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‘£10,000 and two broken engines in to my yacht purchase, I realised I may have made a mistake…’

• March 14, 2024

Just about every middle-aged man dreams of buying a boat and going on a sailing adventure. The sense of freedom, the wind blowing across your balding pate without a care…

‘Why we’ll all miss the shipping forecast’ – Libby Purves

• March 12, 2024

The long-wave shipping forecast reaches its centenary in 2024, though it’s not much of a celebration given that LW itself, ‘at the end of its life as a technology’, will…

‘Why a healthy dose of fatalism is good for you’ – Dick Durham

• March 4, 2024

Nancy, my mother, drummed into me a set of lower middle-class rules, the origins and the validity of which remain, a lifetime later, lost to comprehension. Yet still I stick…

‘We were in a race against time’ – how a mad dash by these sailors prevented them being stranded

• February 28, 2024

Five hours into our madcap race, we feared that we weren’t going to make it. We knew the odds were stacked against us, but we had no choice but to…

Sailing the northern Australian coast home to some of the sea’s most dangerous predators

• February 22, 2024

The Kimberly Coast of Northern Australia has the largest tidal range in the southern hemisphere. In Derby, to the west of Darwin, the tidal range has registered as much as…

Sailing in the wake of the Vikings and attending the viking festival ‘Up Helly Aa’

• February 19, 2024

There was no past. No future. Only right now. A moon spread its silver over the sea and the waves chased us along. We were on our way back to…

Cruising Guadeloupe: one couple explore a paradise teeming with natural wonders

• February 14, 2024

The French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is the most southerly of the Leeward Islands. Shaped like a butterfly, it is split into two halves, the wings forming Basse-Terre in the…

‘We spotted people in the water, fighting for their lives’

• January 24, 2024

Under reefed mainsail and engine we were heading westwards, close to the rocky cliffs off the French south coast, east of Marseille. In the distance I saw something in the…

How to make your boat child-friendly

• January 19, 2024

The idea of heading to sea with a child on board elicits different responses for different people, however far you’re going. A day sail with a boat full of noisy…

Decaying buildings left to be looted and destroyed by visitors

• January 18, 2024

The quarantine officer wished us a hearty, ‘Welcome to ‘Straya!’ Clearance into Mackay on Australia’s Queensland Coast was straightforward except for the fiscal shock we received when he informed us…

Yachting World

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Best luxury yacht: 7 ultimate luxury cruisers you can buy

Best catamaran and multihull: We sail the very best yachts on two and three hulls

Final week for applications for women’s Ocean 50 trimaran programme

Advice on making an Atlantic crossing from people who have done it

Great seamanship: Chasing the Dawn

How do you solve problems at sea? Learning from the best is a good way to start

10 women doing great things in competitive sailing right now

Best family yacht: our pick of the best yachts for sailing with the family

‘Nothing is set in stone until the finish gun’ – Nikki Henderson

Air Yacht 80 a dream package

Is your anti-foul choice contributing to Global warming?

Boundless adventure: The Outremer 52

Taking bluewater cruising to a new level

Clarisse Crémer cleared following Vendée cheating accusations

‘What I learned from the America’s Cup event in Jeddah’ – Matt Sheahan

World’s coolest yachts: Monitor – the 1955 foiling boat

Jeanneau Yachts 55 review: Thinking outside the box

Sailing from Annapolis to Iceland on the viking routes of old

American cruisers feared dead after yacht stolen in Grenada prison break

Your expert guide to routing for multihulls

Ever dreamed of packing it all in a living on a yacht remotely?

Catamarans and multihulls.

Caudrelier wins first ever solo round the world race in foiling Ultim

Nautitech 48 Open first look: last design of legend Marc Lombard

Some of the world’s biggest, coolest catamarans go racing

Six solo skippers ready to race 100ft foiling multihulls around the world

Sailing across the atlantic.

How to prepare for an Atlantic crossing with the ARC

What’s the best autopilot kit for a transatlantic?

