12-05-2025
Prue Leith: the nine people I miss every day
Celebration Day is when we should celebrate people no longer with us, those who we loved or admired, or who helped, encouraged or inspired us. I have nine people on my list and I think about them a lot. Most are family because I grew up in a stable, happy family, with my parents and two brothers. I'm now the sole survivor, but they are still, oddly, somehow with me.
My adored father died when I was 20 and he only 54. My mother's diaries record him saying: 'I used to think our Prue was solid gold under a dusting of froth and nonsense, but now I think maybe she's just a thin veneer of gold over nothing but frivolity.' He had good reason for
