The claims were read out from emails written by the now defunct paper’s former royal editor, Clive Goodman, telling his editor of concerns he believed were held by the royal family that Chelsy was distracting him from his studies.
In an email titled “Harry and Chelsy” story, Goodman reported his “progress so far” after having an “independent look” at Davy’s phone activity.
“Good off-the-record chat with [redacted] last night. Chelsy is driving Harry nuts, won’t leave Harry alone. He’s not allowed to use his mobile at Sandhurst until he’s off duty but she’s blitzing him with dozens of calls and texts when he should be concentrating on his training.
“Family likes her well enough but they’re worried that she’s incredibly needy just at the time when Harry needs to be concentrating on himself.
“We’ve been having a very quiet look at this independently and it works in just over one month she’s put in nearly 60 calls to his mobile. That’s on top of texts, Harry can only field these after he’s finished his training duties sometimes after 10pm.”
The email was written in 2005 while Harry and Chelsy were dating. The couple were together on and off for six years since 2004.
The court has heard claims that the tabloid used phone hacking to get stories on the royals. The trial continues.
Faye Upston before and after she was given access to Kalydeco.
I was 13 years old when I realised the words cystic fibrosis meant I was going to die young.
They were two little words I’d heard a few times since I was diagnosed at six months old, but somehow I had never really joined the dots until that day.
I was sick at the time, struggling with a chronic cough that I just couldn’t shake.
For the first time, I asked my mother what cystic fibrosis actually meant and I knew instantly that it was bad. She tried to evade my questioning but I was determined to know.
“Am I going to die young?” I asked her. What she said next left me shattered: “There is no cure. The average lifespan is 21.”
In that moment, a piece of me died. I will never forget how my heart beat like a drum as I realised I had just eight years to live. No child should have to face such a reality.
I decided to fight and for a long time, I was winning. In 2009 I was on top of the world – I was married to the love of my life and we had three (soon to be four) beautiful children.
Then one tiny accident changed everything. I was unpacking groceries from the boot of my car when the tailgate fell on my back, fracturing a rib.
To anyone without cystic fibrosis, this would be a fairly insignificant event but for me, it was life threatening.
Unable to do regular physiotherapy to keep my lungs clears, I rapidly developed pneumonia. Soon I was hospitalised and fighting for my life.
Then my doctors delivered a bombshell – if I didn’t receive a double lung transplant, I would be dead in two years. It was devastating news.
Several months later, I happened upon a documentary on genetic illnesses. It mentioned a new era of cystic fibrosis medications that could revolutionise the lives of sufferers.
What? I started Googling like a crazy lady and found its name – Kalydeco, the wonder drug that was changing the lives of patients around the world.
Kalydeco is gene specific. It treats people with the G551D gene, which around 4 per cent of the cystic fibrosis population have.
I went to have my genes tested immediately. The two weeks waiting for those results were some of the longest in my life.
Finally, my doctor called me on a Friday night with life-changing news: I carried the G551D gene. I cried with relief.
But the battle was not won yet – I then endured an urgent six-month battle to gain special compassionate access to Kalydeco.
After endless phone calls, letters, forms and tests I was granted access to Kalydeco in May 2012.
Within hours of taking my first tablet, my body started improving. I felt like The Incredible Hulk, morphing into this super-strong being.
Within days my appetite returned. Within a week I had gained weight and after a month my lung function started dramatically increasing.
Now, after nearly 18 months, my weight has gone from a scrawny 41kg to a healthy 56kg and my lung function has gone from 40 per cent to 66 per cent. I no longer need a transplant and my life expectancy has increased by 19 years at least.
After 32 years getting worse every day, I feel like I have been granted a death row pardon. My wildest dreams have literally come true.
I can sleep, eat, laugh, run and play. My old friends don’t recognise me. I never thought I would live to see this day.
Faye with her four boys.
Faye with her four boys.
Faye with her four boys.
