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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: 80s fashion firebrand Katharine Hamnett bins her beloved CBE over the Israel-Hamas war as she says she's 'disgusted to be British'


Katharine Hamnett has apparently tired of being a mere Commander of the British Empire and consigned her insignia to oblivion - or, worse, one of her dustbins.

But fashion designer Katharine Hamnett, who had previously declared that she was 'holding out to be a Duchess — with a castle', has apparently tired of being a mere Commander of the British Empire and consigned her insignia to oblivion — or, worse, one of her dustbins. Staging the sort of protest that's been her stock-in-trade since 1984, when she met Margaret Thatcher at a Downing Street reception wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an anti-nuclear slogan, Hamnett has posted her latest revolt on social media. The Great British Bake Off star Dame Prue Leith pays a moving tribute to her late brother Jamie in her new ITV1 series by cooking up one of his recipes for viewers this weekend.

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