Blog

In a moment that has left the royal family and the public stunned, Prince Harry has once again knelt before his brother, Prince William, within the iconic walls of Buckingham Palace. This surprising gesture marks a significant step in their relationship, showcasing a profound willingness to heal past wounds. Years of tension and publicized family drama appeared to culminate in a moment of reconciliation that transcended words. Through this act, Harry not only demonstrated his love for William but also revealed an unexpected “contract” between the brothers—one that nobody saw coming.

Witnesses close to the family describe the scene as one filled with emotion. In an intimate, private ceremony at Buckingham, Harry approached William with a respectful humility. This gesture, reportedly premeditated, was carefully designed as a demonstration of his deep admiration for his older brother, whom he regards as an irreplaceable figure in his life. As Harry knelt, he handed William a document—a symbolic “brotherly contract.” The nature of the contract, according to insiders, speaks to a renewed promise of loyalty and mutual support, a heartfelt commitment to stand by one another regardless of circumstances or external influences.

The symbolic contract is said to encapsulate the values of unity, trust, and brotherhood. Sources indicate that it serves as a heartfelt agreement between Harry and William to preserve their bond in the face of ongoing challenges. For many, this moment echoed a turning point in their complex relationship, a clear signal that the brothers were ready to move beyond past rifts and re-establish the connection that once defined their close-knit relationship.

Harry’s act of kneeling has particularly resonated with the public, who have watched the brothers’ ups and downs unfold over the years. As young princes, they shared a close bond shaped by shared memories, royal responsibilities, and family hardships. However, recent events had put a strain on their relationship, leading many to question if reconciliation was even possible. With this contract, Harry and William appear to be making a powerful statement: that despite all odds, family remains paramount.

Royal watchers and fans around the world have embraced this touching gesture, hopeful that it signifies the beginning of a new chapter for the princes. As details of this “brotherly contract” continue to unfold, many are optimistic that it may bridge the divide and restore the bond between Harry and William, a testament to the enduring power of brotherly love and commitment.

Prince Harry joined a NATO military committee meeting via video link, but fans have been quick to spot a ‘Meghan Markle’ detail.

Prince Harry addressed NATO officials (Image: NATO)

Prince Harry has broken cover for the first time in weeks to address a group of NATO officials.

The Duke of Sussex attended a meeting of the NATO military committee via video link on October 31 speaking about his role in the involvement of the Invictus Games, a charity supporting wounded, injured and sick service members and veterans.

And although his wife, Meghan Markle did not attend the meeting, eagle-eyed fans noticed a photo in the background of the smartly dressed duke which showed him and his wife on their wedding day back in May 2018.

The photo shows Harry in military uniform and Meghan in her wedding dress during the carriage procession around London following their nuptials.

Harry’s nod to Meghan comes amid the royal duo making increasingly separate public appearances, with speculation they are both working on a new PR strategy with their team.

Harry and Meghan on the day of their wedding – May 19, 2018 (Image: George Pimentel/WireImage)

Meghan’s dress was designed by Clare Waight Keller (Image: Getty)

Although Harry himself did not physically attend the meeting in New York, a delegation from the Invictus Games group was sent, and the meeting comes a year after Harry’s 2023 Invictus Games documentary ‘Heart of Invictus’ aired on Netflix.

Harry addressed the attendees: “I believe the work of the Invictus Games Foundation to be very important – and it strikes at the heart of our shared values as military personnel.”

In February 2024, Harry and Meghan met competitors at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort ahead of the 2025 games for the ‘One Year to Go’ event.

Around 550 competitors from up to 25 nations will take part in the Winter Invictus Games 2025 including sitting volleyball, swimming and wheelchair basketball. Winter sports such as alpine skiing, snowboarding, and wheelchair curling will also be part of the competition for the first time.

According to a source, Express.co.uk reports the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are making arrangements for their children to attend the opening ceremony at BC Place Vancouver in February.

“Harry and Meghan are planning to take Archie and Lilibet to help promote a new ‘family-friendly’ Invictus Games,” the source said.

Prince Harry and Meghan watching the Invictus Games Toronto 2017 (Image: Karwai Tang/WireImage)

Meanwhile, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new approach to promoting their projects separately is down to the fact that their Sussex brand has become “toxic” through the years, one PR expert has claimed.

Harry visited New York, London and Southern Africa to promote his own causes, while Meghan was seen attending events including supporting the LA Children’s Hospital Gala.

PR expert Ed Coram James claimed that the Sussex couple’s brands are stronger as individuals rather than as a couple after their joint ventures turned out to be “toxic and thus commercially untenable”.

