Prince William, who is Patron of the Football Association, welcomed new England manager Thomas Tuchel to Windsor Castle today ahead of his first matches in charge of the Three Lions

Prince William met new England manager Thomas Tuchel for the first time today ahead of his first matches in charge of the Three Lions.

Tuchel officially took charge of England at the start of the year after Sir Gareth Southgate stepped down after the Euros in the summer, with his first match coming next month against Albania. This afternoon, William, who is Patron of the Football Association, welcomed Tuchel to WIndsor Castle as well as Mark Bullingham, the CEO of the FA.

A snap posted to social media showed William and the new England boss shaking hands. It was captioned: “Great to meet new @England men’s manager Thomas Tuchel for the first time today, and hear about plans for the team” and included a strong arm emoji.

William and Tuchel were joined by FA chief executive Mark Bullingham ( 
Image:
Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace)
It is believed their meeting lasted over an hour with new manager sharing his views on the team and his hopes for the future with the prince. A royal source said they also discussed the ongoing success of Aston Villa in their Champions League campaign.

William previously backed Tuchel as the Three Lions’ new boss after his appointment telling him: “We’re all behind you!” In a personal message posted by Kensington Palace’s social media, the prince wrote: “Exciting times for @England, with a generation of talented players and a new manager taking the reins. “Thomas, wishing you the best of luck, we’re all behind you! W.”

Tuchel, who is German, has been tasked with leading England to World Cup glory in the 2026 tournament. The Three Lions will face Albania, Latvia, Andorra and Serbia in the qualifiers. However, he is expecting a tough qualification campaign, with Albania first up at Wembley on March 21. Tuchel has insisted that reaching the World Cup will not be easy despite the lack of another top level side in their group.

“It’s a difficult group,” said former Chelsea boss Tuchel. “Serbia and Albania have some good individual players, top coaches and some very famous ex-players, so it will be very tough. We’ll have to be very respectful of that. “We have to be at our top level to make it to the World Cup – it’s the most important task at the moment to not get distracted. We also don’t want to get distracted by the role of favourites.”

Tuchel’s visit to Windsor Castle comes after the Prince of Wales sent a highly personal message to his predecessor Sir Gareth Southgate, who quit as England manager last July – just days after his side lost the Euro 2024 final to Spain.

Taking to social media minutes after the news was announced, William said: “Gareth, I want to thank you – not as the President of the @FA, but as an @England fan. Thank you for creating a team that stands shoulder to shoulder with the world’s finest in 2024.”Thank you for showing humility, compassion, and true leadership under the most intense pressure and scrutiny.

“And thank you for being an all-round class act. You should be incredibly proud of what you’ve achieved. W.” The Prince of Wales also shared a sweet photo of himself sharing a joke with Southgate during a previous visit to the England training ground.

Southgate announced he was standing down as England manager, saying it is time for a “new chapter” for the national team. “As a proud Englishman, it has been the honour of my life to play for England and to manage England. It has meant everything to me and I have given it my all,” he said in a statement.

Samantha Rathling was left devastated when she received her breast cancer diagnosis, saying that telling her three children she was undergoing treatment was the “hardest conversation” she’s ever had

A single-mum-of-three has revealed her difficult decision to wait five weeks to tell her children about her breast cancer diagnosis, undergoing the same treatment as the Princess of Wales. Samantha Rathling, from Derby, East Mids, found a lump in her breast in 2023 and went to the GP straight away.

After being referred to the breast clinic for a mammogram and ultrasound, as well as a biopsy, Samantha, 47, soon received the news that she had been diagnosed with grade 3 invasive ductal carcinoma – a high grade breast cancer that’s aggressive and more likely to spread.

“Telling my children I had cancer was really hard,” she says. “The toughest conversation I’ve ever had was with my 11-year-old, who has ADHD and other neurodiverse challenges. I used metaphors, calling my tumour ‘Larry the Lump’, and using phrases like: ‘Larry’s going to exit the building’ about my surgery. The older two children I told earlier in the process, as they were better able to understand.”

