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Manners were very important to my mother. I was raised at a time when children had to be polite - for what would people think if we weren’t? (It wouldn’t really cross my mind not to be until much later) - for children showing good manners was surely a sign of great parenting.  Rudeness reflects on the parents.

As she celebrates the release of her extraordinary autobiographical film Somebody’s Daughter, Zara Phillips offers up some tough love truths that fly in the face of the often cheery, sanitized way adopted children (and other beings) are depicted in Disney films and other media.

Hear singer-songwriter, author and adoptee advocate, Zara Phillips in conversation with world-leading trauma and addiction expert, Dr. Gabo

All I wanted was a father’s love: Growing up, Zara Phillips’s life was dominated by her two fathers: the adoptive one who never spoke to her