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As dawn broke on Saturday, Team Grazia had reporters stationed in Windsor while the rest of our commentators and fashion experts gathered under bunting and blue skies to bring you this special issue, crammed with every insider detail of the royal event of the year – from the dress reveal (errr, who saw Givenchy coming ?), to the star-studded guest list, the ground-breaking ceremony and wondering whether Princess Beatrice would out-hat herself. And what a day. Feverishly busy, unexpectedly emotional but fabulously brilliant – welcome, HRH the Duchess of Sussex! GRAZIA…

Bishop Michael Curry’s impassioned address began by quoting civil rights leader Martin Luther King and ended with him calling the bride and groom ‘my brother, my sister’. His radical subject matter – from slavery to the ‘redemptive power of love’ – enthusiastic delivery and total inability to stick to his allotted time-slot were a breath of fresh air, the likes of which had never been seen before in a Royal celebration. While Harry and Meghan listened intently, other members of the Royal family had no idea what to make of it. The Queen and Prince Philip looked baffled. We’d love to know what Camilla was saying to Kate, who was struggling to maintain her trademark composure and gave side-eye to rival the Real Housewives. Zara Tindall didn’t know what to…

The bouquet was as understated as the dress. The dainty, relaxed arrangement, bound by raw silk ribbon, included spring blooms handpicked by the groom from the couple’s private garden at Kensington Palace (bless!) – including Diana Princess of Wales’ favourite flower, Forget-Me-Not, in honour of his late mother. Adding to this, florist Philippa Craddock worked with an ‘ethereal’ mix of scented sweet peas, lily of the valley, astilbe, jasmine and astrantia, as well as sprigs of myrtle from Queen Victoria’s original Osborne House plant, traditionally used in all royal wedding bouquets.…

LIKE A BOSS Despite the speculation, Stella wasn’t behind the dress after all. But she did bag another regal guest: Queen Oprah, who accessorised her fit-and-flare blush dress with a Gabriela Hearst bag, Aquazzura shoes, oversized hat and A-list-essential shades. Cool to the bone – we bow down. RIGHT ROYAL REBEL What chicness is this? Princess Eugenie channelling Jackie O in powder blue and pill box hat. What’s this – no mad headgear? BEST BOUQUETS Guests weren’t relying on catching the bouquet. A no-brainer for weddings, power flowers enjoyed their moment in the sun. From Carey Mulligan in Erdem to Lady Kitty Spencer in Dolce & Gabbana and Sofia Wellesley in REDValentino. THE SHOWSTOPPER AKA how to stand out in a crowd of 600. Just in case you were in…

1 NON-MOVER DAISY MAY COOPER Won a BAFTA for her Kerry Mucklowe of This Country. Received it in a customised Swindon Town dress. There are too many ways in which this is brilliant. 2 UP PHIL COLLINS Stop whatever you’re doing (reading this, presumably), download Break Up (the latest This American Life podcast), listen to it, then tell us you don’t love Phil way more than you realised. 3. NEW IN MO SALAH Liverpool footballer scored 32 goals in a 38-game season, set a new record, got upstaged by his daughter Makka, whose on-pitch cameo beguiled the crowd in a heartbeat. 4. UP BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Formerly Sherlock, now Patrick Melrose on Sky Atlantic, a show about which everyone’s going wild, quite reasonably. 5. NON-MOVER ZAZIE BEETZ Turned up at a…

LAST WEEK AT Cannes, I walked up the iconic red-carpet steps with my husband and, in a moment of excitement, I did what most of us would do in that situation. I posted a picture on Instagram. I’m a 42-year-old woman who gave birth to our second child last August. It’s hard for us to get out in the evenings, so I was excited to dress up for such a glamorous event. I didn’t think I was setting myself up for abuse. But, minutes later, the violent comments began. ‘You should lose weight,’ read one. ‘I have the name of a surgeon for you,’ wrote others, as well as people telling me I still looked pregnant, my cleavage was saggy and my dress should be more flattering. What hurt most,…

SINCE GWYNETH PALTROW and Chris Martin split in 2014, there have been endless shared holidays, gushing Instagram posts about one another, the revelation that Gwyneth now thinks of her ex as her ‘brother’ and the equally eyebrow-raising picture of him and her fiancé, the producer Brad Falchuck, enjoying brunch together. But is their intensely close friendship finally coming to an end? Earlier this year, when Gwyneth threw an engagement party with more A-listers than the Oscars, one guest was notable by his absence: her ex-husband. (It remains unclear why he was not there.) Then, in a move that was widely interpreted as throwing shade on the Coldplay frontman, last month, Gwyneth told an interviewer of her relationship with Brad, ‘For the first time I feel like I’m in an adult…

