Katie Price and Leandro Penna only have eyes for each other as they cuddle up at charity polo match

She's never made a secret of all things equestrian, and even has her own speciliast clothing line for keen riders.
But, as Katie Price attended a charity polo match in Argentina yesterday, the horses appeared to be the last thing on her mind as she struggled to keep her eyes, and hands, off boyfriend Leandro Penna.
The 32-year-old model and her model beau snuggled up as they sat on a haystack in between matches at the event at Pompeya Polo, in the quiet town of Ashochinga.

They only have eyes for each other: Katie Price and boyfriend Leandro Penna snuggle up on a haystack at a charity polo match in Argentina

Loved up: The pair kept their arms firmly around each other as they strolled around the venue

Wearing a pair of skinny jeans teamed with knee-high brown boots, white vest top and brown knitted jumper, Katie looked happy and relaxed as she strolled around the venue with her boyfriend.

Country girl: Katie later removed her jumper as the heat got too much to handle

And later in the day it seems the heat got too much for the mother-of-three and she took off her jumper to reveal her sheer white vest top underneath - unintentionally also revealed the polka dot bra she was wearing.

 

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But while it is Katie who is the more well-known party in the relationship in the UK, Leandro is the star in his home country, and was bombarded with autograph requests from young fans as he took in the sights and scenes at the event.
Katie and Leandro flew into the Argentine capital Buenos Aires last Friday, before heading 400 miles north to Despeñaderos - located on the outskirts of the city of Cordoba.
Katie originally spent just four days in South America earlier this month before jetting back to the UK earlier than expected to sort out issues in her impending divorce from Alex Reid.
Leandro said at the time: 'We have to rush back to London again. It's something that came up at the last minute. It's nothing to do with Katie's divorce, it's work-related. 
'We're flying back to London together on Friday and returning to Argentina again once we're done and then I'll take Katie to see my parents.
'The idea now is that Katie gets to know Buenos Aires a little. She loves what she's seen so far. She really likes everything.'
But after just eight days on British soil - during which she pulled out of plans to run the London Marathon - she jetted back to Buenos Aires with Leandro again.
Earlier in the week, Katie uploaded a series of romantic snaps she took with Leandro in Cordoba, Argentina yesterday to Twitter, accompanied by Spanish musings on the region and her love for the 25-year-old.
Katie then tweeted her appreciation to Elton John for throwing the post-Oscars bash where the pair met in Los Angeles.
She wrote: 'We are so compatible we can't thank Elton John and David Furnish enough.'
And it seems Katie's adventurous side has come out during her trip, as the pair even fit in a skydiving experience, which was filmed for her reality show by a camera crew.

Love in Argentina: Katie Price tweets a series of romantic photos with Leandro Penna in Cordoba

Katie's second trip to Argentina comes ahead of her divorce from Reid.
The model and Reid - who split in January after 11 months of marriage - are expected to receive their decree nisi in two weeks, followed by a decree absolute six weeks later.
Meanwhile, Katie's first husband Peter Andre is in Cyprus with her three children, where the group are enjoying days out including visits to theme parks and local eateries.

Jennifer Hudson is reunited with her Bafta award on The Graham Norton Show... FIVE YEARS after it was lost in the post

When she won a Bafta Award in 2006 for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls, Jennifer Hudson was delighted but was unable to collect the prestigious prize in person.
So officials decided to send the award over to her in the US through the post... but it never arrived.
And now, five years after she was meant to receive the prize, Hudson was reunited with her award during an interview on The Graham Norton Show.

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Reunited: Jennifer Hudson was reunited with her Bafta award on The Graham Norton Show five years after it was sent to her in America after she couldn't attend the ceremony

Norton presented Hudson with the award in an humorous ceremony reenactment, but the surprise gift left 29-year-old Hudson slightly emotional.
Hudson, who showed off her amazing figure in a tight black Victoria Beckham dress, also spoke to Norton about her recent incredible weight loss.
The actress, who has dropped five dress sizes after adopting the WeightWatchers eating plan, said: 'I’ve had all kinds of reactions.

Giggles all round: Hudson appeared on the show with singer k.d.lang and comedian Bill Bailey

Group hug: The quarter pose for a photo, but Bailey can't resist copping a feel of Jennifer's Bafta

'People have said, "It’s not Jennifer" or "you look just like Jennifer Hudson… you have her face," even my son doesn’t recognise me from before and he didn’t know me when I was large.'
And Hudson, who is currently in the UK to promote her new album I Remember Me, is also feeling excited about next week's Royal Wedding - especially as she is planning her own nuptials to fiancé David Otunga.

