Dame Lizzy to you The biggest family news of the month is that my mother is being honoured with the French equivalent of a knighthood, Un chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques. This Friday we will all be cheering her on at a ceremony in the Belgian Embassy. She’ll get a medal (see right) and hopefully we’ll get some ferrero rocher. Well done Mummy!

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