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MOST little girls’ bedrooms are just decorated with a lick of pink paint.

But it’s a different story when you are the latest addition to MADONNA’s brood.

The singer is pulling out all the stops to give new adopted daughter MERCY the most glamorous pad she could wish for.

And she has called on pal and fellow mum GWYNETH PALTROW to supervise.

Madge was finally given permission to adopt four-year-old Mercy last week, and the Malawian tot is expected to join the family in New York in the next few days.

Madge is currently renovating her £20million New York townhouse and has a huge shopping wishlist to fill the youngster’s new room.

It includes porcelain dolls, antique teddy bears, a library of leather-bound children’s books and ancient maps of Africa to adorn the walls.

Madonna already has an adopted three-year-old son from Malawi, DAVID BANDA, whom she took on in 2006.

A source revealed: “Madge wants Mercy to feel like a little princess when she arrives.

“Gwyneth has a home in the Hamptons area of New York and Madonna was so impressed with her daughter APPLE’s room that she asked Gwyneth to help her kit out Mercy’s new bedroom.

“As well as all the items inside, she’s also commissioned a mini Georgian-style treehouse for Mercy and David in her garden.

“She’s been filling Mercy’s wardrobe at the same time.

“She’s stocked up on cashmere sweaters, dresses and silk tunics and has had a new charm bracelet made for her.

“It features a miniature bell, a Statue of Liberty, a map of Africa and lockets with photos of everyone in her new family.”

And it is not just Madonna who is planning to spoil Mercy.

Madge’s eldest girl, Lourdes, has been on a spree, too.

The source added: “Lourdes is beside herself with excitement about her new sister.

“She’s really looking forward to having a little girl in the house she can care for. She’s bought piles of leggings, hipster T-shirts, tutus and trainers for the new arrival.”

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...ys-bedroom.html

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I love how the media and some fans paint Madonna as "buying Mercy". That's just bullocks. Madonna has given money and help that country ever since she was called up by that woman (who hung up on her because Madonna didn't know where Malawi was) for help.

I don't buy all these negative stories which put this negative spin on Madonna, claiming she bought her children or sent her husband with a camera to find a child. That's just ridiculous.

In the end, however it came about... these children are left as orphans and Madonna managed to adopt two children in need. I realize families are less fortunate and it's hard to take care of their children, so they leave their children in orphanages. But that crap wouldn't fly in any other civilized country. People just don't leave their children on orphanages and expect six years later they are going to get their children back. It's insane.

I don't care if she paid the parents herself 12 million dollars (which I know she didn't). The fact she is willing to give a better life to these two, means Madonna is willing to put her money aside to help two unfortunate children. More than most people do in a life time.

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do you think they are together maybe mad's in Malawi already!

she must be herearsing for the tour. mercy should be already with her by next week

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she must be herearsing for the tour. mercy should be already with her by next week

Next week I don't remember David's adoption taking two weeks, did he not leave like three days after she applied for the adoption, mercy should be in NYC by this weekend , hopefully!

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By PETER MWAURA, gigirimwaura@yahoo.com Posted Friday, June 19 2009 at 19:30

The lesson that has emerged from Malawi recently is that it’s possible for a court to bend the law, with the public cheering, to suit the white, the famous and the wealthy. The lesson is not new to many African societies, but it’s worth recounting because the Malawian version is novel.

The lesson is also worth recounting because it suggests that when people are happy with the bending of the law, there is no manifest sense of injustice. In fact, what we learn from the successful attempt by the American pop superstar Madonna to adopt a four-year-old Malawian girl, Chifondo James, in the face of the country’s law that forbids such adoptions, is that poverty influences how we enforce our laws.

IN MALAWI POVERTY IS APPALLING. About 8 million Malawians, or almost 70 per cent of the population, live below the national poverty line, according UN figures. The country is heavily dependent on foreign aid.

Poverty weighs heavily particularly on children. According to the country’s ministry of women and child welfare development, there are close to 2 million orphans. Indeed, what happened this week, when the Supreme Court of Malawi bent the law to allow Madonna to adopt Chifondo is directly related to poverty. It was the second time the law was fudged to accommodate the wealthy celebrity.

In 2006, Madonna was allowed to adopt David Banda, then 13 months old, again breaking the country’s adoption law that requires that adoptive parents be residents of Malawi for at least 18 months. No other foreigner has been allowed to adopt any of Malawi’s orphans without satisfying the residency requirements.

