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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Princess Eugenie Reveals Her Tea Order and What TV Show She and Her Husband Are Currently Binging
Princess Eugenie shared some details about her personal life during a recent charity visit. The 35-year-old princess revealed what acclaimed TV show she and husband Jack Brooksbank are currently binging and opened up about home life with their two sons. Eugenie was visiting the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre for a cause close to her heart, as she had spinal surgery to correct scoliosis at age 12. Princess Eugenie kept things relaxed and real during a recent outing over tea and cake. While visiting the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre in Salisbury, England, on behalf of the charity Horatio's Garden, the princess shared some candid details about her home life. First up, her tea order: 'Weak Earl Grey, no milk, and a slice of orange and almond cake,' according to The Telegraph. Eugenie, 35, requested the snack when asked as she sat down with patients at the centre to chat about their recovery. Horatio's Garden is an organization that works to build peaceful outdoor spaces for patients at spinal centers to visit as they recover from surgery or injury. It's a cause close to Eugenie's heart, as she had back surgery at age 12 to correct her scoliosis. She is also a patron of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) and the Teenage Cancer Trust, which she shares with her older sister, Princess Beatrice. Additionally, as a non-working royal whose salary is not funded by taxpayers, Eugenie works full-time at the art gallery Hauser & Wirth. She's also a mother of two – the princess and husband Jack Brooksbank share sons August, 4, and Ernest, 1. 'I think I've got a good balance. I've got an amazing husband and team and projects I'm passionate about,' she told The Telegraph. 'I'd feel uneasy if I wasn't doing my charity work, looking after my family and doing my job. I love what I do.' 'My mum always taught me that giving back to others is the most important thing in life. Bea and I feel very strongly about this," she continued. "My grandmother's sense of duty was also instilled from a young age; we watched my parents, my granny [Queen Elizabeth] and other family members working very hard.' And while Brooksbank's current work developing a luxury housing community in Portugal means that the family has been splitting their time between London and the Blue Coast, Eugenie said she tries her best to spend as many peaceful nights at home as possible. Describing an ideal night, she said, 'I get home from work and put the boys in the bath and don't have to go anywhere else. It's so relaxing.' As for the perfect homebody activities? Eugenie and her husband are currently binge-watching The White Lotus, and she and August are trying their hand at gardening. 'It's such a fun activity,' she marveled, recalling how she gave her son some seeds and a gardening belt for his last birthday. 'We went outside and did some digging. That's been the extent of it so far, although we have been growing cress in the kitchen.' Eventually, Eugenie also hopes to introduce her boys to the important work she does outside the home. 'I really want them to come to my gallery and to come here on [charity] visits like this and see what I do,' she noted. 'It must start when they're young.' Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage? to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more! For now, Eugenie's newfound experience as a mother has offered her a different perspective on having surgery as a child – as well as a new way to give back. She fields calls from young patients who are facing spinal surgeries like the one she had, offering motherly care as well as lived experience. "A little voice comes on the phone and they don't know what questions to ask,' she recalled. 'I tell them not to feel ashamed – not just of the scar but of the whole experience; bed pans, the lot.' 'The people looking after you in this situation are literally angels; I tell them, 'don't feel nervous about letting them look after you,' ' she added. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Princess Eugenie Gives a Revealing Interview About Being a Working Mom
Like all members of the royal family, Princess Eugenie is careful when it comes to sharing information about her personal life. However, the royal has decided to speak about her reflections on her childhood surgery and her life as a working mom in rare interview to highlight the work of spinal injury charity Horatio's Garden. Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph this weekend, Eugenie described her experience of the surgery she had in 2002 at age 12 for scoliosis, which is curvature of the spine. 'I couldn't get out of bed or do anything for myself,' she told the newspaper. She added, 'I felt very embarrassed about the whole thing. I don't know why or where it came from. I remember being woken up really early before my surgery – I pulled my blanket over my head. I said: 'I don't want to see anyone and I don't want them to see me.'' Sharing how her mother Sarah Ferguson helped her reframe her thinking around the surgery, Eugenie said, 'She was amazing. She'd ask me if she could show it to people, then she'd turn me around and say, 'my daughter is superhuman, you've got to check out her scar.' All of sudden it was a badge of honour – a cool thing I had.' At her wedding to Jack Brooksbank in 2018, the Princess deliberately chose a dress that showed the scar on her back. Eugenie, 35, also spoke to the newspaper about being a working mom. She has been employed by the contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth since 2015 and is now an Associate Director. Her sons August and Ernest were born in 2021 and 2023. 