He told GB News: “Since their marriage, Harry and Meghan have had a distinct brand. That brand is based on a duo.

“Call it ‘Harry and Meghan’, call it ‘the Sussexes’, call it whatever you like. The fact is that for years they have become synonymous with one another.”

He added: “And, since the famous Oprah interview, in which they took a simmering disagreement between themselves and the rest of the Royal Family and essentially declared all-out-war, that brand has been steadily becoming more toxic and thus commercially untenable to the point where not that many major brands are going to be rushing to write them a large cheque based on their brand value…”

Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget 2024 dig came as she announced a private jet passenger duty hike to MPs.

Rachel Reeves made a sly one-word dig at Prince Harry and Meghan as she announced a huge hike in private jet air passenger duties.

Addressing the chamber in the Autumn Budget 2024, the Chancellor unveiled a raft of financial changes, including a whopping £40m package of tax-busting measures.

Private jet users will be stung by an additional 50 percent – which is the equivalent of £450 per person. Reeves then looked up and said: “to say, California?”

The joke has been perceived as directed at ex-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, but it could also apply to the the air-mile habits of Prince Harry and Meghan who have been known to use private jets to get around.

The Sussexes have faced criticism in the past for using private jets while also talking about the importance of the climate crisis.

Prince Harry and Meghan have been previously criticised for using private jets (Image: Getty)

Harry and Meghan came under fire for private jet usage (Image: Getty)

MailOnline reports that Harry and Meghan have previously opted to fly in a 12-seater Cessna jet when they go privately.

The plane has a luxurious interior with huge bathrooms, leather seats, Wi-fi and working desks.

Retailing at a reported £5,675,588, the jet is an impressive way to get around.

Harry and Meghan have also been known to fly first class on commercial flights, as they did on the way back from their tour of Nigeria this year.

According to reports, they flewo back in the First Class section of the Boeing 777.

While Ms Reeves’ joke in Parliament was aimed at Mr Sunak, the new policy could make Harry and Meghan think twice about flying privately again.

Sunak used private jets regularly as prime minister (Image: Getty)

Unveiling the hike on provate jet duties, Ms Reeves said: “APD has not kept up with inflation in recent years, so we are increasing an adjustment, meaning an incincrease of no more than £2 for a short haul economy flight. But I am taking a different approach when it comes to private jet.”

“Increasing the rate of APD by a further 50%, that is equivalent of £450 per passenger for a private jet to say…California.”

Last year, it was reported that Mr Sunak had used jets and helicopters to travel around the UK more than any other recent Prime Minister.

A Freedom of Information request revealed that he had taken 23 domestic flights on jets and helicopters in 187 days.

Princess Diana was ‘ignorant’ and ‘didn’t know the difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland‘, an unearthed note has claimed.

Diana, then the princess of Wales, showed ‘obvious ignorance of, or disregard for, constitutional niceties’ in relation to Northern Ireland, according to a note from the Irish ambassador in 1993.

The late princess had referred to Northern Ireland as part of Ireland in an interaction which was noted ahead of a historic visit by then-Irish president Mary Robinson to Buckingham Palace.

The meeting in May 1993 would mark the first time a serving president of Ireland visited the United Kingdom, and visited Queen Elizabeth II.

A folder with briefing material for the Irish president ahead of the visit included a note by the Irish ambassador in London, Joseph Small, where he stated the princess had visited Ireland in a private capacity for equestrian functions.

+6

Princess Diana visiting Ulster Hospital, near Belfast, Northern Ireland, in December 1993

+6

A smiling Princess Diana chats and greets a crowd of well-wishers in Belfast

‘Whenever we meet Prince Charles, he invariably says that he would love to visit Ireland,’ Mr Small’s briefing note, dated May 21 1993, said.

‘He is, of course, a regular visit to Northern Ireland (sic). Princess Diana has also been there.

‘Early last year she said to me, with obvious ignorance of or disregard for constitutional niceties: “I was in your country yesterday!”‘

The briefing note also detailed the latest political situation in the UK, included notes on the Irish diaspora in the UK, and on the royal family ahead of what would become a significant visit as Anglo-Irish relations deepened.

Mrs Robinson’s visit to London was planned for May 26-28, where she was to receive the degree of doctor of civil law by diploma from the University of Oxford, become an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and present the Irish Post Awards that celebrate the Irish in Britain.

On the second day of the trip at 5pm, Mrs Robinson was to ‘pay a courtesy call’ to Queen Elizabeth II in response to an invite from the monarch.

