{"id":182718,"date":"2025-06-14T03:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T03:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182718\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T03:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T03:07:13","slug":"has-the-curse-of-meghan-struck-again-the-smart-sets-latest-whispers-about-her-once-closest-confidante-revealed-by-richard-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182718\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the curse of Meghan struck again? The smart set&#8217;s latest whispers about her once closest confidante, revealed by RICHARD EDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/misha-nonoo\/index.html\" id=\"mol-82fe3240-4886-11f0-8112-8d29e9467f12\" rel=\"noopener\">Misha Nonoo<\/a> has often been called the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/meghan-markle\/index.html\" id=\"mol-82d99340-4886-11f0-8112-8d29e9467f12\" rel=\"noopener\">Duchess of Sussex<\/a>\u2019s best friend, ever since Meghan turned up at the Invictus Games in Toronto in 2017, hand in hand with <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/prince_harry\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8305d360-4886-11f0-8112-8d29e9467f12\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>, in ripped jeans and a \u00a3137 shirt known as \u2018The Husband\u2019, designed by Misha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But has Misha, 39, been jinxed by the association \u2013 at least where her fashion business is concerned?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">I ask only because her eponymous online brand has seemingly been put on hold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Its website bears the promise \u2018Launching Soon\u2019, but a link for would-be subscribers leads only to a bleak notice saying: \u2018Page Not Found\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A similar fate awaits those attempting to find out more via Misha\u2019s Instagram account, which says her brand offers \u2018chic, sustainable fashion for Women on the Go\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">My inquiry to the company goes unanswered. Misha may, of course, have decided family comes first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After divorcing suave Old Etonian Alexander Gilkes, she wed oil tycoon Michael Hess in Rome in 2019, with Harry and Meghan among the guests, and now has two young children.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b1d80a6f93b82ebf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99356573-14810901-Meghan_Markle_and_Prince_Harry_appear_together_at_the_Invictus_G-m-4_1749840293502.jpeg\" height=\"749\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Meghan Markle and Prince Harry appear together at the Invictus Games, Meghan in 'The Husband' shirt designed by Misha\u00a0Nonoo\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Meghan Markle and Prince Harry appear together at the Invictus Games, Meghan in &#8216;The Husband&#8217; shirt designed by Misha\u00a0Nonoo<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5440b81ed4c5b648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99356575-14810901-Meghan_Markle_and_Misha_Nonoo_attend_an_award_show_together_in_2-m-3_1749840284296.jpeg\" height=\"601\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Meghan Markle and Misha Nonoo attend an award show together in 2015\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Meghan Markle and Misha Nonoo attend an award show together in 2015<\/p>\n<p>Has Emma found a love match with childhood friend?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tennis fans wondering how Emma Raducanu blazed back to British No 1 ranking at Queen\u2019s this week should take a look at her support team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Roaring her on as she reached the quarter-finals was not just her coach Nick Cavaday (far left) and agent Thomas Houchin, but a dashing former tennis protege close to her heart, Benjamin Heynold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He and Emma, 22, have known each other since the age of six and have represented Team GB together. Heynold, 24, is a student at the the University of North Carolina in the US and friends suggest that his long friendship with Emma may have turned to romance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Emma split up with her Harrow-educated boyfriend, Carlo Agostinelli, last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Having changed coaches seven times in the space of four years as she tried to recapture the form that saw her win a Grand Slam at the 2021 US Open, perhaps Benjamin is her ace?<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f594dd46f1d02da0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99357097-14810901-image-m-26_1749841159007.jpg\" height=\"1038\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Emma Raducanu and Ben Heynold in 2016\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Emma Raducanu and Ben Heynold in 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I am the gayest straight man you&#8217;ll ever meet<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs tries to explain his love of musical theatre<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\">She&#8217;s been a sex symbol since she floated round a spaceship nearly naked in 1960s sci-fi film Barbarella, but Jane Fonda prefers a bit more privacy these days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-bold\">\u2018I don\u2019t get naked in bed with anybody anymore,\u2019 says the 87-year-old actress. \u2018If was going to have sex, I would want it to be with a 20-year-old. I like certain kinds of skin. But I don\u2019t want to impose my old skin on somebody else, so I decided to quit altogether.