Daily Mail, Thursday, December 10, 2015
Page The day Kate charmed
the City... and a hairy
banker in stilettos
Sell ’em high: The Duchess seals a deal
IT’S not every day the
Duchess of Cambridge
comes face to face with a
man in stilettos just that
little bit higher than hers.
But Kate kept her cool next
to the fabulously-shod City
trader yesterday at a fancy
dress charity event.
Later, Nigel Halligan, clearly
not used to skyscraper heels,
said: ‘I really don’t know how
you women do it! She told me
she was impressed because
they were so high and said I
should put my feet up the
minute they had gone. I certainly took her advice on
that one.’
The duchess – who was
rather more suitably dressed
for work in a smart LK Bennett suit – was with Prince
William at ICAP’s City of
Fun: The ad that inspired the costumes
By Rebecca English
Royal Correspondent
London office for its annual
charity day.
The fundraiser sees the global brokerage firm donate a
day’s revenue to charity, with
staff dressing up to complete
their trades.
The royal couple laughed as
they met groups of outlandishly dressed brokers – none
more so than the ‘moneysupermarket’ team, who had
based their costumes on the
commercial featuring men in
suit jackets, denim shorts
and heels gyrating down the
street to the Pussycat Dolls’
tune Don’t Cha.
Trader Dan Lebeau, who
was also sporting a pair of
patent black heels, showed
William the ropes. But the
prince was a little distracted.
‘That was the first thing he
asked me – where on earth did
I get them from,’ he said. ‘I’m
a size ten and it wasn’t easy.’
The Duke and Duchess also
sealed some financial deals of
their own – although they
had very different styles when
it came to sales patter.
William, 33, went for a bullish approach, asking the
trader at the end of the line:
‘Feeling charitable today?
Good, just what I want to
hear!’
But Kate, 33, who has had
several inches lopped off her
famous locks, went for a
softer tone – catching the
attention of her husband,
who laughed: ‘Catherine, I
think you can stop flirting
with them now!’
Stiletto showdown: Kate with broker Nigel Halligan on the trading floor yesterday
Cheer up! Being
miserable won’t
kill you after all
IF you’re feeling a little miserable, here is something
that might cheer you up.
Unhappiness won’t kill you
after all, according to a study –
despite a long-standing consensus that the opposite is true.
Fo r d e c a d e s , d o c t o r s h a v e
believed that people who are happier and more relaxed have a better chance of enjoying good health
and living longer.
Now Oxford University scientists
claim that previous research has
mixed up cause and effect, meaning that stress and misery do not in
themselves shorten lifespan.
‘Illness makes you unhappy, but
By Ben Spencer
Medical Correspondent
unhappiness itself doesn’t make
you ill,’ said Dr Bette Liu from the
University of New South Wales,
who also worked on the study. ‘We
found no direct effect of unhappiness or stress on mortality.’
The British and Australian teams
looked at data from the Million
Women Study, which has tracked
British women since 1996.
After discounting those who were
ill at the beginning of the study –
published in the Lancet medical
journal – they were left with 720,000
women with an average age of 59.
The participants were then asked
a series of questions about how
often they felt happy or stressed,
before being tracked for a decade –
in which time 30,000 died.
Researchers initially found a significant link between those who
said they were unhappy and those
who passed away.
But when they took into account
smoking, lifestyle, and socio-economic factors such as wealth, they
found the link disappeared.
They argue that emotions such as
unhappiness or stress can cause
people to take on unhealthy habits
– such as smoking or drinking too
much alcohol – rather than directly
affecting lifespan.
Professor Sir Richard Peto, from
Eddie takes a
step closer to
second Oscar
‘Get your camera ready –
you might be about to
see Grandpa smile’
Oxford University, said that
although the study only looked at
women, he would expect the findings to be equally relevant to men.
He added: ‘Of course people who
are ill tend to be unhappier than
those who are well, but the study
shows that happiness and unhappiness do not themselves have any
direct effect on death rates.’
Not all scientists, however, were
convinced by the results.
Dr Lydia Poole of University College London, said: ‘There is so
much evidence which shows the
opposite, that I would want to see
the study replicated in other samples before I could throw away everything that has gone before.’
EARLIER this year he won an Oscar,
Golden Globe and Screen Actors
Guild award for his role as Professor Stephen Hawking.
Now Eddie Redmayne is tipped
to repeat his success this coming
season – after being nominated
for another SAG award.
The British actor, 33, has been
shortlisted in the best actor category for his portrayal of transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl, and will be up against
stars such as Michael Fassbender
and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The SAG awards – which will be
held in Los Angeles on January 30
– are considered a key indicator
of who will be crowned at the
Academy Awards in February.
If Redmayne does win an Oscar
for the second year running it
would be a considerable coup.
The last actor to claim the coveted statuette twice in a row was
Tom Hanks – for Philadelphia in
1994 and Forrest Gump in 1995.
Other Britons to be nominated
for an SAG award include Dame
Helen Mirren for The Woman in
Gold, Wolf Hall star Mark Rylance
and Idris Elba for drama Luther.