+6

Queen Elizabeth II with president of Ireland Mary Robinson at Buckingham Palace in 1993

+6

The note labelled Princess Diana as ‘ignorant’ and claimed she confused Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

Among the topics noted for possible discussion between Mrs Robinson and Queen Elizabeth II was Northern Ireland, bombing atrocities in the region and in Britain, cross-border issues and general relations between Ireland and the UK.

Also noted was Mrs Robinson’s appreciation of ‘her response re Somalia’ and her ‘concerns’ regarding Sudan and Yugoslavia and the ‘British UN military involvement’.

The meeting was scheduled to last around 40 minutes, where tea and light refreshments were to be served.

Mr Robinson also attended the engagement, while the Duke of Edinburgh was in Liverpool attending the anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.

An observer wrote to the president’s office before the visit and noted some parallels with ‘the last meeting between an Irish woman leader and a British monarch’.

The writer compared the Buckingham Palace meeting with the Queen of Connaught, Grace O’Malley, visiting Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich Castle exactly 400 years earlier, in 1593.

‘Grace, like yourself, was also a Mayo woman!’ Dr Donald Martin from Killybegs in Co Donegal wrote, noting that the language spoken at the time was Latin.

+6

The late princess had referred to Northern Ireland as part of Ireland in an interaction which was noted ahead of a historic visit by then-Irish president Mary Robinson to Buckingham Palace

+6

Princess Diana meets members of the public in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in October 1985

Mrs Robinson’s special adviser replied to say Mrs Robinson read the letter with ‘great interest’.

Also revealed in the new archive was a note describing officials’ concerns after former Irish President Patrick Hilary declined an invitation to attend Charles and Diana’s wedding in July 1981.

Officials questioned when would be the best time to give the refusal without appearing rude.

It was noted that an invitation to the wedding should be accepted, but that it would cause backlash at home if it was.

The material can be viewed in the National Archives in file 2023/146/40.

YOUR STARTER FOR TEN

1. Which play by William Shakespeare is the only one of his to be set in Austria? It’s supposedly a comedy, but is now cited as one of the ‘problem plays’, i.e. it’s not funny.

2. Which novelist, screenwriter and boozehound was named after the man who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’? He was a distant relation to the family.

3. Which writer called Mary completed only one novel, and called it Mary?

4. Which comic strip character was named after a 1960s pop festival?

5. In 19th-century America, which symbol was often taught as the 27th letter of the alphabet?

+7

In Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People’s Princess, Diana spoke of her trip to the White House in 1985, when she danced with several famous men. Who was her favourite dancing partner? a) Tom Selleck. b) Prince Charles. c) John Travolta

6. The Sound and the Fury, a 1929 novel by William Faulkner; Something Wicked This Way Comes, a 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury; and By The Pricking of my Thumbs, a 1968 novel by Agatha Christie. They all took their titles from lines from which Shakespeare play?

7. Sister Wendy Beckett, the much-loved art historian and nun, died in 2018 aged 88. Who was her Chief Examiner at Oxford, who tried to encourage her to stay on and become a don? She read English.

8. The novelists Margaret Drabble and A. S. Byatt, both Dames of the British Empire, were famously sisters. Which was their common maiden name, i.e. which surname were they both born with? Is it Drabble or Byatt?

9. What were set, variously, in Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Vietnam and Brighton?

10. Which American writer was described by David Foster Wallace as ‘a penis with a thesaurus’?

MEMOIRS

Which famous people wrote the following memoirs? Or, in some cases, ‘wrote’ them.

1. The Woman In Me.

2. Making It So.

3. TV: Big Adventures On The Small Screen.

4. The Twat Files.

5. Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story.

6. Karma: My Autobiography.

7. Berserker!

8. Unbreakable.

9. Rambling Man: My Life On The Road.

10. Politics On The Edge.

LITERARY CANADIANS

Here are some of the books written and published by ten bookish Canadians. For each one, identify the well-wrapped writer. (One or two are Canadian by adoption rather than birth.)

1. The Rebel Angels (1981), What’s Bred in the Bone (1985), The Lyre of Orpheus (1988).

2. The Favourite Game (1963), Beautiful Losers (1966), Book of Longing (2006).

3. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), Oryx and Crake (2003).

4. The Republic of Love (1992), Larry’s Party (1997), Unless (2002).

5. Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), Dear Life (2012).

6. Life of Pi (2001), Beatrice and Virgil (2010), The High Mountains of Portugal (2016).

7. Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), Family Matters (2002).

8. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989), Barney’s Version (1997).

