Supermodel Megan Gale joined almost 200 Australian Women’s Weekly readers in kicking off the magazine’s 80th birthday celebrations and raising money for ovarian cancer research in the first event of The Weekly’s high tea tour.
Readers travelled from across the country on Tuesday to enjoy a classic high tea with sandwiches, pastries and cakes from The Weekly’s cookbooks and sip on tea in Sydney’s Centennial Parklands while being inspired by speakers including The Weekly’s Editor-in-Chief Helen McCabe, Megan Gale, and author Di Morrissey.
One group of readers had travelled from Queensland to attend the 80th birthday celebrations, some came with multiple generations of Weekly readers, and at one table high tea-goers tried to outdo each other by comparing how long they had been reading the magazine.
The winner claimed to have been enjoying the mag for close to 60 years.
But Kate Locking, a 29-year-old events co-ordinator stole the show with her incredible story of overcoming ovarian cancer at the age of 23, and going on to become a happy and healthy young mum after being told surgery and chemotherapy would cause her great difficulty in having children.
You can read more of Kate’s story in the September issue of The Weekly, where you will also find some amazing high tea recipes.
The Sydney event was the first in The Weekly’s nationwide high tea tour which celebrates 80 years of the magazine ahead of continued celebrations and the launch of the souvenir birthday issue in October.
The sold out high tea tour heads to Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide with proceeds supporting the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation.
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