But unfortunately, hundreds of other cystic fibrosis sufferers are not so lucky. In Australia, Kalydeco is not listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. This means it costs a massive $300,000 per year to access, putting it out of reach for almost all of the 200 Aussie families who need it.
Only people like me, who received compassionate access when they were literally on death’s door, can benefit from its miracles.
In August, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee deferred a decision on Kalydeco indefinitely due to its hefty price tag. If they ultimately reject it, my special access will be discontinued.
I will go back to being mere months from death while the people living in hope of being granted access will never know what it is like to truly live.
Our lives are literally in the government’s hands.
Help save my life and over 200 others. Please, please say #YesToKalydeco Australia!
For more information about Faye’s fight for Kalydeco, visit her blog CF Mudda.
The Los Angeles Department of Children And Family Services launched an investigation into the allegations last week but have since closed the case.
“Child welfare officers quickly established that there was no merit to Brooke’s claims and found that no follow-up investigation would be necessary,” a source revealed to Radar.
“The department, under California law, had to officially look into the claims. Denise was cooperative and had been scheduled to meet with DCFS for a follow-up meeting, but officials decided it simply wasn’t necessary. It now won’t be taking place. The case is closed.”
“In reality, social workers had heaped praise on Denise during many home visits when she had custody of the twins because she was doing such a great job with them,” the source said.
“Denise was often told that the world could benefit from more people like her because of her selfless act of taking Bob and Max as their temporary guardian. It was evident to everyone involved in this sad case that Denise is a fantastic mother and would do anything for the children.”
Denise recently gave up custody of Charlie and Brooke’s twins after the boys acted violently towards her girls.
Brooke’s brother Scott is now the court-appointed temporary guardian for the children.
She’s known as the royal recycler and Kate lived up to her name yesterday, wearing her favourite black lace frock for the third time.
The Duchess of Cambridge donned the figure-hugging Temperley gown to attend a screening of a new David Attenborough documentary.
It was the third time she’s worn the dress, first stepping out in it to walk the red carpet at a film premiere in January 2012. She wore it again in November of the same year to a fundraising night at her former university.
Kate has never been afraid of wearing her favourite clothes multiple times – here are some of her most-worn outfits.
Kate wore this Temperley dress in January 2012, November 2012, and last night.
Kate in October 2013 and February 2012.
Kate first wore this coat in 2009, and again in 2011.
Kate wore this spotty number twice in one month earlier this year.
Kate at St Patrick’s Day celebrations in 2012 and 2013.
Kate at an engagement in 2011 and in an official portrait for her Canada tour.
Kate at Laura Parker Bowles’ wedding in 2006 and at Zara Phillips’ wedding in 2011.
Kate at an event in Los Angeles in 2011, and at Zara’s pre-wedding celebration.
Kate at the Olympics in 2012 and last month.
Kate recycled her cream engagement dress in Canada in 2011.
The Queen in May 2012, earlier this month, and June 2012.
The Queen wearing her favourite pink outfit in December 2011.
Prince William wore the same outfit two days in a row at the Calgary Stampede in 2011.
Camilla recycled her royal wedding outfit to wear to Ascot weeks later.
Princess Anne at Charles and Diana’s 1981 wedding, and at another wedding in 2008.
The High Court has unanimously ruled that the ACT’s Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 can not operate concurrently with the Federal Marriage Act 1961.
The judgement read: The Court held that the Federal Parliament has power under the Australian Constitution to legislate with respect to same-sex marriage, and that under the Constitution and Federal law as it now stands, whether same-sex marriage should be provided for by law is a matter for the Federal Parliament.
The ruling means that the 30 same-sex weddings that took place in the ACT over the weekend will not be valid.
Fifteen couples wed in the ACT on Saturday, the first day the Act took effect.
The “risk zone” for women who delay having children until their thirties could be much earlier than previously thought.
New research suggests that while it was once understood pregnancy risks for first-time mothers were highest for women in their mid-to-late thirties, the risk age has been found to be much earlier, with 20 per cent of women aged 30 and 34 having a higher risk of premature and stillbirth.