Asked if she would ever get married, Hudson replied: 'Yes. Eventually I am. I am engaged, I have the dress and everything. I hear Kate has four dress options but my dress has four parts in one – it has its own show.'
Hudson also performed the title track from her new record on the show.

Diva: Jennifer also performed the title track from her new album I Remember Me

Privacy farce as BBC is forced to blank out parts of Have I Got News For You as MP almost identifies footballer at centre of injunction scandal

Censored: Louise Bagshawe MP

The BBC was last night forced to blank out parts of Have I Got News For You to protect the identity of a celebrity who has won a gagging order.

Tory MP Louise Bagshawe came close to identifying a married Premier League footballer who had an affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas – but was censored.

It came as Ken Clarke was urged to order judges to put freedom of the press before the privacy of the rich and famous. Senior Tory John Whittingdale said the Government should intervene after a series of injunctions were handed down by the courts.

Last night, as part of the BBC One show’s ‘odd one out’ round, four images of people who have taken out injunctions were displayed with their faces blacked out. Miss Bagshawe, who is also a novelist, said: ‘You’re not allowed to know who they are. They may or may not have done something with ladies who are not their wives. One of them definitely doesn’t rhyme with… even though he is a footballer.’

When she said the rhyme, the sound was muted and a black bar was slapped across her mouth.

Nearly 30 footballers, actors and television presenters have won injunctions in recent weeks alone, muzzling the press from printing details of their sexual indiscretions.

Senior Tory John Whittingdale, left, has urged Ken Clarke to order judges to put freedom of the press before the privacy of the rich and famous

Yesterday Mr Whittingdale said judges should be reminded that the Human Rights Act, passed by MPs in 1998, tells courts to put freedom of expression first.

While the Act enshrines contradictory rights to privacy and freedom of expression, Section 12 makes clear the courts ‘must have particular regard’ for press freedoms.

A judge recently muzzled the media to prevent the identity of a Premier League footballer who had an affair with Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas being revealed

Mr Whittingdale, who chairs the Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee, demanded answers from the Ministry of Justice, headed by justice secretary Mr Clarke, about the overall number of injunctions and superinjunctions – which ban the media from even reporting that an injunction has been issued.

He said: ‘When we passed the Human Rights Act, Parliament was very clear that freedom of expression should be given a greater emphasis than privacy – and yet that doesn’t seem to be happening.

‘We need to find out whether there is a widespread practice now of judges granting injunctions.

‘If that is the case we need to consider whether Parliament’s will contained in the Human Rights Act is being implemented by the judges. If not, the Ministry of Justice needs to remind judges that Parliament is clear that freedom of expression needs to take priority.’

Miss Bagshawe said she was considering using parliamentary privilege, which allows MPs to speak without fear of prosecution, to name and shame in the Commons the stars who have taken out injunctions. David Cameron has accused judges of using the Human Rights Act, which enshrines the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, to usher in a privacy law by the back door.

The Ministry of Justice has told MPs that it only collects details of the number of applications for an injunction, not the outcomes.

The growing trend has provoked claims that only the wealthy can afford expensive lawyers to help hush up their indiscretions.

The 26 public figures granted injunctions in recent weeks include a celebrity family man who has suppressed sordid sexual images of himself with a woman who is not his wife, a Premier League footballer who had an affair with Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas and an actor who slept with a prostitute.

Mr Clarke is expected to draw up new regulations after Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger concludes a report on injunctions next month.

Is the Palace asking too much of a 29-year-old? How it's difficult to avoid haunting comparisons with Diana

For so many of us, it is difficult to avoid the haunting comparison. When willowy Kate Middleton goes walkabout wearing an elegant suit and that optimistic smile, it’s the woman who would have been her mother-in-law who springs disconcertingly to mind.

Diana was, of course, the last beautiful young woman to marry an heir to the throne — precipitating a fashion fever and thousands of young girls’ dreams of wearing a puff-ball dress as they were swept off their feet by their prince.

Just like Diana before her marriage, Kate Middleton can start a trend in minutes. This time, it’s royal blue and fitted tweed rather than knickerbockers and pie-crust collars.

Backwards glance: It's difficult to avoid haunting comparisons between Kate Middleton (right) and William's mother, Diana, pictured shortly after her engagement to Prince Charles

Like Diana, Kate seems to be a natural at meeting ‘ordinary’ people. She has happily flipped pancakes in Belfast, and christened a lifeboat with champagne in Anglesey. These appearances have been deemed ‘triumphs’ by Palace aides.

