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  • Books to read on International women’s day 2026

    Alina Zainab

    Happy international women’s day everyone, as a book lover, author and writer i thought share some of my favourite female authors who saved me during bullying in school and female authors i started reading as an adult.

    1.) Dorothy Whipple – high wages.

    It is about women’s need and rights to work and own their own wages. When i watched the documentary at Blackburn’s museum and saw she was another female authors from Blackburn i was struck with excitement. Blackburn might not have the cold, elitists fashion like kensington chelsea and knightsbridge. But Blackburn was multi cultural, the textile industry and cotton town. Blackburn was full of art and also literature.

    High wages is exactly that story set back then when women were looked down for having a job or even self employment. Dorothy Whipple of course use her strong beliefs about working women.

    2.) Holly webb- The girl of glass.

    A fantasy fairytale about a girl who senses and suspects that the girl of glass is a ghost made to be real. Its a story about sisterhood, mother and daughter friendship. Wicked stepmothers much like you’re cinderella stories, this story helped me through primary school.

    3.) Alison Wier and Phillipa gregory

    Now the book i’m holding up is not one of Alison Weir six tudor queens series, but still written by Alison Weir. She is a historian and author of many historical fiction. Similar to Philippa Gregory and even her majesty Queen Camilla even shared these two authors on her queens reading room.

    4.) Queen Camilla has always been a big literature lover and supporter of books ever since she was a little girl. One if my main women in the literature industry i look upto. Her father and brother written books.

    5.) Dale Elizabeth Harper (Lady Tryon, third baroness) also known as kanga, i have always spoken dso fondly of Dale, called her my darling designer, Australian princess, fashion queen of my heart. Before she became a fashion designer she was a fashion writer for the melbourne office of Australian women’s weekly later fleet street office in London England. Her parents owned a publishing company in Melbourne Australia.

    5.) My mother Angelika Kraasch (Shaukat). My mother always supported me with reding she took me to the library every Saturday she listened to me read and saw me write pages after pages, saw me publish two books supported me as a young author and writer.

    Those are the authors and writers, literary lovers and supports i support for international women’s day 2026.In loving memory of my darling mama and darling designer and fashion queen Kanga Dale elizabeth Harper.

  • The truth of being a socialite that movie/films and tv shows get wrong.

    Alina Zainab

    Today i was just reading through gloss magazine on the internet, and i came across this article that said how to live your life like a 1960s socialite. But that is not the exact fact of becoming a socialite.

    There are some correct information that are facts, and there some incorrect like the last subheading mentions be scandalous.Again they do not encourage to sleep with your best friends boyfriend or husband, or any of your female friends husbands and boyfriends.

    Btu what they do advise is when at a charity event or gala, throw a cocktail at one of your male friend and call him names. That is so wrong and let me tell you not every socialite is scandalous, they do not go through scandalous affairs, not create a scene or a scandal at an event. That would be seen as the typical Kardashian jenner, Hilton, Paris Hilton, Ivana Trump basically any american typ of socialite. Many american socialites are the ones that have celebrity friends, who use celebrities and famous people to climb the ladder.

    i always been fascinated with my fashion queen of my heart, soul sister, best friend Dale Elizabeth Harper nicknamed Kanga from her husband whom she called Ant. My Dale was an Australian socialite and fashion designer, she started of as a fashion writer for the australian women’s weekly and the women’s weekly office in fleet street london. I mentioned to her she has the looks of a fashion model, but she didn’t want to do professional modelling not wanting to be sculpted and moulded by managers who can not see the true essence of fashion. She designed colourful clothes with elasticated waist and pockets for omen who came out of maternity or like me felt intimidated by high end fashion.

    Her socialite status came from attending and hosting dinner parties, charity events and galas, she also since she was never invited to the MET gala or this invite only couture, haute couture shows hosted her own fashion shows from her home great dunford and boutique. But her only high profile friend ws the then prince of wales, his majesty the King charles. She never had celebrity freinds.

    Her majesty the queen queen Camilla was a British Socialite in her youth from 1960s – 2005, she like my fashion soulmate where in the same circle as they both were friends of King Charles. Known as his closest female confidantes, Camilla like Dale attended and hosted charity events. Both countryside women socialite.

    You heard it is true many people now days think socialite, they must be city girls, they must fashion models. The Kardashian/jenner family and Paris Hilton, Ivana Trump. Those were fashion models and socialites in the New York and LA los angelos. Also Parsi Hiltons british twin, not really twin but Tara Tomkinson Palmer was a british it girl and socialite who like paris was a fashion model modelling high end fashion, partying in nightclubs and being seen as it girls in their time.

    But the reality of being a socialite is understanding right i am asocial butterfly, i loe and i always attend events i have been invited too, i love hosting events mainly for charity.

    Build the influence and once you built your influence have people coming to you asking me advise on skin care , hair care, make up brands and products.What clothes to wear. Also i have also been asked to write poems and sings for others and i did that tag those people in the video and thanked them for their lovely comments and support and my social media went viral, i have been on TikTok live and often do lives on youtube and sing, dance engage with others, act making others laugh. read or write on a live video im an average reader, and i’m an author of two books, writer and trainee journalist.

    Also Juliet Mcdaniels written about luxury, if you cannot afford luxury, don’t worry, you can still be a social butterfly you are still a socialite. Do as a charity worker go shop at charity shops, get second furniture craft with second hand furniture and fashion.

    Concluding this article to reassure others, traditionally socialites do not need to get involved in scandals,they do not need to invest in luxurious items, they can get a vintage item at a charity shop on a budget.

