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Prince Harry's feet in pregnancy photo with Meghan show signs of bunions, podiatrist claims - Daily Mail

Prince Harry bares his bunions: Duke may be suffering 'mild deformity' due to years of high impact training in the Army, podiatrist claims - as fans call for him to 'put his dirty feet away' after shoeless pregnancy announcement

Meghan Markle and Harry confirmed pregnancy news with monochrome pic
For some royal fans, sight of Duke of Sussex's bare feet proved too much
British podiatrist Dina Gohil suggests Harry could be suffering from mild bunion

Published: 15:58 GMT, 15 February 2021 | Updated: 16:28 GMT, 15 February 2021

Prince Harry may be suffering from bunions as a result of his high impact training and action in the Army, a podiatrist has claimed.

Last night the Duke of Sussex's feet sparked calls for the royal to 'buy some shoes and put them away' after he bared his soles in a photo announcing baby number two with wife Meghan Markle, taken in the US.

Chiropodist Dina Gohil, who runs the practice DG Podiatrist and is an ambassador for CCS Footcare, told FEMAIL that while he boasts a 'good arch profile', there are signs he could have a mild bunion deformity.

'Harry's toes may look slightly peculiar in shape in the photo, but this is down to the angle the foot is in on the ground,' Dina explained.

Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, announced they are expecting their second child with a black-and-white photograph. But for many fans the sight of the prince's bare feet proved too much

Chiropodist Dina Gohil, who runs the practice DG Podiatrist and is an ambassador for CCS Footcare, told FEMAIL that while Harry boasts a 'good arch profile', there are signs he could have a mild bunion deformity

'His feet seem to appear healthy and there is a good arch profile visible. However potentially he may have mild bunion deformity, whereby there is a medial deviation of the joint attached to the big toe, making the bony appearance prominent.

'In his case, a likely cause of this condition is the high impact training and action he underwent while in the Armed Forces.'

WHAT IS A BUNION?

Bunions are bony lumps that form on the side of the feet.

Surgery is the only way to get rid of them, but there are things you can do to ease any pain they cause.

Symptoms of bunions include hard lumps on the sides of your feet by your big toes, your big toe pointing towards your other toes, or hard or swollen skin, where the bunion may look red or darker than the surrounding skin.

You may also have pain along the side or bottom of your feet. This is usually worse when wearing shoes and walking.

Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, revealed they are expecting their second child with a black-and-white photo of themselves sat near a tree with Harry's hand placed under Meghan's head as she lies on his lap with her hand resting on her bump.

A spokesperson for the couple said in a statement: 'We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child.'

But for many fans the sight of the prince's bare feet in the romantic snap proved too much.

Twitter user @KellyannBabes wrote: 'Congratulations Harry and Meghan... but serious is there any need for Harry's bare feet.'

@Matriarch4 added: 'Someone needs to buy Harry shoes. Ewwww, feet.'

@Mama_Cougar said: 'OK OK I'll be the one to say it. If I never see Prince Harry's bare feet again it'll be too soon.'

The couple, who are currently residing in California, announced the news on the 37th anniversary of when Harry's mother, Princess Diana, announced that she was pregnant with him on Valentine's Day in 1984.

The baby will be eighth-in-line to the British throne. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: 'Her Majesty, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales and the entire family are delighted and wish them well.'

But for some the picture shared to celebrate their pregnancy - taken by the couple's longtime friend Misan Harriman - was deemed a sign of disrespect.

Prince Harry's 'dirty' bare feet sparked calls for the royal to 'buy some shoes and put them away' after announcing baby number two with wife Meghan in a Valentine's Day photo

Twitter user @MirandaUganda said: 'In many countries it is deeply offensive to show the soles of your feet.'

@ZoeThinks wrote: 'I wonder why we have to look at his dirty feet?'

She added: 'In many Arab, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist countries, showing the soles of your feet is a sign of disrespect.'

Others said 'everything else is perfect' - bar Harry's bare feet.

@thedyingswann said: 'My only complaint about that picture is that Harry's barefoot - I hate seeing feet with burning passion. Everything else is perfect!'

