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Writing Beth Mead’s autobiography: ‘I dreamed about her every night for three weeks. By Katie Whyatt

I wonder if Beth Mead would be alarmed to learn that I dreamt about her every night for three weeks solid. I had been warned that would happen. One of the first things I did when I found out I would be ghostwriting her memoir Lioness: My Journey To Glory was to call the handful of colleagues I knew who had worked on sporting autobiographies. Mike Calvin, co-author for Joey Barton and the Welsh rugby union player Gareth Thomas, had told me I would end up dreaming about — maybe even as — Beth Mead. I never experienced the latter, but the former? Several times each night.

The anxiety behind all this was understandable. The need to meet the Christmas market meant we had just three weeks to come up with in excess of 80,000 words. That’s close to 4,000 words a day on top of my research, fact-checking, visits to Beth’s family and conversations with her friends and former coaches. Beth had just returned from a training camp in Germany with Arsenal and our writing schedule overlapped with two England matches, one of which was abroad, as well as games for Arsenal. As the Euros’ top scorer and player of the tournament, Beth also had scores of media commitments with everyone from McDonald’s to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. The deadline could barely have been tougher.

And what if Beth didn’t have anything to say? What if we didn’t click? What if neither of us could find the words for a life that included England’s first major trophy since 1966, Arsenal’s first league title for seven years and, more significantly, the 27 years of off-field moments that shaped one of the country’s most defining sporting icons of the past decade?

When the opportunity to work with Beth arose, I did not hesitate for an instant. I would later learn that she, her mum June and Beth’s agent Mags Byrne had met in London with countless publishers — each had prepared a presentation on why they wanted to be the ones to distribute Beth’s book — and Beth had insisted that I was the ghostwriter she wanted. It had reassured June that a journalist Beth knew and trusted would be taking the reins, even if it was my first full-length book. Beth had told one member of the publishing team that the book was “like her baby”. I, too, wanted the final draft to be one that we could both be proud of. I really, really cared.

Thus, the dreams began. The most vivid — and disconcerting — one came first. England were playing in a World Cup and I was staying in a leaky tent in snow-covered woodland, trying to snatch moments with Beth as animals circled behind the trees. Beth and the Football Association kept cancelling our meetings, then Beth could manage only 15 minutes, didn’t say anything of note when the time came and the old-school Dictaphone I was using didn’t work. The tent flooded, the books I’d been using for research vanished and the conversations with Beth’s family and friends revealed an extensive history as a child actor that I’d completely forgotten to ask Beth about.

Happily, those were irrational worries. There was no career as a child actor — a short-lived one as a ballerina, granted — and no snow or World Cup to work around. More significantly, Beth knew she had to approach this project with candour and jump all in if it was to be worthwhile.

In that first video meeting — me in my front room, Beth in her hotel room at St George’s Park — Beth opened up about the impact of being left out of the Team GB squad and her frustrations with the then-England manager Hege Riise. The second part of the conversation was more uplifting. This was Beth’s first England camp since the Euros win and she had opened the door of her hotel room to find piles of gifts and congratulations messages, which she held up to the camera to show me. She talked of a team meeting earlier that week in which the England manager Sarina Wiegman had asked the players to recount the strangest things that had happened to them since the final on July 31. We were looking back, but there was a freshness and an immediacy to many of those conversations, a sense that we were documenting Beth’s post-Euros life in real time.

It helped that Beth was enormously self-aware — of her feelings, her strengths and her flaws — and through our conversations, I was able to begin to see the world as she does. There were moments I was struck by the similarities between us, such as when Beth and her parents spoke of the crippling homesickness Beth experienced on England camps as a teenager. That reached its nadir when Beth moved from Sunderland to Arsenal in 2017. Their words chimed with me because of my own experiences of being away at university. Beth’s memories of the key moments of Euro 2022 are startlingly vivid and she took me behind her eyes on the pitch. She handled the conversations around her mum’s illness — detailed also in The Athletic Women’s Football Podcast — with courage and strength.

Instinctively, Beth understood that crucial storytelling technique of “show, don’t tell”: don’t tell me that Sarina Wiegman is the best manager you have ever played under or that Lucy Bronze pushed you to reach the next level, but how and why. Her anecdotes from throughout the tournament bring us into that summer with a new intimacy.

We managed 20-something hours of conversations, Beth based everywhere from hotel rooms in England and abroad to the home she shares with Vivianne Miedema, who once caused havoc resetting the WiFi router. I visited Beth’s family at their home in Hinderwell — they are the kind of parents who have kept everything, including Beth’s first football boots, bought from a car boot sale for 50p — and we saw her old primary school, ballet school, teenage bedroom and favourite sports field. Her dad Richard knows all there is to know about his daughter’s football career and was invaluable in piecing timelines together.

You quickly learn that the kind of quote that makes for a detailed article or interview does not necessarily make for a detailed passage of a book. Take, for example, Beth’s relationship with her Arsenal team-mate Miedema. They began dating in the days after Beth’s England beat Miedema’s Netherlands 5-1 in a pre-World Cup friendly. They made it official in Manchester, where the Netherlands squad had stayed during their time in England. Those are nice details, but not enough to build up into a story with mood and atmosphere. Where, specifically, did Beth ask her? What did they say to each other? What were their thoughts? Who instigated the first kiss? How did they feel? Once I’d written most of the book, Beth and I combed through each chapter, adding in new details.