WHILE WE CAN’T say we feel sorry for Kendall Jenner, we imagine she faces something of a daily dilemma: how the hell do you stand out amid club (klub?) Kardashian, with BFFs like Gigi and Bella? The right answer, of course, is ‘with intellect, integrity and imagination’. But alas, this is Hollywood, where the currency of carb-denying, gravity-defying looks go a long way, and so Kendall has opted for the next best thing – showing off her body. All of it. So it was that, last week, Kendall found herself shimmying across the red carpets of Cannes. At the Friday night Chopard party, she rocked up in a chainmail Alexandre Vauthier minidress sans bra. Uploading a picture of herself to Instagram, she captioned it ‘Oops’ – a reference to her…

FEELING STRESSED? Fed up of demanding emails, jam-packed trains and a hefty workload? Us too. It’s hard to escape the huge amount of stress we’re all under; and it was no different for Clare and Rebecca Hopkins, the sisters who gave up the hustle and bustle of their corporate jobs to start their skincare line, Balance Me. Formulated using our botanical friends, every one of their products is made not only to nourish skin, but to boost well-being too. Balance Me’s ethos? The more balanced you can be, the happier and healthier you’ll feel. The problem is that we’re all constantly juggling a million and one things and rarely stop to check in with ourselves. Eventually something has to give and when it does, we’re prompted to consider how we…

SAMUEL JOHNSON called them ‘a triumph of hope over experience’, and when Meghan Markle walks down the aisle this weekend she will firmly put paid to the idea that second weddings have to be sheepish, low-key affairs. Meghan, who was divorced at 31 after a two-year marriage to film producer Trevor Engelson, is part of a growing number of Generation X-ers who are shunning the stigma around having a short-lived stab at matrimony. And studies have found second marriages are not only happier, but more likely to succeed. The so-called ‘starter marriage’ – couples who marry young and then divorce, often without having kids – is on the rise. Almost half of divorces happen within 10 years and the highest divorce rates are among women aged 25-29. Around 40% of…

VIEW POINT Sugar Beach, Toronto Near to the hip Annex district, where Meghan Markle lived when filming Suits, is Sugar Beach, an artificial stretch of sand in the Canadian city’s regenerated downtown area. You’re not allowed into the waters of Lake Ontario, but you can grab a lounger under one of the candy-pink beach umbrellas and take in the unusual view that’s one part sugar refinery (reflecting the area’s industrial heritage) and one part sparkling water, with lush green parkland on the horizon.…

AMAL’S NIGHT at the museum AMAL CLOONEY found herself at the centre of a fashion spat over a last-minute change of outfit to co-host the Met Gala. Originally destined to wear Tom Ford’s bespoke crimson gown, she instead chose Richard Quinn’s trouser/billowing train confection for the main event, relegating Ford’s frock to the evening and leaving him ‘upset’. Anna Wintour threw further shade on the situation, revealing Amal had changed in the gift shop. SHE IS SAILING... across the dance floor IF YOU think Rod Stewart’s got moves, then just wait till you see his daughter Renee in action. The contemporary ballet dancer stars (alongside a rather cute puppy) in a video for Tod’s to celebrate the launch of the new Yorky fringed loafer. tods.com ORLA KIELY: our princess of…

The extraordinary drama emanating from Meghan’s family in the week leading up to the wedding defied belief. With every day came fresh headlines of feuds, scandal, fraud and medical emergencies accompanied by a constant ‘will he, won’t he’ debate raging over whether Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, would be fit enough to walk her down the aisle after suffering a heart attack. The former award-winning lighting director, now a recluse on the Mexican border, was at the centre of the controversy after it was revealed that he had colluded with paparazzi to create a series of ludicrously hammy photos. This just weeks after his son, Thomas Jnr, penned an open letter to Prince Harry demanding he call off the wedding and branding his half-sister a ‘jaded, shallow, conceited woman’. Meanwhile, Meghan’s…

How to top off such a majestically simple gown? Meghan selected the glittering Queen Mary diamond bandeau tiara, made in 1932 from 11 sections of geometric diamonds and platinum pierced with interlaced ovals and pavé, as a loan from the Queen’s collection. The band, a favourite of Mary’s, was created specifically to house the central detachable brooch gifted to her for her marriage to Prince George. It usually houses a central sapphire, although Meghan updated it with a diamond for her own wedding day and accompanied it with diamond earrings and a bracelet from Cartier.…

