Lady Lola Bute gave a touching tribute to both her parents as she made a toast at her raucous 25th birth bash – admitting she ‘hasn’t always been easy’.
Dubbed the ‘party of the year’, the aristocrat, who is the daughter of the late John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute and fashion designer Serena Bute, hosted guests at the family seat – Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute – including Sienna Miller, Charlotte Tilbury and Poppy Delevingne.
While
The cardboard boxes are almost as ancient as some of the contents. Glass baubles, fairy lights, bows and tinsel swags — they’re all here.
Some fragile cardboard and glitter decorations that my children made when they were small twinkle next to newer tin toys, collected on our travels.
These tiny trinkets are full of memories of Christmases past, and finding them each December, a sign of happy celebrations to come again.
For the past few years, though, most of my
While Britney Spears’ sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, get ready to move with their father Kevin Federline, the singer is remaining positive about strengthening their bond.
“Britney has never given up hope on repairing things with her kids,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “But she hasn’t seen them in a long time, and she isn’t exactly sure when she’ll see them again now that they’re moving to Hawaii.”
The insider notes that the
With its so-called Bidenomics, the US is leading the way in linking subsidies to social conditionalities, an approach that the EU has both criticised due to its impacts on competition and been reluctant to integrate into its industrial policy.
The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), an attempt to further green the transition through subsidies for domestic energy projects, includes some social conditionalities – workers’ protections, or social or economic rights – necessary for companies to receive funding.
For instance, businesses
At night, as she sleeps, her seven-year-old son haunts her dreams. ‘He’s always there, with the long dark curls he had when he was little,’ says Ranem Elkhalidi, 25. ‘His hair is shorter now, but when he comes at night, that’s how I see him.’
What torments her is that she did not say she loved him when she last saw him. She didn’t even say goodbye. When Ranem dropped Ibrahim at his primary school in Frodsham, Cheshire, on Friday,
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A 35-year-old virgin has opened up about her struggle to find ‘the one’ – admitting that men often ghost her when she tells them she’s waiting for marriage to have sex.
Sonali Chandra, an Indian-American dancer, model, and comedian from New Jersey, says she believes sex is a ‘sacred and special’ act, so she’s waiting until she has a ring on her finger to participate in it.
However, her abstinence has made it hard for her to date, since she
Julia Roberts is one of those few actors who have achieved a stardom that never really fades: She’s always up there in the pop-culture firmament, flashing that famous smile. So it comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that her role as the Watergate whistleblower Martha Mitchell in the new Starz mini-series “Gaslit,” which premieres April 24, is her first acting work in four long years. As if making up for lost time, Roberts has found in
In December, in a ballet of global logistics, more than 30 tankers ferrying liquid natural gas from the United States to various destinations around the globe—Japan, Brazil, South Africa—canceled their trips and set a new course for the European Union. On the days they pulled into port, the U.S. supplied more natural gas to Europe than Russia did.
This represented more than a minor milestone in global energy history. As recently as the mid-2000s, energy companies fretted that the U.S.