'I'm happy for them but please Harry put the feet away,' user @g0ldxnharry added.

Harry and Meghan shocked the world last year when they stepped down as senior royals and announced they were moving to North America with baby Archie, who will turn two in May.

The couple have been hunkering down at a sprawling nine-bedroom mansion in Montecito that they purchased for $14.65 million last June.

The happy news comes on the 37th anniversary of when Harry's mother, Princess Diana, announced that she was pregnant with him on Valentine's Day in 1984

Their baby announcement came just days after Harry's cousin Princess Eugenie welcomed a baby boy on February 9.

The sex of the couple's second baby, as well as the due date, remain unclear.

Baby Sussex will be the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's 10th or 11th great-grandchild, depending on whether he or she arrives before or after Zara Tindall's baby, which is also due in 2021.

Meghan recycled a Carolina Herrera dress made during her first pregnancy for the birth announcement photo.

Harriman, the Nigerian-born British photographer who took the image, wrote on Twitter: 'Meg, I was there at your wedding to witness this love story begin, and my friend, I am honoured to capture it grow.

'Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on this joyous news!'

It's unclear where the photo was taken but Harriman indicated that he took it remotely via an iPad.

Speaking to British Vogue following the baby announcement, Harriman said: 'To be asked to help share this absolute joy after such an unimaginable loss and heartache is a marker of true friendship.

'Meg reminded me that had I not introduced her to a mutual friend then she wouldn't have met Harry. I'm grateful for whatever small part I played.'

Meghan and Harry welcomed their first child Archie (pictured in September 2019) in May of 2019

On how he captured the image, he said: 'With the tree of life behind them and the garden representing fertility, life and moving forward, they didn't need any direction, because they are, and always have been, waltzing through life together as absolute soulmates.'

Reacting to the image Twitter user @KayakSeaFishing said: 'Harry has very ugly feet. He's like a Hobbit!'

Royal fans claim Sussexes upstaged Princess Eugenie again

New mother Princess Eugenie no doubt has her hands full with her baby son, but royal fans have rushed to her defence on social media claiming that the news of Meghan Markle's pregnancy has stolen her thunder for the second time.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who currently reside in California, announced yesterday that they were expecting their second child, five days after Princess Eugenie, 30 and Jack Brooksbank, 34, welcomed their first child on Tuesday, and only two days after Eugenie was discharged from hospital.

Fans on Twitter said that Harry and Meghan should have waited longer to break the news of their pregnancy to let Eugenie have her moment and release the first images of her newborn and his name.

They likened the awkward timing to how newlyweds Harry and Meghan announced their first pregnancy with their son Archie to the rest of the royal family during Eugenie's wedding in October 2018 - days before the official Buckingham Palace announcement.

'It did not go down particularly well with Eugenie, who, a source said, told friends she felt the couple should have waited to share the news,' Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand reported in the biography Finding Freedom.

@delabole added: 'Never mind the baby bump .. I just dont want to see Harry's bare feet.'

And while Twitter user @Positivelady92 called it a 'great photo', they added: 'I think Harry needs to wash his feet though'

@Debied123 agreed, adding: 'Who else zoomed in on the state of Harry's feet?'

@TaliaBM simply said: 'Files 'Prince Harry's feet' under things I never wanted to see.'

The duke said in 2019 that he would only have two children for the sake of the planet a year after marrying Markle married at Windsor Castle in May 2018.

In early 2020, Meghan and Harry announced they were quitting royal duties and moving to North America. They recently bought a house in Santa Barbara, California.

Sixth in line Harry and ex-actress Meghan have been busy securing the funding for their new life, signing a lucrative deal with streaming giant Netflix, rumored to be worth more than £150 million, and another multi-million pound podcast deal with Spotify.

Meghan also invested in a brand of vegan coffees late last year - her first investment since coming to the US - which Oprah Winfrey promoted to her 19.2 million Instagram followers in December.

They have also been working on their Archewell charitable foundation, but caused controversy when Harry was accused of political interference after he urged people in the US to 'reject hate speech' and vote in the presidential elections.

In November, Meghan revealed that she had a miscarriage in July 2020, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hope of helping others.

