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How Prince Andrew fills his days since his fall from grace

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Tights are back for winter – and these are the ones you should be wearing

bare legs in winter.” Designers finally got the practical memo - and read at least half of it. While opaques are still banished to the fashion wilderness, sheer and print hosiery is firmly in the spotlight. In fact, tights was the one look uniting diverse collections from Balenciaga, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.Personally, I feel vindicated.

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How to find the perfect pair of jeans – whatever your body shape

asket.com) launched last year in 54 different sizes, to accommodate different body types and leg lengths, as well as waist size. I can vouch for the fact that they are very flattering, although they do require some wearing-in.

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Strictly’s Helen Skelton on her marriage breakdown: ‘I don’t see myself as a victim’

somehow miss the point of her. Here she is, not long after 7am on a Friday morning, bounding into a café in west London with all the enthusiasm you might expect of a former Blue Peter presenter who once kayaked solo down the Amazon, and cycled to the South Pole.There is not a trace of self pity evident on her fresh and fearless face, which has travelled here by motorbike, because… well, why not? Skelton is, after all, the kind of person who agreed to run the 78-mile Namibian ultra marathon in 2009, a feat so gruelling that she became only the second woman in history to complete it. In comparison, most things are a doddle.The 39-year-old dumps her stuff at the table, has a quick FaceTime with her kids – Ernie, seven, Louis, five and Elsie, now nine months old, who are back home in Cumbria with their grandparents – and proceeds to order two lattes in quick succession.

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Tupperware heroes to transport your lunch in style

A meal deal costs £3.50 at Tesco, meaning even savvy office workers could rack up a bill of over £900 per year on a shop-bought lunch per day. When I forget to prep, I end up spending an awful lot more than that on Pret baguettes and expensive salads in the vicinity of The Telegraph’s central London office.

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Donning a pink suit truly separates the men from the boys

men wearing pink. Gender boundaries (in some circles at least) might be more blurred than ever before, but for most men even the suggestion of a salmon-shaded shirt is a step too far into ‘effeminate’ modes of dressing; how utterly boring. Thankfully, a whole new generation of well-dressed men are creating a convincing argument for ignoring such nonsense and wearing a colour that genuinely works well on certain fellows.

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Tom Daley: ‘I owe the Olympic gold to knitting – mistakes can teach you lessons’

at the time.It’s an extreme statement, but perhaps not unusual among the elite coterie of athletes who spend much of their young lives “blinkered” in their quest for an Olympic gold medal: Daley began diving at the age of seven and won the British national junior (under-18) platform title in 2004 – aged 10.“The fact you only get one opportunity every four years is super intense, which is why knitting really helped. It took the stress out of it.”The image of Daley clacking his needles poolside was one of the Covid Olympics’ more frivolous and fun moments, and it took his knitting Instagram from 60,000 followers to 1.2 million overnight.

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Dear Richard Madeley: ‘My dad refuses to cut his straggly, thinning hair’

— Anon, via telegraph.co.ukYup, I do – have advice, that is. And it’s this: DON’T ‘go about it’.

Three budget skincare brands to get better bang for your buck

theordinary.com) you can get your bearings by doing a four-minute quiz, or you can shop by category (say moisturisers) or concern (fine lines). But if you’re already up to speed with key ingredients you value, you can also hone in on specific ones – collagen-stimulating peptides, for example, or niacinamide, a form of vitamin B3 said to brighten and even up tone and texture.Personally, I love the hydrating and plumping action of The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5 (£6.40) and Buffet (£14.30), a serum full of peptides to address dryness and wrinkles.Left to right: The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5; The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + HA Serum (previously known as Buffet)The second brand is Q+A, the UK-based company on a mission to demystify skincare.

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Claridge’s spa – Mayfair’s new hidden gem

a tiny jewel of a place like Claridge’s compete? The idea of a spa at the art deco hotel was first mooted in 2007, but got the green light only in 2015. It’s taken this long to complete the first phase of a Herculean build, adding seven floors to the hotel, four of them underground and costing undisclosed millions. And there was a strict stipulation that it had to be managed without disturbing any guests to the slightest degree.

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Skills, clothing and confidence: How The Telegraph x Smart Works Fashion Sale is helping women succeed

help them succeed – and it works, with 72 per cent of Smart Works’ clients getting a job within a month of their appointment. What’s more, 95 per cent say they leave feeling more confident than when they arrived.Tina, a Ukrainian refugee who arrived in the UK in April with her two children, is one of those success stories. When she packed her bag in Kyiv in March, kissing goodbye to her husband, she had no idea how long they’d be gone for.

