New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Issue 18, 2022

The Queen couldn’t make it. Neither could Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. So the Cambridge clan stepped up, putting their best feet forward and leading the royal family into the annual Easter Sunday service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. Prince William, 39, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 40, and their two eldest children Prince George, eight, and Princess Charlotte, six, wore colour coordinated outfits for the service, while Prince Louis, four, stayed at home. Other members of the extended family, including Sophie, Countess of Wessex, 57, her daughter Lady Louise, 18, and Princess Eugenie, 32, embraced the arrival of spring with colourful floral dresses. The Queen missed the traditional service, which fell on the first anniversary of her husband Prince Philip’s funeral, due to ongoing mobility issues. She also pulled out of…

I’m so excited to share this special Mother’s Day issue with you as broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan introduces us to her adorable son Iggy. I hope the pure joy she shares of welcoming him to the world and the early weeks of motherhood will warm your heart as much as it did mine. It’s always very exciting when baby pictures land in the offi ce and we were all besotted with wee Iggy – he is just so cute! Heather shares how even though billions of women have done it, giving birth made her feel like a champion, which many of us mums will relate to because it is certainly a life-changing experience! Speaking of champions, don’t miss our story with grandmother Sharon Rose, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday by…

It’s been six weeks since wee baby Iggy was born and he’s just done his first interview with his mother, broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan. As she talks on the phone, Iggy can be heard gurgling and fussing, as six-week-old babies do, and occasionally Heather, 37, will talk to him and settle him expertly. “He’s been a really good baby,” she says in the voice she uses to talk to him – soft, gentle and smooth. She is obviously very in love. “When I looked at him after he was born, I thought, ‘Of course you look like that because that is what you are supposed to look like! You’re just beautiful,’” she recalls. “When you look at your baby and he looks like you and the person you love the most, you just can’t…

Young & the RESTLESS A decades-long problem has Jen losing sleep Jennifer Aniston fans don’t often see her with bags under her eyes, but the Friends star has confessed she’s suffered from insomnia, and even sleepwalking, for decades. Jen, 53, says her sleep problems began “in my thirties or even younger” and as the years rolled by, the effects on her health snowballed. “It became something I really was struggling with,” she shares. “You can’t really abide by the three pillars of health – which are diet, exercise and sleep – if you can’t really exercise and you can’t really eat right because you haven’t slept.” Not sleeping properly, she says, led to sleep anxiety and “the more I worry about it, the harder it is to fall asleep”. And at times, she’s caught herself…

She’s in incredible shape for someone who has been on this planet for nearly 100 years. But with the Queen turning 96 last week, palace insiders are warning that the public needs to start accepting that Her Majesty won’t be seen out and about very much any more. Mobility issues have been affecting her ability to attend events that are annual fixtures on her calendar – like the Easter Sunday service at Windsor – and we’ll just have to get used to seeing an empty space where the monarch would normally be, say aides who plan her diary. In recent months, the Queen’s appearances at several engagements have been cancelled at the last minute and in a new strategy adopted by the palace, her attendance will only be confirmed on the day…

It can’t really be described as a reconciliation. But the fact Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have been invited to appear at family events as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations is a hopeful sign that work on repairing their rift with the rest of the royals is well underway. The role Harry and Meghan can play in the June commemorations was discussed when they made a secret visit to the Queen on their way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands. Because they are no longer working royals, they can’t attend offi cial events like Trooping the Colour during the four-day celebration. But the Queen wants the California-based pair to join the rest of the family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace and at a…