Kate health rumours addressed by Palace as uncle says she has ‘best care’ – live news

Award-winning jockey Olive Nicholls has made a Mother’s Day promise to turn a horse named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II into a thoroughbred winner.

Thank You Ma’am has been runner-up in his last three outings. But the 18-year-old rider has vowed to mother Georgie Nicholls, the horse’s trainer, to finish first past the post.

Olive said: “I’ve promised mum for Mother’s Day we’re going to take Leroy to the next level and hopefully he’ll get a taste for winning as he’s got the ability.

“The sky is the limit and our target will be the Cheltenham Festival 2025.”

Thank You Ma’am was named in honour of the late Queen and is affectionately known as Leroy around the yard.

The teenager said: “The Queen and racing went hand in hand and I would have loved to have ridden for her, sadly it was not to be but it is an ambition of mine to one day put on those famous colours.”

Gary Goldsmith has hit out at Meghan and Harry again – saying he thinks their royal titles should be taken away.

Kate Middleton’s uncle has criticised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after Fern Britton asked him if Prince William was “furious” over his brother’s decision to leave his royal duties.

The 59-year-old businessman also admitted to never having met Meghan, and said his chances of meeting Harry’s wife were now slim due to his vocal criticism.

The Queen and Prince of Wales will attend the annual Commonwealth Day service next week without the King and Princess of Wales, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Camilla and William will be joined by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent at Westminster Abbey on Monday 11 March.

Charles, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, and Kate, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, will miss the event – a key part of the royal calendar.

A pre-recorded video message from Charles, who is Head of the Commonwealth, will be played during the service this year, the Palace said.

Award-winning British chef and restaurateur Simon Rogan said the culinary world is finally starting to “take notice” of the British food scene as he was made an MBE.

Mr Rogan achieved an impressive three Michelin stars at his flagship Cumbrian restaurant L’Enclume.

The chef said the Princess Royal, who he met during the investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, was “very knowledgeable” about his career and it was “truly magical” to have been recognised.

He said: “She knows about my farm in the Lake District, us growing our own produce and how I became a chef.”

“I go around the world these days, trying to promote not only my restaurant but the Lake District and the UK food scene, and that’s starting to take up,” he said.

“This is the icing on the cake, I think, to be recognised in this way and I’m truly honoured.”

The Princess of Wales’s uncle Gary Goldsmith has said his niece is getting the “best care in the world” but he cannot talk more about her wellbeing due to a “code of etiquette”.

Wednesday’s episode of Celebrity Big Brother saw Goldsmith, who is the younger brother of Kate’s mother Carole Middleton, talk about the princess and the royal family to fellow housemates.

underwent abdominal surgery earlier this year.

During Wednesday’s episode of Celebrity Big Brother, Love Island winner Ekin-Su Culculoglu asked Goldsmith: “Where’s Kate?”

He replied: “Because she doesn’t want to talk about… the last thing I’m going to do is… there’s a kind of code of etiquette. If it’s announced, I’ll give you an opinion.

“I spoke to her mum, my sister, she’s getting the best care in the world.

“And all the family’s done is put the wagons round and look after family first before anything else. They put a statement out and just said, ‘She’s taking some time to (recuperate) and will see you in Easter’.”

Culculoglu asked: “I’ve heard mixed things about Kate and I don’t want to make a comment, but whatever it is, do you want her to come back?” to which he replied: “She’ll be back, of course she will.”

Gary Goldsmith has hit out at Meghan and Harry again – saying he thinks their royal titles should be taken away.

Kate Middleton’s uncle has criticised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after Fern Britton asked him if Prince William was “furious” over his brother’s decision to leave his royal duties.

The 59-year-old businessman also admitted to never having met Meghan, and said his chances of meeting Harry’s wife were now slim due to his vocal criticism.

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The Palace has broken its silence over unfounded conspiracy theories about Kate Middleton’s health being shared on social media.

The Princess of Wales, 42, was seen for the first time in public two days ago after she was admitted to hospital for abdominal surgery in January for an unspecified condition. Gossip website TMZ snapped the princess in an Audi 4×4 near Windsor, alongside her mother Carole Middleton.

The exact details of the princess’s condition have not been revealed but the Palace said previously it was not cancer-related, and that Kate wished her personal medical information to remain private.

Earlier in the day, the King received incoming Algerian ambassador Nourredine Yazid and the ambassador for Mauritania, Samba Mamadou Ba, who presented their credentials.

The diplomatic audiences were the King’s first this year, and the first since his diagnosis.

He was pictured in a smart morning suit – his customary attire for the traditional face-to-face meetings with new ambassadors.

Charles smiled broadly as he greeted and chatted with his guests in Buckingham Palace’s grand 1844 Room.

The King also sent a written message expressing his deepest sympathies following the death of former Tanzania president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, calling him a “true friend” of the UK.

Charles praised Mr Mwinyi, who died last week at the age of 98, for being a “leading figure” in Tanzania’s economic and political development.

He recalled his mother the late Queen hosting the president for lunch at Buckingham Palace with then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1988.

Charles said in his message to the president of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan: “It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of former President Mwinyi.

“He was a true friend of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and a leading figure in Tanzania’s economic and political development. I can only offer you my deepest sympathy at his passing.”

Charles is also King of Canada, and Mr Trudeau has a long-standing bond with the royal family.

As a young child in the 1970s, Mr Trudeau met the late Queen several times through his father, Pierre Trudeau, who was one of Canada’s longest-serving prime ministers.