So the Sussexes are back in Blighty for the foreseeable future having reportedly enrolled their youngsters Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, in private schools in the Cotswolds.But as my colleague Alison Boshoff revealed in the Mail this week, Meghan and Harry will still present themselves as an ‘international couple’.They will be crossing the globe – although probably not always on the private jet that brought them over the Atlantic this week at a cost of $120,000.Meghan, it is said, will travel back and forth to their home in California where her As Ever business is based, selling the Californian lifestyle. Harry will be the key ‘at-home’ parent.All jolly good, but how will that feel for Archie and Lilibet when they ask for Mom only to find out she is working half a world way?Both the Sussexes are devoted and loving parents wanting the best for their kids. But like all mums and dads nowadays, they face the difficulty of striking the right work/life balance. And if so much of Megs’ work is more than 5,000 miles from home, it won’t be easy. I hope she remembers that a video call from the Golden State, however long, is no substitute for a mum’s loving arms We’re told Harry’s real motivation for coming back here is to give the kids a UK education.Sources told Alison Boshoff, meanwhile, that Meghan did not initially want to return. Yet Harry is miserable in California so she is putting him first. As she would. Meghan without Harry would carry no money-making clout.So the sensible compromise seems to be her regular trips to California. She, after all, is the one with the ambition and drive compared to dim-witted Harry.But I hope she remembers that a video call from the Golden State, however long, is no substitute for a mum’s loving arms.A judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s latest appeal to overturn her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking girls as Jeffrey Epstein’s madam. Look on the bright side ‘Spratt’, as your villainous father lovingly called you: four years served, just 16 to go. Magic gone, Nic? Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman attend the Practical Magic 2 premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester SquareSandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman appear at the premiere of Practical Magic 2, reprising their roles in the 1998 movie as witches who are sisters. A welcome re-appearance for Sandra, who took a three-year break from Hollywood to care for her family and herself after the death of her partner Bryan Randall in 2023.Is it just me or did she freeze as if being hugged by a python when workaholic Nic – who’s made three movies in that time – wrapped herself around her? Pure conjecture but it seems there’s practically no magic between them at all.England fast bowler Brydon Carse is dropped from the Test after ‘a nightclub incident’, with captain Joe Root saying he is ‘hacked off’ with Carse’s late-night escapades. That’s nothing compared to what it was like back in the Eighties when I was a member of the Sydney Cricket Ground and witnessed legendary fast bowler Dennis Lillee and his cohorts drinking in the pavilion – during matches! Former child star Liza Goddard reveals there wasn’t just one Skippy but... 20 in the 1960s TV series Skippy the Bush KangarooFans of 1960s TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo should look away as the show’s former child star Liza Goddard reveals there wasn’t just one Skippy but... 20. And he couldn’t actually operate radios, open doors or play the piano. They used a kangaroo-paw bottle-opener to fake close-ups of him doing so. Rest in peace Skippy, to us you’ll always be a friend ever true.A warning to the King now Harry’s team believe there’s new hope his family’s security could be funded by taxpayers at a cost of £5million a year. Charles’ personal wealth is around £680million – if he wants to keep our support, he must fund Harry himself. Jennifer Lopez in a Dolce & Gabbana strapless tulle ballgown after scooping a £20million deal with the high-end fashion brandWith her new $20million Dolce & Gabbana deal, friends fear J-Lo is perhaps getting a bit greedy, given she demands $40,000 for every red-carpet appearance backed by her ‘glam squad’. It includes three stylists, three make-up artists, two hair stylists, a nail professional and several photographers. Reassuring for us middle-aged mortals, though, that it takes a gang the size of a football team to make her look that fab.Newsnight may get the chop in the Beeb’s cost cuttings. The sad truth is that the once inquisitorial show, presented by dreary Victoria Derbyshire, is full of Lefty bias. The new BBC DG says ‘success is now down to clicks’ and the only click in my home when Newsnight’s on is when I switch over. Despite being one of the first Harry Potter child stars to attack JK Rowling over her trans beliefs, Rupert Grint – the ginger one aptly named Weasley who’s made $50million on the back of her – is to appear in JK’s Broadway show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. What a hypocrite. A test for friends...Richard E. Grant reveals he held a boozy and tearful memorial lunch at his home for his true friends, those who stood by him when his beloved wife Joan died in 2021.In contrast, he says the ones who kept their distance after her death he has edited out of his life.And rightly so. Just as I did with one lifelong friend who failed even to send me a text when both my parents died, then emailed asking me to endorse her forthcoming book. She is permanently deleted from my phone – and my life.As ex-teacher Sally-Anne Bowen is found guilty and awaits sentencing for sexually abusing boy pupils in the 1980s when she was in her 20s, why is she not described as a paedophile? Because that’s what she is. Andy Burnham played a guitar and sang The Smiths’ dirge Rusholme Ruffians to Ukrainian soldiers on a recent trip to the war-torn countryWe should all be worried about the tone-deafness displayed by our Andy when he strummed a guitar and sang The Smiths’ dirge Rusholme Ruffians to battle-weary soldiers on a trip to Ukraine.If ever there was a staged photo opp, this was it. As if a guitar and mic would miraculously appear out of the blue! His singalong was embarrassing – haven’t Ukraine’s soldiers suffered enough? Queen Camilla celebrates the centenary of Winnie-the-Pooh, describing A.A. Milne’s little bear as offering ‘wisdom in a complicated world’.Indeed, when a 12-year-old terrified at having to read at his dad’s second wedding asked me what he could recite, I suggested Milne’s poem ‘Us Two’ – ‘Wherever I am, there’s always Pooh, There’s always Pooh and Me’. Not a dry eye in the church.Strictly, Rose owes a lot to Gio Reading Giovanni Pernice’s memoir, I was struck by his heartbreak that Rose Ayling-Ellis, the deaf celeb with whom he shared one of Strictly’s most memorable moments – dancing in silence – didn’t back him in his battle against Amanda Abbington and the Beeb. Does Rose ever ask herself if her TV career would be so glittering without Gio?