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The budget-friendly way to upgrade your home – from floors to furniture

Beth Dadswell suggests: “Instead of buying an expensive rug, head over to your local carpet shop and see if they have any large carpet offcuts that you could have whipped to make a rug instead.” Expect to pay from £5 per linear metre for a professional carpet-whipping service, or have a go yourself with a glue gun and a roll of Easybind (£28 for a 5m length from carpetrunners.co.uk).For the outlay of an online course or workshop, you could learn how to master some specialist DIY. Create Academy offers e-learning around myriad disciplines, from block printing with textile designer Molly Mahon, curtain-making with Gemma Moulton, and even upholstery with Changing Rooms’ Micaela Sharp (above) explaining how to recover a headboard and armchair.

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The nylon jacket is making a comeback – and it’s more glamorous than you think

Clockwise from top left: Suede effect, £59.99, Mango; Stormwear™, £59, Marks & Spencer; Reversible, £310, Gant; cotton, £92, Everlane; hooded, £89.99, SuperdryClockwise from top left: Knitted, £99, Cos; green, £150, Good American at Selfridges; leather and teddy, £353, Deadwood; leopard lining, £295, The Kooples; dark grey, £79, WeekdayRead last week's column: The season’s ‘comeback’ shoe that’s both eternally glam and unfathomably comfortable We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.Thank you for your support.Need help?Visit our page.

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The simple ways to winterise your summer wardrobe – in pictures

Clockwise from top left: Blazer, £165, stories.com; polo neck, £29.90, uniqlo.com; gilet, £69, whitestuff.com; tank top, £120, cefinn.com; boots, £89.99, mango.comClockwise from top left: Scarf, £120, Paul Smith at matchesfashion.com; cardigan, £79, cos.com; jacket, £190, marksandspencer.com; boots, £150, boden.co.uk; tank top, £45, abercrombie.comWe rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.Thank you for your support.Need help?Visit our page.

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Dear Richard Madeley: ‘My partner misled me about his pension’

— Caroline, SurreyWell, it all depends on what you want, doesn’t it? And judging by your letter, you don’t quite know the answer to that.You seem to be vacillating between your desire to settle down into a happy, securely funded retirement with your partner, and a sense of resentment bordering on grievance that his affairs aren’t as in order as he had told you.The complicating factor is that you have the wherewithal to resolve the issue right here and now. You could write a cheque to cover his pension contributions shortfall, and that would buy you the joint retirement lifestyle you crave. But you say you don’t want to do that.

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Inside Britain's £5.5 billion military disaster

manufacturers promise they can deliver it, on time and on budget. It tends not to work that way. This year the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, which evaluates the Government’s major spending plans, analysed 52 projects underway at the MoD, worth a total of £194.7 billion – about one and a half times the entire NHS budget.

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The timeless allure of the great British farm – in pictures

having a lie-in at the end of the week. Hearing the sound of hungry beef cattle lowing outside, she realised that there was no end of the week any more, ‘because if we didn’t get up and give the animals their breakfasts, no one else was going to do it, were they? But then you get up and do it, and you realise it doesn’t matter, because you’re together.’Fourteen years later, Bateman is as attached to the rugged pastures of her Cumbrian farm as the sheep that graze them. Having closed her physiotherapy business in Kendal when her first children – twin daughters – arrived in 2010, she now works as a photographer, and has just published a rather remarkable book.Forty Farms: Conversations about Change in the Landscapes of Cumbria is above all a beautiful record of the farming landscapes of one of the most stunning parts of the country.

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The new shape of boot that really will go with everything you own

floaty dresses well into winter. So that’s that. Although finding the right pair of boots that works with everything requires some honest inventory taking.

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Forget Beaujolais Nouveau – this corner of Burgundy just got serious

there are some very serious wines made there,’ says Gearoid Devaney, a director of Burgundy specialist Flint Wines and of Cabotte restaurant in London, where we have both just tasted a decade of wines from Château du Moulin-à-Vent in the cru of Moulin-à-Vent. ‘You speak to someone who thought they knew Beaujolais as bubble gum [the classic tasting note for the cheapest wine] and then – well, you’ve done the tasting – you get this wine with richness and depth and complexity and structure.

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Mark Hix's hearty three-course autumn menu

Cook time: 55 minutesFourThis is a great way to utilise the head bones from a flatfish like a turbot, brill or large plaice.