Certainly, with her striking looks and personable manner, Kate is a hit with the public; and yet I sense that Britain is not as gripped by joyous wedding anticipation as the monarchy and the British Establishment might wish.

 

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Is it because the sad life and untimely death of Diana disabused us for ever of the notion of royal fairytales? Certainly, if anyone did still believe in them, that was shattered by the follow-up collapse of Prince Andrew and Fergie’s marriage.

The truth is that Charles and Diana’s was a wedding that made fools of us all: an intoxicating charade, a marriage masquerading as a love match when, on one side at least, it was nothing of the sort.

We later discovered, in painful detail, that the glamorous do-gooding and jet-setting life of the world’s favourite cover-girl masked inner turmoil and profound isolation.

The truth is that Charles and Diana’s was a wedding that made fools of us all: an intoxicating charade, a marriage masquerading as a love match when, on one side at least, it was nothing of the sort.

After her shocking death, the outpouring of public sympathy for Princes William and Harry was on a scale unimaginable for the normally uptight British. This was then followed by national queasiness over the mass mawkishness of the grief itself.

So no wonder we don’t quite know how to react to this very modern royal romance. The spectre of Diana’s lonely anguish and wavering self-esteem is still fresh in our minds.

It doesn’t help that Kate wears Diana’s ring. It also doesn’t help that as Kate prepares to be married in front of at least a billion people and enters the Royal goldfish bowl, her weight loss and slightly nervous appearance make us all anxious on her behalf. We feel as protective of her as we felt of William and Harry after their mother’s death.

Whether the Palace shares these qualms is another matter.

Of course, it is quite understandable that they are delighted by Kate’s popularity. After all, as hugely respected as she is, the Queen was 85 on Thursday, and Philip is about to turn 90. They will be well aware that the hopes of the monarchy —so tarnished by Prince Andrew’s unedifying activities — rest on the slight shoulders of a 29-year-old middle-class girl.

Which is why I so worry that the expectations being placed on Kate by courtiers — who one hopes would have learned a lesson from the Diana debacle — are simply too great.

Actress Emma Watson is no stranger to the prying attentions of the public after finding early fame in the Harry Potter films, but even she said last week that she wouldn’t be able to cope with the attention Kate Middleton is getting.

‘Poor girl, that must be an incredible amount of pressure … it must be intense,’ she sympathised.

Sham: While we all wanted to believe in the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana, it actually made fools of us all

Pre-wedding weight loss is rarely significant: most brides lose at least half a stone before their big day. I have seen more than one corset gaping loosely on a bride’s suddenly skinny frame.

‘Diana went down two dress sizes in the three months before her wedding,’ says Elizabeth Emmanuel, who made Diana’s gown. ‘I did note how slim Kate was looking.’

Kate, it must be stressed, is marrying in altogether happier circumstances than Diana. She is around the same age as her husband-to-be, and ten years older than Diana was when she married. Kate has known her prince for nearly ten years; there is no third person in their relationship; and no one doubts that theirs is a love match and he will be her greatest support.

Equally, unlike Diana, whose mother famously bolted, Kate is a girl from a stable background who seems to be blessed with a tough middle-class resilience.

The flipside of the ‘Waity Katie’ jibes is that she seems to possess great steel, even when she and William broke up for a while.

Diana’s fragility and self-obsession was one of the reasons her life turned into a compelling drama: you simply never knew what she would do next.

Conversely, Diana’s fragility and self-obsession was one of the reasons her life turned into a compelling drama: you simply never knew what she would do next.

Claudia Bradby, a jewellery designer who worked with Kate Middleton at Jigsaw Junior (and whose ITN journalist husband Tom conducted the Royal couple’s first interview), certainly thinks Kate is a good fit for life at the palace.

‘I found her charming and really rather impressive: focused, creative, thoughtful and kind. The Royal Family is very lucky to have her.’

Another key factor in Kate’s favour is that William is a charismatic head-turner himself. While Charles was said to feel excluded by, and envious of, the excitement that followed his bride, there is a sense that the public won’t mind which one they get on a walk-about — Kate and William offer equal allure.

And despite her middle-class background, Kate has received more royal training than the aristocratic Diana. She is familiar with the Royal milieu, having already swum in its waters for years.

A palace source said: ‘She is well-known to the family and has spent time at the Queen’s private residences, as well as those of the Prince of Wales, which will have given her an insight into what happens in these surroundings away from the public eye.’