9. Maps Of Meaning (1999), 12 Rules for Life (2018), Beyond Order (2021).

10. Really Good, Actually (2023).

+7

According to explorer John Blashford-Snell, whose memoir we reviewed in February, if a 15 ft crocodile attacks you and wants to eat you, what should you do? a) Scream like a banshee. b) Run away. c) Shoot it

ANNIVERSARIES

1. Turning 400 this year was which famous French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, whose best-known book was Pensées?

2. Celebrating a 300th birthday was which Scottish philosopher and economist, who was born in 1723?

3. Whose first novel, Hans of Iceland, was published exactly 200 years ago this year?

4. Which of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser series came out 150 years ago this year?

5. Which American writer, who wrote O Pioneers! and My Antonia, among others, was born 150 years ago, in 1873?

6. It’s 100 years since publication of Dorothy L. Sayers’ very first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, featuring a corpse found in a bath wearing pince-nez. What was its title?

7. It’s 100 years this year since the birth of Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of the Cazalet Chronicles; of John Mortimer, who wrote the Rumpole stories; and of which rather more pugilistic American writer, whose best-known novel came out 75 years ago this year?

8. Celebrating 75 years since publication this year was the first novel by an English writer who would go on to write the children’s classic The Hundred And One Dalmatians. It’s narrated by Cassandra Mortmain. What is the novel’s title?

9. Also turning 75 in 2023 were two connected books from the Tintin series, The Seven Crystal Balls and which epic adventure in South America?

10. Fifty years old in 2023 were J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago and which novel by Sidney Sheldon, at the time possibly more famous as creator and producer of I Dream of Jeannie?

+7

According to Elton John At 75, reviewed by Lilly Subbotin in January, he realised that he’d never be considered pop star material with a real name like his. With a real name like what? a) Rick Davies. b) Dwight Reginald. c) Reginald Dwight

BOOKS & TV SERIES

In PREVIOUS quizzes we’ve given you the names of famous films based on equally famous books. This time it’s TV series based on books. Most of them have the same name, which should make it slightly simpler. (Three are the name of the series, and two more are the name of the first book in a series.)

1. Novel: 1867. TV series: 2016, starring Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Greta Scacchi. Adapter: Andrew Davies.

2. Novels: 1906-1921. TV series: 1967, starring Kenneth More, Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter. Adapter: Donald Wilson.

3. Novel: 1974. TV series: 1979, starring Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Ian Richardson, Bernard Hepton. Adapter: Arthur Hopcraft.

4. Novels: 1960-1980. TV series: 1987, starring Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Ronald Pickup. Adapter: Alan Plater.

5. Novel: 1945. TV series: 1981, starring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Nickolas Grace. Adapter: Derek Granger.

6. Novel: 1966. TV series: 1984, starring Art Malik, Tim Pigott-Smith, Susan Wooldridge. Adapter: Ken Taylor.

7. Novel: 2018. TV series: 2020, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal, Sarah Greene. Adapters: Sally Rooney and Alice Birch.

8. Book (non-fiction): 2016. TV series: 2018, starring Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge. Adapter: Russell T. Davies.

9. Novels: 1924-1928. TV series: 2012, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Janet McTeer. Adapter: Tom Stoppard.

10. Novel: 2009. TV series: 2015, starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Anton Lesser. Adapter: Peter Straughan.

PICTURE ROUND

Here are ten fairly famous writers who produced novels that contained women’s names. For a point each, identify the writer.

LEFT-RIGHT: A; B; C; D

LEFT-RIGHT: E; F; G; H

+7

+7

LEFT-RIGHT: I; J

1. Sybil (1845).

2. Heidi (1880).

3. Anne Of Green Gables (1908).

4. Rebecca (1938)

5. Lolita (1955).

6. Matilda (1988).

7. Olive Kitteridge (2008).

8. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017).

9. Circe (2018).

10. Queenie (2019).

FROM THE PAGES OF THE DAILY MAIL . . .

1. According to Elton John At 75, reviewed by Lilly Subbotin in January, he realised that he’d never be considered pop star material with a real name like his. With a real name like what?

a) Rick Davies.

b) Dwight Reginald.

c) Reginald Dwight.

2. How many senses do we have? asked Nick Rennison in January, writing about a book called Nature. Some scientists believe it may be as many as …

a) 11.

b) 53.

c) 640.

3. Roger Lewis loved Crazy Old Ladies, about the perilously short careers of actresses in Hollywood’s so-called golden age. How old, for instance, was Gloria Swanson when she played ‘something vampiric’ in Sunset Boulevard?

a) 51.

b) 61.

c) 71.