But practically no Malawian is complaining. Even the voices of those who had opposed Banda’s adoption have been muffled. Malawians have praised the Supreme Court and condemned in abusive terms the High Court judge who had originally rejected Madonna’s adoption application.

Virtually the whole country, right from President Bingu wa Mutharika, was in favour of the adoption. After High Court judge Esmie Chombo threw out Madonna’s adoption application in April on the ground that she had not lived in Malawi for 18 months and that allowing the adoption could open the door to trafficking in children.

President Mutharika said Chifondo was being offered a chance to have a good education and a better future. He wished 10,000 orphans in Malawi would get access to good education and a chance to life through adoption. Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo listened and agreed. He used the power of judges to interpret the law to squash the High Court ruling.

He said the argument that Madonna was not resident in Malawi did not arise because the definition of the term “is at large”. Judges, he said, need to apply the term while putting globalisation into their minds.

He said the High Court had failed to take into account modern realities. “In this global village, a man can have more than one place at which he resides,” he added. “In our view the appellant was resident in Malawi when she applied to the court to have CJ (Chifondo James).”

He went on to say that Madonna has long-term plans to assist the underprivileged children in Malawi, that she is stable financially and has a home in Beverley Hills in America and a home in UK, “where CJ can live happily.”

Justice Munlo, who sat with two other appeal court judges, said the High Court should have taken into account Madonna’s commitment to disadvantaged children — she funds the Raising Malawi charity serving 25,000 orphaned children. The Material Girl was reported to have donated $19 million to help Malawian children before the ruling by the Supreme Court.

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(Rumour) MADGE MERCY MISSION

By Fiona Cummins 20/06/2009

Madonna is heading to Malawi to pick up her newly adopted daughter Mercy.

The Queen of Pop is expected in the African state "within 24 hours".

Once there she will throw a thankyou party for children, government officials and the staff at her charity Raising Malawi. Madge, 50, who jetted into London from New York yesterday, is expected to stay there for a week.

A worker tending the lawns at the luxury Kumbali Lodge where Mercy has been staying said: "We have been told to prepare Madonna's suite. Raising Malawi officials have brought in new linen."

The singer - who finally won her battle to adopt Mercy last week - is expected to travel to Africa with her children Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and adopted David Banda, three.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2...15875-21456527/

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^^^Very cool!!! I don't know how she does it especially with rehearsing for the tour too. But, if anyone can juggle it all, it's Madonna.

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Madonna's adopted daughter said to leave Malawi

By RAPHAEL TENTHANI – 1 hour ago

LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) — Madonna's new daughter has flown out of her native Malawi on a private jet headed for London, an airport employee and a person familiar with Madonna's adoption proceedings in this southern African country said Saturday.

The airport employee, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter, said 3-year-old Chifundo "Mercy" James left late Friday headed to London, with a stop in neighboring South Africa. The girl, the second child Madonna has adopted from Malawi, was reportedly accompanied on the flight by a nanny, a child nurse and a third aide.

The person familiar with the adoption, who also was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the girl known as Mercy should have reached London on Saturday morning. Madonna has homes in England and in the United States.

Malawi's highest court had granted the adoption June 12, overturning an April lower court ruling that Madonna had not spent enough time in Malawi to be given a child.

The high court said the first judge had imposed too narrow a definition of residency, and lauded Madonna for her work with children in a poor country where half a million have lost a parent to AIDS.

Madonna's Raising Malawi, a charity founded in 2006, helps feed, educate and provide medical care for some of Malawi's orphans.

Madonna adopted a son, David, from Malawi last year.

Children's welfare groups had expressed concern that rules meant to protect children were being bent because of Madonna's celebrity, and perhaps out of gratitude for what she has done for Malawi.

Madonna met Mercy in 2006 at Kondanani Children's Village, an orphanage in Bvumbwe, just south of Blantyre. It was the same year she began the process of adopting David, whom she found at another orphanage in central Malawi.

The girl's 18-year-old mother was unmarried and died soon after she gave birth. Since Madonna moved to adopt the girl, a dispute has arisen between the girl's maternal relatives, who agreed to the adoption, and a man who says he is the father and wants to care for the girl himself, but acknowledged he had never seen Mercy.

Madonna first traveled to Malawi in 2006 while filming a documentary on its devastating poverty and AIDS crisis.

In addition to David, the 50-year-old Madonna has two other children: Lourdes, 12, and Rocco, 8.

Reports that Madonna would in the next few days visit her charity's projects in Malawi could not be confirmed.