Samantha opened up on the difficulty in revealing her cancer diagnosis to her three children

Samantha’s daughters shaved their heads in support of their mother
One person who understands this all too well is the Princess of Wales, who has gone through the same preventative cancer treatment as Samantha. Kate revealed her cancer diagnosis to the public on March 22, 2024.

It’s understood she wanted to tell her children before the news broke online, giving them time to process it and reassuring them that she would be okay. A plethora of conspiracy theories surrounded Kate’s health at the time, with the Princess absent from numerous public appearances.

In a new interview with 60 Minutes Australia (via GB News), Prince William and Kate’s former royal aide Jason Knauf revealed why Kate and William waited to announce the difficult news. “They didn’t want to say yet that she had cancer because they hadn’t told the children and they were still working through how to tell the children,” Knauf explained.

Telling children about cancer diagnosis’ can be tough, with Samantha, owner of a marketing business, revealing she waited five weeks to process the news before telling her youngsters. Her three children, aged 12, 15, and 18, were told in stages about her diagnosis and treatment plan.

She says: “I knew I would need to speak separately to my youngest daughter and in a different way. I waited until I knew what I was dealing with, full diagnosis, what stage, what the plan was and how the surgeons and consultants were going to help me before I sat her down and spoke to her.

“This was about five weeks after I found my lump, it was her birthday in November, so I waited until after her birthday so that she didn’t have a negative association with her birthday.”

Samantha also received support from a Breast Cancer Support Nurse in telling her children the news. “I am their whole world,” she says.

She adds it was the “hardest conversation of my life”, explaining to her children that she had a treatment plan in place and that she was going to get sick before she gets better. “We all cried together,” she adds.

Samantha’s daughters chose to shave their hair in support of their mother, raising more than £3,000 for Cancer Research UK. Since her diagnosis, Samantha has had a lumpectomy and preventative chemotherapy.

Kate and William’s former royal aide also discussed the Prince of Wales’s reaction to the news. “It was awful, absolutely awful. It’s the lowest I’ve ever seen him.”

Kate has now completed her chemotherapy treatment, saying she is “focused on staying cancer free”. Meanwhile, Samantha has also completed six rounds of chemotherapy, and 10 radiotherapy treatments to keep the cancer at bay.

She is now on medication to stop cancer cells growing, hoping to raise more money for Cancer Research UK who helped her with her journey. Samantha is supporting Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in partnership with Standard Life. Visit raceforlife.org.

An interview by Jason Knauf, who worked at Kensington Palace, for both the Prince and Princess of Wales as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has been condemned

An interview given by a former royal aide who was at the centre of the Meghan Markle bullying allegations has been described as a “clear dig” at Prince Harry.

Jason Knauf, who previously worked at Kensington Palace for Harry and Meghan, lauded the couple and their “lovely family” in the new interview. It comes, though, after he had said Meghan “bullied” two PAs out of the royal household in the past.

The former aide’s contrasting opinions in the chat, broadcast on Australian TV, has divided opinion among royal experts this week, particularly as Mr Knauf also praised Prince William. He used to work for Prince William and Princess Kate as their communications secretary.

Alluding to the interview, journalist Amanda Platell wrote: “Was this a clear dig at Harry who went on the make millions out of his alleged grievances against the royals and the appalling way they had treated his ‘suicidal’ wife? A wife who pleaded ‘not just to survive but thrive’?”

The journalist, who was press secretary to William Hague, the then leader of the British Conservative Party between 1999 and 2001, offered her scathing critique in Wednesday’s Daily Mail.

The Prince and Princess of Wales were praised in the interview ( 
Image:
PA)

Today’s piece questions whether the interview was a ‘clear dig’ aimed at Harry ( 
Image:
PA)
It explores Mr Knauf’s complimentary remarks about William, for whom Mr Knauf worked until 2021, saying of the terrible breakdown of his relationship with Harry that William was both “hard and sad”.

Meanwhile, the Duchess of Sussex’s new lifestyle series With Love, Meghan is out on Netflix next week. It barely mentions Prince Harry, whose recent programme POLO received poor reviews.

Sources who’ve been given a preview of With Love, Meghan – likely to be the final project in Meghan and Harry’s $100million (£80million) deal with Netflix – say it continues with what is seen as the couple’s “brand separation”.