Equal partnership: Kate has so much more in common with William than Diana ever had with Prince Charles

It is also to her advantage that, unlike Diana, Kate is not marrying the direct heir to the throne. Her initial schedule will be lighter than Diana’s, particularly while William is still in the services.

The Royals are also deeply aware that in those difficult times they did not supply enough support to Diana, who for years after the break-up was the victim of vicious smears by Charles’s camp. One royal insider claims that help did exist for Diana, but that she chose not to take it.

While Kate will have no shortage of police protection, and advice on diplomatic and constitutional matters, it is on the pastoral side that the Palace has always stumbled. And indeed, behind the scenes, it’s not all quite as relaxed as courtiers like to suggest.

This is a family, after all, ruled by stiff and unyielding conventions. Kate’s parents have only this week met the Queen, and even their daughter can’t see Her Majesty without an appointment.

Full of confidence: Kate is ten years older than Diana was on her wedding day

And for all the careful planning and team assembling, there is another obstacle to pre-nuptial bonhomie. Around William and Kate’s set, an atmosphere of paranoia and secrecy has grown up which sits uncomfortably next to the customary exuberance and openness of a wedding.

Several members of the Beaufort Hunt are going, but they won’t discuss it in front of non-invitees. Guests report that they have been told — some claim in writing — not to discuss their attendance with anyone.

Certainly, the calculated way in which information — about cake-makers, wedding music, Kate’s confirmation — has been released can seem rather manipulative. And as for the speculation over Kate’s dress, no one can remember a time when the name of the designer was kept so tantalisingly secret.

‘Undoubtedly, it’s much more media-orientated now,’ says Lindka Cierach, who designed Fergie’s wedding dress.

Behind the wedding secrecy lies one key factor: Prince William’s ambivalence towards the media. Once hostile, he has now reluctantly accepted it as a necessity. However, any friends of the couple who have even been suspected of being leaky have been dropped.

The Palace says that the Royal Family have three functions; to support the Queen, to unite communities, and to cast a spotlight on good causes. All of those require media assistance — but that doesn’t mean William enjoys having it. But so far, Kate is responding to the media brilliantly.

‘The dynamic is that Kate is prepared to listen and will do what she’s told,’ said a former Palace staffer. ‘I thought she did so well on her recent trips that it was almost eerie. In terms of how to be a member of the Royal Family, the best people to advise are the Royal Family themselves, and particularly Prince William. He guided her on recent trips, as you can see, and does a lot more in private.’

Another former aide adds: ‘Camilla will have told her to keep her head down and play the long game, as she did; although if anyone can match Camilla in successfully playing the long game, it’s Kate.

‘The trick, thus far, seems to be to make occasional appearances, then lie fallow for a while, which is what Diana used to do. Charles used to rush around all the time trying to justify his own existence, until people stopped paying attention.’

And interior designer and socialite Nicky Haslam says Kate has her priorities straight. ‘She is nicely dressed but she shouldn’t be a fashion icon. She doesn’t want to be a clothes-horse like Jackie Onassis was.’

Haslam points out that the motto of the Waleses is ‘Ich Dien’ — ‘I Serve’. ‘Kate is more intelligent than the other recent Royal brides, so she’ll quickly learn to do this beautifully. She will be a leveller.

‘Dignity is all that really matters. It’s about pride of bearing. I’ve come to realise that her strength is that she has that unflappable quality the Queen has.’

If Haslam is right, and this future Queen has more in commmon with our monarch than with Diana, then the nation’s pre-wedding anxieties will turn out to be unjustified.

I just hope that the courtiers who so catastrophically mishandled Princess Diana have, by now, really learnt their lesson.

Is this the most precocious five-year-old in the world? The strange and troubling world of Suri Cruise

A sunny day in Beverly Hills and in a beautifully manicured garden a little girl is celebrating her fifth birthday. She sits at the head of the table, dressed in her favourite turquoise sunglasses and a pretty pink dress.

Nothing out of the ordinary, then. Except that while she unwraps a doll, the guests have to shout over the whirring of helicopters above.

Because this is no ordinary five-year-old — this is Suri Cruise, and the helicopters contain paparazzi desperate to get a shot of the little girl who is surely becoming the most photographed child in the world. 

Cruise shoes: Suri in high heels and co-ordinated outfit while out shopping with Katie's mother Kathy at shops in New York

Welcome to Planet Suri, where the other inhabitants are, of course, her A-list parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

And the truth is that on this planet Suri is not just a little princess being doted on by her parents. In accordance with the doctrine of the Church of Scientology — of which her parents are devoted followers — she is apparently treated as an adult, free to make decisions on her clothes, make-up and diet.

