Free speech is under threat It must be defended. If you agree, this is the time to join us. Enjoy a full year’s access to The Telegraph for £29. | | Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference in Brussels yesterday Credit: SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP |  | Joe Barnes Brussels Correspondent | Last time Volodymyr Zelensky was in the Oval Office, Donald Trump made the point that he held “none of the cards” in the war with Russia.
Today, the Ukrainian president will have the entire deck, as European leaders travel to Washington to ensure their ally isn’t ambushed by his US hosts again.
The scenes of Trump and JD Vance, the vice-president, berating Zelensky have been etched in the minds of those Europeans.
As my colleague Ben Riley-Smith reports, it has become the aim of Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and other ‘‘Trump-whisperer’’ leaders to coach their Ukrainian ally to avoid any repeats.
But with Trump appearing to side with Vladimir Putin’s demand for Kyiv to surrender the Donetsk region as the price of peace, it could easily descend into another shouting match with Zelensky.
It will require a human shield to fend off the US president’s irritation – the European presence at the meeting designed to impress upon Trump the level of support Kyiv enjoys.
The list of leaders in attendance has been carefully drawn up because the US president respects them each in their own right and for different reasons.
Sir Keir has struck up somewhat of a friendship with Trump through flattery and business transactions, while Alexander Stubb, the Finnish president, has bonded with him over golf.
It will be a two-pronged attack.
Zelensky has stressed that he cannot cede the entirety of Donetsk to Russia as the price for peace.
The Europeans will back him to the hilt, maintaining that territory swaps cannot be imposed on Ukraine, but only negotiated with Ukraine’s consent.
It will be a balancing act that they hope will not trigger a spat with Trump. How Starmer taught Zelensky to speak Trump➤
Follow the latest developments➤ | | Grant Harrold at his home near Highgrove |  | Lisa Markwell Head of Long Reads | When Grant Harrold first met Prince Harry, the Prince chased him around Highgrove, pelting him with water balloons. It was 2004 and Harry was on his gap year while Harrold was just a few weeks into a job as a butler to the then Prince of Wales. He had already met William – warm if a little guarded; insistent he call him William – but Harry had proved elusive. Now, here the Prince was in the kitchen, playing tricks on the latest addition to his father’s staff.
It’s a scene that particularly stuck out to Eleanor Steafel when she read Harrold’s book, The Royal Butler, about the seven years he spent serving the King. There are, she says, perhaps glitzier, more historically significant revelations (for instance, that the King was at one time considering George VII for his regnal name), but it is his memories of life at home with the Waleses that stand out.
Eleanor went to the Cotswolds to interview Harrold, who told stories of two brothers who were “so close”. “They used to go around being silly with each other and winding each other up, jumping out at their dad from corners and making him laugh.” Harrold talked about the special bond he observed between William, Kate and Harry.
As for the King and Queen, while Spare might paint a picture of conflict and tension, Harrold – who was watching on from the sidelines –remembers it differently. “The four of them, I promise you, got on so well,” he said.
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| | Every Monday, our cartoonist reveals the winner of his caption contest and introduces a new unseen picture for you to provide with a brilliant caption.
 | Matt Pritchett | Hello! Thank you so much to everyone who entered.
The winner this week was Jerry Warner, who has come up with an inventive way that your eyesight might be tested for a driving licence. His caption is above.
I am away for the rest of this week on holiday, so there will be no caption competition this week. It will resume upon my return.
As always, I’ll be answering your questions on the Your Say page, so please enter some for me for when I’m back from holiday!
PS. For an inside look at what inspires my weekly cartoons, you can sign up for my personal subscriber-exclusive newsletter here. | Pasta purists Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
There’s been no shortage of diplomatic tumult recently, but it hasn’t tended to centre on matters of gastronomy. Earlier this month, though, it came to light that the Good Food website had published a recipe for cacio e pepe, one of the “big four” Roman pastas (the others being carbonara, all’Amatriciana and alla gricia). Attributed to hungry shepherds roaming the hills of Lazio in the 18th century, it consists of just three ingredients: pasta, pecorino cheese and black pepper. The Good Food version, however, suggested that parmesan could be used instead of pecorino – and added butter.
Across Italy, nonnas felt a disturbance, dropping their rolling pins in shock. A complaint was made to the British embassy in Rome. Fair enough, I say: cacio e pepe is a thing of beautiful simplicity, and the Italians have every right to feel protective of it. Also in this camp was Dr Edward Howell, a lecturer in international relations at Oxford University. “The incident,” he wrote to The Telegraph, “highlights how we, in Britain, need to do better. Food must be respected, and authenticity must be honoured... Whoever wrote the Good Food recipe should be ashamed: placing butter and parmesan in cacio e pepe is as much a crime as placing cream in carbonara (Gordon Ramsay, take note) or chicken in pasta or on pizza.”
He concluded: “As for those Britons who say that all of this is a fuss over nothing, I would like to see how they respond when an Italian decides to serve roast beef with mint sauce.”
Steady on, replied Roy Bailey: “Even the recipes for classic dishes are not graven in tablets of stone, and can be altered – or even improved – for local tastes. When I make a ragu to go with spaghetti or tagliatelle, I slow cook (with minced beef) onion or shallot, garlic, mushrooms, carrots, sweet peppers, celery, tinned tomatoes, tomato passata, red wine, Worcestershire sauce, a beef stock cube, dried herbs and paprika. There may sometimes be other items.”
Mark Redhead added: “Dr Howell’s use of roast beef with mint sauce as an example of a cultural culinary outrage is a poor one. My family has served mint sauce with roast beef all my life and we’re as English as they come. He should try it.” Sorry, Mark: not for me. Are you a pasta purist? Let me know here, or join the debate on our Your Say page, exclusively on the Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts. | From Westminster to Washington… Follow trusted coverage of the stories that are shaping our world One year for £29 | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
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