lingerie for her wedding night, an article that included reference to a "$900 bra". Six years later some fashion journalists (anticipating correctly the chosen designer) claimed that Catherine Middleton had been inspired by Sykes' wedding dress to choose Burton to design hers for her marriage to Prince William. Sykes and Rowland had their first child, Ursula, in October 2006 and their second child, Tess, in June 2010. Sykes' twin sister Lucy, who moved to New York in 1996, became fashion director of Marie Claire, and later a designer of children's clothes. In the late 1990s the Sykes sisters were sometimes described as the "twin set". Sykes later joked, with reference to the heiresses Paris and Nicky Hilton, that "Lucy and I were Paris and Nicky without the sextape" (an allusion to the sex tape featuring Paris Hilton and a former boyfriend that had been posted on the internet in 2003). Lucy Sykes married Euan Rellie, a New York-based investment banker, in 2002. Anxiety disorder In the April 2012 issue of Vogue, Sykes writes of her three-year struggle with anxiety disorder and agoraphobia after the birth of her children, a condition which rendered her unable to work or to maintain her social life or passion for horse riding. Sykes admitted "I had visited doctors and consultants and had tests, procedures and scans, but no one could tell me what was wrong... I felt terrified, mentally and physically I was jelly. I was afraid to do anything. "Take some Xanax", said one doctor, 'it's anxiety". Sykes attended an anxiety recovery programme developed by anxiety expert, Charles Linden, which she cites as the solution that returned her to working for American Vogue and a full and active social life. In the article, Sykes says 'I started The Linden Method... and felt better almost immediately... I took the girls to the park and pushed them on the swings, something I hadn't been able to do for two years... now more than a year later, the anxiety has not returned." Novels by Plum Sykes Bergdorf Blondes (2004) The Debutante Divorcée (2006) Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery (2017) References External links "The Debutante Divorcée" in the New York Times Sunday Book Review Girl on the Avenue Plum Sykes' unveiled advice My big fat Yorkshire wedding "Victoria's secret" – Hedley Freeman in the Guardian, 17 April 2004 "My best friends, the ultimate It