“To our surprise we found an absolute increase in risk for negative effects on pregnancy outcomes in the age group 30-34,” said Professor Ulla Waldenström, who led the study by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the University of Bergen.
“These are independent of the effects of smoking and being overweight, which, when combined, lead to an even greater risk.”
Professor Waldenström’s team collected data from one million first-time mothers across Sweden and Norway.
They compared the results of pregnancy in first-time mothers over the age of 30 to those in the age group of 25 to 29.
While in the past, new mothers in the 30 to 34 age group were not seen as being at risk, Professor Waldenström said the physiological effect of ageing on the womb and placenta was likely to explain the higher rates of complications.
Professor Waldenström said many women were putting off having children until their thirties and risking not becoming a mother at all because of increased rates of risk and infertility.
“For women individually, the risk is small, but for society at large there will be a significant number of ‘unnecessary’ complications with so many women having children just after 30,” she said.
“It would therefore be advisable to inform both women and men, even at schools, of how important age is to child birth.”
The findings are especially relevant to women who want to have more than one child, which meant the age of the first was important.
“Biologically the best time is probably 20 to 30,” she added.
The findings were reported in the scientific journal Obstetrics And Gynecology.
The Queen and the Duchess of Cornwall got all glammed up and full of festive cheer as they made a joint visit to the new headquarters of children's charity Bardnardo's.
The Queen and the Duchess of Cornwall got all glammed up and full of festive cheer as they made a joint visit to the new headquarters of children’s charity Bardnardo’s.
The Queen appears to have taken the Duchess of Cornwall under her wing, showing the ropes as Prince Charles prepares to become King.
Camilla is to officially become “Princess Consort” when the Prince of Wales takes the throne, but her recent accompaniment of Queen Elizabeth on several public engagements has been dubbed “Queen training”.
We take a look at the two royals’ friendship.
Watching a military parade together in April 2006.
Camilla was of course a guest at the Queen’s 80th birthday dinner in 2006.
At the Windsor horse show in 2011.
Hitching a ride to Buckingham Palace.
A girls’ day out with Princess Eugenie at royal Ascot 2012.
Camilla accompanies the Queen to a Christmas service at Sandringham in 2009.
A rare show of public affection between royals earlier this year.
At the order of the garter service in June.
Riding together at Royal Ascot this year.
Looking chummy at the races with Prince Charles.
But these ladies don’t always ride in such style.
Camilla and the Queen looked like any other pair of girlfriends gossiping away.
The Queen and Duchess of Cornwall visited the new charity headquarters together.
While most 16-year-old girls are worrying about their weight and obsessing over boys, Jordyn Archer was saving children who had been trafficked for sex.
Queenslander Jordyn Archer in Cambodia, where she travelled to help victims of child sex trafficking.
As hearing about child sex trafficking from a friend’s dad who worked in the area, Jordyn began volunteering at Australian-based charity Destiny Rescue, which is fighting to end child abuse and slavery.
“I couldn’t know what was going on without doing something about it,” she says.
She began fundraising in her spare time, organising charity concerts while juggling her school work and family life. Within two years, she had raised more than $33,000.
Now 22, Jordyn works for Destiny Rescue and recently spent four months in Cambodia working with child sex victims first hand.
“The stories you hear are very disturbing,” she says. “One of the youngest victims I worked with was just five when she was trafficked for sex, and she was expected to service up to 10 men a night.
“These girls are taken by traffickers from their families who are destitute, the pimps promising their parents they’ll get well-paid jobs to send money back home.”
The promises are false, with tiny, pre-pubescent girls turned into prostitutes to service the ever-growing sex trade.
“Sadly, most of the girls’ clients are Australian or American men who travel to South East Asia to find cheap sex,” Jordyn says, adding that “post-season footy trips have a lot to answer for”.
Destiny Rescue targets areas that have high levels of under-age prostitution, taking the girls to a safe house where they are eventually trained into other professions, giving them a genuine chance at escaping a life of prostitution.