Meghan and Harry admitted in November they are at a “crossroads” with their work and insiders say With Love, Meghan – a “how-to” guide to entertain – further reinforces this. Harry, nor either of the couple’s children Archie and Lilibet, are hardly mentioned or seen in Meghan’s latest series. A source said: “Harry isn’t in it. It’s all her, and all about her. It’s very watchable.”

Things took an emotional turn during the latest episode of BBC’s hit programme, Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon, as host Stacey comforted a guest on the show

Presenter Stacey Solomon offered her support during the latest episode of Sort Your Life Out as the show took an emotional turn.

Stacey, along with her husband Joe Swash and her team of declutterers, were back for another episode on Tuesday night (February 25). Assisting the Aphabhai-Heer family from Coventry to reduce their record-breaking collection of clothes, the team had their work cut for them.

But while connecting with mum Sheeney, Stacey discovered why her house was filled to the brim with clothes. Sharing further insight into her past, Sheeney told her that after becoming pregnant at 17 her first partner left.

Talking about the relationship with her ex-boyfriend before she met her current partner Sohan, Sheeney said: “The relationship wasn’t very nice and I’d be completely honest, he would say I looked like a man. So to make myself feel better and more feminie, I’d go out and buy things.”

Stacey Solomon comforted Sheeney as she shared her story ( 
Image:
BBC)

Feeling upset by her admission, Stacey said: “Sheeney! Oh my God stop it, I’m gonna have to climb over your 100 pairs of jeans to give you a hug.”

But despite the tears, Stacey and her team had plenty of work to do as they aimed to shift the family’s clutter. With Sheeney’s love for clothes and kitchen appliances, the team were busy getting things done.

Sheeney was in tears during the BBC episode ( 
Image:
BBC)
However, some viewers were not too convinced that the Aphabhai-Heer family needed help from the team and thought they could have perhaps shifted some of the clutter themselves. Heading over to X, viewers who were clearly unsure about the episode shared their thoughts.

One fan of the show wrote: “I’m sorry but I’m not liking this episode. Normally it features a family who are suffering due to physical or mental health issues.”

Fans shared their thoughts online regarding the episode ( 
Image:
BBC)

Another shared: “Normally there’s a route course for the families on #sortyourlifeout This lot just seem like materialistic hoarders. Go back in a year & it’s gonna be just as bad.”

However others seemed to defend Sheeney and her family’s former untidy home, with one writing: “Most people criticising Sheeny have no idea of the psychological aspect of hoarding. Her ex-partner told this beautiful woman she looked like a man, and destroyed her self-confidence. So she bought things to enhance her femininity. Cut her some slack.”

Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon airs Tuesdays at 8pm on BBC One.

The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow saw one couple left devastated as a valuation did not go the way that they had hoped – with the expert delivering some heartbreaking news

An episode of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow left a hopeful couple crestfallen when a treasured family brooch didn’t fetch the valuation they’d dreamt of.

A show participant came forward with an exquisite brooch, a family heirloom from her nan, eager to learn its worth. Excitedly, they shared their belief that the eye-catching pin could possibly boast a large emerald stone, which might value it at a steep £100,000.

“These pieces of jewellery were given to my wife on our wedding day by my mother,” the hopeful guest recounted. “And she indicated that they were given to her on her wedding day by her mother and because there was no daughter in the family we suggested that should we have any daughters going forward, the jewellery could be given to that particular daughter on her wedding day.”

Antiques expert John Benjamin was tasked with evaluating the sparkling piece. Inspecting the supposed emerald-set pin, John informed the couple: “This pin is set with a very large green stone, and white stones – that was made in about 1910.”

The brooch was a family heirloom ( 
Image:
BBC)

The guest was disappointed ( 
Image:
BBC)

He questioned them, “Now, what do you think the green stone is? ” To which the owner of the brooch responded with optimism: “I thought it was an emerald.”, reports the Express.

However, their hopes were dashed as John delivered the deflating verdict: “I wish it was. It would be worth an absolute fortune. It would be worth £100,000 if it were, but it’s glass.”

