artists,
Last week it was understood the attractions and much more’ and, later,
delegation from Beijing would be her own cookery show.
banned from Westminster Hall in
line with the Chinese ambassador’s Juan Carlos seemed to have few
own prohibition from Parliament. boundaries, discussing matters of
But over the weekend parliamentary state in bed and openly giving his
officials confirmed that, while Ambas- opinion on the politicians of the time.
sador Zheng Zeguang is still barred He particularly loathed Jose Maria
from the premises, the ban would not Aznar, the diminutive Prime Minister
be extended to other officials. of the People’s Party who was in power
Yesterday Sir Lindsay said that the U- from 1996 to 2004, and publicly
turn was not ‘about the politics of a ridiculed him as ‘the midget’.
moment’ but the ‘grief that we all share’
over Her Majesty. Clearly, he just didn’t care. He set up
He insisted the ban on the Chinese some lovers in grand Spanish houses
ambassador would remain until sanc- and partied with others in Mallorca.
tions are lifted. And there’s no question he was always
The move comes amid an uproar from poised for a quickie.
senior MPs sanctioned by China that
representatives have been invited to Rumour had it, he even had a pop at a
today’s funeral. 25-year-old Princess Diana. She denied
Last night Chinese vice-president anything untoward happened, but did
Wang Qishan was seen in Westminster admit that, while he was ‘charming’, he
Hall alongside a four-strong Invited: The vice-president, centre, and his delegation in Westminster Hall yesterday could be a ‘little too attentive’.

delegation from Beijing. tioned is not acceptable, my we should have a reception in the persecution are invited to A MONg the few celebrities he
He is attending as a special view remains the same and Parliament, but this is not going attend this funeral.’ Last week can still count as a friend is
envoy of president Xi Jinping nothing has changed. to happen at the moment.’ the sanctioned group of MPs British TV presenter Selina
and will become the most sen- ‘But this is not about the poli- On Saturday Conservative and peers wrote to the Com- Scott. And, although discreet
ior Chinese politician to visit tics of a moment, this is about former leader Sir Iain Duncan mons and Lords speakers say- Selina has always kept quiet, the pair
the UK since the pandemic. the grief that we all share, rather Smith, one of seven British poli- ing that they were ‘greatly con- did reportedly have a ball during two
Sir Lindsay said: ‘Nobody has ticians sanctioned by the Chi- cerned’ over the invitation. weeks filming together for a documen-
been leaning on me at all, far than being overshadowed. But nese government, praised the A parliamentary spokesman tary back in 1992. Last week she
described him as ‘a passionate man,
from it. My view remains the ‘Not about politics Lords and Commons speakers said: ‘The head of states (or handsome and lots of fun, with a
same that we would not wel- for ‘standing up and speaking their representatives) who refreshing world view’.
come [a] reception in Parlia- of a moment’ out for free speech’ when it was have been invited to attend the
ment and that’s when I stopped thought that the Chinese dele- state funeral in Westminster Amazingly, for all his appalling
the ambassador and accredited gation was banned. Abbey are also invited to behaviour, in November 2005 and
Chinese from coming into the as I say and I’ll repeat again, the He also lamented the decision attend the lying-in-state in according to a poll in Spanish
House of Commons.’ sanction against those accred- to uphold their invitation to the Westminster Hall.’ newspaper El Mundo, nearly 80 per
He told BBC’s Sunday With ited officials remains in place funeral, telling the Daily Mail: A source added that the Chi- cent of the country thought Juan
Laura Kuenssberg: ‘Let’s be and will remain so. ‘In the most senior church in nese ambassador is still not Carlos was ‘good or very good’.
clear, to hold a reception in the ‘There is a very easy answer: the land, while Christians are welcome on the estate while
House of Commons when MPs Lift the sanctions and we can being persecuted in Hong Kong, some MPs and peers remain But his popularity fell drastically
and a peer have been sanc- also then look to see whether the people that are carrying out sanctioned by Beijing. soon after.

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While he denied any wrongdoing and
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where he has lived since.

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taken while he was on the throne.

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In the meantime, this rather shame-
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rub shoulders with the world’s great
and good.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 V1 Page 31

Queen’s pain at mourning

beloved Philip in public

It’s not easy,
she wrote in
moving letter
to Archbishop

By Isabelle Stanley

QUEEN Elizabeth said it ‘wasn’t
easy’ to grieve her beloved hus-
band Prince Philip so publicly,
the former Archbishop of York
has revealed.
In a ‘wonderful’ letter written just
four weeks after the Duke of Edin-
burgh’s death last year, the Queen
thanked Dr John Sentamu for his
flowers and prayers.
But he told the BBC that she had
ended the letter by saying: ‘When you
are grieving someone you deeply Revelation: Dr John Sentamu with the Queen, her ‘strength and stay’ Prince Philip and Princess Beatrice in 2012

love, it isn’t easy when you have to the Queen’s death. It comes just 18 Philip as her ‘strength and stay’ added: ‘The Queen does not – and books from 1662 – he continued:
do it in public.’ months after Prince Philip’s funeral nearly six decades after they met did not want – what you call long, ‘You’re going to hear this wonder-
when the Queen was pictured sit- when she was just 13. boring services. You’re not going ful English at its best. Also you’re
Appearing on the Sunday With ting alone at Windsor to adhere to to find boredom but you’re going going to hear angelic voices of the
Laura Kuenssberg show, Dr coronavirus restrictions. Dr Sentamu, who has been to be lifted to glory as you hear choir of [Westminster Abbey].
Sentamu added that his thoughts closely involved in organising the the service.’ Voices that are singing to the glory
are now with the King and the The Queen, who was married to Queen’s funeral, also said people of God.
Royal Family who are having to the duke for 73 years, approved an would be ‘warmed’ by the state Although he said the funeral will
‘grieve publicly’ and ‘find a space eight-day period of national service today. still be traditional, he added: ‘What ‘The hearts and people’s cockles
to do it’. mourning followed by a period of you’re going to expect is the best will be warmed, but at the same
private grieving as members of the The archbishop, who served in of funeral services.’ time, there will be a moment of
Senior royals have represented family resumed their duties. the role from 2005 until 2020, said saying this is a funeral service.’
the family across the country over he’d been involved in planning the Sharing details of the service –
the past fortnight with vigils, pro-
cessions and walkabouts to mark She famously described Prince service for the past 17 years. He including the use of funeral prayer [email protected]

You just get on with it!

HM’s words of advice to Kiwi PM on how
to juggle being a new mother and a leader

THE QUEEN told Jacinda Ardern ‘you By Harriet Line She added: ‘You do, you just take
just get on with it’ when she was Chief Political Correspondent every day as it comes. And [the
asked for advice on how to juggle Queen] did. But I have such respect
being a mother and leader. Queen how she managed being both for her because I see now what it
a mother and a leader during their takes to be a mum and a leader and
The New Zealand prime minister first meeting. She said: ‘One of the she did it more times over than I.’
was pregnant with her only child things on my mind alongside being a
when she met the Queen in 2018. new prime minister was being a The Queen had two children,
prime minister and a mum. Charles and Anne, before she
She became only the second acceded to the throne in 1952, before
elected head of government to give ‘I said to her, “How did you man- giving birth to Andrew and Edward
birth, to daughter Neve, while in age?” And I remember she said, in the 1960s as a reigning monarch.
office a few months later. “Well, you just get on with it”. And
that was actually probably the best The only other elected leader to
Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday With and most factual advice I could have.’ give birth in office was former Paki-
Laura Kuenssberg show yesterday, stani PM, Benazir Bhutto.
Miss Ardern, 42, said she asked the

YES, THE CORGIS WILL GRIEVE Greeting: A pregnant Jacinda Ardern and Queen in 2018
FOR THE QUEEN OF THE PACK

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A deep rumbling rose
from 10,000 voices...

Her coffin was brought from the Isle of Wight
through an avenue of battleships. A glittering cavalry

of 40 princes and dukes escorted her cortege.
No wonder Queen Victoria’s 1901 funeral left her
distraught subjects with imperishable memories

IT IS more than 120 years since Britain last buried a
reigning Queen — and back in 1901, the impact of Queen
Victoria’s death on the nation was as great as 2022’s
outpouring of grief and respect for Elizabeth II. On the
streets of London, unprecedented crowds came to pay
tribute to a much-loved sovereign — in moving scenes
that will be echoed in the capital today ...

A MILLION people were preparing to make
their way to the centre of London for the
funeral procession of Queen Victoria, a greater
crowd than had ever been known before in
the capital.
Rich and poor alike, whether from smart West End homes, villas in
the suburbs or city slums, all felt a compulsion to be there. They
could not stay at home on the day the great Queen was to be buried.
She had died a week before, aged 81, after 63 years on the throne, at
Osborne House, her holiday home
on the Isle of Wight.
Now, on Saturday, February 2, by Tony

1901 — designated a Day of
National Mourning by the new
King — her coffin would cross the
Solent on the Royal Yacht Alberta, Rennell
passing through an avenue of 30
battleships and cruisers, before
transfer to the royal train at
Portsmouth Harbour.
From there the train would
slowly make its way to London, life.’ Everywhere, the sense of loss
where the coffin would be carried was tangible. ‘There are few people
on a gun carriage through the who are not affected by a sense of
streets of the capital. personal bereavement and regret,’
There would be no public lying- the Standard told its readers. ‘She
in-state — in her will, she had has left as many mourners as she
specifically ruled that out. had subjects.’
But there would be a two-hour The day before the funeral, thou-
window as her coffin was borne in sands tramped the route from
a military procession from Victoria Victoria to Paddington, stopping
Station to Paddington Station, to watch shopkeepers emptying
their front windows to make way
for tiers of seats or look up at
This would workmen festooning the fronts of
buildings in black and purple. already on the move but not in its the route, both as a guard of trying to grasp this moment of
Advertisement hoardings were usual way. Shops and businesses honour and to hold back the change as it was happening, and
be the People’s covered up or removed, so that no stayed shut and shuttered. crowds, which by now were already be part of it.
hint of commercial activity could eight-deep in Hyde Park.
interfere with the dignity of the There were no tradesmen’s carts Now the trains were pulling into
Farewell occasion. The real business of the in the street. Instead, horse-drawn At railway stations on the out- Charing Cross, King’s Cross,
day, though, was being done by omnibuses and cabs, all crammed skirts of London, the platforms Marylebone, and the crowds
those with seats to sell. from top to bottom, filled the were thick with people and when spilled out on to the streets to join
Prices rocketed in Piccadilly. roads, alongside long lines of the trains arrived they jammed the throng going westward.
Front-row seats at 25 guineas people walking. Many had set out themselves in, 16 to a carriage
before being taken by train (equivalent to £1,800 today) were on foot from their homes in the intended for eight. They sat on In Piccadilly it was impossible to
to Windsor for her funeral at all sold out and one hotel with a suburbs at 4am. laps and hung from the straps; find a space on the pavement after
St George’s Chapel. This would be particularly good view along the they stood in the guard’s van. nine o’clock, and the masses pour-
the People’s Farewell, their road was said to have let out a In Edgware Road, the morning ing in were ushered down the
last homage. room for a staggering £500 milk cart was making its round as No one complained at the incon- middle of the road towards the
The newspapers left no one in (£43,000 today). men and women began claiming venience. There was little chatter park. But even this flow was too
doubt about the significance of their places, spreading rugs out on and the atmosphere was quiet and great and had to be stopped.
the occasion. ‘It will mark the close the pavement and laying out food contemplative. This was not an
of an era,’ said the Morning Adver- for the day. outing, it was a solemn duty. Soldiers and police formed lines
tiser, ‘the most wonderful this IT WAS still dark on Saturday across the side streets to stop the
nation has passed through, as the when the night horse trams The high ground in Hyde Park It was not idle curiosity that crowds coming through — but the
greatest Queen the world has ever brought the first Londoners from had already been claimed and the drew them; they were not there to pressure was so great that more
known passes by to her final rest.’ the suburbs to the centre of the steps and the slope around the gawp. They knew they stood on a than once the human barricades
statue of Achilles were full. faultline in history. They were gave way. Further north, Oxford

The author Arthur Conan Doyle capital. Mourners from other parts In Piccadilly, carpenters putting
went even further, describing the of the country had also arrived at the finishing touches to stands
Queen as ‘a saint’. There were few, the mainline stations in the middle and hanging purple coverings were Packed into Hyde Park, the
if any, dissenting voices. As the of the night and were wandering working in their Sunday-best suits crowd was swaying, 100 deep
Times put it: ‘Love of the Queen the streets, trying to keep warm in so they could join the spectators
has become one of the great silent the bitter cold. when their job was finished.
and abiding factors in our national As dawn broke, the city was
From 8am, 30,000 troops in grey
greatcoats were in position lining

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 33

‘The Queen!’

