While Tory MEPs have ensured that they can start their long summer holidays by ensuring that the number of leadership candidates is reduced to two in time for the start of the parliamentary recess, I have heard. the Queen holiday headache.
Conservative powerhouse Sir Graham Brady said the new party leader would be announced on Monday, September 5. However, the Queen will then be on her Scottish retreat, Balmoral.
It means the Tory leader would have to travel to Aberdeenshire Castle to meet the monarch for the first time and be formally asked to form a government. This meeting, or “audience,” is known as “kissing hands.” After their appointment, the new Prime Minister will go straight to 10 Downing Street.
Tradition: Boris Johnson’s Audience with the Queen in 2019
But it is more likely that the Queen is expected to return from Balmoral to… Buckingham Palace of Windsor, so the process of entering Downing Street was not delayed.
“The Queen’s circumstances don’t seem to have been thought through,” a royal source tells me. “Do the politicians seriously expect a 96-year-old woman to travel 800 miles in front of a ten-minute audience?”
According to a reporter, the monarch told Boris Johnson: ‘I don’t know why anyone would want the job’ when they first met in July 2019. The Queen’s idea of asking the new Prime Minister to form a government via telephone call or video conference would be unprecedented. However, the vast majority of her weekly audiences with Boris have been on the phone since the pandemic hit.
Maybe she can ask Prince Charles to do the honors? After all, he stepped in at the State opening of the House of Representatives.
The new party leader was to be announced on Monday, September 5, but the Queen will be at her Scottish retreat, Balmoral.
To complicate matters further, Boris and his wife, Carrie, are expected to be invited to Balmoral over the weekend of September 3 and 4 to stay with the Queen, as she enjoys taking Prime Ministers to Braemar’s meeting, from which they the head. Her Majesty and Prince Philip loved nothing more than to watch Highland Games participants throw the caber and throw the hammer.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to comment.
Gossip Girls: Bea and Meghan’s Friend
Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, property developer, got the chance to catch up on all the Montecito gossip when they dated one of the Duchess of Sussex’s best friends.
Princess Beatrice and Misha Nonoo
Fashion designer Misha Nonoo – who reportedly played Meghan and Prince Harry’s matchmaker – and her husband, oil heir Mike Hess, joined them at Oswald’s private club in Mayfair.
While most of the royal family seems to have become estranged from Harry and Meghan since they moved to the US, Beatrice and her sister Eugenie have maintained close ties.NL.
Comedian Stephen Merchant persuaded Hollywood legend Christopher Walken to star in his BBC1 series The Outlaws by claiming Bristol was just California. Merchant, 47, from the city of West Country, says of Walken, 79: ‘When I met him in America to lure him to the show, he said, ‘How’s Bristol? And I said, “Well, it’s on the water and it’s pretty hilly and there’s a big suspension bridge, it’s a bit artsy. † † it’s just like San Francisco.” And the good thing was, because we were filming in Covid, he couldn’t really explore. So as far as he’s concerned, it IS exactly like San Francisco.”
Kate’s prenatal guru dies aged 74
Sad news for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge: Prenatal teacher Christine Hill, who prepared them for Prince George’s birth, has died aged 74.
“She will be missed very much,” said a spokesperson for the family of the obstetric physiotherapist. “Her spirited, funny, uncomplicated demeanor has earned her many friends.”
Mrs. Hill taught discreetly for her celebrity clients in the conservatory of her home on the Thames in west London. Catherine is said to have had one-on-one sessions with Mrs Hill, including one with Prince William.
One of his main tasks was to teach them how to attach the baby carrier to the back of their car – a challenge for any new father.
But William did it with confidence for the World’s Press when the couple left the private Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington in London after George’s birth.
daisy set for the stardom of the states
Daisy Edgar Jones
Reese Witherspoon
Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones has embarked on her transformation into a Hollywood star.
The Sky executive’s daughter, who played Marianne in the BBC’s popular coming-of-age drama, appeared on the red carpet at the New York premiere of her new film, Where The Crawdads Sing.
The privately trained Daisy, 24, who wore a custom Gucci dress embroidered with flowers, stars in the film adaptation of Delia Owens’ best-selling murder mystery novel.
American star Reese Witherspoon, whose production company made the film, thinks Daisy will become a household name in America.
“She came to visit the set, which was really exciting,” Edgar-Jones says of her first meeting with the Legally Blonde star (pictured below)
Lord Cobbold, the colorful aristocrat who introduced rock concerts to his Hertfordshire estate, Knebworth, is given a suitably exciting farewell. I hear there will be a party for family and close friends at Knebworth House on what would have been his 85th birthday tomorrow.
The theme will be Die Were The Days, and it will feature a rendition of the song by the daughter of Welsh singer Mary Hopkin, who had a number 1 hit with it in 1968.
SAS hero Christian Craighead — who confronted and killed jihadist terrorists who seized a hotel in Kenya’s capital Nairobi in 2019 and freed dozens of hostages — has found a new role. I’m told he’s now offering free shooting lessons to American teachers after the recent school massacre by a teenager in Uvalde, Texas. “The US is in a cultural and mental health crisis, putting people in certain areas and professions at risk,” he says. ‘When people exercise their fundamental rights’ [to bear arms]I think it’s only right that I teach them the skills to use them in stressful situations.’
Oh look, it’s Michael Caine!
Sir Michael Caine’s wife insisted he’ll be back “dancing” soon after recent surgery, so it’s good to see the Hollywood legend in Mayfair.
Sir Michael Caine
The two-time Oscar winner, 89, had surgery for spinal stenosis earlier this year and was later seen using a walker.
Now, however, he only uses a cane for support, as seen when he went out to dinner with Lady Caine, 75, at Scott’s seafood restaurant.
Sir Michael has reason to celebrate: I revealed last week that he has finally sold his seven-bedroom mansion in Surrey for £3.5million. He bought the property, which has its own pool, hot tub, gym and cinema, 22 years ago for £1 million. Not many people know that. † †