An expert assessed an item brought in for appraisal and playfully declared, “Your pin – £10.”The room filled with laughter as the guests echoed in disbelief: “£10?”

Fortunately for the guests, who had arrived with a treasure trove of gems, plenty more items were up for valuation. The expert confidently priced the delicate items, noting, “The diamond bow here – it’s small, it’s pretty – £1,200 to £1,500.

“The clip brooch – that is probably worth around £3,000. The diamond crescent brooch – I like that one, it would make between £3,000 and £4,000.

“£3,000 and £4,000? Okay,” the guest reacted, clearly taken aback by the figures. But the valuer John wasn’t done yet, “I haven’t finished yet,” he declared.

He continued his assessment: “The diamond target brooch with a nice big diamond in the middle, I quite like that – I can see that making £3,500 to £4,000. Now, this magnificent Columbian stone in the middle – that’s real. That’s worth £5,000 to £6,000.

“Good God,” exclaimed the owner of the collection, awestruck by the evaluation. “Incredible,” they added. Finally, John summed up his appraisal, “This is a really wonderful comprehensive group of 19th and 20th-century jewellery. So if you were to sell it – £15,000 to £20,000.”

New ITV drama A Cruel Love tells the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, and veteran star Nigel Havers has a real-life link to her tragic story

Actor Nigel Havers appears in the new true crime drama A Cruel Love, about the life of Ruth Ellis, and the veteran star has an incredible real-life link to her story.

Nigel, who is best known for his roles in Chariots of Fire, Coronation Street and the sitcom Don’t Wait Up, stars as his own grandfather, Justice Cecil Havers in the series. Cecil was the judge who sentenced Ruth Ellis to death after she was placed on trial for the murder of her lover, David Blakely, in 1955.

A Cruel Love executive producer Kate Bartlett reveals she and her fellow producers asked Nigel if he would appear in the series but weren’t sure he would say yes. “We had lots of conversations going, ‘Oh, do you think he might?’ And he leapt at it,” she says. “We couldn’t quite believe it. So it was just amazing that he was playing his grandfather, it was extraordinary.”

Actor and TV presenter Nigel stars as his own grandfather in A Cruel Love
“He was full of little observations about what his grandfather would do,” adds director Lee Haven Jones. “Apparently his grandfather used to write all the time, he’d constantly be taking notes, and he liked to bet on the horses as well. So there were all of these little details and while we didn’t include all of them, it was nice to know that the role was imbued with a sense of authenticity.”

Nigel and his brother Phillip with their parents and grandfather Mr Justice Havers ( 
Image:
Getty Images)

A Cruel Love stars Lucy Boynton as Ruth Ellis, the 28 year old nightclub manager who became embroiled in a passionate but abusive relationship with racing driver David Blakely (Laurie Davidson). Their affair was marked by what is now recognised as domestic violence, and it came to a tragic end when Ruth shot and killed David outside a Hampstead pub in April 1955. She was immediately arrested and put on trial for his murder.

“It was such a tumultuous relationship, but they couldn’t stay away from each other,” Lucy explains. “Within weeks of meeting they were already living together. They seemed to be magnetised to each other. It’s hard for us on the outside to understand it but it was clearly intoxicating. And then it quickly turned very sour. He was very jealous, yet also unfaithful. He would promise her marriage, then disappear for days or weeks, telling all his friends they weren’t together anymore, then would return to her begging her to take him back. His physical abuse became so bad her friends were convinced he would kill her.”

Lucy Boynton and Laurie Davidson star as tragic couple Ruth Ellis and David BlakelyThe series recreates Ruth’s trial overseen by Justice Havers, where it took the jury just 20 minutes to convict her of murder, and Lucy says the court scenes were some of the toughest for her to film.

“The days I filmed in court were very intense because for legal reasons and for accuracy, all dialogue is verbatim from the court transcripts. So we got a totally vivid experience of what that trial was like. How frustrating it was to sit through the misinformation and misrepresentation of Ruth’s experience. Because David Blakely was a member of the upper class it was deemed inappropriate to talk about his ugly behaviour, so none of the physical and emotional abuse he inflicted was mentioned, and therefore the case was entirely imbalanced and Ruth misrepresented.”

