By Ellen Coughlan for Mailonline

Published: 03:38 EDT, March 20, 2024 | Updated: 5:16 AM EDT, March 20, 2024

Queen Camilla will take a well-deserved break from work this week after holding down the fort since King Charles’ cancer was announced.

Her Majesty has a clear agenda and will take a private flight abroad tomorrow, while also making time for family in the coming weeks.

Camilla, 76, has taken on the extra burden since King Charles’ shock diagnosis last month, which saw him step back from his public duties.

Since Charles’ condition came to light, she has served thirteen official assignments. She continued with her own plans and only appeared at events intended for both the king and queen.

This included an engagement on Valentine’s Day, when Camilla went solo to Grosvenor House in London for an event celebrating Shakespeare, of whom the king, 75, is a lifelong fan.

She will resume work on March 11 for the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, where she will lead the royal family in place of Charles, who will instead deliver a video message to mark the occasion.

Camilla was the last major royal to emerge last week, raising some concerns about who is in charge at a time when so many key royals are out of the picture.

Royal author Ingrid Seward told The Sun on Sunday that Charles allegedly insisted his wife take a break.

She said, “He’ll make sure she’s exhausted. Camilla has had the biggest concerns about her husband’s health, but she has also been the one adjusting to the busy schedule of royal engagements and wanting to be there for him and Kate while they both had their health issues. .

“She certainly deserves some rest and relaxation.”

It comes as the Princess of Wales, 42, continues to recover from abdominal surgery at home with the support of her family, having not been seen in public since Christmas Day.

Meanwhile, William, 41, was this week forced to pull out of the Windsor tribute to his godfather, the late Greek King Constantine, due to a ‘personal matter’.

While Camilla enjoys a well-deserved rest, William, the Princess and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are ready to take on their obligations as usual.

Camilla was the most senior royal to complete orders, with the king continuing to work behind the scenes on his red boxes and other official duties while he underwent treatment.

In what has become a typically busy solo schedule, Camilla last week led the royal family at the memorial service for King Constantine of Greece in Windsor, hosted a reception for the ‘500 words’ children’s writing competition at Buckingham Palace and met the first lady of Ukraine , Olena Zelenska, at Clarence House.

A royal source told The Sunday Times that while Camilla never expected to lead the royal family, she is “absolutely willing to do whatever needs to be done for the institution” and has been “supported” by the king since the king’s diagnosis public support.

It was also reported that Charles was ‘proud’ of his wife for keeping the show going.

Her public presence has also filled the void left by the highly publicized absence of the 42-year-old Princess of Wales, who was the subject of hysterical speculation on social media last week.

Kate is still recovering from abdominal surgery in Windsor and will not resume work until after Easter.

The implosion of online theories about the princess’ health swirled last week after William, 41, withdrew from King Constantine’s service at the last minute due to a “personal matter.”

He returned to work on Thursday, visiting a synagogue in London, before visiting Wales for St David’s Day on Friday.

A top nutritionist has revealed that more Australians are feeling burned out than ever before – and their diets may be partly to blame.

Susie Burrell, from Sydney, said 'quick fixes' like coffee, alcohol and sugar could do more harm than good and should instead opt for fresh foods such as tuna and salad or red meat and vegetables.

'How many people do you know who first drink coffee, sushi rolls and then a microwave meal or a take-away? There is literally little to no fresh food all day,” she told FEMAIL.

“Creating a space where you can order fresh food, know what to buy or cook once a week so you have fresh stuff nearby right away will improve those variables.”

Susie said burnout is different from general stress or clinical depression and that it occurs when people are so physically and psychologically exhausted that they lack empathy for others or feel like their lives are meaningless.

She said focusing on eating fresh, whole foods like fruits, vegetables, red meat and foods rich in omega 3s is the best place to start when combating burnout.

'When we feel better in our bodies, we are psychologically better able to cope with the stresses and challenges that modern life brings.'

WHAT EXACTLY IS BURNOUT?

Susie said more and more women are starting to burn out juggling work, mothering and home life. She said it can be described as a kind of “psychological exhaustion.”

