AMANDA PLATELL: Harry, I've said sorry to my family. It's time you said it to yours

During my first trip 支援する to Australia since my parents died I read in the papers that even though Prince Harry was in the UK this week, neither his father nor his brother could find time in their busy diaries to see him.

And I have to 収容する/認める: my first reaction was utter glee. Harry deserves to be shunned, I thought, after his and Meghan's betrayals of the 王室の Family.

Then I thought again. For once I 現実に felt sorry for Harry, 削減(する) 流浪して from the people he loved.

Because I've been there, too: the prodigal daughter who left home in Perth to 捜し出す a new life half a world away, who flew in and out for happy times and holidays ― but who wasn't there when my 年輩の parents became frail and needed care. That hard work was left to my family 支援する home.

Prince Harry and Meghan on a visit to a primary and secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria, today as part of a three-day trip

Prince Harry and Meghan on a visit to a 最初の/主要な and 第2位 school in Abuja, Nigeria, today as part of a three-day trip

Prince William visits St Mary's Harbour in the Isles of Sicily in south west England today

Prince William visits St Mary's Harbour in the 小島s of Sicily in south west England today

Unkind words, which I now 悔いる, were said at times between us siblings. And it broke Mum and Dad's hearts that I was so far away: for them, family was everything. Yet over the past year, I've said sorry to my 親族s, many times in many ways, for the things I got wrong. 特に to my younger brother and his family.

That's why the 最高潮の場面 of my trip this month was seeing my brother again: knocking on his door and feeling his big, warm, loving ― and 許すing ― embrace. It was as though the bitter years just melted a way: I felt a 重荷(を負わせる) 解除する from my shoulders.

And that's all I would wish for Harry: that he says sorry.

Not in an email, nor a 発言する/表明する message, but a 十分な and 完全にする 陳謝 to his father, his brother, Kate and Camilla ― all of whom he and Meghan have slurred.

I've said sorry to my family, Harry. Can you say sorry to yours?

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The Duchess of Sussex is in Africa 調査するing her roots after discovering she's 43 per cent Nigerian. Megs has been given the Nigerian 指名する Amira Ngozi Lolo, which means 'Blessed 軍人 Princess'. Am guessing they don't have a word for '支援する-stabbing, money-grubbing 王室の hanger-on'.?

Prince Harry and Meghan in Abuja, Nigeria, as they visit the country as part of the Invictus Games anniversary

Prince Harry and Meghan in Abuja, Nigeria, as they visit the country as part of the Invictus Games a nniversary

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Why's Bridget woke?

Renee Zellweger is filming the 最新の Bridget Jones movie Mad About The Boy, in which our gal no longer obsesses about her 負わせる. Insiders 約束 to be 'more reflective of what people think about 団体/死体 image these days'.?

So 別れの(言葉,会) to those fat pants and what about the ciggies and booze? As for 選び出す/独身 mum-of-two Bridget, 51, seducing One Day's heart-throb Leo Woodall, 27, I'd need a pack of fags and a 瓶/封じ込める of ワイン just to get through that cringefest.

Renee Zellweger is filming the latest Bridget Jones movie Mad About The Boy

Renee Zellweger is filming the 最新の Bridget Jones movie Mad About The Boy

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More than two months since my dear 年輩の friend Gary died ― and I'm still unable to get the electric hospital bed they 供給するd for his home 除去するd. Websites don't work, phones aren't answered, emails bounce 支援する. We've had three dates to collect it and no one turned up. What is going on when NHS beds 価値(がある) thousands are stuck in the homes of people who no longer need them?

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Westminster wars

After the Tories are wiped out in the 地元の 選挙s, Kwasi Kwarteng says he 計画(する)s to stand 負かす/撃墜する at the next 選挙. His 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 as (ドイツなどの)首相/(大学の)学長 under Liz Truss was 簡潔な/要約する, although given the 主張s ― hotly 否定するd ― that the pair were rather more than 同僚s, perhaps the least said about '簡潔な/要約するs' the better.

How long can Angela 'Two Homes' Rayner last after yet another 隣人 says they will 証言する in 法廷,裁判所 that the 副 労働 leader fibbed about where she lived to 避ける 税金. As one of the Tory 'scum' Rayner so often deride d, may I enjoy a moment of schadenfreude?