Street was a solid sea of humanity, the flow and she had to go into the pocket. ‘The strength of our Grieving throng: Coffin, circled, rolls on remorselessly though
all dressed in black, moving slowly another house and then climb out ribs was put to rather a severe test’ bearing Victoria, above, near the greatest and the best pass
towards the park, then halted by a along the roof to reach her place. one of those in Hyde Park recalled. Green Park, London, in 1901 away. The Queen was dead but
bottleneck at Marble Arch as AS THE hours ticked by, along the the King lived.’
thousands more came up the Others had been conned. An road from Victoria Station, the Pictures: MARY EVANS PICTURE The crowd was so quiet that
stairs from the Underground argument broke out when too procession was beginning to form, LIBRARY/BASSANO the wheels of the gun carriage
railway station. many people turned up at a house with the bands of the Household grating on the road could be
on the corner of Buckingham Cavalry at the front and half a mile postilions in their scarlet vests easily heard. The Duke of Argyll,
This was as close to the Palace Road and Victoria Street of foot soldiers and cavalry behind urged the eight cream-coloured riding in the procession, found
procession as most would get. and it was discovered that the before it even reached the gener- horses forward and the gun- it uncanny, as though he was
seats had been sold several als and the high officers of state. carriage swung out of the station ‘looking at vast masses through
For others, mainly young men times over. and into the streets of London. a glass that prevented sound
and boys, trees gave the best At the station itself, kings and from coming to the ears’.
vantage point. Opposite Bucking- Fraudsters were out on the princes, grand dukes and diplo- Behind came the new King For Princess Maud, a grand-
ham Palace, a single small thorn streets too. One man did a brisk mats were assembling on a carpet Edward VII — his time come at last daughter of the Queen, follow-
tree had seven people clinging trade selling ‘official funeral of deep purple. after nearly 60 years as heir to his ing in a carriage with her mother
precariously to it. programmes’ for a penny. There mother’s throne — mounted on a and sisters, it was ‘all terribly
was no such thing. When the Just before 11am, the royal train bay charger. He rode, said one sad and impressive, the crowds
Those on high were not always as buyers opened up the folded sheet pulled in and a bearer party of 12 of people and not a single sound
considerate as they might be. In of paper, they found themselves sergeants from the Guards and Men clung from and all in black’.
Hyde Park, a spectator in a tree gazing at the details of the funeral the Household Cavalry stepped trees to gain a The crowds were at their
carelessly tossed away a match of William Gladstone. forward to shoulder the heavy oak vantage point greatest in Hyde Park and up to
and set fire to the soft felt hat of a coffin and lay it on the gun Marble Arch. One soldier on duty
man underneath. But these incidents were carriage. A shaft of sunlight burst observer, ‘with a kingly dignity. Pale in the park reckoned the crowd
exceptional. The overwhelming through the grey skies and, for a as he was, and worn, with the behind him was as many as 100
As the numbers built up on the mood of the crowd was kind and brief moment, flashed on the brass marks of much recent suffering and deep. And, as more came to join
pavements, it became increasingly cooperative. There was no band work on the casket before it was anxiety on his face, he looked like them from behind, they swayed.
difficult for those who had bought music to entertain them, and this covered by a white satin pall. The the ruler of a mighty empire, the He and his fellow soldiers had to
seats to get to them. The crowd was no time for sing-songs. They heir of a long line of monarchs’. push them back with the sides of
swept one woman past the front stood in silence, just waiting. their rifles.
door of the house where she was Beside him was the German When the coffin came into sight,
expected. There was no way she They were packed so tightly that Kaiser, the late Queen’s grandson, his troop were called to attention,
could force her way back against it was impossible to put a hand in on a white horse, and then the arms reversed and heads bowed.
King of Portugal and the King of But as it passed he sneaked a look.
Greece. A glittering cavalry of 40 He was not the only one.
princes and dukes followed as, ‘We ought to have stood with
with rifles and swords reversed, chin sunk on chest and eyes cast
the great ceremonial army began down. Who could do it when she
its slow march through the was going by for the last time —
misty morning. the Great Queen whose uniform
we so long had worn, the small
Seeing was believing. All along devoted woman who for the
the route, the sight of the coffin nation’s good had worked so hard
provoked a great sigh from the and done so well?’
crowd, which sounded, wrote one
reporter, like ‘a strange deep AT PADDINGTON, the royal train
whisper, which those who heard it that would bear the Queen to
will never forget. “The Queen! The Windsor stood waiting. The royal
Queen!” came from 10,000 throats mourners dismounted from their
and rolled in impressive simplicity horses and, in their colourful
all down the line.’ uniforms and gleaming helmets,
formed an honour guard across
Women curtsied and men tugged the platform through which the
their hats from their heads and bearer party carried the coffin.
bowed. But the moment was gone
in an instant. ‘Almost before one As Chopin’s Funeral March rang
had grasped its import,’ wrote one out — the Queen disliked Handel’s
reporter, ‘the little casket had music (‘He tires me’) and had
glided by. And so we looked our forbidden the playing of the Dead
last upon the Queen, and even as March — King Edward and all the
we did so were reminded that life other kings and princes saluted.

The royal party boarded the train
and it steamed slowly out towards
Windsor. ‘London had looked its
last upon the Queen,’ said the
Times, ‘and was left with naught
but its imperishable memories.’

Most of the vast crowd were
sombre as they dispersed, queue-
ing patiently to leave Hyde Park,
waiting for the tea houses to open
at 2pm so they could at last get
some refreshment.

They were still silent, and even
the opening of the pubs at 3pm
brought only a half-hearted
response. Men talked in muffled
tones and women refrained from
l a u g h t e r, a c c o r d i n g t o o n e
observer. An hour or so later, most
of the drinkers had drifted away.

‘Everything was shrouded in
gloom,’ the Daily Chronicle
reported. ‘Such a silent Saturday
night has not been seen in London
within the memory of man.’

Conan Doyle, looking at the sad
and bewildered faces on the street
that day, knew he was not alone in
wondering where England would
stand now that she was gone.
n  Tony Rennell is the author 
of last Days of Glory: The 
Death of Queen Victoria.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 39

Jodie the stylish Woke surge
assassin turns as National
desperate mum Grid bans
word ‘him’
By Kamal Sultan
Showbusiness Reporter Daily Mail Reporter

CLUTCHING her baby tightly and THE National Grid has been
looking haunted by the disaster given a gender-neutral
unfolding around her, this char- reboot with the use of the
acter is barely recognisable as words ‘manned’, ‘him’ and
Killing Eve star Jodie Comer. ‘chairman’ now banned.

Playing the assassin Villanelle, Its owner, the National Grid
she was in control and supremely Electricity Systems Operator
confident. But in The End We Start (ESO), uses ‘staffed, ‘they’ and
From, the 29-year-old is a mother ‘chairperson’ instead after an
desperately battling to survive overhaul of its Grid Code,
with her new-born baby after which sets out the require-
floods devastate London. ments for connecting to the
grid. For example, the code
In the first images released now refers to control points
from the set of the dystopian being ‘continuously staffed’
thriller, she is pictured walking while panels are overseen by
down a debris-strewn street. a ‘chairperson’.

‘My character is ordinary and The code also no longer con-
extraordinary,’ said Miss Comer. tains the terms ‘he’, using the
gender-neutral ‘they’ instead.
‘Quiet heroics of
devotion and love’ National Grid said the
changes to the code will ‘have a
Chic: Star on the red carpet ‘Her personal life and the world A nightmare: positive impact by removing
around her have been turned Jodie Comer any gender bias, inequality and
upside down and she is dealing in first images discrimination’.
with the unknown at every turn.’ from new film
‘They will also acknowledge
The actress, who began dating diversity and convey respect to
US lacrosse player James Burke, all people,’ it added.
28, in 2020, added: ‘Her story is
about the quiet heroics of devo- The changes, reported by The
tion, bravery and love.’
‘In the grip of an
Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark energy crisis’
Strong, Gina McKee and Kather-
ine Watson also star in the film. Sunday Telegraph, were
devised as the energy network
Director Mahalia Belo said she started to struggle with a spike
was ‘working with an extraordi- in demand as countries
nary cast, bringing this human, emerged from lockdowns.
primal and ultimately hopeful
story to life’. Based on the novel The country is currently in
by Megan Hunter, the movie is the grip of an energy crisis that
not due out until at least 2023. has seen the Government
unveil a £150billion support
package to cap typical house-
hold bills at £2,500.

The National Grid said in
March that it ranks first among
utility companies in the
UK and third globally for
gender equality. ESO is run by
a board made up of four men
and four women.

Gender-neutral language has
been criticised by the Govern-
ment as part of a crackdown on
‘wokery’ in the civil service.

It is attempting to ensure
all new legislation specifically
references ‘women’ and
‘mothers’, rather than using
non-specific terms.

By Colin Fernandez Contraceptive jab for
GETTING ‘the snip’ could
become a thing of the past men just a year away
as scientists say a contra-
ceptive jab that lasts ten Wilson said: ‘For a male pill, we’re and baking soda. However, sterili- makers of Risug, which stands for cal authorities there. In the United
years could soon be availa- still looking at between 30 and 50 sation procedures in general Reversible Inhibition of Sperm States, a male contraceptive
ble for men. years, but Risug is the male for both men and women have Under Guidance, say the jab called Vasalgel, which works in a
contraceptive that is closest to fallen in recent years. In 2010-11 allows men to be more spontane- similar way, is in development.
The jab – called Risug – could reaching the market. However, there were 19,510 vasectomies car- ous than when using condoms.
be ready within 12 months. we’re seeing a significant decrease ried out in NHS hospitals, which Dr Wilson said: ‘I think women
in vasectomies.’ The contraceptive uses a would find it a real benefit if they
Developed by researchers at the ‘A little bit more polymer called styrene maleic don’t have to worry about their
Indian Institute of Technology, She told The Sunday Telegraph: peace of mind’ anhydride which coats the sperm partner taking a pill. It’s a little bit
the injection has completed its ‘Scientists don’t know why. But duct. The chemical was originally more peace of mind.’
final trials. until we get that social acceptabil- by 2020-21 had fallen to 4,486 – a used to coat pipes in rural water
ity of vasectomy up globally, 77 per cent fall. systems in India, where it was An advantage of the jab is that it
It is considered better than a there’s not going to be as much found to kill bacteria. is not based on hormones.
vasectomy as it would be less social acceptability for Risug.’ Sterilisations of women in NHS Attempts to develop a male con-
painful, and is also reversible. hospitals have also fallen, from Tests in rabbits, rats and mon- traceptive pill based on sex hor-
Risug is a gel which damages the 15,189 in 2010-11 to 7,665 in 2020- keys showed that it had a similar mones have suffered problems in
But UK researchers looking at tails of individual sperm cells, pre- 21 – a 50 per cent decline. The effect on sperm. Risug has com- the past, due to side effects in men
how likely the jab is to be accepted venting them from fertilising an pleted several clinical trials on including acne and mood changes
in this country said many men egg. The procedure can be human subjects in India and is – both common side effects in pills
may be hesitant. reversed with an injection of water awaiting approval from the medi- for women.

Dr Amanda Wilson, a public
health psychologist at De Mont-
fort University, told the British
Science Festival in Leicester that
research had found men were very
reluctant to have the jab.

She said that the trend for men
to have vasectomies is declining,
and that hesitancy about the
injection may reflect this. Dr

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as a ‘proper rabbit out of the hat
moment’. Whitehall insiders said last
night that the mini-budget would be
‘bold’ and ‘growth-focused’, but
declined to confirm the reports.

Friday’s emergency mini-budget will

‘Make London more
globally competitive’

be one of the most significant fiscal
interventions in the past century.
The Chancellor is expected to confirm
plans to reverse the 1.25 percentage
point national insurance rise as soon as
November and say that next year’s
planned increase in corporation tax will
not go ahead.
Liz Truss is also reportedly consider-
ing plans to slash personal taxes and
business levies in new ‘invest- Statement: Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will deliver his mini-budget on Friday

ment zones’. Those who live could be cut for people work- have discussed whether envi- than £2,500 at any point over
and work in the low-tax areas ing there. ronmental protections could the next two years. It will save
envisaged by the Prime Minis- Mr Kwarteng will use Fri- be watered down in these a typical home around £1,000 a
ter could see their own contri- day’s statement to push ahead ‘investment zones’ to clear the year from October 1, when the
butions cut, with the burden with plans for City deregula- way for new developments. current consumer price cap
also lightened for businesses. tion, having told bank chiefs The Government is report- had been set to rise, according
The proposed ‘investment he wants a ‘Big Bang 2.0’ – in edly looking at the West to official estimates.
z o n e s ’ , d u b b e d ‘ f u l l - f a t reference to Margaret Thatch- Midlands, Thames Estuary, Businesses were promised
freeports’, were a staple of er’s sudden deregulation of Tees Valley, West Yorkshire similar levels of support, and
Miss Truss’s campaign for the financial markets – to make and Norfolk as potential sites. Business Secretary Jacob
Tory leadership. She said that London the capital of global Friday’s mini-budget comes Rees-Mogg is set to announce
under her plan these areas finance again. a f t e r t h e G o v e r n m e n t details on Wednesday.
would benefit from low tax, Last week, Treasury sources announced an unprecedented With speculation building
reduced planning restrictions also confirmed that he was multibillion-pound package to over the direction policy will
and regulations tailored on a considering scrapping the cap tackle sky-high energy bills take as Miss Truss seeks to
case-by-case basis. on bankers’ bonuses to make and the cost of living squeeze. put her stamp on No 10, it has
The Sun on Sunday reported the City of London more glo- Under the ‘energy price guar- also been suggested the PM
that the new PM is now weigh- bally competitive. antee’, bills for the average could lift the ban on new gram-
ing up whether personal taxes Ministers are also said to household will go no higher mar schools within months.

PM to tell UN we must curb Russia

LIZ Truss will tell world leaders this week By Chief Political Correspondent mit since she took office. Some 150 world
that economic growth is key to facing leaders will attend. UN secretary gen-
down Russian aggression. ing the free world’s dependence on eral Antonio Guterres called for solu-
malign actors has a direct impact on the tions to the world’s divisions, which he
In a speech to the UN General Assem- cost of living and success of our econ- said were ‘the widest they have been
bly, the Prime Minister will urge allies to omy here at home.’ since at least the Cold War’.
end their reliance on imports of energy
and other products from so-called In her address, she will also rally West- Miss Truss will also urge US President
malign actors. ern countries to help Ukraine in its push- Joe Biden to stand firm against China’s
back against Russian invaders. threat to ‘freedom and democracy
She will say the West must learn les- around the world’.
sons from Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Miss Truss is expected to fly to the sum-
Ukraine by boosting economic security mit in New York this evening, after A source told The Mail on Sunday:
and defence. attending the Queen’s funeral. It will be ‘Russia has demonstrated it’s an acute,
her first overseas visit and major sum- active threat to Western stability and
A source told the Sunday Times: ‘She prosperity, but Liz believes China repre-
will draw a clear link between geopoli- ANDREW PIERCE IS AWAY sents the most serious long-term threat
tics and the domestic economy (in par- to our values and way of life.’
ticular energy prices), and why reduc-

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 41

Cricket craziness

India win over Pakistan last month
sparks violence in Leicester

Protest: Groups of Hindu and Muslim men repeatedly clashed in east Leicester over the weekend

By Claire Duffin

A POLICE chief has called Thin blue line: Baton-wielding police officers, above and
for calm after violent left, try to separate the two groups of young men
clashes broke out between
groups of Hindu and young men gathered for an will be worried for your safety, man Nagdi, of the Leicester-based Hindu and Jain temples across
Muslim men in Leicester unplanned protest. please accept the advice of the Federation of Muslim Organisa- Leicester, said: ‘Across the Hindu
over the weekend. police who are trying to defuse tions, said: ‘What we have seen on and Jain community and with our
In a video filmed at 9pm on Sat- this and are calling for calm.’ the streets is very alarming. Muslim brothers and sisters and
Videos show officers being urday, temporary Chief Constable leaders, we are consistently saying
pelted with bottles as they try Rob Nixon urged people to go One man was arrested on suspi- ‘There have been problems in “calm minds, calm heads”.’
to keep two gangs apart. home, saying: ‘Please do not get cion of conspiracy to commit vio- the community since the India
involved, we are calling for calm.’ lent disorder and another on sus- and Pakistan cricket match and Leicester city mayor Sir Peter
The east of the city has been picion of possession of a bladed while that game often sparks Soulsby said: ‘Things got very
rocked by violence in recent ‘Things got article. They remain in custody. gatherings, they have not in the nasty indeed last night and I am
weeks, sparked by India’s T20 very nasty’ past turned this ugly. We need very worried on behalf of the peo-
cricket win over arch-rivals Paki- Videos posted online show gangs calm – the disorder has to stop ple who were caught up in it and I
stan in Dubai last month. Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe of men, dressed in black and with and it has to stop now. There are was impressed by the way police
added on Twitter: ‘This is many wearing masks and hoods, some very dissatisfied young men responded to it.’
Police have been called to doz- a time for cool heads. I implore marching through the city and who have been causing havoc.
ens of incidents and have made everyone to go home. We can chanting. Other footage shows cars He added: ‘It’s mostly young
more than 30 arrests for offences strengthen our dialogue to repair and buildings being vandalised. ‘We need to get the message out men in their late teens and early
including making threats to kill, community relations. Your family that this must end and try to do 20s and I have heard suggestions
possession of a firearm and affray. Police and religious leaders this through parents and grand- people have come in [to the city]
urged caution over social media parents talking to their sons.’ from outside looking for an oppor-
A police officer and a member of posts, which appear to have tunity to have a set-to.’
the public were assaulted when fuelled some of the violence. Sule- Sanjiv Patel, who represents
crowds gathered following the end
of the match.

