Being Old and Learning to Love it with Prue Leith

Sunday 11 October 2026
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Starts: 6:30pm
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Duration: 1 hour
The Crown Hotel, Harrogate
Tickets £ 22.00
Warm, wise and wonderfully candid, national treasure Dame Prue Leith shares the stories, lessons and laughter behind her latest book, Being Old… and Learning to Love It!
Blending memoir with uplifting reflections on ageing, Prue takes audiences through the triumphs, challenges and unexpected joys of growing older, from her journey to The Great British Bake Off fame to the friendships, family and experiences that have shaped her life.
With her trademark wit, honesty and no-nonsense charm, Prue explores everything from staying curious and finding purpose to love, loss, health and the realities of ageing well.
Nothing is off limits in this entertaining and heartfelt conversation about embracing every stage of life.
Find out more about the book here.
Kindly sponsored by Raworths Solicitors.

Prue Leith’s career has included her own restaurants, catering and cookery school businesses; she’s been a board director of companies such as British Rail, Halifax, Safeway, Whitbread, Woolworths, and Belmond (ex-Orient Express) Hotels.

She has published eight novels, a memoir, I’ll Do Anything Once (formerly, Relish) and 14 cookbooks. Her latest cookbook, ‘Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom’ was published October 2024 and her new book ‘Being Old  and Learning to Love it’ published February 2026.

Prue is probably best known as a judge on the Great British Bake Off, a gardening programme, Prue’s Great Garden Plot with her husband, as well as a judge on the American Baking Show. She has also been a judge on The Great British Menu and My Kitchen Rules and is set to film the fourth series of her own TV show, Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen.

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