This will cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth among estate agents: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appear to have called off their search for a country home.
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Duke → cause → home
The couple, who moved back to Britain from California at the end of August, were said to have a budget of up to £10 million.
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who → move → million
However, I can disclose that they have now moved into a house owned by a friend.
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they → disclose → friend
The couple made the move the weekend before they went on holiday abroad during the half-term at the school attended by their children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five.
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they → make → children
The family have been staying with the friend, a wealthy businessman who lives in the Cotswolds, since they arrived in this country.
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they → stay → country
'They were living in the main house,' a friend of the businessman tells me.
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friend → live → me
'They have now moved to a property on the estate.'
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They → move → estate
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex appear to have called off their search for a country home and moved into a house owned by a friend
The businessman became friends with Prince Harry through their mutual support of military charities.
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businessman → appear → charities
He is said to be happy for Harry, Meghan and their children to continue living on his estate.
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Harry → say → estate
After moving to Britain, the Sussexes retained their £19.5 million mansion in Montecito, California, with its wine cellar, cinema, gym, spa, swimming pool, tennis court, wood-fired stove, barbecue – and 13 (and-a-half) bathrooms.
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Sussexes → move → cellar
In 2024, I disclosed that the couple had bought a coastal home in Portugal near that owned by Harry's cousin, Princess Eugenie, and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, on the CostaTerra Golf & Ocean Club, a luxury development of 300 properties by the sea in Melides, south of the capital Lisbon.
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couple → disclose → capital
The Sussexes were said to be searching for a home in the Cotswolds with lots of land, no public rights of way and nine bedrooms at least.
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£350million India has an utterly frightful wedding!
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Soho heiress India Rose James cut into a wedding cake decorated with black ribbons at the candle-lit reception at Oakley Court in Berkshire
India, whose fortune with her half-sister Fawn is estimated to be more than £700million, celebrated her marriage to musician Daniel Vildosola on Halloween
Here's a wedding to give guests the creeps!
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Soho heiress India Rose James celebrated her marriage to Mexican-American musician Daniel Vildosola, 40, on Halloween.
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James → celebrate → Halloween
India, 34, granddaughter of the late pornographer and property king Paul Raymond, cut into a wedding cake decorated with black ribbons at the candle-lit reception, at Oakley Court in Berkshire, which doubled as Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle in The Rocky Horror Picture Show film.
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which → cut → film
India, whose fortune with her half-sister Fawn is estimated to be more than £700million, wore an ivory gown with black ribbon bows that matched the cake decorations.
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that → estimate → decorations
The couple had their first wedding ceremony in Las Vegas in the summer.
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couple → have → summer
Adolescence star Ashley Walters was once a rapper with hip-hop group So Solid Crew, but now he prefers more soothing tones.
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he → prefer → tones
'My younger self would not imagine Ashley being a classical music or jazz fan,' the actor, 44, says in a feature for Big Issue magazine called Letter to my Younger Self.
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actor → imagine → Self
'But it comes from age – I just can't listen to drill any more.
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I need music to calm me down and focus me.
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Olivia's just Wilde about British men
Olivia Wilde, who previously dated Harry Styles, is now involved in a relationship with art dealer Caspar Jopling
Olivia Wilde is a big fan of all things British – including our men!
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Wilde → date → men
After going out with pop superstar Harry Styles, 32, the American actress and director, 42, is now involved in a relationship with art dealer Caspar Jopling, 34.
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actress → go → Jopling
He's the Eton-educated ex-husband of pop singer Ellie Goulding.
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He → educate → Goulding
'I'll be spending more time in the UK,' Olivia says during an In Conversation talk at the BFI Southbank in London.
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Olivia → spend → London
'I'm on week three of a film we're making here in London.
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It's a Christmas comedy and I love it so much.
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I'm building the North Pole right now on a sound-stage and it's insane.
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Stella on 'weird' life touring with Macca
Touring with a pop superstar would have been a dream for most teenagers, but not so for Sir Paul McCartney's daughter Stella.
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Touring → tour → daughter
'I was kind of angry when I was 18 because I was building friendships and getting into the swing of my own thing,' admits the fashion designer, 55.
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designer → build → thing
We have to go on a world tour?'
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Stella, whose mother Linda died in 1998, recalls the contrast between the family's quiet farm life in Scotland and her parents' extraordinary fame.
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mother → die → Scotland
'Mum was cooking, dad was shearing sheep and writing songs,' she says.
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she → cook → songs
'And then we were on tour with, like, 200,000 people screaming at your parents... it was trippy and weird and surreal.'
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it → scream → parents
She now insists, however, that travelling the world was 'one of the biggest privileges' of her upbringing, adding: 'Everything that my mum and dad did came from a place of love.'
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mum → insist → love
Lotus star raises a glass to booze
Gen Z's obsession with clean living has failed to win over The White Lotus star Sam Nivola, who thinks his generation would benefit from a few more boozy nights out.
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generation → raise → nights
The 23-year-old son of British actress Emily Mortimer and American actor Alessandro Nivola laments that young people drink less than they used to.
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'It's kind of terrible, honestly, that we don't drink as much,' he says.
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'We've gone soft.
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We → go → ?
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