A video circulating online shows
a man pulling down a flag outside
a Hindu temple. A significant
police presence will remain in
Leicester in the coming days.

A spokesman for Leicestershire
Police said two people were
arrested after ‘serious disorder’ on
Saturday night and yesterday
morning. The force said large
crowds formed when groups of

By Colin Fernandez Covid COULD have leaked Soon after the virus emerged, it
Environment Editor published a note by 27 experts attacking
from a lab... but in the US, ‘conspiracy theories that suggested
A REPORT into Covid-19 has triggered Covid-19 does not have a natural origin’.
controversy by suggesting the virus may suggests report in Lancet The letter helped to silence critics that
have leaked out of a US lab. believed potentially lax controls in a Chi-
the epicentre of the outbreak and the ment. He added: ‘It’s true we’ve details to nese lab could have led to the outbreak.
The commissioned report in the top theories that the virus leaked there. understand on the side of natural origins,
medical journal The Lancet said there for example, the exact intermediate spe- But the note came under fire after it
were two possibilities for the outbreak: But now experts have criticised the cies involved, but that doesn’t mean emerged it was drafted by British scientist
Through a ‘natural spillover event’ – where report for suggesting the US may have there’s… any basis to the wild speculation Peter Daszak, who worked closely with
a virus jumps from animals to humans – or been involved. that US labs were involved.’ the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.
from ‘research-related activities’. The laboratory’s close location to the first
Professor David Robertson, director of The 58-page report, led by Professor reports of the virus and the fact it was
It then pointed to the possibility of US the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Jeffrey Sachs, of Columbia University in researching bat coronaviruses have made
involvement by saying that ‘independent Virus Research, said that while there were New York, and published last week, marks it a leading suspect in theories.
researchers have not yet investigated the still answers needed on Covid’s emer- something of U-turn by The Lancet.
US laboratories engaged in the manipula- gence, there was zero basis for US involve- According to Ian Birrell, writing in The
tion of Sars-CoV-like viruses’. Mail on Sunday: ‘As one respected
scientist told me, perhaps the Chinese
However, it added ‘nor have they inves- government is looking for a path to
tigated the details of the laboratory admit to a lab accident while sharing
research that had been under way in blame with the US.’
Wuhan’. The Chinese city of Wuhan was at

Page 42 Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022

THE REAL To the public, Douglas Bader was a Battle Of
Britain poster boy who kept flying despite
UNCOVERED losing his legs. But to fellow inmates and his
long-suffering batman in Colditz, he was an...

YESTERDAY, in the second

part of the Mail’s

serialisation of historian

Ben Macintyre’s gripping

new book about Colditz, we

told how an Indian doctor

was racially abused by his

fellow PoWs — yet he never

betrayed Britain, even

when the Nazis offered him

a way out. In today’s final

part, we tell the story of
the real Douglas Bader
with legs of tin,
TWO WEEKS after being a heart of oak —
released from Colditz in 1945
and returning home to
Scotland, Private Alex Ross
was summoned to his local
post office to take a long-distance
telephone call. He rushed there to dis-
cover that on the line was the famed
leg-less fighter pilot, Douglas Bader.

Ross, a medical orderly, had been Bader’s
batman in the prison camp. Throughout their
shared captivity he had been a much put-upon
dogsbody, carrying the wing commander up
and down stairs on his back, cooking his meals and feet of clay
and washing his stump socks.

Ross assumed his boss must be calling now
to express his gratitude. Instead, without any
introduction, a gruff voice thundered down
the phone: ‘Have you got my legs?’

Ross said no, explaining that the American
liberators of Colditz had permitted each man
to take away only a single suitcase. There had
not been room in his bag for the
spare tin legs and he had left by Ben Macintyre
them behind. labour. ‘After the copper mines, accident that led to a lifetime of
orderlies were required to obey the unjust that one prisoner should Colditz was a holiday camp,’ one acute pain. He had joined the RAF
‘You’re a c**t,’ said Bader, and orders of the Germans as well as have to serve another; that one orderly observed. in 1928 and three years later, on a
rang off. They never spoke again. their own officers without question. man should be permitted to seek dare, he attempted to slow roll his
Technically, they were employed his liberty and another forbidden Even so, there were officers who Bristol Bulldog biplane over
This incident is an insight into and paid by the Germans. to do so on the grounds of rank treated the orderlies with disdain, the aerodrome.
two things — the true nature of and class. as if their well-being was of no
the heroic Bader, Colditz’s most They received the same rations importance. And none more so Flying in too low, his left wing
famous prisoner; and also the role as the officers, including Red Cross But in the strictly stratified than Bader. clipped the ground and the
of that little-known group of supplies, but they ate, slept and military hierarchy of the time, an plane somersaulted.
prisoners locked inside the castle lived in separate quarters. officer was more valuable than a He was supremely brave, able to
with the officers, the orderlies. private, and therefore more useful inspire others to feats of courage Pulled from the wreckage, Bader
The social divide between officers to the war effort if he managed to they never dreamed possible — would have died at the scene if a
Running through the very heart and their servants was strictly escape and return to Britain. but he was also arrogant, domi- civilian had not held on to the
of Colditz was a wide and almost upheld. For recreation, the order- neering, selfish and spectacularly severed femoral artery in his right
unbridgeable social divide. The lies played football but were not Some orderlies grumbled about rude, particularly to those he leg.
officer corps at Colditz was pre- allowed to participate in stoolball, their lot, to the point of directly considered of lower status.
dominantly upper-middle or upper an officers-only game (similar challenging the traditional By another stroke of good for-
class; the orderlies were almost all to cricket). master–servant, officer–other Not least his own batman, orderly tune he was brought to hospital
working-class men with little for- ranks relationship. Alex Ross. just in time to catch pioneering
mal learning. Inside the walls, Brit- There was never any doubt about surgeon Leonard Joyce before he
ain’s class war was festering away. their position in the prison peck- Fed up with having to clear away Douglas Bader arrived at Colditz went home for the day. Joyce
ing order. Significantly, they were after messy, demanding officers, in August 1942, his awkward walk amputated both of Bader’s
This was a camp exclusively for not invited to take part in escape there were mutterings of ‘revolu- on artificial legs and distinctive air legs, one above and one below
captured officers and under the attempts, and were not expected tion’ and ‘parasites’. Some even of authority sending a ripple of the knee.
Geneva Convention each one had to assist them (though some did). went on strike, but it fizzled out excitement through the camp. He
a right to be attended by an ‘We didn’t even know when the after an officer described it as was already the most celebrated Bader refused to bow to his
orderly, as he would if he were free. escapes were taking place,’ said a mutiny. fighting man, on either side, of the disability. With the use of two
An officer was not permitted to entire war. prosthetic legs (slightly longer
work, but a private soldier was than the original ones, to make
required to; one, therefore, served The war had made him into a him taller), he was able to drive a
the other. hero. But it also made him modified car, play golf and cricket,
insufferable. Fame had come to swim and even dance. But, to his
As a result, Colditz contained a him suddenly, after an appalling

fluctuating population of ordinary one. ‘They’d never involve us.’ Generally, though, most of the
soldier-prisoners, brought in from None ever tried to escape, and orderlies were reasonably content
other PoW camps to work as there was probably good reason to be in Colditz, where the
servants for their senior officers: for this. A recaptured officer would work was not overly onerous

Arrogant and spectacularly rudecooking, tidying, cleaning, boot usually be returned to the castle and the food better than in
polishing and other chores. unharmed, whereas ordinary other PoW camps.
to those he considered of low statusAs private soldiers, the lowest soldiers were liable to be shot.
Shining an officer’s belt buckle
rung on the military ladder, the Yet, today, it seems bizarre and was infinitely preferable to forced

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 43

Image of courage: Air ace Pictures: PAUL POPPER/POPPERFOTO via GETTY IMAGES/AP PHOTO who also carried Bader’s luggage he said “please” or “thank you”,’
Douglas Bader in 1940, and and spare legs. recalled Ross. Bader never offered
fury, the RAF would not let newspapers he was inset, with American actress his batman any of the eggs he
him fly. turned into a legend. He Rita Hayworth, at the Ross had been his orderly at their obtained on his countryside walks.
became the country’s first officially Gaumont Theatre, previous camp, and Bader had ‘I think if he had handed me one, I
Bader never stopped lobbying sanctioned poster boy, photo- Haymarket, London in 1947 asked if he would go to Colditz would have fainted.’
the RAF to put him back in a graphed alongside his Spitfire, a with him. Ross had agreed.
cockpit, insisting he could pilot a square-jawed, pugnacious warrior, his first two camps. His prosthetic Bader’s tin legs obviously made
plane just as effectively with pipe in fist, the very incarnation of limbs impeded his escape efforts, ‘What I didn’t realise was that him ineligible for escapes requir-
prosthetic legs. With the outbreak determination to overcome the but so did his fame. A German being Bader’s orderly was a ing physical agility, such as tunnel-
of war, the authorities relented odds, on earth and in the air. poster described his distinctive, 24-hours-a-day job. I soon ling or climbing across roofs.
and he returned to the air. stiff-legged gait, in case he should understood why none of the other Nonetheless, he demanded a place
Bader lapped up the attention escape again. He was a captive of orderlies wanted to work for him; on every escape plan.
During the Battle of France and but he was deeply resented by his own notoriety. you had to be at his beck and call
the Battle of Britain, he distin- colleagues. One of his fellow pilots all the time. I know he was a very When the escape committee
guished himself as a fighter pilot of observed: ‘He was a show-off, the This, then, was the warrior- brave man, but he could also be refused, he raged: ‘Do you realise
reckless skill and supreme most pompous chap I’ve ever met.’ celebrity who, to salutes from the a monster.’ that the government at home
courage. Using the call sign He treated the ground crew with admiring German sentries, would rather have me back than
‘Dogsbody’ (from his initials, DB), withering superiority, and they clumped into Colditz in 1942: a Ross’s jobs included serving all the rest of you put together?’
he shot down 20 enemy planes in detested him. man with legs of tin, a heart of oak Bader breakfast in bed every
two years. and feet of clay. morning. He would then carry the This assertion, though supremely
He became a prisoner-of-war officer on his back down two flights arrogant, was probably true. At
His exploits were seized on by after being shot down in August The cobbled slope up from the of winding stairs for his bath, and one point, the committee sent a
the War Office as a golden 1941 and a year later was sent to moat was too steep for Bader’s back up again afterwards. secret message to London sug-
propaganda opportunity, and Colditz after trying to escape from rigid legs, and so he was pulled gesting that ‘a splendid propa-
through stories planted in along by his batman, Alex Ross, ‘He was no lightweight. He would ganda coup could be achieved by
have his arms round my neck, landing a light aircraft on the
hanging on, and would dig the Autobahn near Colditz and so
stumps of his legs hard into me in rescuing Douglas Bader’.
order to hold on. And I did that
every day of the week.’ MI9 — the military intelligence
unit tasked with helping PoWs to
Bader liked to refer to his escape — did not dismiss this
batman-steed as ‘Das Ross’, an barmy idea out of hand. The
old German word for a horse or government wanted Bader back in
Britain, and many in Colditz
He demanded would have been happy to see
a place on every him go.

escape plan But it was Ross who unexpect-
edly got the chance to go home
charger of the sort a knight might early, as part of a prisoner exchange
ride into battle. in 1943. He was overjoyed: ‘I was
very excited. It also meant I
At Colditz, Bader appointed him- could get as far away as possible
self to a number of prominent from Bader.’
positions: orchestra conductor,
goalie in games of stoolball and He ran to find the famous flying
goon-baiter-in-chief. ace in the courtyard and relayed
the news that he would soon be
He successfully campaigned to going back to Britain.
be allowed to take long walks out-
side the castle walls, insisting ‘No you’re bloody not,’ said
there was not enough space in the Bader. ‘Look here, Ross, you came
courtyard to exercise the muscles here as my lackey and you will stay
in what remained of his legs. with me as my lackey until we are
both liberated. That’s that.’ Then
Twice a week Bader set off he ‘stomped off’.
on his ‘parole walks’,
under guard, and Ross said: ‘I couldn’t believe that
used the opportunity he was stopping me going home.
to trade with local He only ever thought of himself
farmers, swapping and I was nothing. Just someone
chocolate from Red to serve him.’ Ross would spend
Cross parcels for fresh another two years lugging the leg-
eggs and other luxu- less RAF officer up and down
ries. His artificial legs stairs for his bath.
were regularly repaired
and serviced by the Bader was selfish to the end.
town blacksmith. When liberation finally came, the
Despite the respect
Pompous Bader
offered to him by the was selfish
guards, Bader treated to the end
his captors with pro-
fanity-laden contempt, Senior British Officer gave orders
unmercifully baiting that no officer was to leave the cas-
the Germans on every tle without permission. But rules
possible occasion. did not apply to Bader. He hitched
He blew pipe smoke a ride with an American journalist,
in the sentries’ faces, climbing into the back of her Jeep
led the chorus in anti- alongside the holdall he had got
German chanting and Ross to pack for him.
instituted a system of
tuneless whistling By the next day he was back in
whenever the guards Paris, and a day after that he
were marching past, to returned to Britain and a hero’s
throw them out of step. welcome: the first prisoner to
Once, when Ross was make a ‘home run’ from Colditz
carrying him upstairs, after its liberation, several days
they encountered a before anyone else.
German general and two
colonels coming the Bader’s fame continued to soar
other way. ‘Don’t stop for after the war. He used his celebrity
these bastards,’ Bader well. His stubborn and courageous
shouted, digging his refusal to allow physical impair-
stumps into his orderly. ment to inhibit his freedom
‘They looked quite became an inspiration to disabled
shocked but stepped back to let and limbless people everywhere.
us go by. He just glared at them,’ He raised millions for charity.
said Ross.
As ever, Bader provoked con- He died in 1982: a total hero and,
trasting feelings. Many younger at times, a complete b*****d.
officers were inspired and amused Bader was living evidence that it is
by his restless defiance: ‘Douglas possible to be courageous, famous,
provided the fun.’ disabled and quite unpleasant, all
The more impolite he was to the at the same time.
Germans, the greater their respect. n aDaPteD from Colditz:
Others found him intensely irritat- Prisoners Of the Castle, by Ben
ing, pointing out that by goading Macintyre, published by Viking
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WAR IN UKRAINE ON THIS

Revealed, horrors of DAY
‘torture chamber’ the
Russians abandoned FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

Mail Foreign Service SEPTEMBER 19, 1975
OPPOSITION leader Mrs Margaret
UKRAINIAN war crimes Thatcher is bowling over the Americans on
prosecutors have released her current U.S. tour. Yesterday she was
images and details of a described as ‘a flower among thorns’. The
Russian ‘torture chamber’ way American politicians see her was
they found in a newly reflected in a note slipped to the British
liberated village. Ambassador by Congressman Clarence
Brown during a visit by Mrs Thatcher to
Officials said the grim Capitol Hill yesterday. It read: ‘If for any
basement in Kozacha Lopan, reason it doesn’t work out for her there
in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, politically, we could surely use her here.’
was where Russian forces SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
tormented military and civil- THE Royal Shakespeare
ian prisoners. Company claimed a dramatic
breakthrough last night after
One image showed a Soviet- casting a black actor as an
era military telephone which English monarch for the first
they claimed was used as the time in its history. David
power source for a yellow wire Oyelowo, whose family came
which was connected to metal from Nigeria, will play the title
clips to electrocute prisoners role in all three parts of Henry
during interrogation. VI in a production which opens in Stratford-
upon-Avon later this year. The 24-year-old
The basement also had a room joined the world-famous company only last
with prison-style bars. year.