Earlier this month the author of Meghan's autobiography, Omid Scobie, claimed that the Duchess had no plans to join Harry on his first trip back to the UK this summer because she doesn't want to be away from Archie.

Scobie added that Meghan would likely catch up with the family virtually, explaining: 'Archie loves being on Zoom calls with the family and the Queen has been enjoying those throughout lockdown.'

Photographer Harriman, 55, is known for his photos of celebrities and activists. His work documenting the Black Lives Matter protests this summer caught the eye of Edward Enniful, editor of British Vogue, who commissioned him to become the first black man to shoot a Vogue cover in its 104-year history.

His images were featured on the cover of the prestigious September issue.

It's also unclear how Harriman was introduced to the Duke and Duchess, but his caption indicated that he's known them for a long time.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's new baby will be eighth-in-line to the throne

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced that they are expecting their second child - who will become eighth in line to the throne (order of succession pictured)

Harry and Meghan's new child will become eighth in line to the throne when he or she is born.

The first seven places will remain unchanged - the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Harry, and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.

Harry retained his place in the line of succession despite quitting royal life, and dropping his HRH style.

When Harry and Meghan's new addition arrives, the Duke of York, who was born second in line in 1960, will move down to ninth place.

Andrew stopped carrying out royal duties in 2019 following his controversial Newsnight interview over his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The baby boy or girl will enter the line of succession behind older brother Archie.

Andrew's eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice, will move to 10th in line.

His youngest, Princess Eugenie, will fall out of the top 10 to become 11th in line, and her newborn son will move to 12th place.

Baby Sussex will either be the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's 10th or 11th great-grandchild, depending on whether he or she is born before or after Zara Tindall's baby.

The monarch and Philip's great-grandchildren so far are: Savannah and Isla Phillips; George, Charlotte and Louis; Mia and Lena Tindall; Archie, and Princess Eugenie's baby boy.

The new baby will not be entitled to be an HRH nor be a prince or a princess due to rules set out more than 100 years ago by George V.

He or she is allowed to be a Lord or a Lady, but, in keeping with Harry and Meghan's wishes, will be a plain Master, like Archie, or Miss (first name) Mountbatten-Windsor instead.

As the first-born son of a duke, Archie could have become Earl of Dumbarton - one of Harry's subsidiary titles - or been Lord Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.

But the duke and duchess broke with royal convention by making a personal decision not to use a title, thought to be inspired by Harry's wish to have been a normal child, rather than a prince, as he grew up.

The baby will, however, like Archie, be entitled to be an HRH and a prince or princess when the Prince of Wales accedes to the throne - although it is thought unlikely that Harry and Meghan will opt for such a change.

The new baby will not require the monarch's permission to marry.

For hundreds of years, the Royal Marriages Act 1772 meant descendants of George II had to seek the sovereign's consent before they wed, otherwise their marriages were deemed invalid.

But this law was repealed through the Succession to the Crown Act.

It restricted the consent to just the first six people in the line of succession, so, as the new baby is eighth in line, they will not at present need to seek a monarch's approval to wed.

They may have to do so in the future though, when the Duke of Cambridge eventually becomes king and if there have been no further additions ahead of them in the succession line.

King George III, George II's grandson, had ordered the now repealed 1772 Act after his younger brother, the Duke of Cumberland, secretly married Lady Anne Horton, deemed to be a highly disreputable widow of a commoner.

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Coronavirus: Tory MPs call for end to lockdown by May - BBC News

The government's plan to move out of lockdown will be "cautious but irreversible", Boris Johnson has said.

The prime minister is due to set out the roadmap for ending restrictions next Monday.

He told reporters the plan would include target dates for changes "if we possibly can", but he warned high rates of infection could lead to delays.

It comes as a group of Tory MPs call for a commitment to a "free life" and ending of lockdown measures before May.

Senior backbencher Steve Baker said he wants the prime minister to "let us reclaim our lives, once and for all".

The PM is likely to be questioned about his plans later when he hosts a Downing Street press conference at 17:00 GMT - alongside England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, and the chief executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens.

