exchanging remarks and jokes. and then a short walkabout and another example of teamwork — the queen took one side of the street and meghan took the other. this is a very public endorsement from the queen. and this is part of the process of handing on the baton to a younger generation. a day to watch and learn — there will be many years ahead to perfect it all. one of the musical stars of the royal wedding last month has won two awards at the classic brits. the cellist, sheku kanneh—mason, who's 19, picked up male artist of the year and the critics‘ choice award. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson was at the royal albert hall for the ceremony. last month, sheku kanneh—mason played the cello at the royal wedding. at the classic brit awards, the 19—year—old won both best male and the critics‘ choice award.

it is an honour, really. just a lovely summing up of my first two years. surprisingly, he is still a student, and sat exams last week but hasn't got his results due to a bungle. they're out but i need to go and collect them. so you could find them out? yeah, but only as of two days ago and i need my id card, which i've lost. # i want to be a part of it... alfie boe and michael ball also had a problem after winning best group. they only give you one. we've never had an argument. this might be the first one! # it's up to you, new york, new york.# thankfully, for the sake of harmony, they later triumphed in album of the year, meaning they could each have a brit. # we'll meet again...# and at the age of 101, there was a lifetime achievement

award for dame vera lynn. she couldn't be at the ceremony, but she spoke to bbc south east today on the phone. unexpected but very nice. it's lovely after all these years to get acknowledgement like that. # i know we'll meet again some sunny day.# colin paterson, bbc news, royal albert hall. now its time for meet the author. a tumultuous marriage, two writers driven by passions that bring them together, then pull them apart as europe slips towards war. paula mcclain‘s novel love and ruin tells the extraordinary story of martha gail home and ernest hemingway.

each born with a gift for words, thrown together in the chaos of the spanish civil war and hopelessly in love. but driven too by individual passions that couldn't survive the marriage. a novelist and journalist who wanted each other but needed even more to be themselves. welcome. we're talking here about a tempestuous marriage, i think to put it mildly. let's talk about the two characters, let's leave hemingway to one side for a moment. if we can. martha gail horne who became you know a journalist absolutely cut from original material. indeed, yeah. for the rest of her life. just describe what she was like in the 1930s. in the 1930s so, she met hemingway in 1936 and he was about to go off to

the spanish civil war, see it's impossible to leave him to the side, he won't be left to the side. and that was really her first war, and she was 28 years old. and for the rest of her like she really in madrid, found her true calling as a storyteller and her voice as a journalist and then she just went on to be one of the most significant war correspondents of the 20th century. had a nearly 60 year career as a journalist. a large part of the book takes place in spain and at one point, the listening to gail horne‘s own voice, she said she's been madrid for three weeks and it feels as if she's been there for years because of the intensity. yeah, so she lived in the hotel florida along with most of the other foreigners in madrid at the time and it was miles walking distance from the nearest front. madrid at that time in the spring of 1937 had been besieged by franco's army for about five months and her hotel was being shelled nearly every single day and this is how she came of age.

and we are talking of course about spanish civil war but was the shadow of the world were already hovering over europe and the whole atmosphere of your book telling the story of this stormy romance has that sense of a wartime story. yeah, the shadows were falling all over europe and i think what made gail horne incredibly angry at the time was the larger world and particularly the states nobody seemed to understand how spain's plight affected all of us that anybody who's in madrid at the time sort of knew that this was maybe the last chance to stop fascism where it stood and franco was forming these terrible alliances with hitler and mussolini and of course we know that story now. and yet of course this is not a story about politics or states at war, it's a story about two people and their minds and their passions. now, hemingway is such

an extremity character. it's very difficult to imagine how anybody could live with the man. it does matter to know that she fell in love with him in this. can you imagine the intensity of the situation and it was such a noble war and that she was maybe coming alive for the first time to her life's purpose and of course falling in love rather disastrously with a married man. she was coming awake to herself and also incredibly i think impressed by him under those it goes a circumstance is sort of the way he taught her what the war was and she could not help herself. as the story progresses i think we all recognise the way that you tell the tale that it is doomed from the beginning. yeah, i think it would be because they were too much i like and everything that he admired about her from the very beginning, her conviction, her social conscience, her passion, her intensity, her independents all of those things,

once they were married in 1940, he was threatened by those things because of course he wanted her to be his wife. and he wanted her in the end to be subservient and it was his talent that had to prevail although he might have tried to persuade himself from time to time that that wasn't true. that was the truth, he had to prevail, didn't he? i think he did, if i was going to psychologizing which is now sort of my second job. psychologizing ernest hemingway, i think a lot of that had to do with his own parents marriage that his mother in his mind had way too much authority and his parents marriage, his father committed suicide when he was 29 years old. he blamed his motherfor that, he neverforgive her and so for him. and of course he went the same way. but in his mind, if a woman had too much control not just in the marriage or in the home but in is own heart, it was he felt too vulnerable. it is a psychologist‘s dream or a psychiatrist‘s dream i supposed to see these two trying to live under the same roof and knowing that it probably couldn't last. that's right.