The ‘easy’ way to sail across the Atlantic?

New mutihulls take on an Atlantic crossing

How to prepare for an Atlantic crossing

Satellite communication: how to stay connected at sea

Extraordinary boats.

Extraordinary boats: Maluka – restoration of a 1932 classic

World’s fastest monohull: Malizia-Seaexplorer IMOCA 60

Extraordinary boats: Infiniti 52 – an incredible story and boat

Falken restoration: Round the World racer turned perfect cruiser

Extraordinary boats: Sailing the sustainable Ecoracer 25

Extraordinary boats: The Sam Manuard foiling mini 6.50

Practical cruising.

Great seamanship: Slow Boat to Uruguay

How to find the right weather window

How to manoeuvre a yacht under power

Great seamanship: Bound for Cape Horn

Allures 40.9 vs Ovni 400: French aluminium centreboarders go head-to-head

CNB 66 yacht test: Intoxicating cruiser is a cut above the mainstream

Saffier SE37 Lounge test: A veritable supercar of the seas

Swan 65 test: The triumphant return of a true sailing icon

Yachting Monthly

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Sailing news

Spectacular start to the Ocean Globe Race

• September 11, 2023

A flotilla of well-wishers, including Britain’s largest working steamship, Shieldhall, waved and clapped the Ocean Globe Race fleet to the starting line opposite the Royal Yacht Squadron on the Isle…

Caro wins Fastnet, yacht sinks and four dismasted in treacherous race

• July 24, 2023

Caro, a Botin 52 owned and skippered by Max Klink, is the overall winner of the 50th Rolex Fastnet in a punishing race that saw one yacht sink and four…

Orca ‘rams yacht’ off Shetland as close encounters spread to North Sea

• June 21, 2023

Dr Wim Rutten, a 72-year-old retired Dutch physicist was sailing alone from Lerwick to Bergen when an orca appeared and hit the back of the aluminium hulled, seven tonne boat,…

Juvenile orcas imitate White Gladis, attacking yachts off the Iberian peninsula

• May 31, 2023

Juvenile orcas attacking sailing yachts could be imitating the behaviour of one individual adult orca named White Gladis, scientists believe. Orcas have now sunk three yachts off the Iberian coast…

EIA report points finger at US ‘blood teak’ importers breaking sanctions

• May 17, 2023

Thousands of tonnes of ‘blood teak’ have been imported from Myanmar into the United States in the past two years in defiance of US sanctions, the watchdog Environmental Investigation Agency…

Kirsten Neuschafer wins 2022 Golden Globe Race and makes history

• April 27, 2023

Kirsten Neuschafer has become the first woman to win a solo, round the world yacht race after winning the 2022 Golden Globe Race

£1.6bn investment to clean up rivers and coastlines

• April 25, 2023

More than £1.6bn is to be invested by water companies in improving the industry’s infrastructure in England in the next two years, the water industry regulator Ofwat announced recently, in…

How yachts are disposed of – and why it’s so environmentally toxic

• April 13, 2023

The annual volume of composite waste generated by the marine industry each year is a staggering 55,000 tonnes – and it’s predicted to increase by 10% every year in the…

Jet skis finally bound by ‘Rules of the Road’

• February 16, 2023

The new Merchant Shipping (Watercraft) Order will apply existing ship operator rules to personal watercraft and will enable watercraft users to be prosecuted for dangerous and negligent use. The order…

Flare death in Pacific reignites pyrotechnic debate

• February 14, 2023

The tragic death of a Dutch sailor on New Year’s Day after setting off a flare has reignited criticism about the use of pyrotechnic flares on yachts. The RYA is…

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Nicole Kidman on the Reality of the Red Carpet: 'I Want to Get Out, Take My Dress Off and Put My Jammies On!'