AREN’T ROYAL WEDDINGS WEIRD? Anachronistic as analogue, as relevant to modern existences as gaslight and getting strung up for treason. A new one’s announced, and we huff and wonder why anyone even bothers. Sure, Hazza deserves a lil happy; and Meghan is ridic pretty and clearly clever, which can only be good for the royal bloodline, except that the very idea of a royal bloodline is icky when you think about it; and, also? WHY MUST THESE POSHOS KEEP INTERRUPTING OUR LIVES WITH THEIR INCESSANT DEMANDS FOR REVERENCE AND BUNTING? I don’t know about you, but I do know about me and everyone I know, and we all swore we would not go near this bizarre charade. Not this time, no siree! We would not watch it on the television.…

WHEN THE animated film director Nora Twomey sent Angelina Jolie the script for her latest project, The Breadwinner , she never expected to hear back from her. She was aiming high, but hoped the film, set in Taliban-occupied Kabul, Afghanistan, would appeal to Angelina (the actor opened a girls’ school there in 2013). But not long after, Nora was on a plane to Los Angeles to meet the A-lister, with Angelina soon agreeing to be an executive producer on the film. That was back in 2013 and, this week, their film is released in the UK, having won a Best Animated Feature nomination at both the Oscars and the Golden Globes ( The Breadwinner won the Best Animated Feature award at the Toronto Film Critics Awards). The film centres on…

THIS FRIDAY, 25 MAY sees an historic vote in Ireland, over the future of the Eighth Amendment, which currently prohibits women from seeking abortion for any reason unless it presents an immediate threat to their life. As one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, it excludes cases of rape and incest, and instances of fatal foetal abnormalities. Breaking it could result in up to 14 years in prison, and advising a woman to seek an abortion elsewhere could result in a €4,000 (£3,500) fine. Repealing the Eighth Amendment would allow access to abortions up to 12 weeks, which although still significantly lower than the UK’s 24-week limit, would dramatically change life for the 10 women every single day who are forced to travel to other countries for…

ALL EYES WERE on Kendall again as she frolicked poolside at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cannes last week (above). Sporting a black hip-bone-grazing one-piece, she gave a firm nod to Old Hollywood with a ravishing pillar box-red pout. Hang on, you might think, who wants to think about make-up when they’re relaxing on holiday, all sweaty and greasy with suncream? But, while this is probably not the time to attempt a smoky eye, a well-chosen lipstick can be a quick and easy way to give your beach look some added va-va-voom. Of course, your lipstick ought to complement your swimwear, not compete with it, and you’ll want assurance it’s not going to slide off when the mercury soars. Kick your cotton crochet bikini up a notch with a tangerine look-at-me…

YOUR WEDDING DAY is the most photographed day of your life, so the pressure is on to get your make-up exactly right. Who better to turn to than Mary Greenwell, the make-up maestro who has worked with everyone from Kate Moss to Cindy Crawford, and counts Princess Diana as a past client? ‘I came in when she did her first Vogue cover [in 1990],’ says Mary. ‘She didn’t know what to ask for, but we made her look beautiful.’ There is nothing Mary – now UK ambassador for Laura Mercier – doesn’t know about make-up, so what are her tips for the ultimate wedding face? First of all: preparation is everything. Hydrated skin is happy, glowing skin. ‘You need a lightweight moisturiser, one that won’t make your skin look oily,’…

Doria Ragland NICKY SAYS: A mint crisp. All rather movingly simple and restrained. Good colour with her complexion. SARAH SAYS: She got it spot on: simple silhouette, fresh colour and just a hint of delicate floral embroidery. TOFF SAYS: Doria – beaming mother of the bride! Her pistachio ensemble is so in this season. The Duchess of Cambridge NICKY SAYS: Dead right, if a trifle dull, though Treacy’s explosion of roses gives it some oomph. SARAH SAYS: Kate sticks to her tried-and-tested coat and dress formula. Like many guests, she’s chosen a solid colour over a print and is expressing herself with a hat. Not my favourite of the day but, a month after giving birth, she looks flawless – so extra credit for that! TOFF SAYS: Elegant and perfectly…

THE HARDEST LOSS My heart broke for Catherine Lux (The grief of losing an unplanned baby, 14 May). I too lost a baby this year and endured many mindless comments, such as ‘at least you know you can get pregnant’ and ‘miscarriages are so common’. None of which made it any easier for me to accept that my baby had gone, or allay the fear of it happening to me again. Miscarriage is devastating, whether the baby was planned or not. People should think carefully about glib remarks – a supportive hug is what’s required. I am grateful to Catherine for sharing her story. For the first time, I felt someone knows how I feel. Hannah I was in my twenties when I fell pregnant then had a miscarriage. The…