“It was an incredibly intense shoot,” she continues. “The scenes of domestic violence were also hard to let go of when we wrapped.”

This week’s Sort Your Life Out saw host Stacey Solomon in shock as the Apabahi-Heer family broke the record for the most clothes in the BBC show’s history

Sort Your Life Out fans were left gobsmacked during the most recent episode as Stacey Solomon announced the family had broken records for the most amount of clothes ever on the show.

The BBC show sees the former Loose Women star help families declutter and transform their homes, with things often turning emotional for the both of them.

This week, Stacey was a ‘Dilly down’ as professional organiser Dilly Carter was unable to join the gang, as her husband Joe Swash stepped in. The gang made their way to Coventry in the West Midlands to meet with the Apabahi-Heer’s, a blended family of five.

Every nook and cranny in the families house was full, and with their daughter back from University, they needed all the help they could get. As the gang took a look around the house, Stacey revealed that at least 50% had to go, in particular, the clothes and shoes.

The family owned over 6500 items of clothing ( 
Image:
BBC)

After 500 boxes had been packed, the contents of the family’s house were finally on the way to the warehouse. Without all the clutter, the family were left shocked at how much space they had.

As they got to the warehouse, Stacey made the shocking announcement that the family had broken a record on the show. The team had counted 437 pairs of shoes, 39 phone chargers and over 1,000 kitchen utensils. Not only that, but the largest amount of clothes in sort your life out history.

“You have 6,568 items of clothing,” Stacey told the family, who were left in shock. “It is the most clothes we have ever seen and you are Sort Your Life Out record breakers. Stacey also counted 28 suitcases in the mix – and it was time to start the mammoth task.

Clothes were placed in every area of the house ( 
Image:
BBC)
Fans were left gobsmacked at the amount of clothing, as one penned on X, formerly known as Twitter: “I have never seen so many shoes and clothes in my life. Stacey and her team have their work cut out this week.” Another wrote: “She can’t possibly wear all her clothes, shoes and make up so she just needs to be ruthless #SortYourLifeOut.”

Stacey’s son Zachary was also shocked when she revealed the household had over 6,000 items of clothing as he exclaimed: “What?! That’s crazy!”

It was a happy ending for the family, as they managed to get rid of 40% of their possessions in seven days. The family were left in tears as they saw their ‘new home’ and the kids were even treated to a climbing wall in the living room.

Fox News’ Janice Dean shares heartbreaking message after health update on ‘unseen’ battle

FOX News’ Janice Dean has opened up about her decades-long, invisible battle with multiple sclerosis.

Dean, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2005, shared a heart-filled message to her fellow warriors on World MS Day.

2

Fox News’ Janice Dean opened up about her invisible battle with multiple sclerosisCredit: Twitter/JaniceDean

2

Janice Dean was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005Credit: Getty
“I call it the invisible illness, the ‘My, you look so well’ disease because we can be looking fine, I got my hair and makeup done, but inside our body is attacking its central nervous system, the brain, and the spine,” Dean shared.

“There’s a communication breakdown between the messages our brain sends to the rest of our body.”

The Fox News Channel weather anchor then says that on World MS Day, she is feeling the effects of her illness.

“On this World MS Day, I am actually feeling symptoms of my multiple sclerosis,” Dean said.

The Fox & Friends anchor shared how she’s been dealing with a sunburn sensation on the back of her neck.

“Even though we look okay on the surface – I got my hair and makeup done, I’m smiling on Fox & Friends – inside can be quite a challenge and what it feels like,” Deans says as she lets off a big sigh.

“So it’s sometimes tough to put on that smiling face, but we have to do it, and I wanted to, on this World MS Day, thank you to all my fellow MS warriors who continue to move despite the challenges every day.”

Multiple sclerosis is a potentially disabling disease of the central nervous system.

The illness causes the immune system to attack the protective sheath that covers nerve fibers and causes communication problems between the brain and the rest of the body, according to the Mayo Clinic.

There’s no cure for multiple sclerosis.