“Burnout is traditionally talked about in terms of a work environment where people are physically overworked and in many cases experiencing stress, but psychological burnout is a different concept,” she said.

One of the main symptoms of burnout is a lack of empathy or 'compassion fatigue'.

“You're almost oblivious to the emotions of people around you because you're so exhausted and not reacting the way you normally would,” Susie explained.

'Things that are normally emotional or that bother you no longer interest you. You have no natural empathetic support.”

There is also a feeling of general exhaustion and a 'lack of joy in life', where nothing brings you pleasure or joy the way it once did.

“Your mood is affected, so you wake up and you don't have the energy to do things you would normally do, and you struggle to get through the day,” the dietitian said.

'If you see it as energy investments; energy in and energy out. But when everything goes out and so little comes in over time, it's not a cognitive mood problem, it's a general level of fatigue.”

Another sign of burnout is feeling like you're not accomplishing anything or contributing anything meaningful, which Susie says is common in the workplace but also prominent in moms' homes.

“They go home and they feel like they're not doing a good job as a mother, or they don't go to work, or they feel like it doesn't matter whether they're (at work) or not,” she said.

Susie said burnout can get confused with stress or depression, and said there is no quick and easy fix to get yourself out of it.

'It's not a matter of just going on holiday or getting a massage, it's deeper issues that you have to work through. It's not about taking drugs and improving mood, it's not neurotransmitter instability,” she said.

“It's a physical psychological outcome of that level of exhaustion and emotional exhaustion.”

HOW CAN YOUR DIET CAUSE BURNOUT?

Susie said it's important, especially for busy moms, to prioritize nourishing the body with beneficial nutrients to help you cope with the stresses and challenges that everyday life brings.

'We start the day and the focus is never on ourselves. We worry about the children. The pets leave the house and go to work, so we often forget to feed first,” she said.

'The link back to self-care and what we eat is so strong because you can imagine that many people forget that what we eat every day provides our body and even our mood with the basic nutrients to function optimally.'

Susie said people often turn to processed “quick fix” foods, such as coffee, alcohol and sugar, which are convenient but not necessarily healthy.

“It's that quick kick all the time. You just grab a cup of coffee and it ends up affecting your hormones, then you gain weight and then you feel even worse,” she said.

“It's the daily short-term hit, but it's actually undermining long-term profits.”

Susie said women are often deficient in key nutrients, which can leave them feeling like they have no energy.

'25 percent of women have low iron levels, but very few people get enough Omega 3 fats. Physically, we don't start the day well and are exhausted, and our hormones are out of whack,” she said.

“Then you're at that level of burnout, where you have no joy anymore, you leave the house angry at everyone, everyone irritates you, the people you love, your kids yell at them all the time. you have nothing left.”

HOW CAN YOU EAT YOURSELF OUT OF BURNOUT?

Susie said that for those feeling burned out, cleaning up their diet is a good start to rebuilding energy.

“It's kind of a three-, six-, 12-month rehabilitation process, but the first step is eating right,” she said.

“The first step for women is to look and say, 'Okay, how can I nourish myself to get back in touch with myself?' Because then you will of course be better able to see the positive, be more joyful and recognize that you are not feeling well.'

Susie said a green juice is a great way to start the day and give your body the nutrients it needs.

“It's not easy to make, but if you can buy one instead of coffee, there are huge benefits,” she said.

For an affordable, healthy lunch, she recommends a can of tuna, salads and ready-made meals from the supermarket.

'Ready-made salads that you can now find in supermarkets are cost-effective and of good quality. Add a can of tuna or hot smoked salmon. That's a five-minute meal that's amazing,” she said.

'Many of the ready-made fresh meals in supermarkets that contain vegetables are also great.'

Susie said eating a filling, healthy breakfast and lunch before 1 p.m. will also help curb cravings for sugary over-processed snacks at 3 p.m.

She recommended fatty fish such as salmon, as well as nuts and seeds to give yourself a good dose of omega 3.

'If you have the opportunity to roast some vegetables once a week, cook a few pieces of salmon or chicken breast so you have them there. On some basis that will be a good starting point,” Susie said.