4. Who, according to a book about insects reviewed by Mark Mason in January, receives 50 to 70 letters a day, many addressed simply to ‘Attenborough, London’?

a) Michael Attenborough.

b) David Attenborough.

c) Chris Packham.

+7

Celebrating 75 years since publication this year was the first novel by an English writer who would go on to write the children’s classic The Hundred And One Dalmatians. It’s narrated by Cassandra Mortmain. What is the novel’s title?

5. In February, the novelist Jessie Burton admitted she had never enjoyed which novel written by a Brontë sister?

a) Jane Eyre.

b) Wuthering Heights.

c) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

6. ‘I am obsessed with violence. I am obsessed with twisted sexuality. I am obsessed with jealousy, greed, overweening ambition.’ The words of which U.S. crime writer, whose biography was reviewed in February?

a) Patricia Highsmith.

b) Elmore Leonard.

c) James Ellroy.

7. According to explorer John Blashford-Snell, whose memoir we reviewed in February, if a 15 ft crocodile attacks you and wants to eat you, what should you do?

a) Scream like a banshee.

b) Run away.

c) Shoot it.

8. In Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People’s Princess, Diana spoke of her trip to the White House in 1985, when she danced with several famous men. Who was her favourite dancing partner?

a) Tom Selleck.

b) Prince Charles.

c) John Travolta.

9. In Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made The Modern Dog, Christopher Hart read that Queen Victoria owned how many dogs?

a) 11.

b) 53.

c) 640.

10. Which playwright, according to a biography reviewed by Roger Lewis in March, was so accident-prone that one day, while smoking a pipe, he set his hair on fire?

a) Noel Coward.

b) Arthur Miller.

c) Terence Rattigan.

+7

In Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made The Modern Dog, Christopher Hart read that Queen Victoria owned how many dogs? a) 11. b) 53. c) 640

HOW TO ENTER

Send your answers by post to Daily Mail Literary Quiz, Books Department, Daily Mail, 9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY. Include your full name, address, phone number and email address (if you have one). Closing date for entries is January 19, 2024.

The first set of correct answers drawn from the hat after that closing date wins a prize of £1,000. The winner’s name and the correct answers will be printed in the Daily Mail Books pages on January 26, 2024. The prize is non-transferable and no alternative is available. Allow 28 days for receipt of prize.

Normal Daily Mail terms and conditions apply. Visit dailymail.co.uk/rules for full terms and conditions

Nicola Peltz put on a very racy display on Monday, as she transformed into a Playboy Bunny, while her husband Brooklyn Beckham opened up about their marriage during an appearance on the Today show in New York.

The heiress, 29, sent temperatures soaring as she shared a slew of snaps in the classic Halloween costume, flaunting her svelte figure.

She slipped into the signature black satin bodysuit, leaving her ample cleavage and toned legs on full display.

Posing up a storm, Nicola added a pair of matching evening gloves and revisited her her previous blonde bombshell era, by sporting a platinum wig over her dark hair.

To complete her Playboy Club-approved attire, the actress fastened a bow tie collar around her neck and slipped on a pair of bunny ears.

+13

Nicola Peltz put on a very racy display on Monday, as she transformed into a Playboy Bunny for Halloween

+13

While her husband Brooklyn Beckham opened up about their marriage during an appearance on the Today show in New York

+13

The heiress, 29, sent temperatures soaring as she shared a slew of snaps in the classic Halloween costume, flaunting her svelte figurerst time since split with Channing Tatum

8.2k viewing now

While her husband Brooklyn, 25, cut a very different figure as he arrived at the Today show studios in New York City, in a much more understated outfit.

The eldest child of Victoria and David Beckham donned a cream sweater and jeans, teamed with a pair of battered white trainers.

He smiled as he made his way to Today with Hoda & Jenna, where he was promoting his new hot sauce, Cloud23.

During the interview, Brooklyn gushed about his married life with Nicola, saying it’s ‘continued to be the honeymoon stage’, after tying the knot in a lavish $3.5 million wedding in April 2022.

And the aspiring chef revealed that this famous father, 49, gave him an important piece of marital advice while he was growing up.

Speaking about being a husband, he said: ‘Oh my God, it’s been the best. My dad’s always – when I was growing up – was like, “find that person because that’s one of the most important things that someone can do in their life is find that person that you’ll spend the rest of your life with”.’

Brooklyn added that both David and fashion designer Victoria, 50, were big fans of his wife, saying: ‘My mum and dad love [Nicola] and they get along, which I am so happy about.