In recent days, testimonies Mass grave: 60 bodies have been exhumed so far HAPPY BIRTHDAY
have emerged from Ukrainians
saying they were electrocuted, ROSEMARY HARRIS, 95. The Rada-
burned and beaten by Russian trained actress from Suffolk played Peter
soldiers demanding the names Parker’s Aunt May in three Spider-Man
and addresses of senior military films in the 2000s. Harris, made her movie
figures in the region. debut opposite Elizabeth Taylor in Beau
Brummell, while playwright Arthur Miller
The Kremlin troops who were said Harris was able to create ‘an ambience
occupying Kharkiv, in the north- there that you could cut with a knife’.
east of the country, have JEREMY IRONS, 74. The actor from the
Isle of Wight said he’s spent his wealth ‘on
‘Beaten with buildings because I love buildings. So
iron pipes’ though I’m building-rich, I’m not rich rich’.
At school, he would meet his girlfriend
outside the dry cleaners and said: ‘Even
now, the smell of dry-cleaning fluid is one of
the most erotic things I can think of.’

dropped their weapons and fled ‘ELECTROCUTION DEVICE’ BORN ON THIS DAY
in the last couple of weeks after
Ukraine’s counteroffensive. AUSTIN MITCHELL (1934-2021). The
Bradford-born TV journalist-turned-
The attack has rapidly retaken Labour MP forced through more legislation
over 3,000 square miles of terri- during his party’s years out of government
tory that was lost to Vladimir between 1979 and 1997 than any other
Putin’s forces earlier this year. opposition member. This included a bill
to allow parliamentary proceedings to
But the Ukrainian soldiers’ be televised.
joy quickly turned to grief as ANNA KAREN (1936-2022).
they uncovered evidence of The South African-born Brit-
Russian war crimes. Prosecu- ish actress who played much
tors have documented the put-upon Olive Rudge in sit-
atrocities, which included com On The Buses said it was
torture chambers as well as as a striptease artist in various
mass graves. London clubs that she ‘learned
more about stage timings and
They have so far exhumed entertaining a live audience than anyone
more than 60 bodies – of both can teach you at drama school’.
soldiers and civilians – from a
burial site thought to contain at Grim discovery: A room with prison bars and right, the phone with cables and bulldog clips ON SEPTEMBER 19…
least 450 graves in a forest on
the edge of Izyum in Kharkiv. accused Russia of genocide in he was electrocuted for 40 min- sia has escalated its shelling of IN 1945, William Joyce, better known as
his TV address on Saturday and utes, adding: ‘They shot me Ukrainian towns and cities from Lord Haw-Haw for the posh accent he used
Some bodies showed signs of said it will answer for its crimes either with a pneumatic gun or within its own borders. for his Nazi propaganda broadcasts, was
torture, with their hands tied ‘both on the battlefield and in a gas gun, I don’t know – I was sentenced to death for treason. He was
behind their backs and ropes the courtroom’. He added: ‘More in a bag. [People] were beaten Several deaths, including hanged the following year.
around their necks, it was than ten torture chambers have with bats or iron pipes.’ those of four doctors and a nine- IN 2005, research revealed Status Quo had
claimed. Others revealed inju- already been found in the liber- year-old girl, were reported in achieved more hit singles (61) than any
ries consistent with rocket or ated areas in Kharkiv.’ The EU has called for an inter- the Kharkiv region. The UK’s other group in UK chart history.
shelling attacks. national war crimes tribunal to Ministry of Defence yesterday
And a resident of nearby be set up to probe Russia’s said Russia was ‘prepared to WORD WIZARDRY
President Volodymyr Zelensky Kupyansk gave a horrifying actions during its seven-month strike in an attempt to under-
account of the torture methods invasion. Following its hasty mine the morale of the Ukrain- GUESS THE DEFINITION: Manticore (c 1300s)
allegedly used on him. He said retreat on the battlefield, Rus- ian people and government’. A) A horse’s attempt to dump his rider.
B) A legendary monster.
C) One who haunts good tables, a
greedy sponger. Answer below.
FBI quiz Truss adviser in bribery probe
PHRASE EXPLAINED
A TOP adviser to Liz Truss has been inter- By Harriet Line is no suggestion CT Group or Mr Fullbrook As easy as falling off a log: Meaning very
viewed by the FBI about an alleged plot to Chief Political Correspondent had any knowledge of any alleged bribery easy. It is a mid-19th century American
rig an election in Puerto Rico. or corruption, nor that Mr Fullbrook car- expression and used by Mark Twain in 1880
$300,000 (£260,000) for her 2020 re-election ried out any work for Miss Garced. in the variant form of ‘rolling off a log’.
Mark Fullbrook, Downing Street’s chief campaign. They deny any wrongdoing.
of staff, is cooperating with the relevant The Sunday Times said Mr Fullbrook, 60, QUOTE FOR TODAY
enforcement authorities as a witness. According to The Sunday Times, Mr was made a formal subject of a US Depart-
Velutini paid the money to CT Group, the ment of Justice and FBI investigation this Money couldn’t buy friends, but you
The inquiry centres on an alleged bribe by Australian-British lobbying firm founded by year. A spokesman for Mr Fullbrook said: got a better class of enemy.
Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini, Sir Lynton Crosby. CT group supported Miss ‘The work was engaged only by Mr Her-
who is said to have promised to help a Garced in her unsuccessful re-election bid. rera [Velutini]... to conduct opinion Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (1918-2002)
former governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda research for him. Mr Fullbrook never did
Vázquez Garced, get re-elected if she sacked Mr Fullbrook, then CT’s chief global any work for, nor presented research find- JOKE OF THE DAY
an official investigating a bank he owned projects officer, is said to have taken the ings to, the governor or her campaign.’
there. It is alleged Mr Velutini promised lead, according to court documents. There WHAT do you call a bird that’s good
at quizzes? A know-it-owl.

Guess The Definition answer: B.

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN
and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

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How to find a FROM PREVIOUS PAGE

POSH PEN Picture: PIXEL8000 of the ZOe health Study, looking at
an app downloaded by more than
fit for three million of us during the More than just a diet: ZOE’s
a king pandemic, tracking Covid-19 symp- co-founder Prof Tim Spector
toms and enabling epidemiological
by Etan results to be calculated. encouraging them to get in the sea
Smallman regardless of how they look in a
When I realised that the ground- swimsuit. ‘The fish don’t care what
W hO has not vented His royal nibs: King Charles signs a visitors’ book breaking nutritional research of his size you are!’ I’d say with abandon,
their frustration team at King’s had been combined and it always felt great.
after getting on with an app as sophisticated as the
the wrong side of Covid one, I was sold. Because this is During my 30s, I underwent more
a leaking pen? more than just a diet — everyone than a year of IVF, before finally
‘Oh God, I hate this,’ said King on to the paper is not who signs up is enrolled in a study, having a son with my ex-partner.
Charles on Tuesday while signing exactly effortless, but the largest in-depth nutritional again, I prized my body far more for
a visitor’s book at hillsborough your friends will mar- research programme in the world. what it could do than what it looked
Castle in northern Ireland. ‘Oh vel at its ingenuity. like. I refused to bow to pressure to
look, it’s going everywhere,’ and why carry three at more than £500 for a year, taking ‘snap back’, determined that spend-
sympathised the Queen Consort. pens, when one will part is not cheap. But the wait gave ing time with my baby was more
do the trick? me time to save my pennies, as I was important than an immediate return
The brand of the offending imple- keen to be a part of something that to fitness. and I don’t regret it.
ment has not been revealed but, on EXPENDABLE could really shift the dial in thinking
a visit to a Welsh cathedral on about nutrition. after all, the Covid Then, well into my 40s, I found
Friday, it appeared that the app was pivotal in helping scientists myself shaken by how knocked I was
King had wisely brought ELEGANCE and the Government understand by Covid. I was particularly rattled by
his own pen along, calmly Pilot V disposable the symptoms of the virus and how how much of the impact was diet-
signing the visitors’ book fountain pen fast it was spreading. related. I had already gained more
(£5.29, ryman.co.uk) than a stone during lockdown, and
in Llandaff Cathedral eaGLe-eyeD viewers Imagine what this might do to the now, too tired to make myself proper
before passing his pen and way we eat — and, consequently, food, I was painfully aware of how my
the book to his wife. of the Proclamation of the how we feel about our bodies. increasingly erratic eating habits
To save you the risk of an King at the first accession were affecting my recuperation.
inky accident, we put five writing his message Council ever televised, at St Of course, no one wants to say
pens to the test to see which with a fine-nibbed Pilot James’s Palace on Saturday, they’re on ‘a diet’ these days. In an I was also struggling with running,
ones have the write stuff for a FriXion which boasts magical September 10, spotted fellow age of body positivity, saying you are knowing that the extra weight was
royal signature ... disappearing ink. Somehow the signatories — including the signing up for a nutritional research part of what made it feel tough. On
writing doesn’t smudge when Queen Consort, the Prince of programme might seem more top of that, as someone who has
ELIZABETH’S your fingers touch it but if you Wales and Liz Truss — using a appealing than admitting that you made a career out of body confi-
rub the paper with the plastic disposable fountain pen. Some want to slim down. dence — used to smiling brightly
FAVOURITE tip at the end of the refillable were shocked at the choice of and encouraging others — I increas-
barrel, it is perfectly erased, Pilot Varsity, or VPen, with one But I’m happy to be open about it. ingly didn’t want to be recognised
Parker 51 fountain pen using friction-generated heat. viewer tweeting: ‘had to check at 46, with a five-year-old son and struggling along the seafront.
(£79, cultpens.com) rattling towards peri-menopause, I
The late Queen was photo- The price you pay is a black the live feed to believe it.’ am exhausted — not just by a recent Despite all this, I was still hugely
graphed using a burgundy ink that looks rather anaemic The very idea of a throwaway bout of Covid, but chiefly by nearly resistant to the idea of going on a
Parker 51, once hailed as the and feels less smooth-flowing product would clash with the three decades’ worth of diets. diet. I had spent more than a decade
‘world’s most wanted’ and ‘a compared with its rivals. new monarch’s long-established fighting the notion that a trimmer
pen from another planet’, and, be warned, some environmental principles, but I remember the F Plan diet in the waistline equated to some sort of
thanks to its streamlined customers have reported their the VPen offers convenience, in house as a teenager, then the atkins, moral superiority.
silhouette and ‘hooded nib’. h a n d w r i t i n g d i s a p p e a r i n g that you never have to go near various celebrities espousing every-
Work on the aviation-inspired entirely from cards left in a hot an inkwell or cartridge, and thing from maple syrup to cabbage But when I heard about ZOe
design was completed in 1939 car. Probably not one for consti- gives you longhand as smooth (which means ‘life’ in Greek), with
— the company’s 51st year. tution-defining documents. as silk. It also comes in an array I’d long fought the its cutting-edge tests to measure
U.S. General Dwight D. eisen- of colours, is lightweight and idea that a trim how each of us is affected by the
hower used the model when he ON HIS MAJESTY’S offers the ease of a Biro with the waist equated to food we eat, it seemed less like
signed an acknowledgement of elegance of a fountain pen. moral superiority another ride on the futile Ferris
the German surrender in World SECRET SERVICE wheel of dieting and more like a way
War II and Parker has had a WHERE THERE’S soup, plus blood types and Dr Dukan. to try to future-proof my health.
royal warrant since 1962. Cross Tech3+ Refillable A QUILL… If you could stick to any of them,
Twist-Action Metal salvation! If you couldn’t, more fool as the team at ZOe explain, for
The 51 (above) comes in a lux- Multifunction Ballpoint Pen Manuscript quill pen and ink you. Might there be another way? some, processing blood-fat levels is
urious presentation box, with (£44.99, amazon.co.uk) set (£31.95, libertylondon.com) challenging; for others their body
one blue and one black car- ThIS writing tool — from 170- IF yOU want to feel more By the time I edged out of my 20s I finds it hard to keep blood glucose
tridge. It is available with either year-old U.S. brand Cross — Charles II than Charles III, was demoralised by the whole merry- levels steady. each of us digests food
a fine or medium stainless steel looks more gizmo from James go-round and focused on improving differently as a result of the medica-
my relationship with the body I had, tion we’ve taken over the years, the
rather then ones I saw in magazines. diet we grew up with and even the
pets we have in our family home.
I took up running and wrote books
about marathons and open-water all of which meant that when my
swimming. I learned to love my limbs box of tricks arrived, I was less aghast
for what they could do, rather than at collecting my own stool sample
what they looked like. In the proc- than excited to know the state of my
ess, I didn’t just learn to love myself, gut bacteria and which foods caused
I made a whole career out of it, too. me more harm than they were worth.

My bestseller Running Like a Girl, The app guides you day by day —
which has been sold in more than hour by hour and minute by minute
13 countries worldwide, led to a
decade of experience in talking
directly to readers about how they
feel about body image.

I hear from people every day about
how they had long thought sport
‘wasn’t for them’ until they read my
work. For years I have met women
who have thanked me for saying out
loud that you didn’t need to look
like a runner in order to run; for

nib. The writing is fluid and the Bond’s Q than something that invest in a quill kit. It comes with * Fits second-generation AirPods
‘precious resin’ body provides a would be wielded by a member a brass nib mounted on a vivid
regal edge, though its concealed of the Royal Family. blue feather, plus a 25 ml bottle
nib may fool some into thinking It comes in a presentation box of black ink, in which to dip your
you’re using a ballpoint. flimsier than that of the Parker. pen just like the King did at his
But twist the polished chrome Proclamation ceremony.
THE WRITING IS barrel clockwise and a black Writing with it is as scratchy
ballpoint emerges. as you would expect, though
UNMISTAKABLEPilot FriXion Erasable Rollerball Keep twisting for a red one, does give you the chance to
(£7.99 for two, whsmith.co.uk) perfect your italic and
and again for a mechanical pen-
cil — or turn anti-clockwise to copperplate calligraphy.
On TUeSDay, cameras did not abort your writing mission. The T h e q u i l l i s t h e l e a s t
just record the King’s ink top of the pen unscrews to comfortable to hold of the five
mishap, they also captured his reveal a pencil eraser and can and the only one that left me
conversation with Camilla — in be switched for the enclosed with ink-smeared hands and
which she told him he had the stylus, which is compatible with the blotchiest of writing paper.
date wrong in the visitor’s book. most touchscreen devices. Plenty of fun, but certainly not
That would have been no admittedly, it lacks the finesse fit for a 21st-century sovereign Personalised, £27, Kitsch, £50, Flower power, £12,
problem at all if he had been of a fountain and the flow of ink keen to keep his suit clean. notanotherbill.com katespade.co.uk coconut-lane.com

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 47

BEFORE AFTER

There’s Forget counting calories:
nothing like Alexandra lost a stone without
feeling she was on a ‘diet’
‘a piece of
tech all but few ‘bad’ ones, but that my ability
screaming ‘NO!’ to regulate my blood glucose is
pretty poor. No wonder my weight,
my energy levels and, eventually,
my mental health had all taken a
slide. My blood sugar really was on
a rollercoaster!