There’s no doubt that Suri is adorable, with a long curtain of conker-brown hair and the most bewitching slanted green eyes.

But here the comparisons with most other children of her age end. Her taste in clothes runs to £1,300 Dolce & Gabbana trench coats and £500 miniature Marc Jacobs heels. She’s been credited — and blamed — for sparking a  multi-million-pound mania for putting pampered kids in designer labels. Thanks to a serious shopping habit that has been indulged ever since she was a toddler, her wardrobe is said to be worth £2 million.

Little Suri has been wearing make-up for two years and was spotted earlier this year making selections at beauty chain Sephora in New York.

Luxe look: Toting a designer bag on the way to a restaurant, and right, with a flower in her hair and wearing a heart-print dress to see a musical

She favours pink lipstick for daytime and a dramatic slash of red at night. She also has her own designer bags to carry her books and cuddly toys — she has a smaller version of her mother’s Ferragamo Sofia bag, for instance, and often carries her very own £11,000 Hermes handbag.

Little Miss Cruise even has such decisive views about her outfits that she has never been seen in trousers. And why shouldn’t she?

Her father Tom, who was 43 when Suri was born, calls her his ‘fountain of youth’ and is clearly happy to spoil her rotten. ‘She likes to dress herself and wears whatever she wants,’ says Tom. ‘I’m not gonna tell her different.’

 

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Suri also still uses a dummy, even though the majority of children are encouraged to stop the habit around the age of two, due to implications for teeth.

A source said: ‘Scientology encourages you to make your own decisions. She’ll know herself when it’s time to throw the pacifier away, plain and simple.’

There is no sign at all of anything so prosaic as schooling taking place or of her having friends her own age. Instead you see her out until midnight in New York, where Tom Cruise has an apartment, with Katie Holmes.

Recent pictures show the two of them looking fatigued while exiting Broadway shows or fancy restaurants such as Il Cantinori and Serendipity 3, as if they were a couple of women in their 30s onthe town. On one unfortunate occasion earlier this month, Suri picked up a packet of Penis Gummies — jelly sweets in the shape of genitalia — and was photographed waving them blithely around.

Katie later sheepishly explained that the child had picked them out before she was really aware of what the item was.

Glossy: Suri shops for make-up at beauty chain 'Sephora' in New York while wearing a long blue dress and pink shoes

Suri’s social schedule is such that if she has a designated bedtime, it’s difficult to work out what it might be. As one parent commented on an internet message board: ‘Poor Suri. Even animals at the zoo get to sleep at night.’

But it seems there is no rest for this girl, whose parents show her off with relentless zeal.

When Katie Holmes was on the David Letterman Show recently, Suri was brought to the taping and  accompanied her parents for dinner afterwards — which went on until the early hours.

You wouldn’t catch Victoria Beckham, or even Angelina Jolie, allowing their children out so late — even though both women are noted for their love of publicity.

Suri’s first photo shoot came when she was five months old and provided the cover for the biggest-selling edition of Vanity Fair in the magazine’s history. She was then photographed extensively at her parents’ wedding in official pictures of the event that the pair sold across the globe.

More recently, you will have seen her sporting sparkly silver heels in Vancouver, in Uggs with a Dolce bag flung over her tiny arm in Barneys department store, attending the Superbowl with her father in Miami and playing with an iPad while waiting for her meal to arrive in restaurants.

Suri is even said to offer advice when it comes to her mother’s fashion line Holmes and Yang, with Katie consulting on shoe design, such is her belief in the girl’s talents.

Last year, Holmes said: ‘Suri picks out all of her own clothes.’ Cruise is as gushing. In a recent interview, he said: ‘I say to Suri, “I really want you to eat this protein if you’re going to have that sugar.” She looks at me and she goes: “Dad, I don’t think you should try to force me to do something I don’t want to do.”’

Proud parents: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, both devout followers of the Church of Scientology which states children should be treated as adults

That’s a lot of clout for a little madam, who apparently calls her parents Tom and Kate and has decided that she is to follow them into the entertainment business.

Let’s hope that she has more luck than her mother, whose career has yet to recover after marrying Tom Cruise and whose latest foray, playing Jackie Onassis  in The Kennedys mini-series, was panned by critics.

Reports in the U.S. have long suggested that she feels trapped in a marriage to a controlling man. This suggestion is denied — and it is possible that her wan appearance is due to the demands of looking after Suri.