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Dear Richard Madeley: ‘My girlfriend has been lying to me about her address’

— Mark, via emailI’m going to be as direct with you as I hope I am with everyone who writes to me – otherwise what’s the point of our correspondence? And I have to say that your letter set off the full set of alarm bells, flashing red lights and sirens.Why did this woman conceal her change of address from you? Especially when she must have known, from her regular visits back to pick up her post, that you were sending gifts and flowers to her? Why not give you her cousin’s address so you could send things there? At the very least it was inconsiderate; sadly, I think it’s suspicious.You ask: ‘If she has been lying to me about this, then what else?’ It’s a fair question, Mark. People who lie about their address are usually concealing other things.

What 30 years at Vogue taught me about style, by Lucinda Chambers

conviction fashion. I ask her which other women’s style she admires and she goes all vague. ‘I’m so bad at celebrities. I never know who they are,’ she answers evasively.

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Ferrari 296 GTS review: this convertible, topping 205mph, is a breath of fresh air

a taste of this remarkable drivetrain in the GTB coupé (or berlinetta) version of this car in March. Devastatingly powerful, with less driver feedback than a poker-game opponent, it was a technical tour de force but a difficult car to love.There are a couple of figures to bear in mind about the convertible version, aside from the 14 seconds it takes to fold the motorised aluminium hardtop into its lair over the engine at up to 28mph.

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Remo Ruffini: ‘I still think of Moncler as a start-up’

Milan Fashion Week.A post shared by Moncler (@moncler)The house was founded by mountaineering enthusiast René Ramillon and André Vincent in Monestier-de-Clermont, a mountain village near Grenoble. It equipped Italian explorers to scale K2 in the 1950s and created wonderfully of-the-era outfits for the French ski team at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

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Ralph Lauren's front row was a masterclass in how to dress if you're over 70

of themselves? This is never truer than when it comes to the front row, where A-listers and influencers are dressed head to toe in the designer’s vision. Is it heavenly or a dystopian pile up of folk who’ve lost all touch with reality?No one has ever accused Hollywood types of being grounded in normality.

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When did good manners become such a minefield?

‘People tend to mainly drink straight out the bottle these days, instead of out of a glass or beaker,’ one lamented, perhaps forgetting to add, ‘hic!’ ‘When did it become acceptable to hold a conversation whilst wearing sunglasses?’ cried another. Good point, well made.

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Bill Nighy on notoriety, loafing around and those Anna Wintour romance rumours

a cool older dude. Even if you didn’t know who he was, and the ripple of attention from other customers as he arrives suggests they do know who he is, you would understand that he was someone interesting, the guy in the corner of the jazz club with some wonderful stories that may or may not be true.He is a bit tired, he explains. He has just flown in from the Toronto International Film Festival. Before that he was at Telluride, in Colorado.

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The secret of British sparkling rosé

sales of English and Welsh wine surpassed production figures, with 9.3 million bottles sold and the equivalent of 8.95 million bottles made from the 2021 harvest. It’s one of many landmark moments enjoyed as the homegrown wine industry continues to develop with impressive speed. We are still learning. Around us, it’s as if pixels keep being added in sudden patches to the knowledge map of English and Welsh wine – here the Crouch Valley in Essex emerges as a superb place in which to ripen grapes, there a winemaker hones a technique for managing acidity levels.One of the unexpected discoveries is that English grapes make particularly good sparkling rosé.

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Bill Nighy: ‘I'm interested in what's called Englishness... a certain reserve’

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The £87,000 jeans: Why our love for Levi’s never fades

Nick Kamen peeling off his 501s in a launderette to Marvin Gaye’s I Heard it through the Grapevine? Back then, Levi’s held sway beyond the high street: The Clash had their only UK number one with Should I Stay or Should I Go after it was featured in a Levi’s ad. In the early 1990s, these ads helped the likes of Babylon Zoo and Mr Oizo climb the charts.There was political power, too. In the 1950s, US students were banned from wearing blue jeans after a rebellious Marlon Brando sported 501s in The Wild One and made denim seem dangerous.

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The best grand Paris hotels – whichever type of traveller you are

Bulgari PenthouseOf all the buildings in Paris that Bulgari could have chosen for its seventh hotel, a 1970s office block on Avenue George V must surely have seemed the least enticing. But the brand’s go-to architectural firm, Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, rose to the challenge and after several years of grafting, it opened in December last year as a strikingly modern 76-room hotel.A glossy, cosmopolitan mix of locals and tourists have been enjoying the hotel, with its blend of understated styles that mixes Italian walnut floors, ceramics by Gio Ponti and herringbone patterned carpets that nod to Parisian parquet.

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How to curl your hair – without using any electricity

energy costs, finding ways to consume less power also includes our hair and beauty regimes. Using a hairdryer or hair tool for five minutes a day, four times a week uses over 3 KwH (kilowatt hour) of energy per month, which is more than using a lawn mower once a week.But there’s good news for those looking to save money and maintain a glamorous hairstyle. No-heat, no-electricity curling techniques are going viral on sites such as TikTok - following a boom in DIY beauty trends during lockdown.

