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Juliet Rieden

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EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Elizabeth McGovern – Downton’s lady of the manor, accidental rock singer and mother of two

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EXCLUSIVE Melinda Gates on her need to give back, and the dark secret that haunted her for decades

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EXCLUSIVE In-depth interview with Nicole Kidman and her closest friends about the turning points in her life

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Blanche d’Alpuget talks about men, her many lives and how love has grown sweeter with age.

April 16, 2019July 16, 2019Leave a comment

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Julia Banks, the courageous Liberal MP who challenged the bullies by sensationally crossing the floor to stand as an independent.

January 16, 2019July 16, 2019Leave a comment

ROYAL TOUR 2018: The Evolution of Prince Harry

November 5, 2018August 5, 2019Leave a comment

EXCLUSIVE: Janet Calvert-Jones on growing up in an Aussie dynasty

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Exclusive interview with Sally Field

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Exclusive interview with Sir Ian McKellen

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Exclusive: Julie Bishop up close and personal in her most candid interview ever

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Princess Margaret and Me: In a candid interview Lady Anne Glenconner talks about her special relationship with The Queen’s sister and the highs and lows of her extraordinary life
Julie Andrews: Revealing interview about the complex husband she adored, motherhood and the heartbreak of losing her voice
Fighting for Lockhart River’s Children. A poignant trip with Dame Quentin Bryce
How one boy, my father, survived the Holocaust
EXCLUSIVE Sir Michael Parkinson: Love, luck and impossible sadness

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Happy birthday to our darling girl the incomparable Ella, now an amazing mum. We love you ...Aunties Katie & Juice xxxx

Never thought I’d become a garden tragic, but I have to say I am very proud of our orange Chinese lantern plant. Every day more blooms. A perfect start to the day #beautifulnature

An incredible performance by Marta Dusseldorp @martaduss in #TheDeepBlueSea @SydneyTheatreCo tonight. An intense study of love and passion. Book now

As I see everyone gather at @auschwitzmemorial for the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation I think of my relatives who didn’t make it. It was only recently that I discovered the huge family I never knew I had and then that 17 were murdered in the Holocaust - 5 in Auschwitz-II Birkenau. My great-uncle Felix Rieden was among the first of the Jews in Prague to be deported to Theresienstadt camp and having miraculously survived that was sent on the very last transport out to Auschwitz where he was gassed just three months before liberation. Another great-uncle Rudolf Hoffer and his wife Valerie were killed in Auschwitz in 1943 or 1944. And my great-aunt Eliska Hoffer and her 3-year-old daughter Vera walked naked into the gas chambers clinging onto each other some time between July 10 and 12 1944. Before they were killed Eliska was forced to write a postcard to a relative back in Theresienstadt camp - probably my grandmother, her sister - saying how happy and well they were. When I visited Auschwitz in 2018 I was searching for answers and while I found my kin listed in the death books, I was at a loss to understand what had happened to them in that place. No-one can make sense of this heinous atrocity, the result of so many plotting the annihilation of a race. My book #TheWritingOnTheWall @macmillanaus unlocks the truth about what happened to my family. Hitler tried to wipe out the Riedens and the Hoffers. He almost succeeded, but here I am, thanks to my father’s escape to England with a little-known beneficent kindertransport - the Barbican Mission to the Jews - a week before the Nazis entered Prague. And here I am ensuring we do not forget.

Wonderful opening night at #Carmen @OperaAustralia tonight at the Sydney Opera House. An exciting performance

Great day at the @magicmillionspolo on the Gold Coast with the Tindalls. Zara in the saddle, Mike @mike_tindall12 commentating with a little help from daughter Mia. Impressive sums raised for the #bushfirecrisis . Thank you #katiepageharvey

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