As a yoga guru, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke is used to being in some unusual positions. but none as awkward as cleaning the loos at the family estate.
Julie Montagu even roped in her 78-year-old mother-in-law, the Countess of Sandwich, to help make sure the ‘throne rooms’ at Mapperton House were spick and span, as the ever-practical American and her family got scrubbing to prepare for the return of visitors to the gorgeous Italiante gardens at their Dorset estate.
Julie, 47, tells me: ‘The downside of opening your gardens is that you have to provide loos for visitors. We have five of them but as we had been forced to furlough our staff, guess what? That duty fell to us.
In Britain, Harry and Meghan’s incendiary interview draws praise, fury: It landed like a ‘hand grenade’
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
LONDON – Stiff upper lips? Hardly. Across Britain, THAT interview had everyone talking.
The country awoke Monday to word of Oprah Winfrey’s sensation-causing sit-down encounter, aired Sunday night in the U.S., with Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle, the biracial American ex-actress he married in 2018 in a ceremony watched the world over.
It was the first time the two had spoken out at length since “stepping back” from their royal roles last year, embarking on an odyssey that eventually landed them in Montecito, California, where they are neighbors of Winfrey. Their sometimes-harrowing depiction of their outwardly glittering former lives privately confronting corrosive racism and a cold and unfeeling palace culture lit up social media, generated blaring tabloid headlines and yielded contentious exchanges on British chat shows.
Prince Charles has appeared in public for the first time since Harry and Meghan's seismic interview with Oprah Winfrey, and ignored a question on the furore surrounding the British royal family.
Prince Charles has appeared in public for the first time since Harry and Meghan's seismic interview with Oprah Winfrey, and ignored a question on the furore surrounding the British royal family.