'I think I've got a good balance,' she told the newspaper, describing her 'amazing husband.' She spoke about giving August seeds and gardening tools for his fourth birthday, growing cress in her kitchen, and doing art with her children on the weekends. Despite the fact that Eugenie is not a working royal, she is the patron of selected charities in a private capacity. She first learned about Horatio's Garden in 2016 and became their patron in 2019. The charity creates gardens in NHS spinal injury centers across the UK. 'As a former spinal patient myself, I understand how the chance to get outside is so beneficial not only for recovery, but for staying positive at a life-changing, and often traumatic, time,' Eugenie said. You Might Also Like 12 Weekend Getaway Spas For Every Type of Occasion 13 Beauty Tools to Up Your At-Home Facial Game
Sky News AU
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Princess Eugenie, 35, opens up about balancing toddlers Ernest and August, work, charity, and royal life in rare interview: 'They might actually sit still for a few minutes'
Princess Eugenie has opened up about the realities of managing a full plate, balancing work, motherhood, charity commitments, and being a member of the British Royal Family, in a rare and candid interview. The 35-year-old royal, who shares sons August, four, and Ernest, one, with husband Jack Brooksbank, recently stepped out for a Horatio's Garden charity event at Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire. While Eugenie and her sister Princess Beatrice, 36, are not considered official working royals, she's a consistent presence on the charity circuit, this time stepping away from her day job to lend support in person. "I think I've got a good balance," Eugenie told The Telegraph. "I've got an amazing husband and team and projects I'm passionate about. I'd feel uneasy if I wasn't doing my charity work, looking after my family and doing my job. I love what I do." Eugenie and Jack, a marketing executive for Discovery Land Company, met as teenagers in Verbier, Switzerland, and have been together for over a decade. Jack now divides his time between London and Portugal as part of his work on the exclusive CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club, meaning the young family are frequently on the move. Despite the travel, Eugenie has carved out her own impressive career. She's been an associate director at leading global art gallery Hauser & Wirth for more than ten years. "I wanted to be an artist- I wasn't very good at that - so now I like communicating about art," she said. Now, weekends are for painting with her boys. "It's a focused activity; they might actually sit still for a few minutes," she laughed. Eugenie says her ideal week is one spent entirely at home. "I get home from work and put the boys in the bath and don't have to go anywhere else. It's so relaxing,' she said. At the moment, she admitted she and Jack are curled up in their pyjamas by 7pm, binge-watching The White Lotus. In addition to her job and young family, Eugenie continues to support a number of charitable causes, a drive she says was instilled by her mother, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Alongside her role as patron of Horatio's Garden since 2019, Eugenie also supports the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Teenage Cancer Trust, which she shares with Beatrice. She is also the co-founder of The Anti-Slavery Collective, which she launched in 2012 to combat modern slavery. At the charity's first-ever Force for Freedom Gala earlier this year, Eugenie helped raise £1 million (around AUD$2 million). "My mum always taught me that giving back to others is the most important thing in life," she said. "Bea and I feel very strongly about this. My grandmother (the late Queen Elizabeth II)'s sense of duty was also instilled from a young age; we watched my parents, my granny and other family members working very hard." Although the York sisters have traditionally shied away from the spotlight, Eugenie and Beatrice have become noticeably more vocal in recent months, most recently appearing on the podcast Lessons From Our Mothers, hosted by their longtime friend (and former flame of Prince Harry) Cressida Bonas and her half-sister Isabella Branson. In the episode, released May 4, they spoke movingly about their childhood and the strength of their mother, affectionately known as Fergie. "The more I get to know her in her life, the more incredible this woman is becoming," Beatrice said. She added that her mother's resilience has been especially poignant "because of what she's been through in the past year". Now 65, the Duchess of York has faced two cancer diagnoses, breast cancer and malignant melanoma, all while navigating the fallout from her ex-husband's scandals and his ongoing estrangement from royal life. Beatrice praised their mother's spirit, saying she "always found the adventure" even in difficult times. "There was always an adventure to be had, and now it's so fun reflecting and looking back to say some of the harder times, through divorce, and through challenging moments, there was always an adventure," she said.
