News about Laura Wright

To mark King Charles III's coronation, the national anthem will be performed before each of Saturday's domestic cricket matches, but there will be no suspensions in play. Last September, cricket's Oval Test versus South Africa became England's first major sporting tournament in the United Kingdom since 1952 to include God Save The King in its proceedings. Laura Wright conducted a moving rendition before the resuming of the third and final match of the series after the sport's governing body suspended the second day's competition following Queen Elizabeth II's death.

Members of the British Hat Guild have created 22 headpieces in the King's racing colours - scarlet, purple, black, and gold - which will be auctioned to raise funds for the charity Brain Tumour Research. They will be on display at the QIPCO Guineas Festival in Suffolk, at Crowning Glory: A Milliners' Celebration Of All The King's Colours, hosted by the Jockey Club over the Coronation Weekend. They will then compete in Epsom Downs, Surrey, an event that the late queen attended on only five occasions during her 70-year reign if she were to be on display before the online auction ends on June 11.

Rachael Blackmore, 33, of Killenaule, is photographed in the yellow and green colors she wore when she made history by becoming the first female jockey to win the National. Miss Blackmore, 33, who rode Minella Times to victory in 2021, was joined by world champion boxer Natasha Jonas, 38, who modeled a cocktail dress influenced by jockey Bob Champion's white and blue silks worn by the race on Aldaniti in 1981 after his cancer recovery. Without three-time champion Red Rum and the burgundy silks sported by the jockeys who rode him in 1973, 1974, and 1977, no line up of National Greats would be complete without them. Laura Wright, 32, with flared trousers and bell sleeves resembling the decade's styles, has been reimagined as a jumpsuit.

As she sang at the England vs. South Africa Test match at the Oval on Saturday, the mezzo-soprano, 32, said she could feel the audience's "hold their breath." She performed the latest version of the National Anthem, whose lyrics were updated to fit the current monarch, King Charles III.

Forget Prince Harry's memoirs. It's a rather different book that's giving a ray of delight - and, possibly, a tremor of fear - among others - in the coroneted classes. It's the handiwork of Henry John FitzRoy Somerset (left with his second wife Georgia Powell in 2017; inset in 1985). "Bunter" is the proper name for him. In a carefree youth, the Duke, now 70, obtained this soubriquet. "He wrote his memoirs," one of Bunter's sporting chums tells me, adding that one chapter in particular seems to be destined to ignite excitement.' "The Hooray Years" is the title of the book.'

Laura Wright, 32, a widow from Suffolk, appeared on Good Morning Britain today, where she revealed the Queen's smiled' after she began her singing lessons (left). It comes after the opera singer God Save the King ahead of the third Test between England and South Africa (right).

ACTION BOOTH AT THE OVAL: The Oval on Saturday morning, at 10.54, was the quietest place in London. Considering that nearly 25,000 people attended, this was a huge achievement. And yet they were, silence personified, with the noise of machinery outside the ground and a flying plane over it. Although football made an early call on the decorum of playing sport, cricket handled it brilliantly, with cricket canceling the second day of the third Test against South Africa and then getting to action (following a first-day washout) on the third.

Spectators were expected to be in their seats by 10.30 a.m. for an on-field commemoration of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday at the age of 96. At St James' Palace earlier in the morning, there was a military guard of honour and a minute of silence in memory of the Queen, before a history-making national anthem. Both players and coaches are wearing black armbands as a mark of respect, and the audience is not permitted to wear fancy clothing.