The fanfare surrounding the Duchess of Cambridge’s 40th birthday may have been huge – not many of us get three photographs of our faces hung in the National Portrait Gallery to mark a big birthday – but the celebrations themselves were low key.
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I woke on Tuesday at 4am and could hardly breathe. I was sweating (and, post-menopausal that I am, I never sweat) and racked with worry. I grabbed my hair, put my head in my hands, and said out loud, ‘What am I doing? What was I thinking?’