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-italic\">It&#8217;s fortunate that this meeting wasn\u2019t scheduled for a day later: on Thursday King Charles received the new Iranian ambassador, His Excellency Mr Seyyed Ali Mousavi, at Buckingham Palace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-italic\">Just hours later, Israel launched strikes across Iran, targeting its nuclear programme and killing senior military figures and scientists. President Donald Trump said he was aware of Israel\u2019s plans beforehand. Presumably, the King wasn\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Hopkins&#8217;s estranged daughter shares cancer battle<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sir Anthony Hopkins won his second Best Actor Oscar for his role opposite Olivia Colman in The Father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In real life, his performance as a father is less praiseworthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He has been estranged from his only child, Abigail Hopkins, for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And now, I can disclose, she has been fighting a brave battle against cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Abigail, 55, pictured with her dad in 1991, is an actress and musician and she documents her private health challenges on her new album, Stardust. \u2018Stardust charts my healing journey from bowel cancer,\u2019 she reveals. \u2018I was determined to channel my personal pain through creative work.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-11bf9622f1658eaf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99356943-14810901-image-m-17_1749840726669.jpg\" height=\"707\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Anthony Hopkins and his daughter Abigail in 1991\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Anthony Hopkins and his daughter Abigail in 1991<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018While finishing my chemotherapy, I came up with the idea of creating an album with proceeds going to charity. I\u2019ve had side effects which included frozen shoulders, and neuropathy and more, so undertaking an album has required a lot from me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Asked which of her songs is the most personally meaningful, she replies: \u2018The Corridors of Hospitals.\u2019 In addition to the album, she is planning to publish a \u2018memoir about my cancer journey\u2019, she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Port Talbot-born Sir Anthony, 87, whose films include The Silence of The Lambs and The Mask of Zorro, is so sensitive about his estrangement from Abigail that he refuses to discuss it with even his closest friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An attempt to explain the situation publicly in 2018 backfired so badly that he vowed never to talk about her in interviews again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018People make choices,\u2019 he said. \u2018I don\u2019t care one way or the other. You don\u2019t have to like your family. Children don\u2019t like their fathers. You don\u2019t have to love each other.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When told his remarks sounded cold he replied: \u2018Well, it is cold. Because life is cold.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Abigail was born at a time his drinking was spiralling out of control. He walked out on her and his first wife, Petronella Baker, in 1971.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Earlier this year, the \u00a315 million mansion overlooking the ocean in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles where Sir Anthony lived with his third wife Stella, a Colombian, was reduced to rubble in the wild fires.<\/p>\n<p>Bride Basia\u2019s barney with scene-stealing Bond girl   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ed9e9c20c0c99660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99356987-14810901-image-a-20_1749840838800.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"306\" alt=\"Marilyn Galsworthy (left) wearing a dress more ornate than Basia Briggs's own\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Marilyn Galsworthy (left) wearing a dress more ornate than Basia Briggs&#8217;s own<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Basia Briggs has marked her wedding anniversary in unusual fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Basia, a close friend of Prince Michael of Kent, has accused a Bond girl of trying to upstage her on her big day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On the anniversary of her marriage to late property developer Richard Briggs, who owned Hyde Park Stables in London, Basia posted a wedding snap online. \u2018On this day a long time ago I married Mr Briggs,\u2019 she wrote. Then she shared a second photograph of her with Marilyn Galsworthy wearing a summer dress more ornate than her own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018This horrible woman decided to upstage the bride and turned up dressed in white with flowers in her hair, and hogged every photo,\u2019 Basia commented. Marilyn, who appeared opposite Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me, declines to respond, telling me: \u2018Life is too short. It\u2019s very sad.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-large mol-style-italic\">The smart set\u2019s talking about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Party pooper V&amp;A bosses failure over summer bash\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">So delighted to show the Princess of Wales around the Victoria and Albert Museum\u2019s new East Storehouse in London\u2019s Olympic Park this week, its director, Tristram Hunt, appears to have overlooked another big date in his calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The V&amp;A has failed to organise its traditional summer party, a cherished fixture among the capital\u2019s beau monde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s very sad,\u2019 a regular tells me. \u2018It was the greatest party, with 1,200 guests. It drew rock stars, prime ministers, creatives, art collectors, tycoons.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sources claim the museum could not attract a corporate sponsor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In the past the bash has been paid for by names such as Harrods, Dior and Chanel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A V&amp;A spokesman tells me: \u2018We won\u2019t be hosting our summer party this year. Our attentions have been focused on the unveiling of V&amp;A East Storehouse.\u2019 Clearly, the V&amp;A is missing the fundraising skills of its party-loving former chairman, Sir Nicholas Coleridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Misha Nonoo has often been called the Duchess of Sussex\u2019s best friend, ever since Meghan turned up at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,92,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,448,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-182718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-harry","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royals","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114679516126240823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}