The memories of Beth’s former coaches, including Phil Neville, supplemented Beth’s and made for the most complete story we could tell. Ian Wright wrote the foreword himself — my heart soared when his Word document dropped into my inbox and I saw the care he’d put into it — and Jermain Defoe, Beth’s friend from their shared days at Sunderland, needed little convincing to come on board for the afterword.

Miedema, who has her own series of children’s books, read some of the earlier drafts to see if I had captured Beth’s voice. Viv’s feedback was that one section, which jumped from topic to topic, read more like the interview it had been than a chapter Beth had written. Finding Beth’s writing voice was one of the most crucial aspects of the project. The temptation, in the face of such a demanding deadline, could have been to revert to my own voice to save time, but I was not about to take shortcuts.

What that meant was long days of writing — clocking off at midnight to wake up again at 4am — subsisting almost entirely on the Greggs menu. There were moments I panicked I would never get the book finished. At one point, I needed to hit 8,000 words a day and all I could see was the 30,000-odd words I still needed to write. I couldn’t see the next step forward: I still needed to write up her time at Arsenal, and all those Euros chapters, and re-do the one on Wiegman. It was Calvin who told me to “eat the elephant one bite at a time”, and Stuart James (my The Athletic colleague who worked on Jamie Vardy’s autobiography) helped me to bring some order to the tens of thousands of words I had on the Euros on a day when I’d barely written anything.

Then it was time for Beth to read through the final draft. She would read it at home or on planes to Champions League games. Her parents would read copies and send over corrections or clarifications. Days before our first deadline, Beth sustained a concussion in Arsenal’s Champions League match with Ajax, meaning she could not look at screens or concentrate for long periods of time. She showed real persistence to finish reading the book and I was relieved when, with Beth satisfied, I could press send on draft one and flop into bed.

We submitted the redraft a few weeks later and Lioness: My Journey to Glory will be available in hardback on November 10. To say I am nervous for the world to read it is an understatement. I’m almost as anxious, in fact, as the moment I emerged from my snow-soaked tent to learn that dreamworld Beth Mead would only deign to give me 15 minutes of her time. Almost, but not quite.

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5 September 2019 | Helen Haslem, head of the lower school greets Princess Charlotte as she arrives for her first day of school, with her brother, Prince George, and her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Thomas's Battersea in London in London, England. (c) Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty Images

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Duchess Catherine and Prince William Make Their Royal Ascot Debut for 2022 Amid a Heatwave!

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made their first appearance at one of Queen Elizabeth’s favorite events

SIMON PERRY, June 17, 2022 09:31 AM

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge led the royal family in the carriage processional at the iconic horse race. Dressed in a top hat and tailcoat, William and Kate — who wore a brown and white polka dot dress by Alessandra Rich paired with a hat featuring floral details on top by Sally-Ann Provan — rode in the first carriage that appeared at the top of the course and traveled along the famous track.

Kate also accessorized with the South-Sea pearl earrings that once belonged to Princess Diana. Diana wore the jewels on many occasions during the 1990s.

Joining Prince William, 39, and Kate, 40, in their carriage was William Vestey, the current Lord Vestey and his wife, Violet. William Vestey inherited the title when his father Samuel Vestey, who was close to Queen Elizabeth, died amid the COVID pandemic in February 2021 — just nine weeks after his wife.

In the second carriage were Prince William's cousin Peter Phillips and his new girlfriend Lindsay Wallace, who had made her royal debut at another famous horserace, the Derby, during Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee weekend.

big topic of conversation at the race track on Friday was the sweltering heat. With temperatures predicted to be close to 90 degrees, it was perhaps unsurprising that the 96-year-old monarch skipped Royal Ascot for the fourth day in a row. (There's still a chance she'll make an appearance on Saturday.)

Amid the soaring heat, men were allowed to remove their jackets and ties as the Ascot authorities relaxed the dress code (it's the first time men have been able to go tie-less!). All spectators were also permitted to bring water and soft drinks into the arena.

However, all racegoers were expected to arrive at the course dressed in the full attire of jackets and ties. In the Royal Enclosure, that also means a top hat and a vest or waistcoat and tailcoat. Women still had to wear hats and make sure their dresses were of modest length and complied with formal day wear.

William and Kate are gearing up for a busy summer. On June 21, William celebrates his milestone 40th birthday. The Cambridge family is also planning a big move this summer.

The couple is planning to relocate from their London home at Kensington Palace to a new residence some 30 miles west in Berkshire, the county that houses the Queen's primary residence, Windsor Castle.

Prince George and Princess Charlotte will leave their London prep school, Thomas's Battersea, at the end of the current term, PEOPLE confirms, and will enroll in a school in the Windsor area. It has been widely reported that the family will occupy Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor estate, but that is unconfirmed. The palace had no comment.

For the fourth day in a row, Queen Elizabeth was absent from Royal Ascot, which is one of her favorite events of the year. As with all of the monarch's public outings, palace sources aren't able to say if she will be able to attend until the hours beforehand due to her ongoing mobility issues.

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