More than 2.8million people have an MS diagnosis worldwide, according to the National MS Society.

Loose Women’s Ruth Langford urged viewers to get their skin checked

Loose Women’s Ruth Langsford issued an urgent plea to viewers as she shared a health update live on air.

During Tuesday (February 24) episode of the ITV hit daytime chat show, viewers and the live studio audience were joined by Ruth and her fellow panellists Janet Street-Porter, Denise Welch and Coleen Nolan as they discussed the day’s trending topics.

However it was one segment that had everyone talking as they discussed whether your skin could be hiding a secret health scare that you would have never thought to get checked.

Opening up the segment, Ruth went on to say: “We will be talking about skin today. Are you taking care of it? Any change of your condition on your skin could be an indication that there is something else going on in your body.”

Loose Women’s Ruth Langsford issued an urgent plea to viewers as she shared a health update live on air

She continued: “Dermatologists are warning we are all guilty of not taking enough time to really look at our skin and therefore look after ourselves.”

Ruth took the opportunity to open up about her own health scare after recently having a her moles checked on her body but she confirmed that “it is nothing to worry about.”

She started off by saying: “When I was younger, you kind of ignored things and you never thought about it. But definitely as I’ve gotten older – I’ve been twice this week – I go twice a year to get my moles checked.

Ruth took the opportunity to open up about her own health scare ( 
Image:
ITV)
“When we were young, we didn’t know the dangers of sunbathing and my dad’s in the army so we were abroad a lot running around in the sun. I remember sunscreen being around but not smothering it on.”

Pointing at her skin, Ruth then revealed: “I’ve just had a little thing done here this week but it’s nothing to worry about because it’s been checked.”

Co-star Coleen pointed out: “Didn’t you go green earlier” to which Ruth replied: “I did go green but it’s gone now. I don’t know what that was, maybe because it was early morning.”

Before closing the show, Ruth said: “Please go and have anything checked that you are worried about. We are just looking at here blue skin is a sign of poor circulation, Yellowish skin is a sign of liver problems and thickness or hardening of the skin can be diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disorders so anything that you’re concerned about and anything that is unusual please, please get it checked.”

Fox News’ Carley Shimkus shares sweet pictures with new son – but fans beg for answer on when she’ll return to screens

FOX & Friends First star Carley Shimkus has shared a series of adorable photos with her new son.

The journalist and her husband Peter Buchignani welcomed baby Brock Edward to the world in February.

3

Fox & Friends First star Carley Shimkus has shared a series of pics with her new sonCredit: Instagram

3

Fans have asked Carley about her return to workCredit: Instagram
Carley has offered her thousands of fans a glimpse into motherhood as she posted heartwarming pictures on her Instagram account.

Earlier this month, the anchor posted a selfie from the park where Brock was in his stroller.

In another picture, the journalist beamed as she held her baby.

Carley also posted a series of snaps of herself with pals at a gathering, celebrating the Kentucky Derby.

Dana Perino, the co-anchor of the Fox News show America’s Newsroom, described Carley as the “happiest mama.”

Dozens of viewers gushed over the pictures that Carley shared.

Fans are also curious about when Carley will be returning to the air.

Galen Pedersen said: “We miss you. My morning coffee isn’t the same.”

An Instagram user, known only as Joey, asked Carley: “When are you returning to work.”

Kevin Rettig was among the social media users who asked Carley about her return to Fox & Friends First.

 

Carley appeared on the weathercaster and TV host Janice Dean’s podcast in March where she talked about adjusting to motherhood.

Carley revealed that her son is getting “a very early education” in politics.

She said: “Early motherhood is a wild ride.

“You are filled with so much love, and you are so tired, and you’re so covered in poop.”

Carley continued: “Your body looks different but at the end of the day, you have this sweet little person who needs you so much.”

The new mom described the parenting experience as “wonderful.”

Carley first joined Fox News in 2009 as a production assistant on Fox Business Network.

The new mom previously worked as a producer for Fox Business Network and has appeared as a co-host for Fox Nation.

Businessman Buchignani has been married to Carley since August 2015.

3

The mom and her son were seen beaming in several Instagram picsCredit: Instagram