‘And my dad was like, “take care of her and work hard and just always do romantic things’.

+13

She slipped into the signature black satin bodysuit, leaving her ample cleavage and toned legs on full display

+13

Posing up a storm, Nicola added a pair of matching evening gloves and revisited her her previous blonde bombshell era, by sporting a platinum wig over her dark hair

+13

To complete her Playboy Club-approved attire, the actress fastened a bow tie collar around her neck and slipped on a pair of bunny ears

+13

While her husband Brooklyn, 25, cut a very different figure as he arrived at the Today show studios in New York City, in a much more understated outfit

+13

The eldest child of Victoria and David Beckham donned a cream sweater and jeans, teamed with a pair of battered white trainers

+13

He smiled as he made his way to Today with Hoda & Jenna, where he was promoting his new hot sauce, Cloud23

Brooklyn Beckham shares important marital advice his father gave him

Revealing how he knew that Nicola was the one for him, he gushed: ‘I feel like I’ve known her for six years and we were friends before and I feel like when you know, you just know, do you known what I mean?’

But when asked his most embarrassing moment in front of her, he admitted that it was when he let his nerves get the better of him during his proposal.

Brooklyn said: ‘Probably when I asked her to marry me because we were in this little gazebo and I tried to open up the wine and I was so nervous, I couldn’t open it!’, before adding that he did break the cork.

He also explained why he had chosen to double-barrel his surname with Nicola’s family name, saying: ‘I kind of wanted to honour both names and when I decided… when we both decided that this was what we wanted to do, I was like, “it would be so cute to have little Peltz Beckhams running around at some point”.’

According to reports, Brooklyn and Nicola’s lavish wedding in Palm Beach, Florida cost an eye-watering $3.5 million, with star-studded guests including Eva Longoria and Serena Williams.

The bride’s billionaire parents Nelson and Claudia Peltz footed the cost, with their estimated $1.6 billion wealth dwarfing the $494 million fortune of Brooklyn’s parents.

During an interview with People earlier this year, Nicola said of being married: ‘I feel like when you’re on a sleepover or a play date and you’re always like, “Oh, can they sleep over again?”

‘And you just are on a never-ending sleepover play date. That’s how we feel. He really is my best friend. I feel like that’.

+13

During the interview, Brooklyn gushed about his married life with Nicola, saying it’s ‘continued to be the honeymoon stage’, after tying the knot in a lavish $3.5 million wedding in April 2022 (pictured together this month)

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham’s hot sauce is exclusively now at Whole Foods

+13

And the aspiring chef revealed that this famous father, 49, gave him an important piece of marital advice while he was growing up (pictured together this month)

Brooklyn Beckham shared a gushing post for wife Nicola Peltz on their anniversary on Wednesday.

The son of David and Victoria Beckham, 25, posted an adorable snap of the couple on Instagram.

The pair couldn’t look more loved-up as they were captured putting on a cosy display to celebrate five years together – two of which they’ve been married.

Brooklyn penned: ‘Happy anniversary baby xx I’m the luckiest guy in the world to have you by my side everyday and wake up to your gorgeous face everyday xx I love you with all my heart.’

Nicola, 29, also shared a Instagram story with a bouquet of white roses with the caption: ‘I love you so much.’

+6

Brooklyn Beckham, 25, shared a gushing post for wife Nicola Peltz, 29, on their five year anniversary – for two of which they’ve been married – on Wednesday

+6

Nicola also shared a Instagram story with a bouquet of white roses with a note from Brooklyn that read ‘we are the strongest we have ever been and I have so much love for you’

The snap also showed a sweet note from her man, which read: ‘Dear Nicole. Happy anniversary baby girl x we are the strongest we have ever been and I have so much love for you and you are my best friend and I can’t believe you are my wife xx I am the luckiest person to ever exist and I’m so happy to call you my wife x I love you and I love everything about you xx I love you baby xx Love Brooklyn xx.’

Brooklyn re-shared the Story onto his account and tagged @Cloud23, his new spicy sauce that could be seen in the background.

The former model announced the launch of his new hot brand last month and his family have been in full support.

Father David shared a snap of him enjoying the sauce with his tacos, while brother Cruz posted a photo of the sauce in his burger.

Cloud 23, named after the No.23 jersey his father wore at Real Madrid and LA Galaxy, comes in two variants – Sweet Jalapeno and Hot Habanero.

‘I did my research and I just felt like there was this hole in the market with luxury condiments, especially for a really good price,’ Brooklyn told Delish magazine.

