EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Queen Camilla s Niece Reveals Health Battle
Taking a leaf out of King Charles's book, Queen Camilla's niece has made a very candid public statement about her own health problems.
Ayesha Shand has revealed that she's been fighting an 'agonising' and 'unbearable' battle with a long-term condition.
Ayesha, 29, whose father was the Queen's beloved late brother Mark Shand, says she will undergo surgery to help treat the excruciating pain that comes with endometriosis, where tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows in other places, such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes.
'It's isolating, agonising and completely unbearable,' says Shand, who works at the Hauser & Wirth art gallery in New York, where her father, a conservationist, died after an accidental fall in 2014 aged 62. 'Every month, I ingest hundreds of pain killers, faint, vomit, spend nights and days crouched on the floor crying. This is all followed by intense waves of helplessness and depression.'
She explains: 'Endometriosis is very difficult to diagnose, treat and, ultimately, cure. According to statistics, one in ten women suffer from it, but due to the inability to diagnose the condition, it is likely [to be] double that. Most women live this cycle of pain in silence. I am lucky enough to be operated in a few weeks.'
Queen Camilla's niece, Ayesha Shand, has revealed that she's been fighting an 'agonising' and 'unbearable' battle with endometriosis
Ayesha, whose mother is Shand's ex-wife, the French former actress Clio Goldsmith, will no doubt be supported by the Queen. She has spoken about how her aunt helped her cope with the loss of her father
Shand's comments online follow the King's decision to release an unusually detailed statement about his own health (pictured with Queen Camilla leaving The London Clinic)
Shand's comments online follow the King's decision to release an unusually detailed statement about his own health. Buckingham Palace explained that he required treatment for an enlarged prostate. Royal sources said he was 'very keen' to share his condition with the country to encourage other men who may be experiencing symptoms to get checked in line with public health advice.
Ayesha, whose mother is Shand's ex-wife, the French former actress Clio Goldsmith, will no doubt be supported by the Queen. She has spoken about how her aunt helped her cope with the loss of her father.
'She has been incredible in being there for me, not only personally but also in maintaining my father's legacy and being there for him,' Shand told me in 2021.
She moved to New York in 2023 after five years at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Mayfair, where Princess Eugenie is a director. She is going out with Luigi Ambrosi, who works for his Italian family's dairy business in America.
Screen sirens Nastassja and Bo Derek raise a glass to Dud
Here's a picture to make the hearts of a generation of men flutter.
Screen sirens Bo Derek and Nastassja Kinski — both pin-ups of the 1980s — posed together at an event in Germany.
Derek, 67, who wore a glittering black dress to the Lambertz Monday Night event in Cologne, is said to have shared memories of comedian, pianist and actor Dudley Moore, with whom she starred in 1980 romantic comedy 10.
Screen sirens Nastassja Kinski and Bo Derek pictured at the 'Back Again' Lambertz Monday Night event in Cologne
Derek in 1980 romantic comedy 10 with comedian, pianist and actor Dudley Moore
Kinski starred with Moore in 1984 romantic comedy Unfaithfully Yours
Cat People star Kinski, 63, who opted for a bright orange and pink dress, appeared opposite Moore in 1984 rom-com Unfaithfully Yours.
Moore, who was married and divorced four times, died in 2002 aged 66.
Derek was joined by her second husband, the Sex And The City star John Corbett, 62. They were secretly married in 2020, keeping the news quiet until the following year.
Ouch! Janet Street-Porter kicks fibbing actor Allen where it hurts
TV presenter Janet Street-Porter spares no blushes for wild man actor Keith Allen, father of pop star Lily.
'I ran into him in Soho one day and he said [referring to his memoirs], "I hope you don't mind, but I put in that I slept with you on your snooker table".
'I replied, "But that's not true, Keith", and he continued, "But it looks great".'
TV presenter Janet Street-Porter (pictured) has spared no blushes for wild man actor Keith Allen, who said the pair had sex on her snooker table
She explains: 'The reason I did not have sex with Keith Allen is that, firstly, snooker tables are a certain height and Keith Allen is a very short man.
'It is true that he came round to my house after a night at the Groucho Club, stripped off all his clothes and ran around my snooker table like a demented butterfly and tried to get excitable, and I thought, "I've seen bigger mushrooms for my starter".'
Castaways wash up in West End
BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs is to be given an outing in the West End, but fans are shocked at the price of tickets. Seats at the London Palladium cost up to £90, and a VIP drinks deal is an extra £135 on top.
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'Money-making con/excuse to give more exposure to already over-exposed minor "celebrities",' was one of the negative comments online. 'Check out the ludicrous ticket prices.'
Desert Island Discs host, Lauren Laverne, will interview famous names such as comics Katherine Ryan and Dara O Briain, former Bake Off host Sue Perkins and writer Russell T Davies over three nights in March
Lord Ivar Mountbatten has admitted defeat in his battle to persuade pet owners to pay £60 a year to walk their dogs on his Devon estate, Bridwell Park.
The television personality, 60, who hit the headlines when he became the first member of the extended Royal Family to enter a same-sex marriage, has scrapped the charge after visitor numbers soared by 40 per cent since he suspended the scheme after Christmas.
'Membership and general admission income hasn't strengthened our position as much as we hoped,' Lord Ivar admits. 'Visitor numbers have also slowly diluted. Anyone who has been able to join us in January will have noticed in contrast, how guest numbers have grown.'
A case of the tail wagging the dog?
Mica Paris, the soul singer, actress and TV presenter, received her MBE from Princess Anne in 2021 and she's disappointed that King Charles's no-nonsense sister is not our monarch.
'She's great,' Paris, 54, says. 'She told me, "You look the same," because I met her 27 years previously. I was in a play in Southampton, which she opened, and she came to meet the cast.
Mica Paris, the soul singer, actress and TV presenter (pictured with the MBE she received from Princess Anne in 2021) is disappointed that King Charles's no-nonsense sister is not our monarch
'I said, "Wow, how do you remember meeting me all those years ago?" She's amazing, and really should be the Queen. I just think she's got it going on, and I love her.'
Brenda Hale, controversial former head of the Supreme Court, has broken her voting duck in the House of Lords after a decade's membership.
She entered the division lobbies on Monday night to support an eccentric Liberal Democrat effort to scupper the Government's Rwanda Bill.
Baroness Hale's political leanings, long suspected, are now apparent: she's a steaming Lib Demmer!
Is Sarah Montague, presenter of Radio 4's The 3d crazy world xxx At One, working hard enough?
Sarah Montague took over on World at One in 2018
Former Sky News editor John Ryley says there is more fat to be cut at the BBC. 'Managers should rattle the rotas. Why does the presenter of the World At One (Wato) present the programme only four times a week?' Ryley asks in a new book, How Do We Pay For The BBC After 2027?
'The commercial world in high-performing industries doesn't operate like this. It was the same presenter rota pattern when I worked on Wato in 1989. Time for change.'
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