  • Kanga my best friend and also how she resembles my mother.

    Alina Zainab

    (photo credited by Image Contributor Philip Ide/Shutterstock)

    Kanga my best friend and also how she resembles my mother

    Most of my articles were recently about mourning the death of a loved one, me mentioning about my mother and then the death of my truest bestie best friend the late lady Dale kanga tryon.

    I remember shortly after her death Journalist like Nigel Dempster, Glenys Roberts wrote about her in most horrific way. My fashion queen of my heart was not in a loveless marriage she and lord Tryon loved each other truly, they gave each other affectionate nicknames kanga and Ant. Yes, it was him who nicknamed her kanga king Charles.

    Both Nigel Dempster and Glenys Roberts both said she met the the prince of wales in Australia in the1960’s, well they are all wrong. Because her brother and her children say other wise, that it was lord Tryon who introduced them.

    There happened to be a mishap between back in 1998 between a builder who claims to have loved Dale and had an affair with her and the actress Sarah Miles.

    Now i already know and Dale herself, well mostly her children know that Sarah Miles was not a friend of My best friend Kanga Tryon. Neither were the two daily mail journalist Nigel dempster and Glennys Roberts, neither where any of the sun or daily mail journalist friends of my Bestie Kanga Tryon.

    I mean my bestie like me always saw everyone as a friend, she was one of the most friendly, kindhearted and caring people i’ve ever met.

    Also i remember reading an old daily mail article written by Glennys Roberts headlined what royal secrets will kanga take to her grave? and in there Roberts writes about dale resembling Diana, no, no, Dale Tryon Kanga my dearest aussie friend did not resemble Diana at all, Dale was not like Diana at all she was in a loving marriage.

    Lord Tryon never remarried after losing his precious Australian jewel, the precious australian jewel i forever keep in my heart. People on the internet those internet commentors always make up fantasy, thinking Kanga Tryon was public property. She wasn’t she wasn’t even famous, maybe visible yes but never famous.

    About Kanga’s resemblance, Glennys Robert was wrong to say she resembled Diana the late princess of wales,Kanga resembles my mother. Both were funny, kind, caring, had this zest for life. I miss them both and i always hold them both close in my heart.

    I love my Australian side and jewel, the fashion queen of my heart.

  • My fashion queen of the heart

    Alina Zainab

    This right here is my darling designer my fashion queen, one and only i just felt like i had to write about her i alway will. She is just so unforgettable and i can never stop loving her.

    When you read the Australian women’s weekly there are some so called friends of my daffodil like one said she wasn’t a strictly speaking beauty her sister was prettier, but Dale always tried her best. That was rude and mean of them to do my darling designer, my fashion queen is a strictly speaking beauty she doesn’t need to be compared to her sister they were both pretty.

    Lady Dale Tryon was never popular in school and didn’t exactly have a large following that was the australian women’s weekly exaggerating. But my daffodil she had such deep tremendous joie de vivre zest for life as do i myself, and we both share the love of going out and meeting people and building valuable connections. Joining sports clubs like equestrian games, tennis and table tennis, swimming especially since we both suffered from chronic illness from childhood, dale perthes disease and spina bifida and me juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

    I have been collecting her clothing line as the vibrant colours which reflects her personality and elasticated waist and of course pockets in dresses and skirts.

    Lady Dale Elizabeth Harper Tryon is truly my fashion best friend forever (fashion bff) and fashion soulmate. she was never Diana’s friend or ally there was no alliance between Dale and Diana.

    I will forever remember my fashion best friend forever (bff) and soulmate/sister forever and keeping writing these tributes.

  • 🦋 Butterflies, Pearls, and Glasses:

    Alina Zainab

    Friendship, Fashion, and Staying True to Me.

    This morning in town was lovely — I joined in with circus skills and dipped into the tree workshop. I felt grounded, playful, and connected. And now, I’m preparing for my friend’s 27th birthday on Tuesday, 19th August.

    At Claire’s, I found the sweetest gifts:

    • A friendship bracelet for me and Ureka, one of my besties since I was 17, but didnt get that one as i already had done in 2021.
    • A three-way butterfly necklace for my trio — delicate, symbolic, and full of meaning
    • One half of the butterfly reminds me of Dale Tryon in Australia and the other half is me, born in Germany
    • A white pearl necklace that shimmered like Dale’s grace — soft, elegant, timeless

    👑 Princess Diaries and the Pressure to Conform

    I’ve been watching Princess Diaries — not the fictional one from my birth year, but the newer series with Katie Price’s daughter. She dreams of owning her own makeup brand, which I admire. But when the manager said, “Many girls get nose jobs at 18,” I paused.

    I turned 18 in 2019.
    No nose job.
    No surgery.
    Just me — learning to love my natural curves and features.

    Plastic surgery might seem glamorous, but it has consequences. I choose to celebrate real beauty — the kind Dale Tryon embodied, the kind my grandmother nurtured, the kind that doesn’t need filters or fillers.

    👓 Glasses as Fashion, Not Flaw

    I used to feel peer pressure — people saying, “You look prettier without glasses.”
     But now? I’m in love with them.

    • I’m short-sighted, so I need them
    • I wear reading glasses, distance glasses, and sunglasses — all part of my outfits
    • They’re not just practical — they’re powerful

    Dale would’ve smiled and said, “Darling, glasses are just another accessory — wear them like pearls.”

    so next time you have someone telling you to not wear you glasses when you need them, don’t listen because the truth is you are pretty inside and outside with or without glasses.