When I later interviewed sarah
Berry phD, Associate professor in
the Department of Nutritional
sciences at King’s College London
and part of the ZOE team, she
explained that this was probably
connected to peri-menopause, as
well as my gut diversity.

Once my results were in, the app
automatically updated. It is no
longer about testing, but about
learning which foods I should eat
regularly, which to eat more of
(‘Gut Boosters’) and which to
keep to occasional indulgences
(‘Gut suppressors’). You can
search for foods by name, as well

to put you off The sheer number
your almond of cheeses I can
enjoy was a

delightful surprise

’croissant Picture: KI PRICE as scan the barcodes of supermar-
ket ingredients. Everything I have
at some points — through the screaming ‘NOOOO!’ in real time less appealing muffin. I knew they feel different, not least because I eaten since has had a number
testing process. A packet of spe- to make you think twice about it. had been formulated in the name don’t feel bossed around. attributed to it, and I’m encour-
cially formulated muffins is sent Day two was the stool testing, of science rather than pleasure, but Daily updates on the app aged to log that number after each
with the kit, each with specific lev- and again, it proved to be surpris- I had not anticipated gagging on informed me that portion sizes are meal, keeping the score above 50
els of sugars and fats in them, ingly easy. The paper ‘sling’ which them. It took a full 20 minutes to not logged and no foods are ever and as close to 100 as possible.
designed to be eaten at certain went across the loo seat made get the ‘lunch’ down, an unprece- entirely off-limits. This made my
times of day, so the team can mon- scooping a small sample into a vial dented pastry-eating speed! heart sing — my precious collec- It was no surprise to see that
itor how your body responds. pretty simple, even if my five-year- Two hours later, I took the simple tion of cookbooks didn’t have to spinach was encouraged and
old was dumbfounded when he fingerprick blood test. Again, a gather dust, I just had to work out doughnuts were not, but the sheer
On day one I set up the blood appeared at the door. With the medical returns envelope was which recipes within were going to number of cheeses I can enjoy was
sugar sensor — the same sort of zeal of the convert, I popped the provided, and I forgot about the work better for me. a surprise and a delight. Younger,
glucose monitor worn by those results for the best part of a month. Furthermore, the app revealed yo-yo dieter me could never have
with diabetes. It was easy to press During this time the app encour- that calories were never again to imagined that fat-laden Camem-
into the back of my upper arm It’s less a diet, more aged me to monitor what I was be counted. The morning I was bert was in but watermelon (surely
(using a circular plaster) without eating by logging each meal in the told that ‘only you can determine so innocuous?) was not.
help, and I definitely wasn’t aware diary within it, and gave me daily the right amount of food you need
of the sensor after an hour or so. a personalised mini lectures on nutrition. to satisfy your needs’ I wanted to As well as the 1.2 million foods on
As time passed I also realised cry with relief. the app, there are hundreds of
I wouldn’t have thought about it that my previous resistance to When my results finally arrived, suggested recipes specific to your
any further if I hadn’t been scan- way to future- ‘spending so much time being dic- there were more than 100 pDF Gut Boosters. The core mindset is
ning my phone across it every tated to by a bloody app’ had been pages, including the exact names learning what works for your body,
eight hours for the next fortnight. proof my health a little off; those ten minutes while of bacteria inside my gut plus how rather than following a rigid plan.
Each time I did, I could see my I made morning coffee (now black my data measures up against the
blood glucose levels rising and rather than milky) were vastly pref- rest of those who have taken the Keeping my blood glucose steady
dipping in perfect sync with what erable to the endless ticker tape of ZOE predict study. by choosing foods which don’t
I ate, and even when I slept. self-recriminations, mental calorie At first, the documents were send it sky-rocketing is already
vial into the provided returns box arithmetic and gazing at photos of overwhelming. But each member producing results. simply put, if
This is the only part of the test- and got it in the post AsAp. days gone by that had so recently has an online appointment with you keep blood glucose steadier,
ing which provided instant results Day three involved eating the first dominated my mental landscape. their designated coach at this your body is not constantly recov-
— and they had an almost imme- two batches of muffins, testing I am ashamed to say I once point to talk them through it. ering from the inflammation asso-
diate impact on how I ate. blood fat and blood sugar. One por- worked out that you could con a In short, my results boiled down ciated with those sugar highs, nor
tion was for breakfast and exactly step monitor by attaching it to a to the fact that my body deals well the dips and cravings that follow.
It wasn’t that I didn’t know the four hours later came the lunch knitting needle while making socks with fat, that I have a wide variety
almond croissant I treat myself to batch. Truly, I have never tasted a and watching Endeavour. Now, I of ‘good’ bacteria and relatively As someone who enjoys cooking
after school drop-off wasn’t going and gets bored by restrictive diet
to get a nutritional gold star, but plans, the sheer variety now avail-
there is nothing quite like seeing a able to me has been encouraging.
piece of medical equipment all but And knowing the order in which to
eat certain things (for example,
Life’s Eco-friendly, £15, Perfect harmony, Citrus hit, £50, FRANCESCA DALE greens before carbs to slow down
LITTLE wavecase.co.uk £15.95, uk.burga.com johnlewis.com my glucose response) has meant I
Leather, £38, have changed a lot without feeling
luxuries macarooon.com I’ve surrendered too much.
EARBUD
CASES Above all, being reminded of how
much control I have over my own
body has been an enormous relief.
At last I feel free from whatever
fad diet might come along next.

It has only been six weeks since I
downloaded the app, but the two
biggest changes have been realis-
ing how much my lack of sleep has
driven my snacking, and that eating
much earlier in the evening helps
with that. Consequently, I have
already lost a stone without doing
what I thought was ‘dieting’.

I am determined not to follow
my usual habit of eight weeks of
victory followed by a slump. I have
signed up for a year and won’t
judge it an unqualified success
until I have kept it up for more
than 12 weeks.

But for now, I’m in clothes I
haven’t worn in two years, and I
have downloaded the Couch-to-5k
app all over again. It’s all to play
for, but I’m back in the game.
n joinzoe.com

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HOW TO DRESS Styles that
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shoes, £229,
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I don’t mind ‘tank top’ (I loved the
1970s), but I know it’s a trigger for this season’s
many women who wore theirs, first
time around, with a pointy collared
nylon blouse, bell bottoms and a
mullet. And that’s a pity because
they’re missing out on one of the Power Tank
most useful items you can have in
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The tank top we’re talking about
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helps — has come a long way since
its Bay City Rollers days and
even since it bounced into the
fashion top ten last year. TANK TOPS:

Now it has shed its quirky, THE RULES
retro image (you can still get a
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they’re the exception) and
neatened up, and evolved into ● LACE stitch adds texture.

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More and more of us are
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discovered they are an instant
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sharpener — you look more if you’re planning to wear
pulled together in a trim a jacket.
sleeveless sweater over your
shirt — not to mention ideal Round-neck tanks look best
for inbetween seasons, when a in shorter lengths, wear them
third of a sweater is needed. with waisted trousers or skirts.
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but all of the above issues are wear a bright pink shirt with shoes, £229,
solved by a lightweight tank. my trouser suit, but I might lkbennett.
wear one of Zara’s bright knit com; necklace,
I like the way a tank gives an tanks (£19.99, zara.com) this £70, talis
ordinary shirt a preppy punch winter when colour is a way of chains.co.uk
(a dash of preppiness is a making tailoring look new.
shortcut to looking smart this On trend: Kendall Jenner LAST WEEK, I left the by Helena
autumn), but also how it con- Don’t worry, though, you house one day at 7am Morrissey
tains you. The reason we all for oversize shirts: wear the don’t have to go that far to and got back at 11pm.
love a gilet in winter is they tank top longer in the body, reboot your look: La Redoute’s The morning consisted cold. I needed elegant shoes that
give us a bit of definition; the with side slits, and let the shirt ecru tank top would lift a dark of back-to-back meet- wouldn’t bite and trousers that didn’t
same is true of a tank top, only tails peep out underneath. shirt and trousers (£25, ings and the afternoon several pinch at the waist.
it’s a lot more versatile and, laredoute.co.uk) and a round- speaking engagements.
providing it comes in a mid- Marks & Spencer does a neck cream tank always looks Polly McMaster, founder of label The
weight knit — not too flimsy long-line V-neck style in cable smart with black or navy. It was exhausting but my wardrobe Fold and a mother of two, knows the
but not bulky either — tank knit camel (£29.50, marksand worked as hard — if not harder — than importance of smart yet feminine
tops can be very flattering. spencer.com) and a cream When it comes to the evening me. A smart coat had been required
crew-neck style with cap (no reason to stop wearing but nothing too warm as it wasn’t
This is once again the sleeves (£22.50), while Kin has your smart tank after dark), a
autumn of the show-off sleeve a looser-fit shape, also cap- tank is a clever way of tidying
and the smart tank allows you up a creased work blouse. Or
to reveal the balloon sleeves of you could wear a textured one
your blouse while keeping the like Cos’s boucle cream vest
look neat and work friendly. (£45) on its own, under a
jacket, with gold chains.
It also means you can wear
all your pretty summer tops I like Cos or Boden for the
well into the autumn. For this casual end of smart casual and
you simply need a tank that Me+Em when you need to
look smarter. Me+Em does a
range of tank tops from clean
edge V-necks (£115, meandem.
finishes neatly on the sleeved, in navy (£45, john com) to more luxurious
shoulders — nothing with slim lewis.com). lace-stitch vests to wear over
straps and certainly not Cap sleeves make the look a a satin blouse with midi skirts
cutaway scoop shoulders. Cos bit more elegant and grown and boots or wide-leg trousers.
does a black V-neck vest (£59, up and work well with wide- I f o n l y e v e r y t h i n g w e r e
cos.com). The same rule goes leg trousers — though not this simple.

Think you 1IT will be the 40th anniversary of The B. Topped the hardback and the biggest sex maniac you
know Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ on paperback bestseller lists at ever saw.’
October 7. What was Adrian originally called? the same time. C. ‘I was racked with sexuality but
everything A. Dylan; B. Tarquin; C. Nigel; D. Sue. C. Made Townsend the it wore off when I helped
about... bestselling writer of the 1980s. my father put manure on our
2 AuThOR Sue Townsend said she didn’t D. Made its author the first to rose bed.’
ADRIAN MOLE know what Adrian looked like until she earn more than $1billion from D. ‘You wouldn’t think girls would
saw . . . who on TV? her books. like sex. You’d think it’s too rude
A. Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean; B. Noel for them.’
Edmonds; C. Jeremy Paxman; D. John Major. 5WhICh of the following is a
line from Mole? 6 TRUE  OR  FALSE: The 16th-
3 TRUE OR FALSE: Townsend said she wrote century Tudor boy king Edward
the book for middle-aged men. A. ‘An anarchic insurrection VI and former prime minister David
had been launched by one of Cameron have both been compared
4WhICh of these did the book NOT achieve? my privates.’ to the fictional diarist.
A. Sold a million copies within a year. B. ‘In my mind, I’m probably

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work as hard as you The one
Morrissey lauds the label that does the job lesson I’ve

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Getting a balance in life has been
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padded insoles. she is conscious of her job, of four women, all but one were fashion gallery something you can find the time.
tummy, so often features draping. wearing the same suit, underlining the come alive in
lack of choice in workwear back then. At the end of the day, family is the
for its tenth anniversary, The fold has she had spotted a gap in the market. The Mail+ most important thing. My racing career
launched a capsule of ten looks. I was a journey for me and my Dad. We’ve
particularly like the cream jacket and It’s hard to find business basics — for travelled about the country, thousands
cerulean blue dress — there’s also a suit example a top that doesn’t look too of miles, enjoyed the successes and
in the same shade. The power dress in casual or too Margaret Thatcher — but commiserated the failures together.
plum reminds me of Roland Mouret and The fold’s burgundy silk blouse fits the
there are black, tailored trousers with a bill. It is just one example of well-cut When my younger brother Thomas
subtle elasticated waist. clothes for working women who want to died of bone cancer when he was 20, it
look high-end without catwalk prices. taught me that life is short. If there are
Polly believes women benefit from opportunities, grab them and live life to
the full. I think Thomas dying made me
ANSWERS introducing her Cabinet. There was this 5) C. ‘I was racked with sexuality but it want to seize every moment of every day
geeky-looking man at the back. I said to my wore off when I helped my father put and make the most of it.
1) C. Nigel children: “My God, that’s Adrian Mole!” ’ manure on our rose bed’
Mole’s debut was in a BBC Radio 4 play, Private eye magazine went on to publish A.Is from Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint; After winning the Grand National, after
but his creator sue Townsend was spoof extracts from what they called: The B. J.D. salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye; all the media and the presentation
persuaded the name was too similar to secret Diary of John Major, Aged 47¾. D. Doing It, by Melvin Burgess. ceremony, it was 9.30pm. We were about
another fictional schoolboy, Geoffrey two-and-half hours from home and my
Willans’ Nigel Molesworth. Townsend said: 3) FALSE 6) TRUE wife and I said: ‘Right, what shall we do?
‘I made lists of soft-sounding names. He IN fACT, Townsend — who as a youth HIsToRIAN David starkey compared Well, we’d better drive home.’ It was a
could never have been called “steve”, worker spent a lot of time with adolescents edward vI’s diary to Mole’s. The teenage very un-glamourous end to the day!
for instance.’ — said she intended it ‘for mothers of diarist was born on April 2, 1967 (sharing a
2) D. John Major teenage boys to give them an inkling of birthday with Townsend), meaning former I think what that shows is whether
sHe said: ‘I couldn’t imagine what he what goes on’ in their son’s head. Prime Minister David Cameron would have you’ve had a great win or a crushing
looked like until I saw John Major on the been in the same school year, as one defeat, the world will keep on turning as
television and Margaret Thatcher was 4) D. Made its author the first to earn political commentator pointed out. usual. It’s who you have around you that
more than $1billion from her books. really matters.
THAT honour was J. K. Rowling’s. ETAN SMALLMAN n ebonyhorseclub.org.uk

Interview: ANTONIA LENON

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by Kate Spicer Royal favourites: The Queen
with two of her pets in 1962

AUTHOR OF LOST DOG: A LOVE STORY my fee because that was my
advice to her, too. especially as
she travelled a lot, and care for
her dogs fell to others who were
Dr roger Mugford, one not as proficient as she was.’
of Britain’s leading animal
psychologists, first met There were only three dogs left in
the Queen in 1983: ‘I the Queen’s household pack when
received a referral from a she died: two Corgis, Muick and
Sandy, and a cocker spaniel, Lissy.

