Prince Harry’s memoir is to be called Spare, according to publisher Penguin Random House.
The publication was delayed following the Queen’s death, and Harry is said to have requested a number of alterations to make it less critical of the Royal Family.
A press release released today said: ‘Spare takes readers immediately back to one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror.
It is believed that Harry was paid an advance of £18.4 million as part of a three-title deal worth £36.8 million.
Penguin Random House said the duke had donated $1,500,000 Sentebale, a charity helping children affected by HIV/AIDS. He will also donate £300,000 to WellChild, which he has been patron of for 15 years.
#wellchild #hivaids #penguin #harry #meghan
Leigh goes to Hull and back and Rodney’s candles melt…
Join in the chat as the gentlemen ranters reveal a shock about electric vehicles and how much does diesel really cost on a motorway? They also investigate the inflammation highway.
Got it taped…Leigh and Rodney discuss the shock of how utility companies were recorded claiming bills are estimated – and prepayment meters are cheaper!
Vladimir Putin has made a chilling death threat to the West … and he warns ‘I’m not bluffing’.
The nuclear threat follows the Moscow dictator’s plan to annex occupied areas of Ukraine and a vow to use ‘all means’ to defend them.
Putin said: “If there is a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, and in protecting our people we will certainly use all means available to us – and I’m not bluffing… Those trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the tables can turn on them.”
He also announced the partial mobilisation of Russia’s military reserves – 300,000 men – in the hope of turning the war in his favour.
His army suffered defeat near Kharkiv last week. that sparked fury in Russia and calls for him to resign.
So, Putin decided to hold you and me – the free world – to ransom.
#putin #russia #uk #ukraine #US #china
Postcard’s exclusive Tom Wood song and video – see inside
Leigh and Rodney are ranting as usual, but their guest, Las Vegas troubadour Tom Woods is urbane and relaxed as he talks about his musical vision for his future. And how this Hollywood video by Bob Mori came to be made
There are ghosts in the face of singer and songwriter Tom Wood. You can see them arrive when he performs.
Tom washed up in Vegas many years ago with music and an old love on his mind.
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He was brought up in St Louis and yet says he never had the blues. He did, he just doesn’t like to talk about it all that much… Tom is a big, lugubrious-looking man, but he is also a changeling with a smile, reserved and polite, gentle but emotional.
He is a writer with a passion too … the passion to demand things are put right, a passion against racism, iniquity and the bad treatment of human beings.
And, like Tom Paine, Tom Wood has a grand vision for society: Paine was anti-slavery and advocated world peace and social security for the poor and elderly.
Steinbeck’s Tom Joad is trapped between crippling poverty and a realisation that people have no place in this changing America.
Tom Wood has all these passions and they are indeed the ghosts in his face, his heart and his songs.
For many years he worked in the mountains and the desert and now he is on the rocky road home.
Here is his latest recording, Welcome Home, a beautiful sad ballad with ghosts and memories. But more than anything it has hope and you can see in the candlelight a new brightness coming.
Once again the brilliant LA film creator Bob Mori has put together a stunning video to promote Welcome Home.
I have never owned a commemorative cup or a Buckingham Palace tea towel.
Yet I shall miss the Queen.
She was as present in my life as a distant great aunt who you only saw at Christmas when she’d make a little speech, or at a school open day. Or in her holiday snaps… Abu Dhabi, Paris, the Vatican, the world.
I last met her when she and Philip visited Central Europe in 2008. I was part of the Press Pack invited to follow her around for a couple of days.
Queen Elizabeth was quite simply a pleasant person to be with. She looked good, was interested in everything, smiled genuinely and was amused by Philip’s antics with the Press. The joker in the pack, so to speak.
Over the years, because of my job, I met Diana, Charles, Andrew, Sarah and Ann.
But the abiding memory I have of Royalty is of a tiny old lady in her best clothes throwing in the puck in a mountainside ice stadium near the Polish border.
She was laughing, joking and smiling.
LET’S REMEMBER HER WITH GOOD FEELING – AND LET HER FAMILY FACE THEIR TRUTHS AND CONSEQUENCES ALONG THEIR OWN JOURNEY HOME.
The last details are in place for Britain’s farewell to Queen Elizabeth II.
More than a million people will line the streets of London this Monday morning to be part of the historic scenes of pomp and splendour and sorrow and solemnity, as Her Majesty’s coffin is taken from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey.
There will be 2,000 in the congregation, including Armed Forces veterans, NHS staff and charity workers.
The Queen’s coffin will be transported from the abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, before she is carried by State Hearse to Windsor.
There, she will be lowered into the Royal Vault at St George’s Chapel, where she will join her beloved husband the Duke of Edinburgh and parents King George VI and the Queen Mother, and where her sister Princess Margaret’s ashes are interred.
