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Prince Harry is to accompany his father on part of his official visit to South Africa at the end of this month

Prince Harry is to accompany his father on part of his official visit to South Africa at the end of this month. A highlight of the trip will be a short safari for Harry and a school friend, and a meeting with the Spice Girls.

A spokeswoman said it was a family matter whether Harry would meet his uncle, Earl Spencer, who lives in South Africa.

Greece's "first widow" Dimitra Liani defended her blockbuster memoires of life with the late prime minister Andreas Papandreou yesterday.

The former air hostess told a Greek monthly magazine that she penned her emotional Ten years and 54 Days because Papandreou had complained to her that most books written about him were negative. "I embraced him and told him tenderly: `I will write about you, my little sweetheart.' And that was a promise I'm keeping now," she said.

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Andrew Morton's new book about Princess Diana took one week to become the best-selling hardback of the year so far. For the week ending last Saturday, Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words sold 41,042 copies. Until now, the best-selling hardback of the year so far had been Longitude, by Dava Sobel, with 36,511 sold.

Monaco's Prince Albert, son of the late Hollywood actress Grace Kelly, is to appear in One Man's Hero, his first movie role, as an 1840s Irish soldier named James Kelly, USA Today said.