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MERCY LEAVES MALAWI

LILONGWE (AFP) — Madonna’s adopted Malawian daughter has flown out of the country to join the pop star, a Lilongwe airport official said Saturday.

“Mercy James left Malawi to join Madonna on Friday night,” the official told AFP, adding that the three-year-old was accompanied on the private jet by a nanny, the nanny’s husband and Phillip Bosphe, the head of Madonna’s charity, Raising Malawi.

They were flying to London via South Africa, he added.

An employee at Kumbali Lodge where the group stayed, confirmed that the girl had left with them.

Last Sunday, a Malawian man, James Kambewa, who says he is the girl’s father told AFP he had given up his fight to block the adoption, and said he wished the singer well.

On June 12 Malawi’s Supreme Court granted Madonna’s adoption of Chifundo James, whose name means “Mercy,” after a lower court had turned it down on the grounds that the star had failed to meet an 18-month residency requirement.

Madonna, 50, first met Mercy at Kondanani orphanage in the southern Malawi district of Thyolo, 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the commercial capital Blantyre, during her first visit to the poor southern African nation in 2006.

She had already adopted another Malawian child, David Banda, and said that she wanted him to have a sibling from his home country. The residency requirement was also waived in his case.

The application had been met by fierce criticism by child welfare groups and rights activists who were opposed to the singer’s efforts to take another child away from the country.

They argued that international adoption should be viewed as a last resort, even though Malawi is home to an estimated 560,000 children who have lost at least one parent to AIDS.

Malawi has no law specifically on international adoption, leaving judges to decide each petition case by case.

Madonna’s charity, Raising Malawi, provides support for orphans and vulnerable children.

She has built a multi-purpose community centre at Mphandula village, 50 kilometres from Lilongwe, which looks after more than 8,000 orphans from scores of villages in the area.

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FIRST PIX OF MERCY

Mercy's world of Madgeness

EXCLUSIVE by Nick Owens 21/06/2009

Tot flown 6,000 miles from home to meet new mum Madonna and family in London.. and is whisked straight to a Kaballah meeting

Mercy (Pic:EaglePress)

Little Mercy James spent 12 hours flying 6,000 miles to start her new life with adoptive mum Madonna yesterday… then was driven straight to a Kabbalah meeting.

Under cover of darkness in Malawi on Friday the three-year-old was taken from all that was familiar to her, put on a private jet and flown into Madonna’s arms in London.

But Mercy wasn’t allowed time to play with toys or settle into her new life. Instead, within hours of arriving, Madonna whisked the child and her new siblings Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight and David, three, to her first lesson in the controversial Kabbalah faith.

Madonna’s ex, Guy Ritchie, who was at the singer’s side when she first spotted Mercy in a Malawi orphanage in 2006, was at the Kabbalah centre.

The family spent an hour at the meeting in London before Mercy – wearing a pair of new shiny white sandals – returned to Madonna’s £15million home in Mayfair.

Guy took Rocco and David to his Wiltshire home for the weekend, allowing Madonna time to bond with her new daughter.

Meanwhile, back in Malawi Mercy’s dad James Kambewa, who fought to win custody of Mercy, was heartbroken his girl had been taken away. He said: “My Mercy is gone. Madonna has used her money and power but my blood lives in Mercy for ever and ever. There is nothing I can do now.”

Yesterday experts condemned the way the 50-year-old singer handled her first day as Mercy’s mum. They said Kabbalah was the last thing she needed and urged the superstar to give Mercy quiet time to adapt to her new surroundings.

Child psychologist Katherine Fingleton said: “Taking her to a Kabbalah meeting will be a complete culture shock. She should be kept safe from experiences in the spotlight that will not help with her development.”

Madonna, who won custody of the child two weeks ago, had been expected to fly to Africa and personally collect the tot, whom she has not seen since March.

Instead, Mercy was secretly smuggled out of the poverty-stricken country at night. Wearing a cream dress, she was collected by a 4x4 car with blacked-out windows from the lodge in Kumbali where she has been staying for the past two weeks.

Flanked by Phillip Bosphe, head of Madonna’s charity Raising Malawi, a nurse and a nanny, Mercy was driven to Kazmu International Airport where security had been massively beefed up ahead of her arrival.

Waiting there was a Cessna private jet hired from South Africa – the first snapshot for Mercy of the luxurious life which lies ahead with Madonna.

The toddler then boarded a plane for the first time. After getting clearance from aviation officials to take off, the aircraft headed for Tambo International Airport in South Africa.