Susie recommended red meat because women are often low in iron, which makes them feel tired.

She suggested eating lean lamb chops with a ready-made salad or a lean burger patty or sausages with roasted vegetables.

“You have to create a system around your lifestyle to make it easy, it's not about adding more,” she said.

'It's about being more efficient with what you can handle. And we have to eat, but we might as well make the best choices we can.”

Susie is organizing a one-off event, From Burn Out to Best Selfto help women rebuild after a burnout.

SUPERMARKET giant Morrisons has made a major change to all its stores, calling it 'a big deal'.

The retailer, which operates almost 500 UK stores, has installed seating areas in its branches for “anyone who needs a break in the middle of the store”.

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A spokesperson for the chain said it made this change after feedback from customers asking for a place to stop and rest while shopping.

A customer recently posted on X, formerly Twitter, an image of one of the seating areas at their local branch in Dover, Kent, with the caption: “What a great idea.”

In response, Morrisons posted: “Do you need to take five? We have installed seating areas in our stores for anyone who needs a break halfway through the store.

“Sit down, have a chat and take as long as you need.”

The move is seen as a big positive by online shoppers, with one labeling it “a big deal” for struggling customers.

Another said: “Great idea, my mother has trouble walking.

“(I) saw the setup at your Belper store and took a few minutes to chat with a lady who was also shopping and take five while I sorted out the groceries. Great, helpful idea.”

And a third added: “That's great, my husband is on oxygen and needs to sit for a while. Hopefully someone will come and talk to him.”

It is not the first change Morrisons has made to its stores in recent years.

In June, then CEO David Potts announced at a cross-party committee chaired by MPs that the retailer would roll out some of its budget items from the Savers range to its Daily convenience stores.

It came as supermarket bosses faced criticism from ministers over rising food prices, with supermarket inflation at 16.5% in June.

The month before, Morrisons announced a major change to its loyalty program, replacing My Morrisons with its More Card.

Meanwhile, a number of other supermarkets have adapted their stores to accommodate shoppers.

In November 2021, Asda joined Morrisons, Tesco and Lidl in introducing “quiet hours” to their stores.

This keeps noises such as music and other noises to a minimum.

The concept is designed to help people with disabilities such as autism and anxiety.

Meanwhile, supermarket chain Booths announced in November last year that it would ditch self-service checkouts in a bid to improve customers' shopping experience.

Booth's managing director Nigel Murray told The Grocer that the supermarket was not a “big fan of self-checkouts”.

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Thick plumes of smoke could be seen drifting over the top of buildings today in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Khan Yunis, the focus of recent fighting in a war that is now in its 13th week. 

Fighting raged today across Gaza, where displaced Palestinians are ‘exhausted’ with no end in sight to the war between the besieged territory’s Hamas rulers and Israel. 

The enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry said that 165 Gazans were killed over the past 24 hours, while a total of 56,165 others have been wounded in the fighting.

It added that at least 21,672 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since the war with Israel erupted on October 7. 

Further south, the border city of Rafah near Egypt was teeming with Gazans seeking safety from Israel’s relentless bombardment in its fight against Hamas terrorists.

‘Enough with this war! We are totally exhausted,’ said Umm Louay Abu Khater, a 49-year-old woman who had fled her home in Khan Yunis, taking refuge in Rafah.

‘We are constantly displaced from one place to another in cold weather,’ she said. ‘The bombs keep falling on us day and night.’

The Israeli army kept up its campaign in the face of mounting international pushback, reporting ‘fierce battles’ and air strikes across the narrow Palestinian territory.

The fighting began with Hamas’s bloody October 7 attacks, which left about 1,140 people dead in Israel, mostly civilians. 

Terrorists also took about 250 people hostage, and Israel says 129 of them remain in Gaza.

Israel’s army says 168 soldiers have been killed in combat inside the territory.

There was continuous artillery shelling overnight in Rafah and Khan Yunis, and the Gaza health ministry said ‘multiple’ people had died in a strike on a house in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the territory’s centre.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Friday reiterated his call for ‘an immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ as conditions in the Strip keep deteriorating.

Medics in Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis said they were facing severe shortages.