The actress was styled in Dolce & Gabbana lingerie and Cartier jewelry for 'Elle''s April 2024 Impact issue

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Nicole Kidman  is getting honest about how glamming up for a red carpet actually makes her feel.

In an interview for  Elle 's April 2024 Impact issue , the actress, 56, shared that getting ready to attend A-list events can be "overwhelming" and "a little unreal at times."

"I want to get out, take my dress off, and put my jammies on," said Kidman. "It's kind of like the opposite of Cinderella—I'm happy to go home and just go back to me. It does feel a little overwhelming. I'm like, 'I need to go home now. I'm very tired. I want to get warm, and I want to curl up, and I want to feel real.'"

Kidman was styled in Dolce & Gabbana lingerie and Cartier jewelry as she sat on a stool and looked confidently into the camera for the magazine cover. She oozed glamour as she modeled additional outfits, including a sexy Fleur du Mal bodysuit, a form-fitting red Balenciaga dress, and an asymmetrical white gown also by Balenciaga.

It's no surprise that Kidman's looks included Balenciaga designs, being that she was named a brand ambassador in December 2023 .

"Balenciaga has been with me through some of the most memorable events in my life, from my wedding to the Oscars red carpet," the Expats star said in a press release announcing the news.

Although Kidman gets to enjoy many different experiences, she told Elle that she gets fulfillment in life from the people she loves.

"I have a very full life with people that I love. I’m raising daughters. I’m a wife, I’m a best friend. I’m a sister, I’m an aunt. I have deeply intimate relationships with people," she said. "And that, to me, is the meaning of life—and then taking care of what we leave behind, who we leave behind and how we do that, and our sense of respect for that."

Never miss a story — sign up for  PEOPLE's free daily newsletter  to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. 

Kidman and her husband, Keith Urban , have been married since June 2006 and are parents to daughters Sunday , 15, and  Faith , 13.

The Royal Family Has a Trust Problem

A picture is worth a thousand words. But the British Royal Family received many more than it perhaps bargained for when it released a now-discredited photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales and her children to mark Mother’s Day in Britain. Kate later apologized for any confusion, saying that the family portrait had been subject to “ editing ,” after international news organizations and photo agencies took the rare step to remove the image from distribution, with some such as the Associated Press citing its violation with their editorial standards. The imaging team at The Guardian newspaper identified 20 anomalies in the photo, which it suggests was created with “multiple frames” that “were likely used to composite a more intended final result.”

The Royal Family couldn’t have manufactured—or, rather photoshopped—a worse outcome. For weeks, speculation about the whereabouts and overall health of the Princess of Wales, who has been taking time off from her royal duties following an abdominal surgery in January, has run rampant on social media. Though Kensington Palace issued statements slapping down some of the more serious allegations (one, presented by a Spanish journalist, suggested that Kate was in a medically-induced coma), it has mostly remained silent—until Sunday, when it posted the photo of Kate and her children, purportedly taken by Prince William, to its account on X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. But rather than support the palace’s reassurances that the princess is doing well, it achieved just the opposite, sending the online rumor- and conspiracy-mill into overdrive.

Read More: The Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Shows the Royal PR Team Is Out of Its Depth

This controversy stands to have repercussions for more than the Royal Family’s reputation (or that of Kate’s photoshop skills). More concerningly, it stands to undermine the press and the wider public’s trust in the Royal Family—an institution that, as the late Queen Elizabeth II said, must be “seen to be believed.” This crisis now prompts many to question whether they can still believe what they’re seeing.

Until Sunday, Kate and William had long been regarded as relatively competent users of social media. By regularly posting family portraits taken by Kate, a self-styled amateur photographer, the couple were able to carefully curate their public image in a way that previous royals, whose images were more traditionally mediated through the press, could not. These images not only gave the Wales family an air of authenticity and relative normalcy, but it also made them more accessible to the online public. But social media has also opened them up to more scrutiny.