Explaining his move into condiments, he said, ‘I’ve always been a foodie. I’ve always been lucky enough to travel to different places in the world with my mum and dad. Obviously my dad with football, we lived in Madrid, we lived in LA, Milan.

‘Then Covid happened, I met my wife and started cooking for her and just fell in love with it. And now it’s just something that just takes my mind off of things.’

+6

Brooklyn has been busy promoting his new hot sauce called Cloud23 and has been sharing snaps of his creations made using the condiment

+6

The former model announced the launch of his new hot brand last month and his family have been in full support (Pictured father David using the sauce on his tacos)

Brooklyn and his wife were initially linked after they were spotted in each other’s company during a Halloween party that took place in 2019.

The happy couple went Instagram official with their relationship the following January.

The pair moved quickly with their romance and announced that they had become engaged that July.

They went on to tie the knot during a lavish wedding ceremony that took place in Palm Beach in April 2022.

Brooklyn opened up about married life at the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity in June.

He said: ‘It’s so important to find that one person you want to spend the rest of your life with. I married my best mate so it’s the best.’

+6

Brooklyn has gushed about his married life with Nicola, saying it’s ‘continued to be the honeymoon stage’, after tying the knot in a lavish wedding in 2022 (pictured this month)

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham’s hot sauce is exclusively now at Whole Foods

Brooklyn also confirmed he does all the cooking and cleaning at home, saying: ‘My wife can’t cook at all.’

The former model said he and Nicola are homebodies who generally prefer to ‘dine in’ rather than go out.

Discussing his passion for food, Brooklyn told how he was lucky to be exposed to a wide variety of cuisines while travelling with his father David as a child.

The pair are competitive with each other in the kitchen and have had cook-offs judged by Nicola and Brooklyn’s mother Victoria.

He said: ‘I love making spaghetti bolognese, that’s my favourite. I love it al dente.

‘Me and my dad have this thing where he thinks he makes the best spaghetti bolognese, we have competitions.’

Brenda Edwards, 52, who regularly features on the ITV chatshow, sang The Greatest Love Of All by Whitney Houston at a vigil in West London. Her son and industry legend Jamal Edwards died aged 31 from a heart attack on Sunday.

Loose Women star Brenda Edwards sang a Whitney Houston song in front of hundreds of mourners at her son Jamal Edwards’ vigil.

The heartbreaking moment was captured on camera as mum-of-two Brenda, sang The Greatest Love of All.

Jamal Edwards MBE, 31, who was responsible for the careers of Ed Sheeran, Stormzy and Jessie J, died suddenly from a reported heart attack on Sunday.

He created SBTV and was also an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and in 2014 was awarded an MBE for his work in the music industry.

Friends and family were in tears as Brenda paid tribute to her only son at the candlelit service in Acton, West London.

The crowds fell silent as Brenda Edwards sang for her son Jamal Edwards ( 
Image:
imladyleshurr/Instagram)

Jamal was responsible for the careers of Stormzy, Ed Sheeran and Jessie J ( 
Image:
Instagram/ @jamaledwards)
After her song the 52-year-old urged crowds to “bring the community together”.

Speaking through a megaphone she said: “If we can do anything in 2022, can we please bring the community together.

“Stop the fighting. Stop the killing. And build up our community. We are not supposed to be losing our young people.

“If you see something happening. Try to stop it please.”

The 31 year old died on Sunday from a heart attack, friends say ( 
Image:
Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Just days after her son’s passing she broke the silence on Jamal’s death in a statement shared on Good Morning Britain.

She said: “It is with the deepest heartache that I confirm that my beautiful son Jamal Edwards passed away yesterday morning after a sudden illness.

“Myself, his sister Tanish and the rest of his family and friends are completely devastated. He was the centre of our world.”

He had played a DJ set the night before his death ( 
Image:
jamaledwards/Instagram)

Brenda sang a Whitney Houston song for her son Jamal ( 
Image:
jamaledwards/Instagram)She continued: “As we come to terms with his passing, we ask for privacy to grieve this unimaginable loss. I would like to thank everyone for their messages of love and support.

“Jamal was an inspiration to myself and so many. Our love for him lives on, his legacy lives on. Long live Jamal Edwards MBE, MBA, PHD.”

Police have said that while the music mogul’s death is not being treated as suspicious it is being treated as “unexplained” – which means there will most probably be an inquest into how he died.

He had been performing a DJ set at Bubba Oasis in Angel the night before he died.

Crowds gathered to pay tribute to Jamal ( 
Image:
ITV)
The owner of the club, Rob Huysinga, told MailOnline: “We had a great night. Jamal made everybody smile and brought a lot of joy to all of those that were there, as he usually does.