From there Mercy and Madonna’s entourage flew to Heathrow. She was then driven to the singer’s luxury London home – a world away from her previous orphanage home in poverty-stricken Malawi.

Madonna, who had been speaking to Mercy on the phone every day, prepared for the arrival by attending the Kabbalah meeting. She has been a follower for many years but critics say Kabbalah is more like a cult.

One of their most controversial views is that Jews would have survived the Holocaust had they studied Kabbalah.

Madonna is even rumoured to be planning a Kabbalah commitment ceremony to her model toyboy lover Jesus Luz, who appeared yesterday on the catwalk at a Milan fashion show.

Now Mercy will be encouraged to follow the faith as well. The tot’s time is expected to be divided between homes in London and New York.

Yesterday Anne Chikh Waza, director of the Kondanani Children’s home where Mercy lived, said she was glad the child was now living with Madonna.

“The girl is gone and I’m very happy,” she said. “The process was long but at last she has found happiness.”

The star has reportedly splashed out recently on a £25million Georgian-style townhouse in the Upper East side of New York with 13 bedrooms.

She won her lengthy battle to adopt Mercy two weeks ago when a Malawian court ruled “every child has a right to love”.

The decision overturned a previous ruling preventing Madonna from adopting the three-year-old.

Approval of the adoption angered many campaigners who claim Madonna was only allowed to have Mercy because of the huge sums she has pumped into the poor African state.

She gave £12million to fund six orphanages as well as paying for shoes, clothes, books and mosquito nets.

Madonna first came across Mercy at an orphanage during her first visit to Malawi in 2006 with Guy Ritchie.

She decided that Mercy, whose mum Mwandida Chekechiwa died in childbirth, was “the one”.

But the toddler’s grandmother, Lucy Checkechiwa, refused to let her go so Madonna chose to adopt David Banda instead.

Then last year Madonna tried again to adopt Mercy.

It sparked fury among the child’s family – especially her dad James Kambewa.

In a series of exclusive interviews with the Sunday Mirror the penniless security guard revealed his determination to defy Madonna, who is worth £150million, and win custody of Mercy.

But in the end the singer got her own way.

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Madonna reunited with new child Mercy in Britain after a flight out of Africa

By Barbara Jones

Madonna's new daughter Mercy James arrived in Britain yesterday to be reunited with the singer.

The four-year-old was flown from Malawi to Heathrow in a carefully orchestrated operation.

Madonna, 50, had flown into Britain from New York with her three other children hours earlier.

It is thought to be the first time that she has seen her new daughter since she travelled to Malawi in April when her adoption bid was initially rejected before being approved this month.

Malawian police arranged for the airport terminal in Lilongwe to shut so Mercy and her new nanny Joanne could leave privately on a private six-seater Cessna Citation plane.

They headed to Johannesburg on the first leg of their journey.

From there the group flew first-class on a night flight to Heathrow, landing at 6.30am. Earlier Mercy was said to be filled with excitement at leaving her temporary home at Kumbali Lodge in Malawi.

One member of staff said: ‘She was running around, singing to herself and telling everyone how she would be flying for the first time.’

She said goodbye in her native language, telling staff: ‘I’m going now, I’m going on a plane, I’m going up to the sky.’

The orphan, will be joining big sister, Lourdes, brothers Rococo and David Banda, another adopted three-year-old from Malawi, to live in New York.

The singer won custody of the Malawian orphan earlier this month - three years after first falling for the child on a visit to the African country.

Before Mercy could leave Malawi, she had to await a passport - and for her new mother's staff to arrange the travel plans.

Madonna's other children were introduced to their little sister in April and were reportedly distressed to have to leave her behind when Malawi's high court turned down the singer's application because she was not resident in the country.

This decision was overturned by the supreme court which ruled the lower court had erred in its decision.

Despite Madonna's avowed love for the child, she was unable to make it to Malawi for the hearing and was represented by her lawyer, Alan Chinula.

Mercy will leave behind the orphanage for a new home in New York.

It has been reported that Madonna has just splashed out £25million on a Georgian-style townhouse in the Upper East Side.

The 26-room property is said to have 13 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms.

Instead of being raised in the Christian faith practised by her Malawian family, Mercy will be instructed in Kabbalah, the mystical faith followed by Madonna.

Rights groups have accused the government of giving Madonna special treatment and said the case would encourage foreign celebrities to think they can adopt Malawian children at will.

