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@sebshakespeareDaily Mail, Friday, September 6, 2019Is Kate’s
stepmum
pulling
her leg?
HE MAY not be entirely
welcome in Northern Ireland,
but the Duke of York is still
free to stride the cobbled
streets of Bruges in north-
west Belgium. Tomorrow, in
his role as Colonel of the
Grenadier Guards, he
attends a wreath-laying
ceremony in the city,
marking its liberation from
German occupation 75 years
ago. It’s a heartening
moment for Andrew, whose
invitations to a number
of events in Ulster have
reportedly been rescinded
amid continuing scrutiny
of his friendship with the
disgraced Wall Street tycoon
Jeffrey Epstein.■
KATE MOSS’S stepmother
Inger, who set up her own
modelling agency and was
signed to Models 1 last year
in her 50s, says no self-
respecting adult should
wear leggings — an item
of clothing often sported
by her supermodel step-
daughter, left.
‘Nobody at any age — or at
least over the age of four —
should be allowed to wear
leggings,’ she says. ‘I don’t
think it’s OK. You go to the
gym wearing them or go
skiing in them.
‘To me, it’s not a piece of
clothing, as it just doesn’t
do anything for anyone’s
body shape, but I try not to
judge anyone, especially if
that’s what makes them
feel happy.’
Fifty-seven-year-old Inger,
below, who is married to
Kate’s father Peter, singles
out her own style icon...
and it’s not her step-
daughter. ‘The one person
who can’t put a foot
wrong in terms of fashion is
Cate Blanchett.
‘I’m a huge admirer of all
these over-50 women. It
used to be that after the
age of 45 you would be
invisible, but now you see
the confidence they have.’PHOTOGRAPHER Mary
McCartney faces unexpected
competition — from her father.
Mulling future plans, Sir Paul
says: ‘What came into my
head was something like a
photography exhibition, because
some of my early photos are kind■ of nice because they are of the
Beatles on tour, and they haven’t
been seen.’
Camera skills, of course, run in
the family — Mary’s late mother
Linda was a celebrity snapper
who first met Paul in 1967 on a
photo assignment.Activist?
No, I just
try to help
SHE has fought valiantly to
help Gurkhas win the right to
settle in the UK, but 73-year-
old Ab Fab star Joanna Lumley
admits she feels uncomforta-
ble being called an activist.
‘The truth is, I can’t really
chop my life up into lines of
things I do or don’t do. If
somebody says: “Can you give
me a hand with this pushchair
up the steps of the Tube?” I
help. That’s all charity is. That’s
all activism is.
‘Also, my mother taught me
always to volunteer — always
say “yes please!” It’s much
more exciting than saying no.’Pictures: GETTY/REX/DAVID PARKER