The charity also tries to educate families who may be targeted by child sex traffickers, warning them about the high risk of prostitution that comes with accepting overly lucrative job offers from strangers.
“Some of the families involved genuinely think they’re giving their kids away for a better start,” Jordyn says. “Others know what their girls will be doing, but turn a blind eye – seeing it as a way out of poverty.”
During her four months in Cambodia, Jordyn managed a café in the country, teaching girls hospitality skills including espresso coffee making.
“The stats are staggering: every 26 seconds a child is trafficked somewhere in the world for sex, which equates to 1.2 million kids a year.
“I like hearing the positive stories, the kids that have escaped, and turned their life around.”
For her work in the charity sphere, Jordyn is the Queensland finalist for the Young Australian of the Year awards.
“A friend nominated me, and it was pretty amazing to meet all the other finalists at the awards ceremony,” she says.
When pressed that most other young Aussies don’t spend as much time worrying about the less fortunate as she does, Jordyn is pragmatic.
“Ultimately, I’d like to work in this sphere closer to home – I’m learning that there are a lot of women in Australia who have been trafficked for sex, and they need support too,” she says.
“Hearing the good stories, the happy outcomes, that’s what keeps you going.”
To read more about Jordyn’s work, visit the Destiny Rescue website.
She’s one of the world’s most stylish women and having a baby hasn’t stopped the Duchess of Cambridge from looking immaculate at every opportunity.
From the moment Kate announced her engagement to Prince William in November 2010, every item of clothing she wears sells out in stores worldwide within seconds.
From red carpet glamour to garden party chic, she has the perfect dress for every occasion.
Here are our favourite frocks from the past 12 months.
Some of Kate’s best dresses from the past 12 months.
Kate looking lovely in peach while touring Winchester in April.
Kate’s dazzling return to the red carpet in September.
Kate’s sexy white Alexander McQueen dress at the Mandela premiere earlier this month.
Kate visiting an Action on Addiction program in London in February.
Pretty in polkadots in April.
Looking sublime in spearmint at Windsor Castle in April.
Kate looking sunny in yellow at a Buckingham Palace garden party in May.
Kate was praised for this blue polka-dotted number she wore when introducing George to the world in July.
Kate at the Trooping of the Colour in June, her last public appearance before giving birth.
Wearing a pretty patterned shift dress in Manchester in April.
Wearing a handsome coat dress while touring Grimsby in March.
Kate at the unveiling of her first official portrait in January.
A green coat dress on St Patrick’s Day in March.
A tartan coat dress in Glasgow in April.
Kate looking radiant in red in Scotland in April.
Kate in pale pink at a service to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation in June.
In animal print in June, at her last solo public engagement.
Kate in flowing black silk at a charity gala at Kensington Palace in October.
Kate in her favourite brown jacquard coat dress in November.
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen posted this image of her breastfeeding her daughter on Instagram.
In the image Gisele, 33, is pictured nursing her 12-month-old daughter Vivian while getting her hair, makeup and nails done.
“What would I do without this beauty squad after the 15 hours flying and only three hours of sleep,” Gisele wrote.
Gisele is an outspoken breastfeeding advocate and her rather militant stance on the topic has got her into trouble in the past.
In 2010, she told Harper’s Bazaar UK that she thought there should be a “worldwide law” that mothers breastfeed their babies for at least six months.
The provocative comment caused controversy around the world, with women who are unable to breastfeed complaining she made them feel guilty and like criminals.
She later clarified the comments, writing on her blog: “I understand that everyone has their own experience and opinions and I am not here to judge. I believe that bringing life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake and it can able be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.”
Gisele isn’t the only supermodel who enjoys posting pictures of herself breastfeeding online – our own Miranda Kerr has shared two images of herself nursing son Flynn.
Miranda Kerr has shared two pictures of herself breastfeeding son Flynn.
Miranda Kerr has shared two pictures of herself breastfeeding son Flynn.
Miranda Kerr has shared two pictures of herself breastfeeding son Flynn.
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