Time has been kind to Patti Hansen, the wife of Keith Richards, who can still wear her wedding dress from more than 30 years ago.
The 66-year-old former model donned what is now safely classified as vintage 1980s bridal wear when she celebrated her 39th anniversary with the Stones guitarist, who was also celebrating his 79th birthday.
The photo was posted by their daughter Theodora, 37, who said: “My parents have been married for 39 years, it’s actually 43 years together, but we’ll put aside the legitimacy of their 1983 Cabo wedding.” He says.
‘I am very proud of this family. We’ve been through a lot, but love is so strong and powerful that it carries us forward forever on a cloud of compassion and courage.’
Patti Hansen, 66, pictured with her husband Keith Richards, can still wear her wedding dress from more than 30 years ago.
Their daughter Theodora, 37, who said: “My parents have been married for 39 years, it’s actually 43 years together, but we’ll put aside the legitimacy of their Cabo wedding in 1983.”
Pippa wins the planning battle with the neighbors
She is spared from the spotlight of the non-stop attention that accompanies her older sister, the Princess of Wales’s every move.
But never assume that, just because she’s out of the public eye, Pippa Middleton is slacking off taking it easy.
I can reveal that Pippa, 39, and her financial husband, James Matthews, 47, are celebrating a triumphant outcome of a year-long battle at Bucklebury Farm’s 72-acre park in Berkshire.
The park’s ‘petting zoo’ was a favorite of a very young Prince George, whom his mother regularly took there when he visited his parents’ home, Bucklebury Manor, a mile or two away.
When Farm Park came on the market last year for £1.5m, Pippa and James bought it.
Pippa Middleton, 39, and her financial husband, James Matthews, 47, celebrate the triumphant outcome of a year-long battle at Bucklebury Farm’s 72-acre park in Berkshire.
Showing characteristic ambition, they wasted no time in building a covered seating area, so little time that it seems they must have overlooked the need to apply for planning permission. This was brought to the attention of the local authorities.
A neighbor then objected to his stated intention to divert a public footpath, noting that the proposed new route was ‘prone to flooding’, regularly reducing the relevant stretch of land to ‘a quagmire’.
Concern was expressed that there was no provision to delineate the trail to “prevent potential conflicts” between walkers and those visiting the park by car.
But Pippa and James stood their ground, and have been rewarded by receiving retrospective permit for the covered seating area. And, as if to prove it’s Christmas, they have also been given the green light to renovate and expand an existing ‘visitor barn’ and to erect a ‘play barn’ and a huge new storage building, plus new toilets and a 100- vehicle parking.
The couple, whose third child, Rose, was born this year, do not live ‘above the tent’. As I revealed, this summer they paid £15 million for a Georgian mansion, less than 20 minutes away.
Not everything has been easy for Oscar winner Dame Emma Thompson. Despite being one of the most sought-after actresses in the country, she insists that wasn’t usually the case: “I mean there have been a lot of [of rejections], of course, when I was younger. ‘Oh yeah, I got a lot of ‘thanks, but no, you’re not exactly right.’
Steph Gives Up Glamor
Stephanie Beacham, famous for playing perennially glamorous Sable Colby on Dynasty, acknowledges that the role ended up pigeonholing her.
And, as a result, she no longer yearns to be the center of onscreen glitz.
‘I don’t want to do just glamour; It’s boring. I mean I’ve done it for real in Dynasty,’ the 75-year-old actress (pictured as Sable) tells me at a charity ball in Manchester.
She’d been in the Northwest quite a bit lately, playing Martha Fraser, Ken Barlow’s former love interest on Coronation Street.
“I want to play really interesting older people,” he adds.
“It’s been wonderful to be known as the glamorous Stephanie Beacham, but that’s exactly what can hold you back from being typecast.”
Poet Pam Ayres seems a little low on holiday cheer, sharing this year’s Christmas literary gem:
Well, Merry Christmas folks, you can’t get on a train,
The Border Force is on strike so you can’t get on a plane,
Nurses on the picket line feel underpaid and aggrieved,
And if you need an ambulance, your wait could be longer.
There’s no turkey on the table, the breaker has the flu,
Here’s a Christmas sausage, one will have to do,
Let’s raise a glass of water, with blankets on our knees, and drink to the festive joy, while we gently freeze.
Even though it’s been over four decades since she was a bridesmaid at Charles and Diana’s wedding, it’s still arguably the defining moment in India Hicks’ life. But the overriding memory of the 1981 royal wedding that she is now 55 years old with is how bad her hair looked. “It was literally the worst day for my hair, in front of a billion people. Horrible haircut,” says India, who lives in the Bahamas with her husband David Flint Wood and five children. “It’s interesting, there’s a part of me that’s a little embarrassed because it stays with you for life, ‘Oh my gosh, you were Princess Di’s bridesmaid,’ and I didn’t earn that in any way.” And there is another part of me that says that you are part of an amazing environment: accept it.
It seems Theresa May is quite pleased to have returned to the back benches after her three-year term as prime minister ended in 2019. The 66-year-old had been a Tory leader since 1999. “I really enjoy being on the back bench again “. ‘ the Maidenhead MP tells me at a party in London. “It is very gratifying to serve my constituents.” Very rewarding indeed. I reported last month that she made £900,000 for just 63 hours of work on the after-dinner speaking circuit. kerching!
Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s wife, Miriam González, said: ‘To think that when my husband was in government and we had access to this house, we had to deal with endless pompous nonsense from Chevening bosses simply because we had small children. Karma definitely exists’
It’s karma, says Mrs. Clegg
It would seem that at least one person is reveling in the recent allegations about behavior at Chevening in Kent.
Traces of a Class A drug were reported to have been found at the government grace and favor house after parties apparently attended by MPs, a claim denied by a spokesman for former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
That didn’t stop former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s wife, Miriam González, from digging in, though. “To think that when my husband was in government and we had access to this house, we had to deal with endless pompous nonsense from Chevening bosses simply because we had small children. Karma definitely exists,” she growls. ‘The first question I was asked was: ‘Do you have a babysitter?’