Mercy's father said Madonna, who is dating 22-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz should not be allowed to adopt Mercy.

'No one wants to listen to me, I have protested this all along... I want my child back but I don't know what to do now,' James Kambewa said.

'Madonna cannot take her away.'

There is little he can do now - the supreme court ruling cannot be challenged.

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1st well madge originally was to have adopted her in April which would have given more then enough time to bond but as we and the whole world knows it did not go that way,madge has a lot on her plate but she can do it!

2nd Britney Has a Fire Crotch! LOL!^^^^^^^^^

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It must be so weird to be presented with a child and be told- Here this child is now yours to raise. Esp. when youre about to embark on a gruelling world tour.

1st well madge originally was to have adopted her in April which would have given more then enough time to bond but as we and the whole world knows it did not go that way,madge has a lot on her plate but she can do it!

2nd Britney Has a Fire Crotch! LOL!^^^^^^^^^ Fire Crotch, Fire Crotch Sorry for the double post

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Madonna's star power in Malawi

By Felix Mponda – 40 minutes ago

ZOMBA, Malawi (AFP) — Eliza Manyoza, a banana vendor in Malawi's colonial-era capital Zomba, says she has never heard a Madonna song. She only knows the American pop icon as an "adopter" of orphaned children.

"I am told she is a nice woman who wants to help our children," Manyoza, 39, told AFP, with her nine-month-old baby strapped at her back and balancing a basket of bananas on her head.

She knew that Madonna had adopted David Banda, a toddler the star met at an orphanage three years ago, but had just learned of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal's decision to grant her a second adoption of a girl named Chifundo "Mercy" James, who let Malawi Friday to join the singer in London.

"That's great news and very nice of her," Manyoza said. "But how many children can she take out of Malawi? Where are the rich Malawians who should be adopting their own children and not leave it to Madonna?"

Her sentiments echo those heard around the country, where Madonna has sparked a global debate about the merits of international adoption.

Malawi is a particularly grim case study in the plight of orphans.

One of the poorest nations in the world, the government says 1.5 million children have been orphaned by AIDS -- a figure that represents nearly 10 percent of the total population.

Manyoza lives in the slums of Chikanda, a shantytown on the edge of this British colonial town, where 12 orphanages have opened -- many in just the last two years.

Hundreds more are spread across Malawi, a country the size of New York state.

"We have reached a crisis point and Malawi does not have the resources to deal with the problem," said Cyrus Jeke, an official at the ministry of women and child development.

Madonna has established her own charity Raising Malawi, which has built a state-of-the-art hostel at Home of Hope in Mchinji -- the orphanage where she first saw her adopted son David among the 500 children cared for there.

She has also built a day-care centre at Consol Home, a charity which looks after 10,000 orphans in scores of villages outside the administrative capital Lilongwe.

Rights activist Undule Mwakasungura laments the fact that a foreign celebrity had to step in to raise awareness about orphans.

"It's the primary responsibility of the state to provide for orphaned children," he said.

Government should use tax revenue to "care for these children instead of abandoning them to the wishes and devises of celebrities," said Mwakasungura, who chairs the Human Rights Consultative Committee -- a network of 85 local rights groups.

Boniface Mandere, an official of the nation's leading child rights body Eye of the Child, said Malawi has financial resources to help vulnerable children.

"What we lack is wisdom of how to use those resources. It's about commitment. We need to pump more resources to social services," he said.

Plan Malawi, an international charity focussing on children, applauded Madonna's good intentions, but urged her to do more to lobby governments and businesses to strengthen community structures on the ground, Plan adds.

"The challenges facing our orphans and other vulnerable children can be handled with a strong social protection structure," said Mcdonald Mumba, Plan's children's rights advisor.

Such questions about why the government has not done more to care for the nation's children reverberate through the country, casting a particularly harsh light on the political classes and the wealthy.

"It all shows Madonna saw that the question of orphans is a serious issue which needs addressing," Manyoza said.

"But where are the rich Malawians? Where are the rich politicians? Where is the government? Madonna will not manage alone even though she has a lot of money."

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i srsly would like to punch a few of those bitter journalists. the mirror one is just sick. yesterday i read a small article - not in english - saying M wants mercy to be a trendsetter and will only wear the clothes M wants. an obvious attempt to simply bash her once more. :abuse:

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i srsly would like to punch a few of those bitter journalists. the mirror one is just sick. yesterday i read a small article - not in english - saying M wants mercy to be a trendsetter and will only wear the clothes M wants. an obvious attempt to simply bash her once more. :abuse:

You know, I am glad it doesn't bother Madonna anymore (as she's probably used to it). However, I find many "journalists' statements" to be just plain hurtful. These people cannot go home at night and be happy with themselves. Constructive criticism can be good for a balanced point of view, but what they provide is only venom. It doesn't help Malawi and it doesn't help them.