‘The hospital is receiving a lot more (patients) than its capacity, in fact we are functioning at 300 per cent of our… capacity,’ doctor Ahmad Abu Mustafa said in footage shared by the World Health Organization (WHO).

‘The beds are full… and we are basically short on all sorts of medicine supplies.’

In central Gaza’s Zawayda, Palestinians were inspecting damage and pulling the body of a child from under the rubble after an Israeli strike.

Slain reporter Jabr Abu Hadrous was laid to rest in Deir al-Balah.

‘Palestinian journalists are killed, arrested and prosecuted,’ said fellow journalist Basel Khalaf, calling on the international community to ‘stand by Palestinian journalists, not only in words but also in actions’.

An army statement today said ‘two Hamas military compounds were dismantled by the troops’ in Beit Lahia, and dozens of ‘terrorists’ had been killed in Gaza City, both in the territory’s north.

Ahmed al-Baz, a 33-year-old Palestinian displaced from Gaza City, said this year had been ‘the worst in my life’.

‘It was a year of destruction and devastation,’ he said in Rafah, surrounded by tents in a makeshift camp.

‘We just want the war to end, and start the new year at home, with a ceasefire declared.’

International mediators – who last month brokered a one-week truce that saw more than 100 hostages released and some aid enter Gaza – continue in their efforts to secure a new pause in fighting.

US news outlet Axios and Israeli website Ynet, both citing unnamed Israeli officials, reported that Qatari mediators had told Israel that Hamas was prepared to resume talks on new hostage releases in exchange for a ceasefire.

And a Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Friday to discuss an Egyptian plan proposing renewable ceasefires, a staggered release of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, and ultimately an end to the war, sources close to Hamas say.

Islamic Jihad, another armed group fighting alongside Hamas, said today that Palestinian factions were ‘in the process’ of evaluating the Egyptian proposal.

A response will come ‘within days, and the brothers in Egypt will be informed’, according to Muhammad al-Hindi, Islamic Jihad’s deputy secretary-general.

Israel has yet to formally comment on the Cairo plan, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told families of hostages on Thursday that ‘we are in contact’ with the Egyptian mediators, also vowing to return the captives still in Gaza.

Mia Shem, an Israeli-French hostage abducted from the site of the Nova music festival and released under November’s truce agreement, told Israeli media she was locked up ‘in a dark room’ and ‘forbidden’ from talking. 

‘There was a fear of rape, fear of dying,’ Shem, 21, said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 which aired on Friday.

An Israeli siege imposed after October 7, following years of crippling blockade, has led to dire shortages of food, safe water, fuel and medicine in Gaza, with aid convoys offering only sporadic relief.

On Friday, a total of 72 aid trucks, most of them carrying food, entered Gaza, according to the territory’s border crossings authority.

Gaza also received four fuel trucks and 29 commercial food trucks, it said.

The UN says more than 85 per cent of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have fled their homes.

South Africa on Friday filed an application at the International Court of Justice to start proceedings for what it said were ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza, which Israel dismissed as ‘blood libel’.

Key Israeli ally the United States, meanwhile, announced the approval of a $147.5 million (£115.8 million) sale of 155mm high-explosive artillery munitions and related equipment to Israel from US Army stocks.

The Gaza war has intensified tensions across the region.

Israel has traded regular cross-border fire with Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, and early Saturday the army said it had struck in Syria following rocket launches.

By Zeenia Naqvee

Published: 05:41 EST, December 4, 2023 | Updated: 08:05 EST, December 4, 2023

Taylor Swift’s Australian fans were devastated on Friday when many made a fruitless attempt to buy tickets for her Era tour Down Under.

Twitter was quickly flooded with posts from “defeated and exhausted” fans who had struggled – and failed – to buy tickets to the coveted performance, while also furious that some hopefuls were buying tickets to more than one concert.

General admission tickets for Taylor Swift’s Australian The Eras tour dates in Sydney and Melbourne sold out in hours, with only VIP and Hotel + Ticket packages left for all shows in the country.

Tickets for the Sydney shows went on sale at 10am, while Melbournians jumped online at 2pm to score a seat.