THE TELEVISUAL DATING game has rarely been in ruder health. First Dates sets the tension of a fancy dinner against a panoply cast drawn right across the spectrum of age, race, sexuality, disability and charm. Take Me Out vests all the power on the girls to do the choosing, whittling down men on what they assume are their most saleable attributes. The Undateables could draw tears from stone in its uniquely touching deployment of Cupid’s arrow. Love Island, which will return soon, is a bona fide, righteous, national obsession. To this modern pantheon of varifocal dating classics, on a week when love is very much in the air, we must welcome the tender triumph of Love In The Countryside. In the BBC’s surprise ratings winner, a lovely oddity, the utterly…

Reporting live from Windsor, Melanie Bromley, chief news correspondent at E!, gives her take on the royal couple and their union. Harry and Meghan’s wedding feels even bigger than William and Kate’s, because it’s the ultimate union between Hollywood and royalty. Having one of their own join the royal family means there’s an air of excitement in the States that I haven’t witnessed before. This marriage represents a fairy tale. Meghan’s journey to the heart of the British royal family has been the stuff of legend. In some ways Meghan is everything that many of us can relate to. She didn’t have a perfect upbringing, her parents divorced and she had to deal with racism and trying to find her place. Yet despite the hardships, she was able to beat…

THE SHOCK! After all the speculation, the designer names in the running – Stella McCartney, Erdem, Ralph & Russo, Christopher Bailey – it was none of them. Flying so far under the radar that nobody ever saw her coming or thought to flag her name, Clare Waight Keller won the day! It was the fashion equivalent of the rank outsider winning the Grand National: a fist-pump moment for British fashion – and for French couture. Ahead of the big reveal,my fear was that, in keeping with Meghan’s patronage of lesser-known brand names, it might be an unknown designer – the horror! Or, not wanting to follow in the footsteps of her sister-in-law, Kate, she might not go for a British designer – unpatriotic! Or, worse still, she might have gone…

Clare Waight Keller has captured Meghan in every stitch of her dress. The simplicity, grace and elegance is exactly how I imagined. The delicate embroidery trimming on the veil is beautiful. She looks the perfect modern princess. Kate Halfpenny, bridal designer I think the dress is great, it’s classic and elegant. Simple is so hard to do well but the simplicity of this dress is perfect. Demure and unfussy but no detail missing. Jane Petrie, costume designer for The Crown What a moment. What a dress. The choice should not have been unexpected by those of us who know Meghan, as this was the perfect union of British and French styling, and Meghan has shared her love of French style over the years. We see it as yet…

1 SUMMER SAVIOUR SAY HELLO TO the new go-to for all your holiday needs, Bali-based resort label Faithfull The Brand, new to Net-A-Porter. Wear this mustard bikini with a flash of red. £125, Faithfull The Brand (net-a-porter.com) 2 WE DO WITH PRETTIFYING pink and subtle silver, Essie Wedding Fit For A Princess Duo, £12.99, has ‘big day ready’ written all over it. 3 SHIM - SHIMMERY A SHOW-STOPPER that’s easy to pull off ? We’re sold. This super-shine dress needs no accessorising. £99.99, H&M Conscious (hm.com) 4 JUMP TO IT A CLEAN, contemporary way to do occasion dressing: this black-and-white jumpsuit is the perfect alternative to a dress. £350, Jill Jill Stuart (houseoffraser.co.uk) 5 BLOW THE BUDGET WE’RE GETTING serious Meghan Markle vibes from this DeBeers diamond ring. Potential suitors…

It’s been 20 months since Angelina Jolie shockingly filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, yet the former couple seem no closer to settling their split. But they do at least appear to be finally getting on with their lives, moving away from the toxic events that surrounded their break-up. Angelina is expected to start filming Maleficent 2 in London imminently, while Brad is ‘quietly dating’ the ‘rock star’ design professor and architect Neri Oxman (they are said to be getting increasingly close). Indeed, last week, word reached Grazia that Brad has rented a three-bedroom penthouse at The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, close to Neri’s apartment (she is based at MIT university, nearby). ‘The $20,00-a-month apartment is on its own floor, with its own entrance, which makes it ideal for…

ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, I went to see Tessa at her London home. We had lunch and chatted for hours. Although her language was impeded by the tumour, I could understand every word because of the decades of life we’ve spent together. She was completely serene. And I know why that was. She wanted to reassure her husband, David, and her children, Matthew and Jess, that everything was going to be OK. She knew she was nearing the end of her life and thought being serene was important for them. That was remarkable. She wasn’t kidding herself, she wasn’t being unrealistic, she knew what was going on but thought, ‘This is how it is.’ She wanted to do everything she could to make it smooth for her loved ones, but…