for all the staff who helped
veterinary surgeon.’ manage them (two footman at
Picture: CAMERA PRESS/STUDIO LISA/RBO Buckingham Palace were
The notes from the vet described ‘a lady in apparently allocated to the Corgis
Windsor who had a large number of dogs, alone, known as Doggie one and
with a history of repeated dog fights, and Doggie Two) and all the weeks
humans suffering puncture wounds’. that she might be away, Dr
Mugford says it was still the Queen
A day before the appointment, Dr Mugford they responded to as boss.
was advised the client was, in fact, Her
Majesty the Queen. ‘Members of the house- ‘Absolutely, she was the authority
hold had been bitten breaking up dog in the group [­of dogs]. The way in
fights, including the Queen Mother, whose which at mealtime, she personally
Dachshund-Corgi cross ran with the pack supervised the food and they were
belonging to her daughter.’ all lined up, sitting in a semi-circle,
showed a degree of control even I
And it was quite a pack: ‘There were nine would find hard to emulate.’
when I was present.
Her training style, he says, ‘was
‘Coping with nine dogs in a fight would firm and authoritative, in the
be quite a challenge for anyone...’ he says, Barbara Woodhouse style. In most
with dry British understatement. of photos you see of her with them,
they are off lead.
The Queen had more than 30 Corgis during
her reign, and while she loved her horses ‘They were certainly free all the
and her working dogs, it was the Corgis and time I saw them. That shows
the Dorgis (those famous Windsor-bred substantial authority, to manage
accidental Dachshund/Corgi crosses) that nine dogs off lead. She was firm
were physically closest to her — arguably and kind, and she treated them all
as individuals.
From an animal behaviourist whocloser than friends, even family.
While she kept separate rooms from her HILe most of the
husband, apparently the dogs sometimes dogs had a very
shared the royal bedchamber. sound relation-
ship, occasional
provided guidance about the royalThe second elizabethan Age saw them fights broke out,’ Dr Mugford
adds. ‘one, Chipper, tended to
everywhere: their little legs leaping down pick fights with the others. Dog
the steps of her air transport, or being fights are really scary and a sure-
fire way to be bitten.’
dogs for years, an intriguing insight...carried up them by liveried handlers; they The Queen took Dr
Mugford’s advice to
appeared snoozing on her bed as she sipped reduce the size of the
group — choosing
Wher morning tea; under her desk as she read to let her beloved
‘carpet’ naturally
documents of state, and on the sofa as she decrease in numbers
posed for informal portraits, as well as as they died. Chipper
photobombing the formal ones, like that was rehomed to Prin-
with the england rugby team at Bucking- cess Anne.
ham Palace after they’d won Dr Mugford contin-
ued providing occa-
Yes, thethe2003WorldCup. sional ad hoc expert
In the background of those advice to the royal
country shoots with kilts and Corgi and Dorgi clan
sturdy shoes, little toast- and went on to work
coloured hillocks can often be for another less than
spotted. The Queen’s furry perfect royal dog, an
entourage followed her around, english Bull Terrier
as Princess Diana so famously called Dotty.
said, ‘like a moving carpet’. He provided expert
witness for Dotty’s
‘Canines aren’t like humans owner, Princess Anne,
and it is not at all helpful when she was prose-
cuted under the 1991
CORGISto anthropomorphise their Dangerous Dogs Act.
His account — which
emotions,’ says Dr Mugford. proved the dog had
Still, one can’t help wonder- not intended to bite a
young boy in Windsor
ing how they are faring now. great Park, but his
Will her remaining dogs be bicycle wheels —
experiencing a sense of loss? saved Dotty from
will grieve for thefTeN reported death row.
‘The informality, the
signs of a dog’s plain funniness of a
‘grief’ include look- group of dogs was clearly a source
of constant amusement to the
Oing around for the Queen,’ says Dr Mugford, a
specialist in the psychology
person, retreating to a spot behind the human/animal bond.
where they slept or sat, eating Alexander Pope, the 18th cen-
less and sleeping more. tury satirist, rarely went anywhere
without with his guardian and
Dog behaviourist Winkie trusted ally, a great Dane called
Spiers regularly sees evidence Bounce, and once said: ‘Histories
in dogs of what we might call are more full of examples of the
grief: ‘It manifests as stress fidelity of dogs than of friends.’
When the Queen’s great-grand-
QUEENand anxiety; their rock is gone. father, King edward VII, died in
‘They have a fully functioning May 1910, his loyal wire fox terrier,
limbic system — the area in named Caesar, roamed the
the brain that deals with corridors of Buckingham Palace
emotion, as well as arousal and looking for his master.
memories. Dogs feel and know Caesar went on to walk behind
things. They can have a sort of

of the packprecognition; when people are

dying, they know.’
Dog behaviourist Janine Daven-

port agrees. ‘They will notice her
not being there and will have an
emotional reaction to a human
not returning, but they will not
understand why. Consequently,
they may wait at a similar or usual
place each day for the return of
the deceased human. You could
call this a “grieving” stage but it
may not last long.’

Dr Mugford, however, has faith in
the Queen’s dogs’ resilience. ‘We
can certainly imagine that a dog
after her death. Sharing with Beatrice and her father were one can see how a guardsman
many dog owners a sensitivity not regularly walking the dogs at would be very tempting.’
to leave dogs behind, she told Balmoral in the months leading
horse trainer Monty roberts in up to the Queen’s death. And it’s Dr Mugford was an admirer of
2015 that she would have no more been confirmed that the Duke of the ‘lady in Windsor’ and her
new dogs. York’s household will take canine husbandry, but he does not
the Corgis. suggest her dogs were perfect.
Despite this, Prince Andrew and
his daughters gave her two Corgi According to Dr Mugford, they ‘The Queen became something
puppies to comfort her after the will have their work cut out. of a collector of dogs,’ says Dr
death of her husband last year. Mugford. ‘At one point, the pack
‘Corgis are a working breed, count got up to an eccentric 11.
The Queen’s dresser and confi- designed for a hard life driving
dante, Angela Kelly, said at the cattle on Welsh hills. I can assure ‘She told me she would drive
time: ‘I was worried they would you that the Queen’s Corgis were herself and her dogs in a beat-up
get under the Queen’s feet, but not treated like lapdogs. old estate car — a Vauxhall, I
will, to use the human term, they have turned out to be a ‘My first childhood Corgi [­Dr think — from Windsor up the M4
“grieve” but if they’re in a sociable to Buckingham Palace. the coffin at his master’s funeral,
beside a Highland soldier and
and busy household, which these godsend. They are beautiful and Mugford has owned three] was a ‘She was very open discussing ahead of heads of state.
dogs very much were, they likely great fun, and the Queen often cattle-driving working dog. Corgis her favourite subjects: dogs and Perhaps we can expect the same
will not go into a great decline.’ takes long walks with them in herd cattle by nipping at their horses. Prince Philip suggested at today’s funeral of a Queen, who
Certainly, the Queen was alert to [­Windsor’s] Home Park.’ tough heels. If you ran and they she should bring numbers down, so clearly found solace in the
the cruelty of leaving dogs behind According to reports, Princess couldn’t stop you, they would nip. and she could have saved herself companionship of her dogs.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 51

THE MIND

DR MAXDOCTOR
Let NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton transform your life

William At 19, Lila’s
and Harry a growing
should go (role) model
to therapy
together LILA MOSS was photographed at
Tom Ford’s New York Fashion
The whole country held its breath Week presentation with her
recently when Princes William and insulin pump proudly on display.
harry went on a joint walkabout with Good for her. No matter that
their wives to view the floral tributes at she’s a successful model and
Windsor Castle. the daughter of Kate Moss, it
It had been rumoured that they were no longer speaking, takes courage for a 19-year-old
and they hadn’t been pictured together since the Duke of to do that.
edinburgh’s funeral last April. Surely this is what the Queen I’ve had a number of young
would have wanted — to bring the warring brothers together patients with Type 1 diabetes
in their time of grief? over the years and, while insulin
The Princes have been putting on a united front at the events Picture: GETTY pumps have revolutionised the
surrounding their grandmother’s way the condition is treated,
lying-in-state and will be together people are often self-conscious
again at her funeral today. about them.
But what we all want to know while an enormous gesture — is I remember one young woman
only the beginning. A lasting who’d never been to the beach
is: will the truce last? reconciliation will, I suspect, parties understand how a spirit of moving forward, with because she was so worried
Fallouts with relatives are require the brothers to meet situation has developed. It’s a the knowledge that they will that people would see her
privately in order to try to study in profound interpersonal need to think about the patterns insulin pump.
always complicated. I have sat in understand each other’s pain. understanding and empathy. that have emerged and address She felt it marked her out as
many family therapy sessions I would urge them to do so with A therapist may focus on them in a constructive way. ‘different’ from her friends
over the years and these kinds of a family therapist so they can analysing a previous grievance, when all she wanted to be was
rifts always have incredibly properly understand what or review a past incident and Sometimes they have to agree the same as them. It sometimes
deep-seated, complex roots. happened to their once heart- suggest alternative ways family that the past is in the past and takes a celebrity in the public
warming bond. members might have responded to put it behind them. The eye to show that there’s no
even in cases where one person At a later date, their wives and to one another at the time. relationship will never be as reason to be ashamed.
seems to be clearly in the wrong, father might be invited to attend, They might also address sources cordial as it once was, as the
the purpose of any group therapy too. This is the only way key of conflict at a more abstract wounds are still there. ■ Details have emerged about
is to try to help everyone issues can be addressed. level, such as pointing out HRt that is now available over
understand what has happened harry has spoken about having patterns of interaction that may BuT occasionally it is the counter, and unfortunately
and reach a resolution. therapy himself, which is to have gone unnoticed. clear that at least it’s not quite the game changer
be commended, but there is Family therapists tend to be one party is not we hoped. it’s not conventional
While a schism can be triggered sometimes a risk that too more interested in the ready to address HRt and, crucially, it won’t help
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the culmination of age-old down and try who had been waiting to see forward, rather therapy sessions where family menopause (such as hot flushes)
wounds that have not healed. to understand doctors or had an op cancelled. t h a n s i m p l y members have simply refused to or protect against heart disease.
what is going My clinic was axed but I insisted looking back. attend, and an empty chair is that’s because it’s a pessary
Family members can be The reality of placed where they would sit. that contains a low-level
baffled about what’s really oestrogen that’s not absorbed
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therapy together. that the relationship is unlikely with vaginal atrophy (that’s
to be salvaged. Instead, uncomfortable thinning, drying
HArry has behaved individuals work on their own to and inflammation), it doesn’t
unreasonably — on try to understand what has have the systemic effects of a
the face of it at happened and, hopefully, no tablet or gel. Women still find it
least. he wants to longer feel aggrieved. They accept difficult to get the right
escape the duties of royal life but o n b e t w e e n that all patients would be that they cannot change the menopause diagnosis, and
still have its privileges. osftrehianemetlipihnonglendysrei.vfTiodphctuieusharsilsansion,nvnog’lvsseeswenoHrnekeirnxMgtawaplajpeetreesotk, yvb. eTuwh.toiIsutmlhdienaknonsmlytahtayrehecaccebtiorert,nc,auciwtnimhlhinaesatturtaiemoennvabceereiessrr person, and then they move on. supply chain issues are causing
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More often than not, while women who need it.
incredibly hurtful and damaging some of the individuals dreaded
claims in public, which must the prospect of family therapy, DR MAX PRESCRIBES...
have been exceptionally painful once they attend, they are
for the royals. getting both parties in astonished at how helpful it is. QUEEN’S BEST QUOTES
On paper, they would appear the same room. The ideal solution is that
to be a couple with whom it I ’ v e o f t e n h a d p a t i e n t s everyone listens to each other; In 20 years I can count on one THIS book was
would be hard to reconcile. astonished by what their understands the roots of each hand the number of people who published some
But I have no doubt that this relatives tell them. They’d had other’s pain; and is able to put have told me it didn’t help. The time ago but I
feud runs deeper than just recent no idea that certain things that pride aside and apologise, even if most frequent feedback is that picked it off my
events. We cannot know what happened many years ago were what they did was unwitting they wish they’d done it sooner. shelf after the sad
really lies behind the falling-out being played out again and again or unintentional. news of the
— the deep wounds on both within the family. They come to an understanding Follow: @MaxPemberton Queen’s death,
sides that caused the split. But family therapy isn’t about of how a situation has developed and it did raise
The display of unity we have attributing blame. It’s about and how it can be prevented in my spirits. You
seen over the past week or so — trying to help the different the future. They do this in the Look Awfully Like
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Heartbreaking, inspiring

to see the world before

ADMIRING THE SUNSET

Awe-inspiring: The
cliffs in Mongolia

CAMEL TREKKING

Desert adventure: The family in Mongolia. Laurent, five, wanted to drink juice while riding a camel

LIKE so many mums, Edith ALL GOING SWINGINGLY
Lemay is a tad photo-
obsessed. During the epic OPEN-AIR SWIMMING
family holiday she is now
on, she has taken thousands Taking the plunge: A refreshing dip in the cool waters of Turkey
of pictures.

She sends me a file with the edited
highlights. It contains nearly 400 photo-
graphs — wonderful images of not only her
children’s wide smiles, but of glorious
sunsets, waterfalls, wildlife, rainbows. The
best you can see of the world, basically.

‘I take a lot of pictures,’ she admits. ‘I’m a
little crazy on that side, but it’s my way of
coping. I want to capture every single part
of this trip so that my children will be able
to see the pictures for as long as possible.