Take the birthday party. According to some reports it cost £13,000. (Incidentally, it’s been reported in Australia that her gift from Daddy was £3 million.)

‘She helps to plan her party,’ Holmes said on U.S. radio. ‘Because I want her to be happy, we have meetings.’ Meetings? With a five-year-old? Perhaps this is why magazines in the U.S. are claiming that Katie Holmes’ Midwestern parents Martin and Kathleen are concerned about the effects that Cruise’s Scientology is having on their family.

Scientology expert Rick Ross says that none of this should be a surprise: ‘Scientologists treat kids as if they are individuals capable of making their own decisions.’

This is because, according to the religion’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, the human body is a vessel for alien spirits. Children, therefore, are vessels for these aliens and so there is no reason to treat them any differently from adults.

In reality, this appears to mean Suri is allowed to rule the family. ‘She will throw temper tantrums when she’s out with Katie and Tom,’ says a source. One claims that after a trip to a restaurant last month, no amount of pleading to get in her car seat by Holmes could persuade Suri — and so she just didn’t.

Child psychologist Vicki Panaccione warns against allowing a five-year-old to behave in this way: ‘Their reasoning abilities, nervous systems, decision-making processes and moral judgment are just not up to adult development.’

So what is family life like for the rest of the Cruise family? For all three of his children — adopted Isabella, 18, and Connor, 16, and biological-child Suri — the answer has been that it’s a world with every possible luxury but a place very few strangers enter.

Isabella and Connor have been  home-schooled since they were small. The role of teacher has been taken by Tom Cruise’s sister Cass Mapother, a stern brunette with three sons.

The whole set-up is one of an extended, devout and enclosed family. The family live in a home that cost in the region of £18 million in 1997, which boasts 13,000 square feet of space.

All the children have been raised as Scientologists. It is expected that Suri will start being ‘audited’ to check her for negative influences from the age of six onwards.

And when they are in New York, Suri has a nanny and bodyguard and is taken around in an SUV or a helicopter.

Has there ever been such an indulged girl? You can only wonder what she will be like when she’s blowing out the candles on her 18th birthday cake.

Britain loves Kate... will the Royals? Mail poll reveals fears Middletons face snobbery at the Palace

Kate Middleton’s popularity has soared but the public fear she will suffer snobbery when she joins the Royal Family, a poll for the Daily Mail reveals today.

As they count down to Friday’s wedding, Prince William and his bride will be cheered by an overwhelming surge of popular goodwill, with three quarters of the country planning to watch the ceremony on television.

More than half the public think the wedding will strengthen the monarchy, and support for Kate as the future Queen has leapt dramatically. The findings suggest her dignified behaviour since the engagement in November has been greatly to her credit, with women especially impressed.

Three quarters of the country are planning to watch Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on Friday

But many fear she will suffer snobbery at the palace once she crosses the threshold from commoner to royalty.

And the vast majority think her parents will be increasingly cut out of her new life as Princess Catherine.

 

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Nonetheless the poll, by Harris, shows the young couple can ride a wave of public enthusiasm as they embark on married life.

The euphoria contrasts with popular sentiment in 2005 when Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles. Then, 65 per cent believed their marriage would weaken the monarchy.

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Only two per cent think the same about Kate and William, with 51 per cent believing the monarchy will be strengthened and another 47 per cent thinking it will remain as strong as it is now.

Eighty per cent think William would make a better king than his father, and 87 per cent see Kate as a better queen than Camilla.
However, less than half those people questioned thought Charles should step aside to allow William to become the next king.

The Daily Mail commissioned the snapshot of public opinion to test feelings towards William, 28, and Kate, 29. Three out of four of those questioned said they intended to spend at least part of the bank holiday watching the wedding live on television. In November, less than half the public were convinced it was good for William to marry a commoner – but this has now leapt to an overwhelming majority of 85 per cent.
Only 45 per cent, however, said they think Kate will be accepted as an equal by the other members of the Royal Family, and only 28 per cent think her parents Carole and Michael Middleton will be warmly welcomed by the new in-laws.

According to the poll, the vast majority of Britons think Kate Middleton's parents Michael and Carole will be increasingly cut out of her new life as Princess Catherine

Asked whether Kate would make a good queen, 57 per cent responded yes – a significant jump up from 45 per cent when the same question was put last November when the engagement was announced. The  support was particularly strong – 63 per cent – among women.

William would make a good king according to almost three in four people (73 per cent), which has risen from 68 per cent last November. Most people now back scrapping the law which gives males priority in the royal line of succession.