PREPARE TO MAKE friends with your dry-cleaner – you’re about to be seeing a lot more of them. This wedding season brings with it an onslaught of white dresses – and we’re not talking just for brides. With all its inherent optimism, the white dress is to spring what the sequin dress is to December (over 50% of Net-A-Porter’s white dress sales come from March through to May). Spring/summer ’18 saw them all over the catwalks, in all manner of guises – from girly to graphic to glamorous. Since nothing says fresh start like white, for the opening look of her debut show as creative director of Chloé, Natacha Ramsay-Levi opted for a white broderie anglaise and cady midi-dress – which is now selling out everywhere. And while a pretty…

Know what works for you. Tom Wolfe nailed the white suit for over 50 years. Bag a cool collab. & Other Stories has teamed up with House of Hackney – go get it. Get some satisfaction courtesy of the Rolling Stones pop-up at Selfridges’ Corner Shop. Be sun smart. Hat season is officially go. Channel Chelsea Flower Show chic in full bloom florals – best worn head to toe. Get the look of love. All together now, awww……

IT’S FAIR TO say that Meghan Markle knocked the socks of Prince Harry the first time they met. But there was a moment in the run-up to their wedding when she impressed him more than he could have imagined. The couple were in Windsor for a meeting with the Queen to talk about floral arrangements at St George’s when Her Majesty suggested that the in-Palace florists would do a marvellous job. Ms Markle, however, had other ideas and Harry had been slightly nervous about telling his grandmother they wanted to appoint their own florist, Philippa Craddock. ‘He was umming and ahhing and a bit awkward when Meghan just stepped in and said, “If you wouldn’t mind, we would love to bring in someone of our own,”’ recalls a Palace insider.…

*NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. AS TOLD TO POLLY DUNBAR. PHOTOS:THESUN/NEWS LICENSING, GETTY I’VE ALWAYS BEEN the kind of woman who daydreamed about her future children: the names I’d choose, the books I’d read them. If anyone had told me I’d get to the age of 41 and still not be sure whether I’d ever become a mother, I wouldn’t have believed them. But now I’m stuck in baby limbo and acutely aware that I’m running out of time. In my twenties, I was in a relationship for many years, but it ended when he left me for someone else. During my thirties, love was more elusive and the men I met seemed to share a disdain for commitment, matched with what often seemed to be a visceral horror of the…

JUST FOR GIRLS It was curious to read a different point of view in ‘Women-only clubs are… unhelpful for equality’ (14 May). It goes without saying that men’s active participation should be part of the solution to gender inequality. Yet the writer missed the point of clubs such as AllBright. It’s not about excluding men from your friendship circle. It is about female representation on boards, which is still shockingly low. Female-only clubs with a focus on business and entrepreneurs create a safe haven for women to share their experience and find the strength and inspiration to carry on our important work in achieving equality. With the help from the many progressive men we meet on the way, of course.…

CELEBRATION FEAST What would make the perfect wedding menu for Harry and Megan? Dishes made from seasonal British produce given an on-trend twist, with a splash of Americana cool to finish. A traditional prawn cocktail starter, charred (very now!) and given a shot of spice, followed by seasonal spring lamb with a mint and parsley-zested crumb, served with creamed corn mash – a delicious, velvety American side. Finish with a dessert that’s irresistible: matcha soft serve with salted caramel sauce in a cornflake and maple cup. A right royal feast. FIND ANNA AT ANNABARNETTCOOKS.COM AND INSTAGRAM @ANNABARNETTCOOKS CHARRED PRAWN COCKTAIL TACO WITH TEQUILA MARIE ROSE Feeds: 4 Preparation: 15 minutes Cooking: 20 minutes INGREDIENTS 2 baby gem lettuces, halved 12 king prawns, sustainably sourced, shells removed 4 flour tortillas 1…

RHIANNON EVANS COMMISSIONING & SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout (£8.99, SIMON & SCHUSTER) A kind of short story collection, mostly all featuring the titular and singularly memorable Olive. Beautiful and yet relatably written, it made me think about love, marriage, life, loss and family in ways I’d not been prompted to by a novel before. The perfect book for when you’ve got time for reflection. EMILY PHILLIPS FEATURES DIRECTOR Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld (£7.99,THE BOROUGH PRESS) Cincinatti housewife Mrs Bennett, is obsessed with dating show Eligible. So when its most recent star, Chip, and his up-himself neurosurgeon best mate Darcy roll up in the suburbs, she’s not missing a beat in trying to hook up her daughters. An American twist on the classical romance of Pride & Prejudice. JENNY…