BBC News
18-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Charity to create Middlesbrough spinal injury centre garden
A charity has unveiled plans to create a garden space for patients with spinal injuries, to help aid their Garden are set to begin work on an outdoor area and garden room at the James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, for the use of those patients in the hospital's specialist department who typically need lengthy team hopes to develop "beautiful spaces" to help improve patients' physical and mental health as they is the charity's ninth project, with founder Dr Olivia Chapple OBE highlighting the incredible impact previous projects have had on patients' psychological recovery. National charity Horatio's Garden said they had raised more than two-thirds of the £1.4m they need to create the outdoor space at the Middlesbrough hospital, and expect to start building next January - with the garden projected to open to patients in Autumn of the courtyard area will include the addition of a water feature and garden room, as well as a greenhouse where patients will be able to grow plants. According to the charity, people with spinal injuries typically spend between three and nine months in hospital, and are 56% more likely to experience mental health problems, with the risk of suicide increasing fourfold. Dr Chapple cited the tough psychological battle often experienced by people with spinal cord injuries to find something that "gives them hope" following life-changing said many such patients struggled to find "a reason to look to the future with positivity", especially when they were recuperating on a public ward, sometimes with little privacy,"It's incredible the impact of these type of projects, getting involved with gardens - whether that's sitting in them, whether that's being in nature, whether that's having quiet conversations or gardening."It has a huge impact on patients, not only their physical rehabilitation but their psychological recovery as well." Nicola Wilson MBE spent five months in the north-east spinal centre, following a fall at Badminton Horse Trials in May 2022 which left her initially paralysed from the neck down and unable to feel who now acts as an ambassador for the charity, said the redeveloped outdoor space will make an enormous difference to patients, their families and staff,"You're in a ward with six other people; those blue curtains don't offer you any privacy, so to be able to come out into the garden, just enjoy the flowers, the birds, [to] have that quiet time, is just invaluable." Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Health
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Village prepares to welcome runners to 40th anniversary charity race
A Dorset village is preparing to welcome runners to a popular race event. Tarrant Monkton and the Langton Arms pub are gearing up for the annual Tarrant Valley 10 (TV10) race, which will take place on Sunday, June 1. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the event, which began in 1985, and will see both adult and children's races. The main 10km race will start at 10.30am and will be followed by a one-mile children's race. READ MORE: Charity seeking volunteers to help expand social groups This year marks the 40th anniversary of the race (Image: Tarrant Valley 10) To commemorate the anniversary, each runner will receive a special medal, with the children's race participants also included. New prize categories have also been introduced this year, recognising the first male over 70, the first female over 65 and the first male and female under 20. Spectators and supporters can enjoy a barbecue, ice-creams, teas, coffees and a raffle. The adult's 10km race and the children's one-mile run will be chip-timed by Rogue Racer. All runners will receive printable certificates, and the day will be documented with numerous photographs. SEE MORE: Children's charity inviting cyclists to take part in 40-mile ride The Langton Arms pub, owned by local farmers James and Barbara Cossins, will be supporting the event. Known for its locally sourced menu, the pub will be open for bookings for lunch after the races. The event, which is not-for-profit, will donate its proceeds to two charities: the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance and Horatio's Garden. The air ambulance service, which is funded by donations, carried out almost 3,000 missions last year and is viewed as a vital service, especially for rural villages. Horatio's Garden creates garden sanctuaries attached to NHS Spinal Injury Centres, providing rest and respite for people with spinal injuries. Organisers are encouraging people to pre-book online at with a saving of at least £5 compared to the on-the-day price. The starter whistle will blow at 10.30am in Tarrant Monkton, DT11 8RX. The TV10, which is run through the picturesque Cranborne Chase countryside, has been a staple in the local community for four decades and continues to be a great opportunity for runners of all abilities to take part.