Sixty-two per cent of those questioned said that if William and Kate’s first child is a girl, she should succeed to the throne even if they went on to have a boy.

Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine, said: ‘Women like Kate because she is homely, and she’s a woman’s woman.

‘One gets the feeling Kate is a very loyal girl and whatever William does she will be backing him up. She does seem to know instinctively how to behave.’

Caught on camera: Shocking moment girl is beaten up to point of seizure in McDonald's while staff idly stand by

• McDonald's says incident is 'disturbing and troubling'
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A girl was brutally beaten to the point of having a seizure in McDonald's as staff passively watched on, shocking footage shows.
During the horrifying assault, which lasted for several minutes, the young white girl was repeatedly kicked in the head and stamped on by two black girls in the fast food store in Rosedale, Baltimore.
Staff stood by and even laughed as the attackers grabbed the girl's hair and dragged her across the floor. The assault, which happened on April 18, was so severe the 22-year-old victim had a seizure in the restaurant.

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Shocking: girl is brutally beaten until she has a seizure

Brutal: The girl suffers blow after blow while staff duck out of the way, right

After shocking footage of the assault spread across the internet, with one site alone receiving 450,000 views by mid-afternoon, police said a 14-year-old girl had been charged as a juvenile, while charges were pending against an 18-year-old woman.
While the incident remains under investigation, local police told the Baltimore Sun they were looking into whether or not there was racist motivation.
State's Attorney Scott D. Shellenberger said hate crime charges were being considered.
'If there is evidence that the crime was racially motivated, we will take a look at those charges and see if we meet those elements. We have the ability, if the facts are there, to upgrade the charges at a later date,' Shellenberger said.
Police said the woman had suffered cuts to her mouth and face but was in 'fair' condition.

Seizure: The girl shakes on the floor uncontrollably after the attack

According to a police report, one of the suspects said that the fight was 'with a woman over using a bathroom'.
The horrifying video of the attack shows the black girls repeatedly punching, kicking and stamping on the victim before briefly leaving the store.
The girl manages to get up briefly before they return, again punching and kicking her to the floor.

Scene: The McDonald's in Rosedale where the shocking attack took place

At one point they try to drag the victim outside to the parking lot - and it takes the intervention of an old woman eating in the store to stop them.
After threatening to hit the older woman as well, the girls continue heavily pounding the victim, until, bleeding, she starts to have a seizure by the front door of the restaurant.

The attackers are warned by an employee to flee before authorities are finally called as onlookers realise that 'she needs help right now'.

While one member of staff makes a half-hearted attempt to stop the attack - occasionally shouting 'stop' at the girl - the rest idly stand by, watching the assault indifferently.

Video: The employee who shot the footage, identified as Vernon Hackett on social network accounts

The video was taken by McDonald’s worker Vernon Hackett, according to The Smoking Gun.

Hackett, who has worked at McDonald's in Rosedale since September 2009, claimed credit for the video on his Facebook account, which he has since taken down.
At one point the employee can be heard laughing hysterically at the violence in front of him.
The video emerged yesterday on music website worldstarhiphop.com and has sparked fierce debate about the inaction of the McDonald's staff.
One visitor to the site last night commented: 'Where the heck were the employees? This is crazy and sad.'
Another added: 'Worst management ever.'
On another site, a viewer wrote: The female 'animals' need to be apprehended, and charged with attempted murder... the victim needs to sue McDonald's for everything they are worth.'
Others, however, argue that it would have been dangerous for the employees to have intervened.
A spokesman for McDonald's said: 'We are shocked by the video from a Baltimore franchised restaurant showing an assault. This incident is unacceptable, disturbing and troubling.

 

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'Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and employees in our restaurants. We are working with the franchisee and the local authorities to investigate this matter.'
Mitchell McPherson, who owns the McDonald's franchise where the attack took place, told MailOnline: 'I’m as shocked and disturbed by this incident as anyone would be.  The behavior displayed in the video is unfathomable and reprehensible. 
'The safety of our customers is a top priority.  We know the police were called immediately, and we are thoroughly investigating this matter.'

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Smog alert stepped up: Air pollution gets worse as the country basks in the hottest Easter weekend EVER Read

• Soot, dust and dirt particles massing in dangerous levels over UK
• Temperatures set to reach 26C, making it the hottest Easter on record

The smog health risk was raised yesterday as air pollution levels rose even higher.
As dawn broke over Britain’s cities, the dense smog, full of irritating pollutants, could be seen hanging in the air.
The Government raised the warning to ‘high’ for most of south, east and central England as glorious sunshine and still conditions prevented any dispersal of the tiny particles of soot, dust, dirt and liquid nitrogen dioxide.

