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Editor’s letter DEAR READERS, I generally welcome and embrace the change of season, but after a soggy (and often chilly) summer, my feelings about the arrival of autumn are somewhat dampened. As I type, the morning mist has turned to mizzle, but there is a glimmer of hope as the watery sun makes a valiant effort to shine through the grey clouds. Whatever your feelings about the onset of autumn, we have plenty in this issue to keep you inspired and enter tained. I think it’s fair to say that we love Dame Jilly Cooper. Her books have sold more than 11 million copies in the UK alone, and ahead of the most recent adaptation of Rivals to grace our TV screens, Juanita Coulson chats to her about how she thinks the woke generation will react to the depiction of life in the 1980s, as well as her love of dogs. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh also catches up with one of the stars of the new production, Lisa McGrillis. Rebecca Wallersteiner meets the acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell, who reveals all about another lady who was no stranger to a raunchy lifestyle: the wife of Randolph Churchill and one-time US Ambassador to France, Pamela Churchill Harriman. Maureen Paton talks to the designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and, at the opposite end of the style spectrum, Gillian Spickernell and Liz Hodgkinson debate the merits or otherwise of personal shopping t rol leys. We introduce you to the physiotherapist Will Harlow, who shares his secrets for thriving beyond 50 without pain or pills, and Dr Sue Hyde extols the importance of f r iendships for keeping you healthy in body and mind. Annabel Venning whets our appetite for Christmas travel and you have the chance to win a gorgeous break in the New Forest. All this and so much more awaits… Until November, Helen Budworth, Editor Win! A LUXURY STAY IN THE NEW FOREST See page 57 Tweet us @TheLadyMagazine. Follow us at Facebook.com/ TheLadyMagazine and Instagram @theladymagazine 4 THE LADY OCTOBER 2024 THE LADY, THE KINETIC CENTRE, THEOBALD STREET, BOREHAMWOOD, HERTFORDSHIRE, WD6 4PJ 020 7379 4717 editors@lady.co.uk classified.ads@lady.co.uk display.ads@lady.co.uk SUBSCRIPTIONS +44 (0) 344 472 5248 (all calls charged at local rates) subscriptions@lady.co.uk Editor and Managing Director Helen Budworth Editor ’s PA and Letters Editor Gillian Spickernell Creative Director Mar t in Ixer Books Editor Juanita Coulson Puzzles Editor Bert Baker Sub-editor Will Duberley Head of Sales Andrea Taylor Classified Sales Dorinda Swift Head of Advertising Production Kath Hanley Advertising Production Designer Joanna Keigwin Circulation Office Manager Nadine Rooke Publisher and Chief Executive Ben Budworth The Lady is published on the first Friday of each calendar month The Lady is independently audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which verifies and reports on media performance. Printed in Great Britain for The Lady Limited, by Precision Colour Printing Ltd, Haldane, Halesfield 1, Telford, Shropshire TF7 4QQ. Published by The Lady Limited, The Kinetic Centre, Theobald Street, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 4PJ. All rights of translation and reproduction reserved. Registered at the Post Office as a newspaper. The Lady is a member of IPSO, the Independent Press Standards Organisation : A L A M Y I M A G E C O V E R
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Editor’s letter

DEAR READERS,

I generally welcome and embrace the change of season, but after a soggy (and often chilly) summer, my feelings about the arrival of autumn are somewhat dampened. As I type, the morning mist has turned to mizzle, but there is a glimmer of hope as the watery sun makes a valiant effort to shine through the grey clouds. Whatever your feelings about the onset of autumn, we have plenty in this issue to keep you inspired and enter tained.

I think it’s fair to say that we love Dame Jilly Cooper. Her books have sold more than 11 million copies in the UK alone, and ahead of the most recent adaptation of Rivals to grace our TV screens, Juanita Coulson chats to her about how she thinks the woke generation will react to the depiction of life in the 1980s, as well as her love of dogs. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh also catches up with one of the stars of the new production, Lisa McGrillis.

Rebecca Wallersteiner meets the acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell, who reveals all about another lady who was no stranger to a raunchy lifestyle: the wife of Randolph Churchill and one-time US Ambassador to France, Pamela Churchill Harriman. Maureen Paton talks to the designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and, at the opposite end of the style spectrum, Gillian Spickernell and Liz Hodgkinson debate the merits or otherwise of personal shopping t rol leys. We introduce you to the physiotherapist Will Harlow, who shares his secrets for thriving beyond 50 without pain or pills, and Dr Sue Hyde extols the importance of f r iendships for keeping you healthy in body and mind.

Annabel Venning whets our appetite for Christmas travel and you have the chance to win a gorgeous break in the New Forest.

All this and so much more awaits… Until November,

Helen Budworth, Editor

Win! A LUXURY STAY IN THE NEW FOREST See page 57

Tweet us @TheLadyMagazine. Follow us at Facebook.com/ TheLadyMagazine and Instagram @theladymagazine

4 THE LADY OCTOBER 2024

THE LADY, THE KINETIC CENTRE,

THEOBALD STREET, BOREHAMWOOD, HERTFORDSHIRE, WD6 4PJ

020 7379 4717 editors@lady.co.uk classified.ads@lady.co.uk display.ads@lady.co.uk

SUBSCRIPTIONS +44 (0) 344 472 5248

(all calls charged at local rates) subscriptions@lady.co.uk

Editor and Managing Director

Helen Budworth Editor ’s PA and Letters Editor

Gillian Spickernell Creative Director

Mar t in Ixer Books Editor Juanita Coulson Puzzles Editor

Bert Baker Sub-editor Will Duberley Head of Sales Andrea Taylor Classified Sales

Dorinda Swift Head of Advertising Production

Kath Hanley Advertising Production Designer

Joanna Keigwin Circulation Office Manager

Nadine Rooke Publisher and Chief Executive

Ben Budworth

The Lady is published on the first Friday of each calendar month

The Lady is independently audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which verifies and reports on media performance. Printed in Great Britain for The Lady Limited, by Precision Colour Printing Ltd, Haldane,

Halesfield 1, Telford, Shropshire TF7 4QQ. Published by The Lady Limited, The Kinetic Centre, Theobald Street, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 4PJ. All rights of translation and reproduction reserved. Registered at the

Post Office as a newspaper.

The Lady is a member of

IPSO, the Independent

Press Standards Organisation

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