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Catherine, Princess of Wales, completes Three Peaks Challenge to show life after cancer diagnosis

Catherine, Princess of Wales, completes Three Peaks Challenge to show life after cancer diagnosis

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has completed the mammoth Three Peaks Challenge to show what life looks like after a cancer diagnosis. The 44-year-old royal, who temporarily stopped duties in 2024 to receive treatment for an undisclosed form of the disease, scaled Scotland’s Ben Nevis (1,345m), England’s Scafell Pike (978m), and Wales’ Mount Snowdon (1,085m) solo within 24 hours, finishing on Sunday (Jun 28). Catherine – who was supported along the route by Mountain Rescue – was greeted by husband, William, Prince of Wales, 44; their children Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, eight; as well as her parents Carole Middleton, 71, and Michael Middleton, 77; and her brother James Middleton,39, at the base of Mount Snowdon after completing the challenge. It followed a 23-mile (37km) trek, 3,064m of ascent, and a 462-mile (743km) journey between peaks driven by her aides. Source link

Dame Mary Berry to receive prestigious Bafta Fellowship for ‘transformative’ Great British Bake Off role

Dame Mary Berry to receive prestigious Bafta Fellowship for ‘transformative’ Great British Bake Off role

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Culinary icon Dame Mary Berry is set to receive the prestigious Bafta Fellowship for her exceptional contribution to TV. The 91-year-old has described the honour as “the icing on the cake” and said she was “completely overwhelmed” by the news. Dame Mary will be presented with the accolade at the Bafta Television Awards in May. “What an honour for a cook to receive the Bafta Fellowship,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it – for just doing what I love.” Bafta, which bestows the fellowship as its highest individual accolade for “an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television”, lauded Dame Mary as “one of the UK’s most beloved broadcasters”. Dame Mary Berry attends the Sky Women in Film and Television Awards (PA Archive) Her career spans six decades, beginning in the 1970s, with her role as a judge on …

UK govt mulls removing ex-prince Andrew from line of succession

UK govt mulls removing ex-prince Andrew from line of succession

The British government on Friday mulled passing a law to remove former prince Andrew from the line of succession, as police stepped up investigations into his conduct, quizzing the disgraced royal’s former protection officers. The former prince was arrested on Thursday at his new home on the king’s remote Sandringham estate in eastern Norfok on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Keywords for this article Source link

Justice for all? The Epstein files and the arrest of former prince Andrew – The Debate

Justice for all? The Epstein files and the arrest of former prince Andrew – The Debate

Justice can be slow… and then, suddenly, swift. Two months to the day after the US Justice Department began releasing the Epstein files comes the arrest of King Charles’s brother, Andrew. He had already been stripped of his titles over allegations of relations with sex-trafficked minors. Now, he stands accused of leaking state secrets to the disgraced financier at a time when his late mother was pushing for his appointment as trade envoy. What are the consequences for Andrew – for the British monarchy – and for institutions already rattled by Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the prime minister’s ambassador to the United States, even though he too stands accused of leaking insider information to Epstein during the financial crisis? Will the arrests restore faith, or further fuel public cynicism? Moreover, will Andrew’s arrest force Donald Trump’s Justice Department to come clean about what remains unreleased – and to pursue wrongdoing impartially? Whether it’s sex trafficking, trading state secrets, or tax evasion, who is above the law – and who is not?   Produced by François Picard, Charles Wente, Théo …

US Justice department releases new batch of Epstein files citing Musk, Trump, Mountbatten-Windsor

US Justice department releases new batch of Epstein files citing Musk, Trump, Mountbatten-Windsor

The Justice Department on Friday released many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures under a law intended to reveal what the government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with rich and powerful people such as Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department would be releasing more than 3 million pages of documents along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The files, posted to the department’s website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release in December. Included were documents concerning some of Epstein’s famous associates, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Britain’s Prince Andrew, and email correspondence between Epstein and Elon Musk and other prominent contacts from across the political spectrum. Friday’s disclosure represents the largest document dump to date about a saga the Trump administration has struggled to shake because of the president’s previous association with Epstein. Criminal investigations into the financier have long …