‘Looking at photographs only requires a
small field of vision. It’s about building that

‘It’s about building
the hard disk of
their memories’

memory, on top of what they actually see —
the hard disk of their memories, in a way.’
You may have gathered that this is no
ordinary family holiday. Edith, 44, her
husband Sebastian, 45, and their four
children are on what she calls a ‘making
visual memories’ adventure.
In short, they are seeing the world in the Beach fun: Balancing on a
most literal sense — and while they still can, rope swing in Tanzania
because three of Edith’s four children are MEETING THE LOCALS

slowly going blind. Hug time: The four children make friends with a family in Namibia
In 2018 their eldest child,
Mia, now 11, was diagnosed with have visited Namibia, Zambia, comfortably off — Sebastian
retinitis pigmentosa, a cruel by Jenny Johnston Tanzania, Turkey, Mongolia and works in finance, Edith in logistics
condition which causes visual Indonesia. When I catch up with — the trip was made possible
cells to break down, gradually Edith they are in Bali, around when Sebastian’s company was
stealing the eyesight. The condi- halfway through their trip. bought out, leading to a one-off
tion is genetic, although the defec- What have they seen so far? bonus payment. Edith calls it
tive genes responsible had never Perhaps the better question would their ‘gift from life’.
made their presence known in the to reach adulthood with his vision like to see there. The results were be, what haven’t they seen? ‘We’d had some pretty bad
wider family before. intact. They found themselves in a charming, and a little unexpected. Wildlife ticked off the list includes numbers, so when this happened
‘We were both carriers, without distressing situation, of course, ‘We drew up a bucket list, not so elephants, giraffes, zebras and we felt really blessed. It allowed
us knowing,’ says Edith. ‘There but after the initial shock and much about the countries or the cheetahs, most seen on safari in us to do this on the scale we are
was no history in either family. denial (‘I think it was like the places, but about activities.’ Africa. ‘We saw a giraffe on our first doing it.’
They told us we had a one-in-four stages of grief,’ Edith admits), this What did they really want to do? day. Laurent said: “Is it real?” ’ Edith and Sebastian had never
chance of transmitting this to our remarkable couple resolved to fill ‘Mia is horse-mad so she wanted Mia got to ride her wild horses even heard of this rare condition
children. Unfortunately, we got their children’s young minds with to ride horses. Colin wanted to — in Mongolia. They have also before, but it was issues with Mia’s
three out of four.’ as many unforgettable images sleep on a train or a boat. Laurent, slept in a yurt, taken a hot-air night vision that led to them
By the time the family realised as possible. the little one, was a bit too young balloon, pitched their tents in the seeking medical help.
what they were dealing with — And real images — from life, not to understand but he made us Gobi desert and swum in thermal ‘She would walk into things,
that Mia was already on a ones from books or the internet. laugh. He wanted to drink juice pools in Turkey. And the camel? stumble in the bedroom. She
trajectory towards blindness — ‘It really was a case of, “Why look while sitting on a camel.’ ‘Oh yes, Laurent got on his didn’t seem to have a problem
their two youngest sons, Colin, at an elephant in a book when we Off they went, to find a camel. camel. We even found him some with seeing things in the day, but
seven, and Laurent, five, were also can go and see the real thing.” ’ And the rest. They rented out juice to have on it.’ at night there would be issues.
showing symptoms. Edith says. their house for a year and did that The original plan had been to Mia was our first child. We thought
‘As soon as they told us Mia had A trip of a lifetime was planned. thing most people dream of but start the trip in 2020, kicking off in maybe the eyes were slower to
it, I knew my two youngest They sat down with their children rarely do (or can rarely afford to Russia and China, but Covid scup- develop in children.’
children had it, too,’ says Edith. and asked them where in the do) and just took off. pered that. So they set off, from When she was around six, they
The diagnosis confirmed that world they would like to go and, Since they departed their native Montreal, in March this year. started Googling ‘night-vision
Leo, nine, was the only child likely more pertinently, what they would Canada six months ago, the family While the couple are clearly issues’ and read of this condition.

Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 Page 53

... the family who went
their children go blind

REINDEER MAGIC

So fur, so good: Stroking
some antlers in Mongolia

CUDDLING A TORTOISE

After seeking help, they went person, but admits she went to sure we have headlamps with us if Will my wife be blind?” You just Shelling out: Leo, nine, got to
through a series of tests, and were pieces at the start. ‘I collapsed,’ we go out in the evening.’ answer their questions as best you grips with this giant in Tanzania
devastated when the news was she says. ‘Not in front of Mia, but can but, honestly, it mostly isn’t
broken. Retinitis pigmentosa is in a side room.’ What do the children know about an issue. They have taught us how found difficult is that Mia wants
not treatable — and the prognosis their condition? Mia was told to handle it.’ to be a surgeon when she grows
can sound bleak. It took another year to confirm when she was seven. ‘I had to have up. ‘Should we try to steer her
what she already knew: that this that conversation, telling her that And the children are astonishing away from that? But who am I to
Problems with night vision was affecting three of her children. she was going to go blind,’ says in their resilience, as children say she can’t?’
usually lead to issues with edith. ‘She said: “oh, that isn’t often are. ‘Mia now says: “That’s
peripheral vision. The field of All three have issues already. As fun,” and then didn’t say anything in the future.” on a day-to-day You couldn’t meet a more positive,
vision shrinks. Sometimes the end well as problems with night vision, else. I thought she didn’t basis, it doesn’t bother them.’ can-do family though. The shared
result will be complete blindness; they have sensitivity to light and quite understand. experience is a comfort. Certainly,
sometimes some sight is retained. have been advised to wear sun- The gradual decline is a tricky the younger boys are able to follow
There is no way of knowing, and glasses. ‘Which we try to do as much ‘A few days later she came in and thing to navigate. edith says they Mia’s very calm lead.
no way of predicting the path. as possible’ — but it can be difficult said she would have to learn to have wondered how much they
in the evening because of their keep her room tidy because when should be preparing their children edith says another reason for the
‘And just because one child existing issues with night vision. she can’t see, she’ll need to have for life ahead with visual impair- trip was to show her children the
progresses in a certain way, it does everything in the same place. ment. Should they be teaching real world — and the unfairness of
not mean that the others will This trip has thrown up a few Then I caught her practising going them Braille, for instance? some of it. ‘We have met families
follow,’ says their mum. ‘It makes extra issues — sand in their eyes from room to room with her who have no running water, no
everything hard to plan for.’ edith in the desert, for instance — but eyes closed.’ ‘The answer was no. It’s very electricity. It has shown them that
seems a very positive, pragmatic they have been determined to get difficult to learn Braille when you people are suffering on a lot of lev-
round them. ‘We do have to make More recently, laurent has can see, and we have no way of els and that we are incredibly
reached the ‘questions stage’. ‘He knowing if they will need it. There lucky. Yes, as a family we have
‘Mia wanted to ride horses, Colin asked me: “What does being blind are so many technological challenges, but so does everyone.’
wanted to sleep on a train or boat’ mean?” — and I realised he didn’t advances with their phones, too
actually know. I explained it in [for example, with audiobooks]. Their trip sounds hard work (‘We
terms of having your eyes closed, We just have to wait and see.’ are not staying in five-star luxury.
but then he started to think about It’s very much tents and buses’)
it. He asked: “How will I drive a Another parenting dilemma is but also a blast.
car? How will I cross the road? managing expectations. edith
says that one of the things she has over the coming six months they
plan to travel to Malaysia, Thai-
land, Borneo and, hopefully,
Cambodia. Any specifics that are
still on their bucket list? ‘Whales,’
laughs edith. ‘And a volcano —
preferably a live one, with lava, but
I’m not sure how viable that is.’

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Daily Mail, Monday, September 19, 2022 TELEVISION 57

FILM CHOICES Looking for gold? Nesbitt’s digital
facelift is where the money’s at . . .
Paddington 2,
6.50pm, BBC1 Goodbye botox, and CHRISTOPHER then the picture dived under-
IT’S been a sombre forget skin peels. STEVENS water and followed them as they
ten days, but here’s As Jimmy Nesbitt made a break for freedom
the most feelgood whipped off his bala- WEEKEND TV through the splintering floes.
of films, as the clava, looking 25 years
adorable bear younger, we entered the age Bloodlands HHHHI Frozen Planet II HHHHH other astonishing images
from darkest Peru of the electronic facelift. included walruses rolling down a
(pictured — voiced beach into the sea, like children
by Ben Whishaw) Nesbitt, playing dirty belfast playing on a hillside, and orcas
returns for a second copper dCI Tom brannick in killing a juvenile bowhead whale
delightful adventure. This time, he finds Bloodlands (bbC1), flaunted a taut — ramming it to break its ribs,
friends in the most unlikely of places — jawline, unlined forehead and then leaving it to drown.
in prison, to be precise, after he is stitched coal-black hair.
up by Hugh Grant’s nefarious actor. Nature is cruel, but orcas (also
A caption flashed up: it was called killer whales) appear to
The Guernsey Literary And Potato February 1998. Jimmy should have gold bullion, I wouldn’t use a and bloodlands is worth an extra actively enjoy the cruelty.
Peel Pie Society, 8.30pm, BBC2 been filming the first series of Cold rusty old tank or a lock-up with star for that alone.
LILY JAMES leads an all-star British cast, Feet, with sideburns, and Helen a flimsy padlock. Perhaps what’s most
including her fellow Downton Abbey alumni baxendale as his girlfriend, Rachel Frozen Planet II (bbC1) remarkable is the ability of the
Penelope Wilton, Jessica Brown Findlay and — remember when they tried to get There was a nasty moment deserves a week’s supply of extra film crews to be in the right place
Matthew Goode, in this charming adaptation frisky in a charity shop window? when brannick quizzed an stars for its endlessly stupendous to capture spontaneous
of Mary Ann Shaffer’s historical novel. informant in an empty nightclub. p h o t o g r a p h y. A m o n g t h e behaviour — such as an
James plays an author who visits Guernsey yet here he was, on a dark night Traumatised by Adrian dunbar’s exceptional sequences was film impromptu ballet by two young
in 1946, and learns about the islanders’ in Northern Ireland, killing a singing detective act over on ITV, of 30 beluga whales, trapped in a polar bears sliding across ice.
experiences under the Nazi Occupation. couple of bank robbers in cold in Ridley, I was afraid Nesbitt lagoon in the Arctic ice.
blood to steal their loot. might start crooning some
CHANNEL 5 melancholy ballad. but he didn’t, A drone looked down on them,
This shot of him, looking half his circling like minnows in a pond,
6.00 Peppa Pig (AD,R,HD) 6.05 Peppa Pig real age, lasted only a few seconds.
but it gave us a glimpse at the
(AD,R,HD) 6.10 Peppa Pig (AD,R,HD) 6.15 future of television. Celebrities
have long been doctoring their
Peppa Pig (AD,R,HD) 6.20 Fireman Sam selfies with computer software.
Now telly is catching up. Soon,
(R,HD) 6.30 Fireman Sam (R,HD) 6.40 Thomas every actor and presenter will have
the option of digital rejuvenation.
& Friends: All Engines Go! (R,HD) 6.50 Thomas
Some will be subtle, knocking
& Friends: All Engines Go! (HD) 7.05 Peppa Pig just a few years off their appearance.
others will want to revert to their
(AD,R,HD) 7.10 Peppa Pig (AD,HD) 7.15 Paw teens. No doubt we’ll hear a lot of
spurious justifications, with stars
Patrol (R,HD) 7.25 Paw Patrol (R,HD) 7.40 Milo claiming the technology allows
them to ‘act their inner age’ and
(R) 7.50 Odo (HD) 7.55 Pip and Posy (R,HD) ‘reveal their true self’.

8.10 The Adventures of Paddington (R,HD) The magic didn’t last long for
Jimmy. Flashback over, we returned
8.20 Pip and Posy (R,HD) 8.25 The Adventures

of Paddington (R,HD) 8.35 Fireman Sam:

Norman Price and the Mystery in the Sky (R)

9.35 Thomas & Friends: Race for the

FILM Sodor Cup (2021) (U) ■ (HD)

Animated adventure.

10.35 The Adventures of Paddington

(R,HD) Animated series.

11.00 The Smurfs (R,HD)

11.10 The Emoji Movie (2017) (U) ■ (HD)
Animated adventure, featuring
FILM the voice of T.J. Miller.

12.30 Stuart Little (1999) (U) ● (HD)
Comedy adventure, starring

Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie.

1.50 Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs SPACE RACE OF THE WEEKEND:
Boys in the 1960s loved Zoom
FILM (2009) (U) ■ (HD) Animated sequel, lollies, shaped like rocket ships.
The Secret World Of Ice Cream
with the voice of John Leguizamo. (C4) told how the Fab lolly,
inspired by Thunderbirds, was
3.20 Sing (2016) (U) ■ (HD) Animation, made in creamy colours with
with the voices of Scarlett Johansson sugar sprinkles to appeal to
FILM and Matthew McConaughey. girls. Yus, m’Lady.

5.00 5 News (HD)

6.30 Traffic Cops (R,HD)

7.15 Police Interceptors (R,HD) to 2022, where his hair is frosty grey
7.55 Following an operation to stop and the bags under his eyes are
a van suspected of carrying more like suitcases.
cocaine. Plus, Dan activates
stealth mode as he tracks down a bloodlands is a swaggering
thief fresh from a house burglary. t h r i l l e r, w i t h a n o r c h e s t r a l
5 News Update (HD) soundtrack that evokes spaghetti
Westerns and a storyline to match,
8.00 Motorway Cops: Catching about stolen guns and gold.
Britain’s Speeders (R,HD) PC Niaz
Waddington tries to catch up with It’s apparently inspired by the
a SUV and is shocked to discover Northern bank heist in 2004, when
the reason for its dangerous IRA terrorists escaped with more
speed when he pulls the vehicle than £26 million — much of which
over. (Followed by 5 News Update) has never been recovered.

9.00 Police: Night Shift 999 (R,HD) In this fictional retelling, £11 mil-
9.45 Sgt Gladwin is surrounded lion has been snatched from the
by an aggressive family. Irish Savings bank and an account-
Casualty 24/7: Every Second ant suspected of laundering the
Counts (R,HD) A new junior money has turned up dead.
doctor treats a man with a
suspected case of sepsis. dCI brannick’s first instinct,
after discovering the body, was to
10.30 999: Critical Condition (R,HD) dash to a disused oil tank next to a
A man has sustained injuries shed. He prised it open and was
after being trapped in his car. horrified to find nothing inside.

Meanwhile, the dead account-
ant’s wife (Victoria Smurfit) was
also in a hurry, heading for her
hubby’s storage unit. Inside, once
again, was nothing.

If I wanted to hide £11 million in

11.15 Wild Card (2015) (15) ◆ (HD) WELSH TV VARIATIONS
FILM
A Las Vegas bodyguard with a BBC1: 5.50pm BBC Wales Today; Weather.
gambling problem finds himself 11.00 BBC Wales Today; Weather.
on the wrong side of a mob boss.
Action thriller, starring Jason BBC2: 7.00pm X-Ray. Lucy Owen champions
Statham and Michael Angarano. consumer rights, while reporter Rachel
Treadaway-Williams challenges cowboys, conmen
12.50 Entertainment News on 5 (HD) and companies who do not deliver on their
1.00 Live NFL: Monday Night Football promises. 8.30 Mastermind. 9.00 The Guernsey
(HD) Philadelphia Eagles v Minnesota Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Vikings (Kick-off 1.30am). 4.30
Entertainment News on 5 (HD) 4.40 ITV: 10.50pm News Cymru Wales; Weather.
Wildlife SOS (BSL,R) 5.05 Wildlife SOS
(BSL,R) 5.30 Peppa Pig (AD,BSL,R,HD) S4C: 6.00am Cyw. 10.30 Newyddion S4C: Angladd y
5.35 Paw Patrol (BSL,R,HD) Frenhines. 1.30pm Glannau Cymru o’r Awyr. 1.55
Glannau Cymru o’r Awyr. 2.25 Glannau Cymru o’r
▲ Particularly liable to offend Awyr. 2.50 Glannau Cymru o’r Awyr. 3.20 Glannau
Cymru o’r Awyr. 3.45 24 Awr: Tomi Roberts-Jones.
4.00 Awr Fawr: Blociau Rhif. 4.05 Awr Fawr: Odo.
4.15 Awr Fawr: Gwdihw. 4.30 Awr Fawr: Sion y
Chef. 4.45 Awr Fawr: Awyr Iach. 5.00 Stwnsh.
6.00 Bex. 6.20 Codi Hwyl. 6.50 Rownd a Rownd.
7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd. 8.00 Sgwrs Dan y
Lloer. 8.30 Garddio a Mwy. 9.00 Cefn Gwlad. 9.30
Rali Ceredigion. 10.30 Sgorio. 11.00 Y Llinell Las.