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Hermès’ artistic director of womenswear: ‘We’re like Jedi... a collective’

Hermès is not the kind of house to force the point.Or perhaps it’s because whatever she’s doing – on or off social media – is working. Her imprint at the helm of the French design legend, shaky at first, is now assured and reassuring, aligning an occasionally quirky, feminine pragmatism with a pleasingly functional take on luxury.

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The Roksanda fashion show was a masterclass in the tricky art of wearing black

London Fashion Week, which took place in the days following the late Queen’s death, Roksanda Illincic chose to postpone her show. Despite the delay, a thread of grief ran through the collection.

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Why women love a man in a chunky knit sweater

new Marilyn Monroe film? Don’t even start. But there is one thing that even the most curmudgeonly person would fail to be aggrieved by, and that’s the sight of a lovely man in a lovely knit.

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This is the new high street ‘It’ bag – and it’s less than £15

buying these frighteningly expensive bags.And isn’t it a bit outré to have a bag worth a four-figure sum on your arm? Which is why when The Telegraph’s beauty director Sonia Haria revealed her minimalist nylon kidney-shaped bag was from Uniqlo, the office erupted. She had spotted it on Instagram, only to find that it had sold out online.

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Splashing out on a Chanel handbag just wouldn’t feel right

Chanel’s incredible craftsmanship. Of course I understand the cost of all the materials. Undeniably I know that, like good wine or art, certain Chanel handbags can gain value.

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Welcome to the world of luxury pups

more and more restaurants do these days – Love My Human allows you to accompany your dog. (There is a less fancy human menu.) After lunch, Wilson considers getting a massage, or perhaps some acupuncture, in one of the treatment rooms – although what he really wants is to join in the fun at the rooftop crèche, where three women are seated on AstroTurf entertaining a mini poo each.

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The revival of Laura Ashley relies on this woman

Laura Ashley dresses from the 1970s - and it is perhaps fitting that the sisters were introduced to their late grandmother’s legacy through her clothes alone. “By the time we were around she had died and the company had been sold,” says Lily, 30.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘Your job as an artist is to be connected to your nine-year-old self’

sayonara crossed out, because that doesn’t fit. You see all the different drafts before you get to the one we know.’ The lesson? ‘That hard work can lead to beautiful, simple things.’It’s just the kind of anecdote you might hear from an inspiring and unorthodox teacher who is keen to drill into his charges that, however far you think blazing talent can take you, you won’t get anywhere without putting the hours in, kids.

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British apples really are best – but we need to save them now

available all year, autumn is when the most interesting and diverse varieties are within reach. British apples are the best in the world (I’m standing by that), in part because our temperate maritime climate means they ripen more slowly than in hotter countries. The heat this summer might not sound like good news then, but the chair of growers’ association British Apples & Pears, Ali Capper, who farms on the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, insists that the stress the trees have been under has made for a particularly fine crop. Nonetheless, it’s been a challenging season for apple growers, with a triple whammy of drought, rising fuel costs and labour worries.

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The affordable fashion label loved by modern royals

ME+EM, a British brand known for its easy to wear, just-fashion-enough designs, pitched in that sweet spot between designer and high street. Since its 2009 launch, it has largely been a word-of-mouth success.

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Four winter dresses that go with absolutely anything

heavier corduroy fabrics and I really love wearing velvet.I always think that a non-dress wearer will look to purchase a dress in the summer because it’s warmer, but come the cooler months it is the die-hard dress lovers who wear them all year round. I often throw or catch an appreciative glance on the morning commute from a like-minded woman. This is largely why my autumn pop-up shops have been so popular, with shoppers eager to see what the brilliant small brands I work with have created for them.

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Dear Richard Madeley: ‘My noisy neighbours won’t give me a moment's peace’

— Mary, via telegraph.co.ukHmmm. Obviously, I sympathise. It must have been difficult over such a long hot summer to have a non-stop kiddies’ carnival going on in next door’s garden.

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Three brilliant beauty buys for an instant airbrushed glow

large pores and fine lines? As it turns out, no. There are some magical complexion improvers out there that can give you some of that filter-like action with virtually zero fuss.

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The season’s ‘comeback’ shoe that’s both eternally glam and unfathomably comfortable

charmed the French, and one of the reasons was her high-low approach to fashion. She mixed statement pieces with casual ones, as evidenced above: the simple black dress and laid-back pose are offset by the knockout scarlet shoes. Invented in ancient Greece (as far as we know, anyway), platforms were mostly worn by actors.

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