What is more shameful, that the hard-権利 Tory Natalie Elphicke abandons ship and joins the 労働 Party she despised, or that Keir Starmer 受託するs her when 投票s 予報する he will get a 403 大多数. No wonder he has received a 猛烈な/残忍な (激しい)反発 from his party for embracing this 反逆者.

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Chisel-jawed British actor Nicholas Galitzine, 29, 明らかにする/漏らすs he's terrified his handsomeness will be his defining feature, 主張するing: 'The most important thing to me is that I'm taken 本気で as a performer.'?

Nicky moans that movie execs have 扱う/治療するd him like 'a 削減(する) of beef at a meat market'. Welcome to the world most actresses 直面する their entire careers.

British actor Nicholas Galitzine, 29, reveals he's terrified his handsomeness will be his defining feature

British actor Nicholas Galitzine, 29, 明らかにする/漏らすs he's terrified his handsomeness will be his defining feature

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Wearing an Arabic keffiyeh, eco-軍人 Greta Thunberg was の中で thousands of プロの/賛成の-Palestinian 抗議する人s 需要・要求するing イスラエル's Eurovision entrant Eden Golan be 除去するd from the 競争. Because she's a Jew.?

にもかかわらず the 抗議するs, Eden has made it to tonight's (Saturday) grand final. Perhaps Eden has taken Greta's own 知恵 to heart in her long (選挙などの)運動をする of truancy on に代わって of 気候 change: 'Giving up cannot be an 選択.' I hope Eden 勝利,勝つs. And nul points to Greta, 的ing another woman 勇敢に立ち向かう enough to stand up for her beliefs.?

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Five years after Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's acrimonious 離婚, they're still at each other's throats in 法廷,裁判所, with Ange (人命などを)奪う,主張するing her children 苦しむ PTSD from Brad's behaviour and a former 護衛 (人命などを)奪う,主張するing he 証言,証人/目撃するd her ordering their children to shun Brad during agreed 保護/拘留 visits.?

And to think Brad 捨てるd his wife Jennifer Aniston for all this. I hate to be unsisterly, but Jolie had 'fruitcake' etched on her Botoxed forehead from the moment he met her.?

Angelina Jolie as Maleficent in the 2014 Disney classic

Angelina Jolie as Maleficent in the 2014 Disney classic?

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場内取引員/株価 her 40th year as a presenter on daytime TV, Lorraine Kelly modestly 知らせるs us she will never retire and 'wants to be like David Attenborough', who is 98 and still working. Yes, that would be Britain's greatest-ever 放送者, biologist, 国家の treasure and chronicler of all that is magical on Earth. Sorry, Lorr, but there's not a monkey's chance of that ever happening.

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研究 shows a third of men 老年の 20 to 34 still live with their parents, (人命などを)奪う,主張するing they're saving to get on the 所有物/資産/財産 ladder. Which leaves one wondering, what woman would want a man still having Mummy doing his washing and cooking in his 中央の-thirties? Talk about a red 旗.

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Having cast his mother Elizabeth Hurley as the 星/主役にする of his first movie 厳密に Confidential, Liz's son Damian, 22, (人命などを)奪う,主張するs Mum is one of the かつてない 広大な/多数の/重要な actresses: 'She goes into this zone where she just 'is'. 広大な/多数の/重要な actors can do that.' Elizabeth Hurley a 広大な/多数の/重要な actress? Whatever Damian is on, I want some.

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< span class="mol-style-italic">Friends of Mick Jagger's fianc?e Melanie Hamrick, 37, say she is keen to have a second child with him. Maybe Mel should remember You Can't Always Get What You Want: the last thing any child needs is an octogenarian dad.

Mick Jagger and his fiancee Melanie Hamrick attend a gala in New York last June

Mick Jagger and his fiancee Melanie Hamrick …に出席する a 祝祭 in New York last June

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Long life? My cat's feline lucky

My cat Ted is appalled by 研究 (人命などを)奪う,主張するing crossbred cats 生き延びる pedigrees or mixed-産む/飼育する moggies like him. Ted reminds me he is 13 and in 罰金 fettle, his uncle Jim was 19 before he went to cat heaven and brothers Ronnie and Reggie made it to 17. And all of them, like him, were happy fat cats.