Frontier touring broke the bad news on Twitter to its Sydney-based fans around noon Friday, writing, “AG Reserve is now exhausted. VIP and Hotel + Ticket packages remain valid for all shows in Sydney!’

Following the news, fans swarmed the site, writing: ‘Taylor should have put her shows in every state of Australia and NZ so we all have a better chance of getting tickets… it’s just not fair…

‘A whole day from 10 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. and all tickets gone! for nothing! Feel so defeated! I really believe only people from Australia/New Zealand/Islands should buy the tickets…

“I couldn’t get Taylor Swift tickets, please come to Australia and fill the void… Taylor Swift literally broke Australia. No one is doing work because everyone is trying to get tickets, tickets instantly 2-5x, flights and hotels instantly 4x…

“Someone (other than Taylor Swift) made a lot of money today… Does @taylorswift13 know the chaos that engulfed Australia this beautiful day in June? Taylor. Mrs. Taylor Alison Swift. We call shenanigans….

No, because the battle for Taylor Swift tickets in Australia will be brutal and I’m so scared. What if I don’t get tickets?’

Taylor announced a third Melbourne show at the MCG on February 18 next year and a fourth Sydney concert at Accor Stadium on February 26 as part of The Eras Tour.

The star will become the first artist since Madonna to play three consecutive concerts at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when she takes the stage in February next year, and the first ever to play a fourth consecutive show at Sydney’s Accor Stadium.

The new performances are in addition to the existing concerts in Melbourne on February 16 and 17 and shows in Sydney on February 23, 24 and 25.

Prior to their disappointing blow, avid fans took to social media to tweet Ticketek, begging for seats to one of the shows.

Fans wrote, “This is becoming an obsession. I feel like a stalker!…I’m going to play all of Taylor Swift’s albums and see how long it lasts,” wrote another…

‘Guys, I’m working to serve customers, get me tickets right away, please I’m begging you… How much is a booking/service fee per ticket? Do you have to be sure that you take sufficient account?’

Other fans camped outside Ticketek offices in an attempt to beat online queues.

“3 more hours until the box office opens, but the atmosphere is impeccable,” Swift superfan Bec Sammut said in a viral TikTok video as she waited outside in the dead of winter.

“Camping overnight at the Ticketek office for Taylor Swift tickets because that’s legitimately easier than getting them online,” she wrote.

In yet another bizarre turn of events, Taylor fans in the UK rushed to dating apps in a desperate bid to meet Liverpool season ticket holders who have priority access to the pop star’s Anfield stadium concerts.

‘Swifties’ – the nickname for Taylor’s millions of supporters – fear they won’t be able to get tickets after the singer changed her sales system so bots can’t resell.

Young women across the UK are now changing the location setting on their dating profiles to Liverpool to increase their chances of meeting a nearby football fan – so they can get their tickets from them when Taylor plays there in June 2024.

One Twitter user wrote: ‘If you are a single man in Liverpool and you have an LFC season ticket, Tinder and Hinge will love you.

“Every girl is looking for a guy who has one so they can get their Taylor Swift tickets. I give these girls all due respect for their struggles to get tickets.’

Another said, “I swipe right on Tinder when they say they have Taylor Swift tickets. No luck yet. I will totally match with someone who would hate me for being arm candy on the show.”

Tickets for the Taylor’s Eras tour, currently taking place in the US, are notoriously hard to buy due to the “unprecedented demand” coupled with the use of bots.

Robots that can mimic human activity on a large scale on the Internet have been used to buy limited edition tickets and resell them at a higher cost.

Last year, US politicians were forced to intervene after millions of Swifties were unable to buy Eras tickets after the Ticketmaster site crashed due to bots overwhelming the site.

About 320 fans have filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation for at least £1,900 for selling tickets to bots.

To deal with the problem in the UK, Ticketmaster has set up a very complicated booking system to reduce the number of fans who have access to ticket sales.

Advance tickets were available to people who pre-ordered the Midnight’s album before its release or Liverpool season ticket holders.

Taylor will perform five Wembley shows next summer in addition to her two performances in Liverpool, concluding in London on August 17.