New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 1918

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (37) and Princess Charlotte looked both adorable and cosy in matching mother/daughter blue puffer jackets on a royal family day out with the Tindalls. Prince William (36) and his cousin Zara (37) share a close bond, and it looks as though their kids enjoy spending time with each other too! Prince George (5), Mia (5) and Charlotte (3) duked it out on the dodgem cars and crossed swords at the funfair, with George even enjoying a shoulder ride from Mike (40) at the Burnham horse trials and funfair in Norfolk.…

In a surprise for your Easter Monday, we’ve been working on an extra tr eat! We have a whole new special magazine on shelves fr om April 22 called My Mum’s Kitchen. Yes, that’s right, together with our fabulous food editor Nici Wickes and her gorgeous mum Car ole, we’ve made a special one-off cookbook! There are more than 75 baking recipes, covering everything from tasty cakes, muf fins and slices to decadent desserts and delicious pr eserves! Like so many of you, I absolutely love Nici and her mum’s food page and it’s so handy now having a whole book of their baking recipes all together at my fingertips. But it now means my biggest quandary for the week is working out which recipe I’ll pop in the oven when I get…

When Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, married into the royal family, she had to relinquish control over many aspects of her life and follow certain protocols, whether she liked it or not. But now, when it comes to one of the most important experiences she’ll ever have – giving birth – Meghan is putting her foot down and doing things her way. With the full support of her doting husband Prince Harry, the mum-to-be has decided to turn her back on traditions followed by other royal mums, such as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. For starters, there will be no photo call on the steps of the hospital to show off the newborn bundle of joy – and, in fact, Meghan may not even give birth in hospital. Meghan…

When it comes to making decisions around the birth of her baby, it is not sister-in-law Kate that Meghan has turned to for advice and ideas, but close friend Amal Clooney. Human rights lawyer Amal and her husband, actor George Clooney, became parents to twins Ella and Alexander in 2017, and it is their lead that the duke and duchess seem to be following. Amal gave birth at the Kensington Wing, which Meghan favours over the Lindo Wing where Kate had her children. Her preference for using a female doctor may also have resulted from conversations with Amal (41). According to some reports, Harry and Meghan have hired a nanny who worked for the Clooneys for a short period after Ella and Alexander were born. Connie Simpson, who has also assisted celebrity couples…

Royal weddings are like buses. You wait for ages and then three come along in quick succession. If reports are true – and nobody has denied them – then later this year or early next, Princess Beatrice will marry, following what by royal standards is a whirlwind romance, with 35-year-old Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, or Edo to his friends. In some ways, this son of an Italian count is the perfect choice – rich and one of those Europeans who is more English than the English. He was educated at Radley, a posh private school in Oxfordshire, and completed a master’s degree in politics at Edinburgh. In other ways, he bucks social convention big-time. He has a two-year-old son, Christopher ‘Woolfie’ Woolf, with Chinese-American architect Dara Huang. Edo and Dara were engaged and living…

Portraying characters from another era is something Elizabeth McGovern does exceptionally well. She earned an Oscar nomination for her part in Ragtime, a movie set at the turn of the last century, and found global fame starring in period drama Downton Abbey as Cora, Countess of Grantham. Now, her latest movie The Chaperone, which she produced herself as well as starring as the title character, is also set in the Roaring Twenties. But the fact she’s ended up in films and TV shows that portray this long-ago era is a complete fluke, says Elizabeth (57). “I just love good stories and it has been coincidental that the stories I am closely associated with happen to be period pieces. It’s not that I love doing period pieces per se, but I love doing good…