On Sunday, the government said it met its target to offer a vaccine to the 15 million most vulnerable people across the UK.

Labour said the government must "lock in the gains of the vaccine" and ensure more measures were introduced to reduce the spread of the virus - such as financial support for self-isolation and updated workplace guidance.

Mr Johnson and senior members of his cabinet are set to spend the week looking into the latest coronavirus statistics before making an announcement on its plans.

He said: "The dates that we'll be setting out will be the dates by which we hope we can do something at the earliest."

There has been a raft of speculation on the date of re-openings of businesses and hospitality - much of which has been dismissed by Downing Street.

But sources in No 10 told the BBC they were increasingly confident pupils in England would return to school on 8 March - the earliest the PM said the move could happen.

'Keep looking at the data'

Mr Johnson said no decisions had been taken yet, but the March date for schools had "for a long time been a priority of the government and families up and down the country".

He added: "We will do everything we can to make that happen, but we have got to keep looking at the data.

"There are still 23,000 or so Covid patients in the NHS - more than at the April peak last year - there are still sadly too many people dying of this disease; and rates of infection, although they are coming down, are still comparatively high.

"So we have got to be very prudent and what we want to see is progress that is cautious but irreversible. I think that is what the public, people up and down the country, want to see."

Over the weekend, 63 Tory MPs wrote to Mr Johnson, calling for easing to begin in March and for analysis to be released justifying any measures staying in place.

Mr Baker, who is the deputy chair of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Research Group (CRG) of Tory MPs leading the call, said schools should return on 8 March, hospitality should re-open by Easter and all other elements should be back to normal by 1 May - when all people in the top nine priority groups have been offered a vaccine.

The proposal was rejected by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who told the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday that the government would be "cautious".

But writing in the Telegraph, Mr Baker reasserted his plan, saying: "As the prime minister said, let us reclaim our lives, once and for all. This can be a moment of unity - for our country and the Conservative Party - as we look ahead with confidence, hope and optimism to a much brighter future."

Fellow CRG member and Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price said the government "have to think about livelihoods", telling BBC Radio Essex: "The moment you open schools up then there is no excuse for not opening up the rest of the economy."

More than a dozen MPs have also called on Mr Johnson to allow restricted weddings to return from 8 March, followed by restriction-free weddings from 1 May.

Tory former minister Esther McVey said after the top nine groups of people are vaccinated, it should be "a huge moment for the UK to hold its head up high, for couples to walk down the aisle, and for families up and down the country to reunite, to celebrate and to plan their futures".

Analysis box by Alex Forsyth, political correspondent

Any broad political consensus that existed in the early days of this pandemic has long gone.

The Tory MPs that make up the Covid Recovery Group have been increasingly critical of prolonged restrictions.

This is a group containing some senior Conservatives who are willing to be vocal, and willing to exert pressure on the prime minister. Their stance will no doubt be a factor in Downing Street's thinking.

But it would be wrong to assume lockdown scepticism is representative of everyone on the Tory benches. Of more than 360 Conservative MPs, 63 signed the latest letter to Boris Johnson urging an easing of restrictions as soon as possible. That's not an inconsiderable number.

However, there are also Tory MPs that advocate a more cautious approach, as do plenty on the opposition benches.

The pressure from some in his party to move quickly out of lockdown creates tricky political tension for the prime minister - but it's not necessarily a majority view.

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Another senior Tory backbencher, Robert Halfon, said the PM needed to "provide some kind of optimism to the public" over lockdown easing, but warned against people relaxing too soon.

The chair of the Education Select Committee told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour: "I understand where [the Covid Recovery Group] are coming from and my heart has a lot of sympathy.

"I just don't want a repetition of what went on last year where we thought we were over the worst and then we're suddenly back in tiers of lockdown."

Meanwhile, Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he would not want to give a "cast iron guarantee" about future lockdowns.

He said: "The danger is we try to set out absolutes - with talk of whether this is irreversible, or whether nothing else will happen in the future.

"What we want to do is make choices based on the best available data and information, to see case rates driven as low as possible, and then to have a cautious exit out of the current lockdown we're in."

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