“I don’t think it’s any surprise that the discrepancies in the photograph were first identified by ordinary social media users,” says Ed Owens, a royal historian and the author of After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself? “It was always going to be pored over and carefully analyzed given the rumors and speculation that‘s been circulating and mounting regarding Kate’s illness and her absence.”

Read More: A Timeline of Recent Events Involving Kate Middleton and the Royal Family

In other words, this was the photo that the palace had to get right. That they didn’t has not only threatened to undermine the legitimacy of their communications in the international press (CNN has stated that it will be “reviewing all handout photos previously provided by Kensington Palace”), but has also tested the deference of the British press. Until recently, the British papers had treated the story with kid gloves, opting against publishing a recent paparazzi photo of Kate circulating in the U.S. press (a policy that dates back to the death of Princess Diana).

For the royal press pack, the admission that the photo had been tampered with “represented an opportunity to explore this story and to ask difficult questions that so far haven’t been asked about what exactly happened to [Kate],” says Owens. Indeed, many tabloids have the photo controversy leading their Tuesday front pages, with the Daily Mirror dubbing it a “ PICTURE OF CHAOS ” and the Daily Mail dubbing it “ A PR DISASTER .” Only The Sun appeared to take a more defensive tone, telling its readers (and all “social media trolls, idiotic conspiracy theorists, and sniping media critics”) to “ LAY OFF KATE .”

Some observers are more skeptical that this crisis will have any lasting impact on the Royal Family’s long-standing relationship with the British tabloid press, in large part because it’s so mutually beneficial. “The tabloids understand that they need the Royals to survive and thrive,” says Tessa Dunlop, a British historian and author of Elizabeth and Philip , noting that tabloid print readers tend to lean older, more conservative, and more royalist than those following this story online. Where there has been a notable shift, she says, is that the Royal Family appears more inherently vulnerable, having lost so many key players (namely, the late Queen and Prince Harry and Meghan). And the working royals who remain may not necessarily want to be as visible as they once were.

“This unspoken agreement between the press and royalty is that it’s the royals’ duty to go out and be seen and the press’s duty to catch them going out and being seen,” Dunlop says. “But what happens if one half of the equation is suddenly wanting to reexamine the rules?” Whereas the British press might have once been able to compel the Queen to address the public in the wake of Princess Diana’s death, for example, this new generation of royals has proven less amenable to being pressured into action—whether it’s showing up to a World Cup final or, in this case, releasing an unedited photograph .

But for all the relative deference the British press has toward Will and Kate as the future king and queen (certainly relative to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who received no such courtesy), even they have begun to express some frustrations with with the lack of transparency surrounding Kate’s health and whereabouts relative to that shown by King Charles III, who publicized his cancer diagnosis last month. That frustration was perhaps epitomized by British broadcaster and avowed monarchist Piers Morgan, who urged the royal family to “ come clean ” in a recent op-ed. “The demand of yesterday that the real photograph be published fits into this desire on the part of the traditional media to know more,” says Owens, “to give their viewers, their readers, their listeners more.”

Read More: Kate Middleton’s Mother’s Day Pic Is Not the First Royal Family Photo to Come Under Scrutiny

Kate would hardly be the first royal to experiment with photo editing—indeed, composite portraits and photo retouching date back centuries. But in a world that is increasingly wary of deepfakes and AI-driven disinformation, the manipulation of any image can raise suspicions and scrutiny—especially if its source is an institution that positions itself as an upholder of national identity, values, and pride. The Royal Family cannot afford to be reckless—or worse, to no longer be seen as credible. In the eyes of the international press, it may already be too late.

“In the age of disinformation—and this is disinformation, it’s deliberate misinformation—it’s really important that the media, wherever possible, does take a very, very strict line in terms of the reproduction of images that are true to life, that are real, that haven’t been tampered with because where, otherwise, do you draw the line?” Owens says. “Likewise, the Royal Family need to establish trust with their audience, trust with media organizations, and they’re going to do that by ensuring that any information they put out there is as true to reality as possible.”

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