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LETTERS Write to: Daily Mail Letters, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT Picture: ALAMY
email: [email protected]

The final photo

that summed up

a life of service Patience: Some of the mourners who lined the Thames

They queued to say goodbye

I WAS very young when I saw Straight to the POINT I’D HAVE loved to have gone Who do they think they are to
the Queen when she visited my to London to pay my respects push in front of thousands of
home town of Nelson, Lancashire, ÷ POLITICIANS attending the wonderful gesture if, instead to the Queen at the lying in members of the public who had
following her Coronation. Queen’s funeral should take of dodgy heads of state, more state. But due to mobility queued patiently for many hours?
note that she was non-political elderly people had been problems, it wasn’t possible. Who was responsible for this
I stood at the front of the crowd, yet achieved so much. invited to attend the funeral. Like millions of others, I have inequitable decision?
waving a flag. The Queen was a been glued to the TV and can Such self-entitlement is
beautiful and radiant sight and I MICK TEDDER, Dover, Kent. SUSAN SIDWELL, only say how impressed I have disgraceful. If they wished to pay
have never forgotten the glamour Gerrards Cross, Bucks. been by the dignity with which their respects, they should have
of her dress and sparkle of her ÷ WHICH idiot thought it was the thousands of people got in line like everyone else and
tiara as she waved to the people. a good idea to invite China’s ÷ INSTEAD of a Bank Holiday, queued for hours. waited their turn.
despot Xi Jinping? today should be referred to It fills me with pride and gives
In contrast, the photo of the as a Day of Remembrance. me hope for the future. What LIZ GIBBON, Banstead, Surrey.
Queen in great age and dignity, PAUL GARROD, Portsmouth. a legacy for the Queen if that
welcoming her last Prime Minister B. HARKINS, Bourne End, Herts. warmth and compassion MANY people queued through
at Balmoral, was so poignant and ÷ NO PRESIDENT or politician becomes the marker of what the night to pay their final
deeply moving. could inspire as much love ÷ GOOD to see civil servants it means to be British. respects to the Queen.
from the public as the Queen. come into the office if there’s They now understand the
It illustrated so clearly her life of something ‘interesting’ JULIE HOWELLS, discomfort and conditions many
service and love for her people to KATHY VIGGERS, outside the window. Pencoed, South Wales. people suffer every night, not by
the very end. Bexhill-on-Sea, E. Sussex. choice but because they have
S. TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks. I AM appalled that MPs and nowhere else to sleep.
On the day our Queen is laid to ÷ IT WOULD have been a Lords had priority access to May I suggest that in memory of
rest, for me that image will remain the lying in state, not just for this experience, they make a
the most treasured of all. themselves but for up to four donation to a homeless charity.
family members and friends.
HAZEL GLENHOLMES, EDDIE COOTE, Ferndown, Dorset.
Southampton, Hants.
I AM surprised families say they Great Britain and Northern her funeral is accompanied by coverage has been dignified and
Crazy closures are traumatised because facilities Ireland, whose people are Britons silence, broken only by the sound respectful. It has been humbling
at Center Parcs are not available or the British. of horses’ hooves. to see people carrying out their
WE ALL wish to honour the for one day. duties faultlessly.
Queen, but closing GP surgeries When the Scots were asked in a N. J. WOOTTON,
and cancelling hospital appoint- Holidaymakers can enjoy their referendum, we chose to remain Wallasey, Wirral. What a contrast to the TV
ments is too much. luxury lodge — or take a stroll and part of the British nation. channels’ usual scaremongering,
reflect on why they would not Subtitle slips biased interviews and the
My wife has waited a year for a want the staff to have the time off Most people are quite capable of bombardment of inane adverts.
consultation, only to be told she for the Queen’s funeral. simultaneously holding British THE BBC coverage of the Queen’s
will be put back on the waiting and other identities, whether lying in state was spoiled by We don’t need all the noise,
list. I am sure the Queen would TONY THOMPSON, these relate to a constituent part ridiculous subtitles referring to aggression, infighting, mockery
not have wanted this. Banbury, Oxon. of the UK or to the country or the soldiers guarding the coffin as and mayhem. If only we could all
culture of their ancestors. ‘video guards’. continue to behave as our beloved
GERRY BYRNE, We’re one nation sovereign did.
Snettisham, Norfolk. If, despite this, the BBC is still DAVID KIRKWOOD,
IT SEEMS a strange announce- THE BBC’s coverage of the death convinced there are four nations Aspatria, Cumbria. Mrs HAZEL HORSNELL,
ment by NHS England that of the Queen has been measured, rather than one, perhaps it should DURING the procession to West- Goring-by-Sea, W. Sussex.
hospital and GP appointments informative and well judged in be renamed the Four Nations minster Hall, the reporter said: ‘It
can be cancelled today. tone. Only the endless references Broadcasting Corporation. will be more solemn on Monday.’ Showing respect
I doubt the public will notice any to ‘the four nations’ have detracted How unfortunate the subtitles
difference, as getting such appoint- from this. OTTO INGLIS, Crossgates, Fife. had it as ‘Solomon Grundy’. I WATCHED the funeral of Prince
ments is almost impossible. Mrs SANDY DEAN, Philip on the BBC red button.
PAUL MACKINTOSH, The Queen’s principal public THE Queen was not an actress, Wymondham, Norfolk.
Darlington, Co. Durham. role was as head of state of one musician or sportswoman, so did WHY are TV commentators using There was no commentary for
nation, the United Kingdom of not perform her duties in any the irritating Americanism ‘honor the first hour, just the sights and
All need to grieve expectation of applause. I hope guards’? I am a former Royal sounds of the entourage making
Navy serviceman who has been its way to St George’s Chapel in
THOSE complaining that shops CELEBRATETHE LIFE OFALOVED ONE privileged to be in a Royal Guard Windsor. I felt as if I was there
and restaurants have closed today of Honour. in person. I hope that the BBC
should remember that they are HAVE you lost a relative or lives. Email a 500-word tribute RAY SMITH, Exmouth, Devon. will do the same today for its
not just buildings. friend in recent months whose and a favourite photo to: lives@ coverage of the Queen’s funeral.
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The people who work there Our column on Friday’s letters Extraordinary Lives, Daily Mail, ALAN PAGE, Holt, Norfolk.
would also like some time to page tells the stories of ordinary 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT, THE passing of our wonderful
mourn the Queen and watch the people who lived extraordinary including your phone number. Queen has been dealt with THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
funeral on TV. superbly by the broadcasters. The
AS IN Adam all die, so in Christ
JANEEN EVANS, all will be made alive.
Warminster, Wilts.
1 Corinthians 15:22

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Model T looks TODAY’S RECIPE: Club
Tropicana ice cream cake

Compiled by Charles Legge IMPRESS party
guests. Serves: 8.
QUESTION Why were all good in black
Model T Fords Ingredients
black for more than a decade?
Model T Fords were only available in Picture: AP 1 Madeira cake 150ml double
black between 1914 and 1925 because 500ml mango sorbet cream, whipped
this was cheaper and more efficient. 500ml vanilla ice cream
50g dark chocolate Maraschino cherries
Henry Ford described this policy in his 500ml raspberry
1922 book My life And Work: ‘Any sorbet
customer can have a car painted any
colour he wants — so long as it is black.’ QUESTIONS Method

In fact, the first Model T that rolled off Streamlined: 1914 Ford Model T Q: For entertainment in a power cut, 1 Line a 1lb loaf tin with two layers of cling film.
the assembly line in detroit, Michigan, in can anyone suggest a game other Cut 5mm slice of Madeira cake. Push into base.
1908 was red. The vehicles were available english cross-country championships
in grey, green, blue and black. after he did his morning postal round. than Blind Man’s Buff or Murder 2 Spoon mango sorbet into tin, flatten using
In The Dark? back of a spoon and freeze for ten minutes.
deciding to opt for one colour was part In 1882, Alexander became club Repeat using vanilla ice cream, then add
of the policy to keep the price low enough secretary and gave up competitive John Chitty, Ripley, Derbys. another layer of sponge. Melt chocolate and
so anyone who made a reasonable living running to manage the club. pour over second layer of sponge. Freeze for
could afford a car. Q: Is 1986’s White Nights the ten minutes. Add a layer of raspberry sorbet,
After he became the landlord of pubs in most obscure film to win a followed by a final layer of sponge. Cover in
It is widely held that Ford opted to use Halesowen and Redditch, he would travel Best Song Oscar? cling film, then freeze until needed.
only black because it dried faster than the country to athletics meetings to spot
other paint colours. There is little talent. He would offer free accommoda- T. Nichols, Basildon, essex. 3 To serve, turn ice cream cake on to a plate.
evidence for this. tion at his pubs and help find the amateur Decorate with whipped cream and cherries.
athletes work in the area. Q: Are there any noted German
In fact, painting every component of the descendants of Queen Victoria? n SUBSCRIBE to BBC Good Food
Model T black streamlined production, In 1922, he established the Birchfield Magazine for just £19.99 every six issues,
making the process cheaper and enhanc- Harriers ladies’ section. His son, also Ted shepherd, Windsor, Berks. plus receive a griddle plate and skewers
ing quality control by making it easier to W. W. Alexander, was coach. set from Jean-Patrique worth £59.99 — perfect for cooking more
touch up scratches and imperfections. It QUESTION Has a musician healthily. Use link and code buysubscriptions.com/GFMAIL122
also eliminated the need for retooling to By the time Alexander died in 1933, ever been denied
accommodate different colours. Birchfield Harriers was Britain’s top access to their own concert? TERMS & CONDITIONS
athletics club. of the 49 cross-country THe previous answers reminded me of
Before the Model T, cars were a luxury. championships held between 1886 and the 2003 incident when Bruce Springsteen PuzzLes & Prizes reasonable discretion
At the beginning of 1908, there were fewer 1939, it won 27. was playing the inaugural concert at competitions to disqualify any
than 200,000 vehicles on the road. leeds Arena. (‘promotions’) open to entrant whose conduct
Between 1908 and 1927, Ford built The original Alexander Stadium opened uK (excluding is contrary to the spirit
15 million Model Ts. in 1976, replacing Birchfield Harriers’ The new venue had not sorted out its Northern Ireland) and of the promotion; to
former home at Alexander Sports Ground. parking and Springsteen’s buses and Channel Islands declare as void entries
Cliff Latham, Kenilworth, Warks. Work on the new stadium began in 2019. rigging vans were forced to park on a side residents aged 18 or resulting from printing,
street near the stadium. over, excluding production and/or
QUESTION After whom Tina Lewis, Worcester. employees of the distribution errors; or
was the An over-zealous parking official duly promoter, and members to modify, suspend or
Commonwealth Games’s Alexander slapped parking tickets on them. After of their household. By cancel the promotion if
Stadium in Birmingham named? considering the special circumstances, entering the promotion, there is fraud or any
THe stadium is named after William the tickets were eventually cancelled. you agree to these terms event beyond the
Whiteway Alexander, who established the (including relevant promoter’s reasonable
local Birchfield Harriers as one of the Will Allison, Wakefield, W. Yorks. specific terms). control. These terms
premier athletics clubs in the country. Photocopies and prevail over any
n IS THERE a question to which you want to know the damaged or tampered materials published
A postman and fine cross-country answer? Or do you know the answer to a question here? newspapers will be elsewhere. If any of
runner, Alexander joined Birchfield in Write to: Charles Legge, Answers To Correspondents, void. Promoter’s these terms are invalid
1879, three years after the club’s Daily Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT; or email decision is final. No or unenforceable, the
foundation. He finished fourth in the 1881 [email protected]. A selection is published, correspondence will be validity of the other
but we’re unable to enter into individual correspondence. entered into. No third terms shall not be
party entries. Prizes affected. If your
SATURDAY’S PUZZLES & PRIZES SOLUTIONS PUZZLE PRIZE WINNERS non-transferable. newspaper does not
Promoter will hold have a unique Number,
GIANT CROSSWORD DOWN: 1 Fade. SUKO SUGURU Week beginning August 22 personal information in log in to MyMail and
SUDOKU Daily Cryptic Crossword: line with these terms use the missing
ACROSS: 12 Calculation. 2 Scarab. 3 Elicit. 231535 £500 to Robert Price, and our privacy policy numbers system. These
4 Stopgap. 5 Hound. 142414 Mirfield, W. Yorks. (dailymail.co.uk/ terms are governed by
13 Willow. 14 Hereby. 235352 privacy). Promoter not english law and subject
16 Dear. 17 Cap in hand. 6 Pied-a-terre. 414141 Saturday, August 27 responsible for to the exclusive
7 Align. 8 Two a penny. 532323 Giant Crossword: £750 to technical difficulties, jurisdiction of the
18 Grain. 19 Peel. 215141 J. Rees, Crayford, Kent. unavailable network english courts.
20 Booby trap. 22 Flute. 9 Phone-in. 10 Wrap. connections or postal- Promoter: Associated
23 Denigrate. 27 Gossipy. 11 Absentee. 15 Mallet. FUTOSHIKI Week beginning August 29 related issues that may Newspapers Limited,
21 Odour. 24 Round-up. 52341 Daily Word Search: limit entry and/or Northcliffe House, 2
30 Banter. 31 Long. £500 to Betty Rees, Cardiff. claiming of the prize Derry street, London
25 Patois. 26 Placid. 21453 Daily Codeword: and/or for lost or W8 5TT.
32 Muted. 35 Brio. £750 to Susie Lax, damaged entries/prize Customer services
28 Slope. 29 Par. 34512 Shrewsbury, Shropshire. verification evidence. Helpline: 03451 222 467.
36 Raucous. 38 Etch. Weekly Accumulator: Proof of entry is not Calls to this line will be
39 Mindset. 42 Screed. 33 Bullock. 34 Simmer. 15234 Luxury Cross pen to Elizabeth proof of receipt by charged at local rates
37 Skiff. 40 Elfin. Partridge, Glasgow. promoter. Promoter — calls from mobiles
45 Lassi. 46 Bad form. 43125 Daily Sudoku: £500 to Patricia reserves the right in its may cost more.
41 Toolkit. 43 China. Harford, Ruskington, Lincs.
47 Puff. 48 Firm. Daily Cryptic Crossword:
£500 to Judith Woodfield,
50 Back off. 52 Rival. 44 Debase. 46 Burst. Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire.

54 Rewind. 56 Fantasy. 49 Matador. 51 Ornate.

57 Snub. 59 Telling. 61 Odds. 53 Valour. 55 Wrong.

64 Glide. 66 Edit. 67 Circus. 58 Backpacker. 60 Gym.

69 Smuggle. 72 Hydrangea. 62 Delta. 63 Adventure.

73 Spine. 74 Pipsqueak. 65 Loyalist. 68 Rancid.

79 Slot. 81 Get up. 70 Snigger. 71 Disavow.

82 Chipolata. 83 Tile. 75 Shabby. 76 Untrue.

85 Assure. 86 Rasher. 77 Spasm. 78 Focus.

87 Out of bounds. 80 Tour. 84 Lido.