12 Kate Garraway shares her approach to life as she opens up on how she copes with its many challenges
38 Sir James Dyson tells us about his quest to encourage the next generation
42 We celebrate the page-turners of the past century and look to the future
84 Why cycling can transform your life – and how to take part in the Palace to Palace sponsored bike ride
When I wrote the headline above about Kate Garraway, our cover star this month, it came straight from my heart. For me, she really is ‘Incredible Kate’ and I genuinely think that most of us could learn a lot from her and would benefit from emulating her enduring spirit. Why so? Because, of absolutely everyone I’ve ever met, Kate is the most positive and optimistic of individuals. Her soul overflows with hope and it’s simply impossible not to feel uplifted when hearing her talk and seeing how she approaches life.
Of course, Kate has far more reason than many of us to be the polar opposite of this. Over the past two years, she has had to endure agonising heartache owing to her husband Derek’s long battle with Covid, while still supporting her children and keeping the family going by working incredibly hard as a TV and radio presenter. And now she assumes the role of a carer the moment she gets through her front door at the end of the working day…
But there’s no anger or bitterness when she speaks. Rather, the recurring word in her vocabulary is ‘lucky’, and Kate talks about feeling enormous gratitude for a ‘newfound sense of how wonderful life is’. ‘I’ve learned that happiness is not necessarily a state of bliss and you’re not going to have it 24 hours a day. But that there’s happiness to be found all around us – you just have to open your eyes to it,’ she tells us. I do hope you find Kate’s interview (page 12) as inspiring and heartening as I did and take something away from it – Ifind myself thinking about her regularly and checking myself if a negative thought pops into my brain. I’m certainly trying to be more Garraway!
Another of my own personal heroes, Sir James Dyson, is also to be fou
