Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019 19DX1STBy Matthew Young
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By Liz PerkinsPrince tries a glass of single maltMay one have a quick snifter?
Charles sups dram at distillery
Charles has
a quick sniff
through hole
in the barrel
at Wolfburn
Distillery,
HighlandsPRINCE Charles showed his
appetite for whisky as he bent
down to sniff a cask on a visit to
a Scottish distillery yesterday.
He described the 63.5% ABV
“new make” spirit as a “very
good one for clearing the nose”.
The Duke of Rothesay, as he is
known while in Scotland, was at
Wolfburn Distillery near Thurso
in the Highlands, the most
northerly on the mainland.
Charles was offered a dram of
Northland single malt and, asked
if he would like a glass, joked:
“Yes please, I’m not going to
drink it out of the bottle.”
Outside he took time out to
chat to crowds, including a
group of charity fundraisers,
cycling from nearby
John O’Groats to Land’s End.
Laura Amber, 27, fromManchester, said: “He was very
friendly and very nice. We
stumbled across the place and
wanted to have a little tour but
couldn’t because there was a
special visitor that beat us to it.”
Lenore Eng, 54, from Toronto,
Canada, said: “I found him
incredibly charming, he had
incredible eye contact.”
Charles also opened
Scotland’s largest offshore wind
farm, describing it as an
“engineering feat”.
The 84-turbine Beatrice
Offshore Wind Farm, about eight
miles off Wick, will power up to
450,000 homes and generate
£2.4billion for the economy over
its lifespan, with £1billion
expected to come to Scotland.September’s British Vogue cover Guest editor the Duchess of SussexMichelle Obama gives her friend Meghan parenting advice in an interviewMichelle’s advice to
Meghan: Savour the
magical baby time
THE Duchess of Sussex admitted
she was nervous about asking the
boss of British Vogue to “take a
chance” on her guest editing the
magazine – before she brought in an
interview with Michelle Obama.
Meghan and the former US first
lady chatted about motherhood and
Mrs Obama urged the new mum
and her husband Prince Harry to
“savour” the “magical” months of
having a baby in the house.
In her letter to readers, Meghan
told how she “built up the courage”
to ask if she could take control of
the September issue – considered to
be the fashion bible’s most impor-
tant edition of the year.
She wrote: “I know how impor-
tant the September issue is for the
fashion industry.
“I realise the reach and I see the
opportunity to be a part of fashion’s
push for something greater, kinder,
more impactful.
“But I am also a little nervous to
be boldly asking the editor-in-chief
[Edward Enninful], whom I’ve only
just met, to take a chance on me.”
Meghan even got Harry involved
by having him interview chimpan-
zee expert and world-renowned
conservationist Dr Jane Goodall.
In her interview, Mrs Obama
talked about when her children
Malia and Sasha were newborns.
“Barack and I could lose hours
just watching them sleep. We loved
to listen to the little sounds they’d
make – especially the way they
cooed when they were deep into
dreaming,” she told the royal.
“Don’t get me wrong, early par-
enthood is exhausting. I’m sure you
know a thing or two about that
these days.
“But there is something so magi-
cal about having a baby in the
house. Time expands and contracts,
each moment holds its own little
eternity. I’m so excited for you and
Harry to experience that, Meghan.
Savour it all.”
Mrs Obama also revealed how
when she was a child her father
bought both her and her brother
boxing gloves.
“He wasn’t going to teach his son
to punch without making sure his
daughter could throw a left hook,
too,” she told Meghan.“I could dodge a jab just like he
could and I could hit just as hard as
him, too. My father saw that. I think
he wanted to make sure that my
brother saw that as well.”
The duchess, five months preg-
nant with son Archie when she
started the editing project, told
readers it was a “special time”.
She wrote: “By the time you hold
this issue in your hands, my hus-
band and I will be holding ourthree-month-old baby boy in ours.
It’s a very special time for me per-
sonally, on so many levels.
“Working with Edward and his
team, both during my pregnancy
and maternity leave, has played no
small part in that joy.”
The edition, entitled Forces For
Change, features “trailblazing
changemakers united by their fear-
lessness in breaking barriers”,
Buckingham Palace said.
Meghan chose 15 women for the
cover including actress Jane Fonda,
climate change campaigner Greta
Thunberg, actress Salma Hayek
Pinault and New Zealand prime
minister Jacinda Ardern.
British actresses Jameela Jamil
and Gemma Chan, Royal Ballet
principal Francesca Hayward,
model Adwoa Aboah and Somalia-
born boxer Ramla Ali also feature,
alongside Irish academic Sinead
Burke, US model Christy Turlington
Burns, transgender actress Laverne
Cox, Nigerian author Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, US actress YaraShahidi and South Sudanese-
Australian model Adut Akech.
The last slot is a mirrored square
to encourage the reader to be a
force for change.
Meghan does not grace the cover
herself as she felt it would be a
“boastful” thing to do, according to
Mr Enninful.
Meghan said: “I hope readers feel
as inspired as I do, by the forces forchange they’ll find within these
pages.”
Enninful said Meghan is the first
person to guest edit the September
issue. He said: “To have the coun-
try’s most influential beacon of
change guest edit British Vogue at
this time has been an honour, a
pleasure and a wonderful surprise.”
● The September issue of British
Vogue is out on Friday, August 2.Influential
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