“He finished at around 11.30pm and there was absolutely nothing wrong with him. It was just Jamal being his incredible, wonderful self.

“He had a great, positive energy which all of us felt that night felt it. We are all devastated because of what’s happened, it’s really shocking.”

Music royalty shared their heartbreak on social media shortly after the news of his death broke.

Fearne Cotton shared a photo of the two of them together with the caption: “Completely heartbreaking. Jamal you were the most special person.

“I adored hanging out with you, chatting about life and big dreams.

“You’re creativity and passion for nurturing new talent will never be forgotten.”

Linda Robson said that Jamal’s death ‘hadn’t hit Brenda yet’
Do you enjoy reading about celebrities? Sign up for all the best celeb news from the Mirror here .

Eamonn has hit out at Phil again after branding the rival presenter ‘sly’. He has now branded ITV’s recent celebration of Phil’s 40 years of TV hosting as ‘bizarre’.

Eamonn Holmes appears to have taken another swipe at Phillip Schofield as their vicious feud has been reignited in recent days.

On Monday, ITV bent over backwards to celebrate the fact that 59-year-old Phil was celebrating 40 years of TV stardom – having first started out his career on a kids TV show in New Zealand before becoming a BBC children’s TV host in 1985.

Not content with marking the event on This Morning – the show that Phil presents – ITV daytime highlighted the fact throughout the morning with a segment on Lorraine dedicated to the star.

Some TV fans found it odd that ITV were dedicating so much time to the suddenly controversial star – and it seems 62-year-old Eamonn was in agreement.

Phillip Schofield has angered a string of fellow and former ITV stars ( 
Image:
S Meddle/ITV/REX)

Eagle eyed fans noticed that Eamonn had ‘liked’ a tweet that read: “This #lorraine show is bizarre.. why not celebrate 40 years on #thismorning instead of another show?”

He also liked a string of others that slammed ITV for sacking him from This Morning – a show he left last year before landing a presenting role on GB News.

Eamonn and his wife Ruth Langsford, 61, are to be at loggerheads with Phil – with a spat that has its roots back in 2019.

Tensions have flared between Phil and Ruth Langsford since 2019 ( 
Image:
James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock)
Tension was visible when Phil cut Ruth off during a segment on Loose Women.

Ruth made an official complaint to ITV about Phil’s behaviour – while eight other ITV employees spoke to The Sun to brand the TV host as “toxic”.

Viewers noted a frosty encounter between Ruth and Eamonn the following year when they were both on stage at the same time at the 2020 National Television Awards.

Eamonn branded Phil ‘sly’ as he defended his wife from the This Morning star ( 
Image:
GB News)
Over the weekend, Eamonn hit out at Phil via a newspaper supplement interview – he said: “Phillip is renowned for snubbing people. He’s very passive-aggressive.

“It’s up to Ruth to say how she felt, but I was feeling hurt for her. No one would have snubbed me like that.”

An ITV insider defended Phil with a statement explaining that Eamonn had been let go from the This Morning line-up and disputed Eamonn’s claim he was fired without explanation.

An ITV source said: “[Viewers] wanted change, the viewers didn’t want to watch him any more. Things have to change, they evolve and for him to say there was no explanation isn’t true. Maybe Eamonn just didn’t like the reasons given.”

Meanwhile, Phil had suffered an explosive fall out with another member of the ITV talent in 2019 as he clashed with Amanda Holden.

The 51-year-old Britain’s Got Talent judge had been the go-to for cover whenever Holly Willoughby took time off This Morning, but that all changed in 2018.

Amanda had hoped to fill in for Holly, 41, when she took time away from This Morning to host I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in Australia that winter.

Although Amanda had allegedly been told the job was hers, Phil was accused of campaigning to have former The Saturdays star Rochelle Humes as a co-host – because he believed the 32-year-old is “easier to ‘manage’ on air.”

Amanda Holden had an epic fall out with Phil in 2018 ( 
Image:
Instagram)

Amanda later slammed Phil saying in an interview he was one of three things she would hate to find in her house – along with spiders and flies – and later explained on her Heart FM radio show that she had tried to meet him to thrash out their differences, but that Phil refused to reply to her texts.

And relations between Holly and Phil are said to have been far from pristine.

Phil allegedly got stroppy when Holly won praise, and an award, for her stint on I’m A Celeb with various reports they clashed behind-the-scenes of their daytime show with Phil bitterly and childishly complaining about his co-stars success.