On the left, you can't see... St. Paul's Cathedral is barely visible through the smog on the London skyline as potentially dangerous levels of air pollution hit the capital over Easter in this picture taken at around 7.30am yesterday

In daylight: The combination of hot weather and still conditions brought on by the current high pressure system means levels of ozone and polluting particles known as PM10s, which can affect people's health, are expected to increase

Sunny day, cloudy view: The smog covering central London as seen from Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath in north London

Hope it's not like this next week: Westminster Abbey is shrouded in smog and early morning sunlight

No getting away from it: Smog coats the centre of Manchester

The unseasonably warm weather, with temperatures reaching 79f (26c) in central London yesterday, means that Britain is on course for the hottest April on record.

Experts said the vulnerable – such as asthmatics, the elderly, young children and heart patients – would experience more difficulty breathing, and warned that long-term exposure to high pollution could cause lung cancer and heart disease.
This is the first ‘smog warning’ for two years. They are normally issued during the summer. But the prolonged dry spell caused by a high pressure system above the UK, and pollution drifting over from southern Europe, have combined to breach European safety limits.

Packed: Holidaymakers and day trippers flock to the beach at Bournemouth where temperatures hit the mid-20s

Crowded: Brighton beach bustles with sun worshippers as the Easter weekend kicks off

Not so sunny: However, the good weather left the country divided, with a thick blanket of fog over the seafront of Seaburn beach in Sunderland

SUNNY SPELL SPARKS FEARS OF HOSEPIPE BANS

While the sunny weather may be a blessing for holidaymakers, earlier this week it was revealed rivers across England and Wales are at ‘exceptionally low’ levels for this month.
The news prompted fears of summer hosepipe bans, with 11 rivers experiencing levels seen once every 20 years.
According to the Environment Agency, following nearly two months of unusually dry weather, another ten rivers are ‘notably low’.

Terry Marsh, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, said it was difficult to predict future supply problems, but added: 'What you can say is that river flows are very low. In some rivers they were lower than in 1976.'

Officials have advised those who experience a shortage of breath to avoid strenuous outdoor activity. Professor Warren Lenney, of the British Lung Foundation, said air pollution posed a big risk to young children because it can damage their lungs, restricting their airways and making them more prone to asthma.

The professor said: ‘We should be breathing normal healthy air with no soot, ozone or toxic nitrogen dioxide because all those things come into your airways and they produce inflammation.

'This then scars the lung tissue which results in smaller airways and can cause asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer.

‘The smog that we are seeing this weekend is as bad as in Dickens’s time in Victorian England.

‘Then, it would have been really bad in November due to all the industrial smoke, but today it is somewhat worse due to the car exhaust fumes.

‘The particles in the air, which are microscopically small, can be breathed in a long way down into the lungs and then they become lodged. You breathe them in, then cough trying to dislodge the irritants and this inflames the tissue.’

Smog is created when vehicle exhaust gases such as nitrogen dioxide react with the air in strong sunlight to form ozone.

While ozone in the stratosphere is benign and protects us from ultra violet rays, at ground level it is toxic and dangerous to health.

Taking a dip: Tourists cool off in the fountains outside Buckingham Palace

Bathed in sunshine: Visitors strip off and enjoy the heat in St James's Park in London

Cool kid: Four-year-old Isla Stanton waters the Bluebells in woods near Challock, Kent

Hot stuff: People enjoy the beautiful weather at Barton Marina, Staffordshire

Plain sailing: Three men enjoy the weather while using remote control sail boats at Branston Water Park in Staffordshire

It can lead to headaches, a sensation of burning eyes, shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing, and can also cause lung inflammation and an increased risk of heart attack.

Environmental campaigners have argued that smog levels in London in particular are routinely higher than what is acceptable under EU pollution laws.

However, there is respite on the horizon. Forecasts predict the fine weather will continue into next week for much of us but a band of cooler air and occasional showers coming in from the North-West will disperse the air pollution.

Julian Mayes, of weather forecaster MeteoGroup UK, said showers should clear by Thursday, leaving a breezy, clear day for the royal wedding bank holiday on Friday.

Water lot of fun: Children play in a fountain at the Southbank Centre in Central London. The Southbank Centre is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain with a roof-top garden, an urban beach, several art installations and a row of beach huts

We're all in this together, right?: All dressed in skinsuits, a family edges into the sea in Polzeath near Padstow