Dad who ran off with Ukrainian refugee reunites with family after ending his affair

Dame Judi Dench is accusing ‘The Crown’ of being “cruelly unjust” to the Royal Family. The Oscar winner, 87, who was made a Companion of Honour in 2005 and played Queen Victoria in the films ‘Mrs Brown’ and ‘Victoria and Abdul’, also accused the Netflix show of “sensationalism” and said it should open with a warning it is “fictionalised drama” and not historical fact. She said in a letter to The Times newspaper on Wednesday (19.

Sir Rod Stewart has funded a Ukrainian refugee family’s new life in England – finding them a house and paying all their bills. The 77 year old legendary singer rented the three-storey townhouse in Berkshire for husband and wife ­Rostyslav and Olena and their five children, aged between two and 17, after becoming dismayed with the plight of people in the war-torn country. Rostyslav and Olena fled their home in Ukraine with their kids after the Russian invasion – embarking on a dangerous journey over the border and across Europe before finally arriving in the UK.

Sir Rod Stewart has rented a home for a family of seven Ukrainian refugees.The veteran pop rocker and his wife, Penny Lancaster, are renting a house in Berkshire for husband and wife Rostyslav and Olena and their children, Taras, 17, Kostya, 16, Roman, 13, Mariia, 10, and Dymtro, two, after they fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion in February.He told the Daily Mirror that he and Lancaster will pay both the rent and bills for at least a year as the Ukrainian family continue to settle into their new home.Stewart, who was knighted in 2016 for his services to music and charity, said he believes it’s his duty to help others after receiving the honour six years ago.“I usually keep all my charitable efforts nice and quiet and just do it. But I thought, ‘I am a knight, I have been given this knighthood because of the things I’ve achieved in my life and the charity work I’ve done over the years’,” he said.The singer and Lancaster decided to take action after watching the devastating scenes unfold on TV news one night.“Words couldn’t describe what we were watching.

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video call released on Monday. The Prince of Sussex, 38, chatted to the winners, apologizing for not being able to attend the event for the charity, following the death of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.The Prince was a doting dad in the calls, gushing about his son Archie, 3, being “very busy” and daughter Lilibet, 1, “finding her voice.”Harry — who has been a patron of the UK charity for seriously ill children and their families since 2007 — first spoke with four-year-old Henry Waines and his parents, bonding with the tot over their shared first name.“My name is Henry.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are “secretly planning a year-long reconciliation with the royal family” - but not just yet. According to reports, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will only get in contact with the royals after their Netflix show airs and Prince Harry’s memoir is released, says the Daily Mail.

Jessica Kiang In a time of war, laughter — even of the wryest kind — can feel like an unpardonable luxury. And if Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich’s delightfully droll “Luxembourg Luxembourg” were even a little more flippant, and didn’t cut its comedic antics with an equal dose of melancholic wisdom, perhaps there would be some guilt attached to enjoying it so much. But with his second feature, an expansion of ambition after his wonkily wistful debut, “My Thoughts Are Silent,” Lukich hasn’t just made a slice of much-needed escapism. In the sincerity of its sentimentality and its humane, universal observations around absent fathers, errant sons and estranged brothers, the movie not only earns us the right to laugh during a period of suffering and conflict, it makes sharing in the warmth of its sweet-natured humor seem like a vital, revivifying act of resistance. 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been unveiled in a newly released photo taken of the couple behind the scenes of their UK visit last month — just two days after King Charles's new portrait with Prince William was released. Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, are seen in a candid moment holding hands as they were captured before they took the stage together at the One Young World Summit in Manchester on September 5.The striking photos was shot and shared on Instagram by the pair’s favoured photographer Missan Harriman, who previously photographed Meghan pregnant with daughter Lilibet and on her first birthday.The images project a powerful union between the couple.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex has made history, after becoming the first member of the Royal Family to travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that Sophie, 57, is carrying out an official visit to the African country at the request of the Foreign Office.The Palace said that the countess’s visit will focus on addressing the devastating impact of sexual and gender-based violence in conflict, while supporting and empowering survivors and tackling the stigma they face.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are said to be in conversation to try and edit their Netflix docuseries in order to delay its release. Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan Markle, 41 are filming a $100million series about their lives with Netflix and it was previously thought to be scheduled for a December release, following The Crown series five going live on November 9.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have found themselves near the bottom of the list of the Royal Family.The pair, who wed in 2018, have recently returned to the UK and prolonged their stay in the wake of Her Majesty the Queen’s death.There were hopes of reconciliation between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the rest of the royals during their stay, but a thinly veiled swipe appears to have since been made via the Royal Family’s official website. While the pair haven’t been working royals for some time now, they had remained reasonably high up on the rankings on the website, sitting in the middle below the likes of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

alcohol and using a knife to damage a wall at their rented home. With her belongings now in black bin liners ready for collection, he also accused her of interfering with his relationship with his two daughters, saying that he would always put them ‘first’. Tony fell for Sofiia just days after she started living with him and his partner of ten years Lorna Garnett, 28, who is the mother of his two children.

A Brit mum whose ex-partner left her for the Ukrainian refugee they had taken in says she "wouldn't take him back in a million years" after the pair announced their split. Lorna Garnett, 28, reportedly told her friends that she was not surprised that her former boyfriend Tony, 30, had broken things off with Sofiia Karkadym.

King Charles is said to be optimistic that the relationship between the Royals and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is repairable. After stepping down from royal duties two years ago and relocating to the US, Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan Markle, 41, have had a some-what estranged relationship with the royals – in particular between Harry and his brother Prince William. However, following the pair’s trip to the UK and them coming together as one with the rest of the family in the wake of Her Majesty the Queen’s death, it’s said there were “flickers of hope” that their relationship is salvageable.

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they did just that four years ago. Charlotte will have been around four at the time, and was so bored by the event that she needed to let some steam off. She was pictured hilariously performing somersaults on the lawn to quell the boredom.

passed away earlier this month at the age of 96 — reportedly shared her sorrow of the situation with a close friend, who in turn spoke with author Katie Nicholl for her new tome “The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown,” released on Tuesday.The alleged close pal is not named in Nicholl’s book, but is quoted as saying: “She [the queen] was very hurt and told me, ‘I don’t know, I don’t care, and I don’t want to think about it anymore.'”An excerpt of “The New Royals” has been published by Vanity Fair, with Nicholl also writing that the aging monarch was “exhausted” by the “turmoil” of Harry and Meghan’s 2019 decision to leave the UK. The couple’s move — dubbed “Megxit” by the press — sparked a rift in the royal family, which was only exacerbated by their decision to trash the Firm in a sit-down interview with Oprah early last year.