Daily Mail - 19.08.2019

Daily Mail, Monday, August 19, 2019 Page 13

NEVER MIND THE SCHOOL FEES!

BBC antiques expert’s privately educated daughter becomes

punk rocker... with alma mater’s motto tattooed on her chest

AGED 8

School days: Hetti in uniform

Words of wisdom: ‘When you are

steeped in little things, you shall

safely attempt great things’

money I’d spent on her educa-

tion, I really didn’t expect her

to end up being a free walking

advert for the school.’

He has since taken an

unusual approach to the sub-

ject, saying: ‘However, a little

later I had the brilliant idea to

ask the school if they’d effec-

tively like to sponsor Hetti in

her music career and give me

back some of the school

fees I’d paid.

‘I’m hoping that I’ll get some

money back from the school

and from Hetti once she

makes it.’

From the age of five, Miss

Harper attended Barnard

Castle School, County Dur-

ham, where she was classi-

cally trained as a singer and

became head of the choir.

After leaving at 18, she formed

punk band Tiffany Twisted.

She said of her tattoo: ‘It’s

been something that’s very

close to my heart.

‘I was at this school since I

was very young, since I was

five. I’d read it time and again,

I saw it constantly. It was

written on our jumpers, blaz-

ers, it was all over the school,

on the pews in the chapel.

‘It was instilled in us from

being very young that little

things add up to make bigger

things, everything was adding

up to something.

‘I got my friend to do it for

me, he spelt it wrong first time

• thankfully he was able to
  correct it.
  ‘I’m absolutely glad. I don’t
  think my dad is too pleased
  but I don’t think he likes any
  of them.’ There is, however, a

downside to have such an

unusual tattoo on display.

‘People are asking me all the

time to translate it, that’s

getting a bit annoying but

other than that I’m very

happy,’ said Miss Harper.

Her father, an antiques and

classic car expert, started

collecting coins and stamps

aged just five and made his

first purchase – a Victorian sil-

ver-plated basket – aged nine.

The Queen’s granddaughter

Zara Tindall has revealed she

would be horrified if one of

her daughters got a tattoo.

When asked if her husband,

rugby player Mike, had an ink-

ing, she replied: ‘He absolutely

hasn’t got a tattoo. I’d also

rather one of my daughters

came home with a piercing

than a tattoo because at least

a stud can be removed.’

However, in an interview in

next month’s Saga Magazine,

the royal, who has a tongue

piercing herself, admitted: ‘I

wouldn’t have a leg to stand

on if they did though.’

She famously went to a

tattoo parlour near her Scot-

tish boarding school Gordon-

stoun for her £35 piercing.

The girl with the

Latin tattoo: Hetti

Harper with

father David, top,

and performing

on stage, left

ROSES, butterflies, the names of

loved ones and mystic symbols

are all popular tattoo designs.

They did not appeal, however, to

Hetti Harper, who instead had the

motto of her old school inscribed in a

very prominent place.

In another twist, the inking just under

the 23-year-old’s collar bone is in Latin:

‘Parvis imbutus tentabis grandia tutus.’

This translates as: ‘When you are

steeped in little things, you shall safely

attempt great things.’

However, the punk rocker’s tribute to

the £15,000-a-year private school did not

impress her TV presenter father David

Harper, who has appeared on BBC shows

including Bargain Hunt and The

Antiques Road Trip.

The 52-year-old said: ‘Hetti thought

it a great idea to have the school

motto tattooed across her torso as the

By Alisha Rouse

Showbusiness Correspondent

‘I don’t think my dad

is too pleased’

At last...summer’s on its way back

IT’S been a positively autumnal August,

with parts of the country battered by

heavy rain and strong winds – but sum-

mer could mount a comeback this week.

And Britons will be able to enjoy some

sunshine over the Bank Holiday as tem-

peratures creep up towards 30C (86F) by

the end of the month.

Met Office forecaster Craig Snell pre-

dicted ‘something a little more summer-

like’ for the first half of the Bank Holiday

weekend, with the mercury possibly

touching 25C (77F) in London by Friday.

But he warned that the forecast for

Sunday and Monday was less certain,

and said that the recent cool weather

wasn’t finished just yet.

‘The week ahead will see a north-south

split develop across the UK, but gradually

the South will turn drier and sunnier,’ he

said. ‘Temperatures are still struggling

for this time of year, at best reaching 23C

(73F) in the South East. Factoring in the

breeze it will feel cool for mid-August.

‘The Bank Holiday weekend will be

warmer, but still cooler than it should be

for this time of year.’ Former BBC and

Met Office forecaster John Hammond, of

weathertrending, predicted warmer

weather for the end of the month.

‘Summer lurched from hot to cool and

wet, but temperatures should be not far

from 30C for some at the end of August.’

TH REE-DA Y FOREC A ST

TODAY TOMORROW WEDNESDAY

High: 19C (66F) Lo w : 9C(48F)

No rth: Windy

with long spells

of rain

High: 22C (72F)Lo w : 8C(46F)

South: Breezy

with sunshine and

scattered showers

High: 19C (66F) Lo w : 10C(50F)

No rth: Patchy

rain moving in

from West

High: 21C (70F) Lo w : 9C(48F)

South: Dry start

becoming cloudier

with some showers

High: 21C (70F) Lo w : 11C(52F)

No rth: Breezy

with sunshine

and showers

High: 23C (73F)Lo w : 10C(50F)

South: Dry and

breezy with

sunny spells

By Miles Dilworth

school played such a big part in her

music development.

‘After I freaked out at the sight of the

tattoo, I was furious that after all the