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Prince Harry is coming home, and he’s bringing his wife and children with him.
Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet will have their new uniforms pressed and ready as they prepare to start the new term at a British school. It is quite the move.
The decision marks an extraordinary volte-face. One can only imagine how the news has gone down at Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace.
The Duke and Duchess made some extraordinary allegations about the Royal family that shook the monarchy to its core. They were clearly unhappy in their former lives and have not shied away from telling the world.
While this relocation may come as a shock, it has been on the cards for some time. I have seen Prince Harry on several occasions over the last year or so and it has become apparent that he has been eyeing a move back home.
He has genuinely missed Britain, he wants to spend more time with his family and, crucially, he wants his children to experience British life and culture.
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Security has been the only sticking point. It is unclear what arrangements have been put in place, but he must have been given assurances that allayed his fears.
Neither Harry nor Meghan will reprise their roles as working members of the Royal family. So where does that leave them?
The details are yet to be revealed. Meghan will carry on with As Ever, her lifestyle brand, while Harry will be able to focus more on his British charities and the next Invictus Games, due to take place in Birmingham next July.
The couple are, for now, keeping their home in Montecito as well as their property in Portugal, where they plan to spend more time.
The financial consequences are perhaps not sustainable in the long term, but they will waiting to see how the move pans out.
How will the public receive them? How will the Waleses receive them? We are about to find out.
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Scientists have found that humans are speaking an average of 338 fewer words each day. It’s one of those insights about everyday life that’s both revealing and dispiriting, writes Melissa Twigg. In a huge study, American psychologists recorded the utterances of thousands of people, of all ages. Over a 15-year period, the study showed we are talking less. Technology, isolation and WFH are to blame, but it’s the loss of idle chit-chat that does the most damage. Continue reading ➤ |
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A glimmer of hope?
Few can imagine the agony of Motor Neurone Disease, a condition that causes muscles to waste away and leads ultimately to paralysis and respiratory failure. One in 300 of us will develop it and there is currently no cure.
For the past 18 months, one courageous Telegraph reader, whose face we never see, has been living with MND and, with the help of her family, recorded her battle against a condition which, as she writes so movingly, “does tend to make one feel that one is disappearing from the world”.
Our anonymous author writes:
To recap: in November 2025 my GP rang to suggest, tentatively, that I might have Motor Neurone Disease – terminal, degenerative. Months of tests had produced no diagnosis, but Ruth, my speech therapist, who had asked me to read aloud and wiggle my tongue, clearly suspected it.
I had not noticed that my tongue had become sluggish. My tongue, cheeks and teeth no longer fitted together, and at night I bit myself, leaving sores that took days to heal. I was trying to ignore it, but at a meeting, the polite perplexity of people struggling to understand me forced me to admit I could not hide this much longer.
I am not given to looking up symptoms online, as any passing discomfort becomes a threat to life and limb. Even so, I read around MND, and it gave me a jolt. It can attack any part of the body; my difficulty speaking and eating without choking was typical of one form. Most astonishing was how little is understood about why it strikes, or how to manage it, let alone cure it.
My GP made an urgent referral. Then nothing, until a December letter passed my name to a hospital 50 miles away, with no date. I was “sitting in triage”, which could take six weeks. Christmas came and went, happily, with our family.
By January, my speech still deteriorating, I did what I disapprove of and went private. The neurologist’s letter reported tongue “atrophy” and “significant fasciculation” – a worm-like ripple in the tongue. No wonder I bit it in my sleep: I was trying to catch the rippling worm.
He described me as an academic historian in my seventies and concluded, with the empathetic, somewhat familiar tone of such medical letters: “I agree with this lady that we need to investigate for a bulbar onset motor neurone disease.” I was pleased he had read my unconscious mind and found it full of valuable advice. “Bulbar” means the muscles that talk, chew and swallow. Mine were becoming a daily barrier.
Back on the NHS list, I had needle electrodes inserted for an EMG study, which left me bruised black for a week, like a malign chicken pox. Conduction normal, no peripheral neuropathy. My heart lifted. My limbs still worked; I could garden, drive, travel. A glimmer of hope. Could the diagnosis be wrong? Follow-up due in mid-April. I would have to wait to find out.
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Free-range parentingWhile Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, is away, Kate Moore is on hand to share an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Kate writes...
Is playtime over? That was the rather worrying implication in the report from the University of Exeter, where the latest research found that today’s children play outdoors for an average of just 25 minutes a week.
For many families, traffic risk plays a part. Certainly, the very thought of the road that now runs past the school in my home village is enough to make my palms sweat. However, there was a general feeling among readers that something more fundamental had been lost.
“When I was a young boy growing up in Mitcham, Surrey, I was playing outside with my friends by the age of seven,” wrote Tony Manning.
“I quickly became proficient in taking care of myself. For example, at a Scout camp on Romney Marsh when I was 11, I didn’t care for the meals provided, so I went to a nearby river, caught some fish and cooked them over a camp fire.”
If the adults were anxious about letting the younger generation roam, they did not let on. “During my first year at boarding school, age 11, my parents were overseas and I spent my holidays with my grandmother,” recalled Michael Fopp.
“A milk bottle full of water was hung from the garden gate by a piece of string and a sandwich on a plate would appear on top of the stone wall at lunch time. I would return when it was getting dark.”
Jim Hardie enjoyed a similar experience on holidays with his grandparents in Scotland: “After an early breakfast, I was encouraged to explore the local area for wildlife and observe nature. This has resulted in a lifetime of pleasure from all varieties of flora and fauna.”
Most commendable was the attitude taken by Shirley Puckett, who kept it brief: “In the heydays when children were more independent I used to tell mine to go out to play and not come back unless they were bleeding.” Did you enjoy a free-range childhood? Is such a thing still possible today? Tell us what you think here.
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1923 | London dock strike ends
1940 | Winston Churchill, in his famous speech regarding the Royal Air Force, says: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
2008 | Usain Bolt breaks the 200m world record in a time of 19.30s at the Beijing Olympics
2020 | Alexei Navalny falls into a coma after a suspected poisoning (later confirmed to be Novichok poisoning)
Birthdays: Andrew Garfield (43), Amy Adams (52), Robert Plant (78)
Also, in today’s news, a seaside Parkrun has been temporarily suspended because of the behaviour of “ego-driven” runners. What did they do?
1. Took performance enhancing drugs
2. Tripped fellow runners
3. Shouted at participants to go faster
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Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including The 1% Club, Cogs, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was TIGHTROPE. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
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Chris Evans, Editor
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