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Mercy's first bewildered look at Britain as she is reunited with new mother Madonna

Her bewildered expression suggests she is finding London a rather confusing place.

After just 24 hours in the UK four-year-old Mercy James still has a lot to get used to in the world of her new adopted mother Madonna.

She was spotted outside the singer's £15million Mayfair home yesterday morning, in the arms of a woman believed to be her nanny.

Here to stay: Mercy James outside her new home in London yesterday

Madonna, 50, won custody of Mercy a little over a week ago and had been expected to fly out to Malawi to collect her.

Instead a nanny flew with Mercy on a private jet to South Africa on Friday night before taking a first-class flight to Heathrow.

Enlarge Visit: Madonna in Malawi with her son David in 2007

Hours after landing on Saturday Mercy accompanied Madonna and her new siblings Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight and David, three, to a London meeting of the Kabbalah faith.

Madonna's ex-husband Guy Ritchie was also seen at the centre. It is understood that he has taken Rocco and David to his home in Wiltshire while Madonna bonds with Mercy in London.

The family spent an hour at the centre in London before Mercy, wearing shiny white sandals, returned to the singer's Mayfair home.

Yesterday passers by got a glimpse of the girl as she was seen at the singer's front door wearing a smart new pink frock as guests arrived at the home.

It is believed that the singer was at the home as well as her car and driver were seen coming and going from the premises.

An onlooker said: 'Mercy looked slightly confused. It has obviously been a bit like a circus around her over the past few days so it's not surprising.

'It was only a day or two ago that she was still in Malawi and now she finds herself in the middle of London without her friends.'

Experts have criticised how quickly after arriving in the country the youngster had been taken to the Kaballah centre saying she needs time to adjust.

They fear her new life in the limelight of Madonna's family will prove to be a big 'culture shock' to the girl from a Malawian orphanage.

Off to see Mercy? Madonna was accompanied by a group of assistants, as well as her children

Journey: Madonna and her children arrive in Britain to meet Mercy

In Malawi the girl's dad James Kambewa who had battled to take custody of the child has hit out at the singer adopting Mercy.

He said: 'My Mercy is gone. Madonna has used her money and power but my blood lives in Mercy for ever and ever. There is nothing I can do now.'

If Mercy's experience of living with the superstar is anything like Madonna's other adopted child, David Banda, she can look forward to a life of luxury.

Little David has been treated to designer clothes and has dined regularly at some of New York and London's most exclusive restaurants.

Last year the three-year-old was seen being carried out of the Mayfair eaterie, San Lorenzo's, a far cry from his native country Malawi where the national dish is a maize-based meal called nsima.

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already in the arm of a nanny! come on madge, kinda hard to defend you when u already have a nanny for the kid!

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already in the arm of a nanny! come on madge, kinda hard to defend you when u already have a nanny for the kid!

She doesn't need you to defend her. ALL of her children had nannies from day one.

Wealthy people are not annoyingly hands on like the the poor and middle-class.

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She doesn't need you to defend her. ALL of her children had nannies from day one.

Wealthy people are not annoyingly hands on like the the poor and middle-class.

annoyingly hands on.....wow!.........like the poor and middle class.........right! so if your rich your not to be burden with being hands on?????? it has been 24 hour he not been with the kid in 3 month...........just giving my opinion.............so back off!

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already in the arm of a nanny! come on madge, kinda hard to defend you when u already have a nanny for the kid!

^I think it would be hard to defend her if she didn't have a nanny and left the child alone at home when off to rehearsals.

In the end, however it came about... these children are left as orphans and Madonna managed to adopt two children in need. I realize families are less fortunate and it's hard to take care of their children, so they leave their children in orphanages. But that crap wouldn't fly in any other civilized country. People just don't leave their children on orphanages and expect six years later they are going to get their children back. It's insane.

Maybe by our standards. But wouldn't you expect someone who has chosen to get involved big time in Malawi and do good to the country to know and respect local customs and habits? It is extremely ignorant to say "that's not the way we do it, the child is in an orphanage and people can adopt it regardless of how people in Malawi view the purpose of an orphanage." I think it's possible to defend M without going down that road.

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