they might as well enjoy it. their letters from that time are so intense and they really do proof that they love each other deeply but understood each other i think that that thing that drew them together, this intensity help them if at the beginning cement a bond that would unravel for the same reason that they both had these enormous personalities and a kind of hunger for the intensities of life. what a story to tell. yes, well they say only trouble is interesting, and there is plenty of trouble for them. but their love relationship to me is so, it tells a story for the modern age to because of course we all want to have it all. to be able to have career but also love and family and they really wanted the same things. how did you go about trying to tell the story? i mean why did you choose

the point of view that you have chosen and how did you get the voice? yeah. well, her point of view was the one i was interested in at the very beginning. i never thought i'd write another book about hemingway and yet i had this dream a couple years ago where i was fishing. literally a dream. literally a dream, i was fishing with hemingway in the gulf stream and he was up on the flying bridge looking ratherfabulous but then i noticed there was another woman on board and as i watched in the dream this marlin kind of crested up out of the gulf and the woman reached out and put a peice of bait into the fish's mouth and when she turned and faced me it was martha gail horne and i woke up the next morning kind of struck and wondering if i had been given some sort of assignment. and i googled her, i googled her over coffee the next day. and of course i'd done all this research on hemingway, i knew who she was but i didn't know who she was. i didn't know the arc of her life and her

accomplishments and so it was really her, ijust became absolutely obsessed with her and understood that even though i'd written about hemingway in the 1920s, this was a very different character, the world was a much darker place and ijust wanted to fall into the whole storm of it. she became a great writer and journalist in the course of a long life. she was also a woman of great passions as you've explained earlier. what is it about her though that makes her a special subject? as a central character in a novel? i think she was a true original. i don't know that there was anyone like her who ever lived. the fact that she was probably born with this intensity you know, that couldn't really be quenched by life. took on all kinds of great adventures, travel to almost 60 countries in her life, published 1a books, her point of view is so i think interesting and so fresh and she still has things to teach us, the fact that you know, as her own woman she had all of these extraordinary

adventures for instance when she took on that first war. she met hemingway and he was going to madrid, she wanted to go and bear witness to this war, she had no credentials, she had no formaljob and so no formal job and so what she did was wrote an article for vogue magazine that gave her $300 and go to france and across the border from france into spain on foot alone the middle of the night with $50 rolled up and talked in her boots with a map and no spanish and this fake letter that she had begged from an editor friend in new york saying martha gail home is a special correspondent for a magazine, she was nothing of the kind. she lied her way over, shejust went over on pure nerve. in other words it's notjust a story about talent, it's a story about courage. about courage and something else. something more like i don't know, or something. yeah. we know it when we see it. yes, we know it when we see it. paula mcclain, author of love and ruin. thank you very much.

thank you. it feels rather appropriate with the start of the world cup to describe today's weather as a tale of two halves but that's exactly what we see ina halves but that's exactly what we see in a stormy start up to the northwest with storm hector moving through quite rapidly beneath strongly wins, rough seas and at times some heavy rain. you could see clearly the storm centred up into the far north and southern flank with her we had the strongest of the wins. how strong? we did see gusts of wind in excess of 100 mile an hourin of wind in excess of 100 mile an hour in parts of cumbria and across the east coast of northern ireland as well in excess of 70 mph. also some radio through the course of the morning, the heavy persistent rain through northern ireland across much of central and western scotland. no further south it was a different story, it started off cloudy and grey and in that south east corner look at what happened as we headed towards the afternoon, hardly a cloud in the sky. beautiful sunshine

and temperatures into the low 20s. so certainly a tale of two halves. storm hector disappeared, we are likely to see a quiet spell of weather to the night, is the —— you scattered showers to the north and west. clear skies and temperatures will fall down to 11 degrees in many places so that is going to be slightly fresh tonight for getting a good nights sleep. we start generally for friday there will be stalled of sunshine across england and wales from the word go, scattering of showers and a breeze story further north and west. not the strong winds up today and a fresher feel, 1a to 17 degrees to the north. sunshine of 22 degrees and as we head toward the weekend, another area of low pressure moving in from the atlantic, it will bring against him with weather and at times some pretty breezy conditions but not the strong winds we have seen and there is a level of uncertainty for the timing of this one but it will bring heavy rain across the coast of scotland and northern england and maybe some rain

across the midlands and the southeast. the gardens are certain to get pretty desperate. a fresher feel, 1a to 19 or 20 degrees if we are lucky. but it does look like the second half of the weekend things will quiet them down, hopefully son of the global break—up will see some sunshine and temperatures on the up yet again. if you browbeat and temperatures on the up yet again. if you grow weekend plans it looks as though we are heading for a shower you hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. the fifa world cup in russia has kicked off, with the host nation winning the opening match 5—0 from saudi arabia. we have all the action on and off the pitch. president trump and his children are being sued by the state of new york over alleged persistent illegal conduct by the trump foundation. mr trump says the case is ridiculous. we will report in washington. in yemen the all—out assault on the port of hodeida is in its second day. the un says it is concern about 80

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