EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Kate is ready to strengthen and maintain the ties between royals and the armed forces
Photos of the Duchess of Cambridge in army fatigue suggest that Kate, who is famously reluctant to take on military roles, is finally ready to maintain the strong ties between royals and the army. It also sparked rumors that she was going to take on higher-profile roles, with the Colonel of the Grenadier Guards allegedly on the way.
Kate is finally ready to act and maintain the strong ties between royals and the armed forces
The Queen doubts the role out of respect for Andrew, who removed the post from him. But the Grenadiers will warmly welcome Kate – as they did in 1942 to their first female royal colonel, Princess Elizabeth. The delusional Andrew still thinks he can get the role back, but he has to give up hope. “The guys will not wear it,” one Bill Browns official recommended.
Timely confirmation for the beleagured heir of Old Etonian Dominic West depicting Charles in The Crown. “I love the man. He is a force for good, he really is an extraordinary man. ‘ Royal check or would you prefer cash, Dom?
Inevitably unable to carry out his annual BBC Wimbledon experience, Boris Becker, who no doubt watches tennis on TV from his cell in Huntercombe Prison, is not the first famous German to be imprisoned in Oxfordshire Prison not. Originally a World War II internment camp, it briefly held Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, before being locked up in the Tower of London by Winston Churchill after his parachute landing in Scotland.
As the 25th anniversary of Diana’s death approaches, the Duchess of York, pictured below, feels about how much she misses her and says, “I will mark the day by thinking of her, I often think of Diana.” But no mention of their alienation for the last year of Diana’s life after Fergie foolishly claimed in her 1996 memoirs: ‘Diana helped me by giving me all her shoes (and less fortunately, her plantar warts).’
Unfortunate timing for society bible Tatler: Among the Social Power Index couples in the new issue are ‘two of the most powerful and well-connected people on the planet’, Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall. Didn’t they just disconnect?
Will BBC chief John Simpson ever stop belching about Brexit? His latest misinformed blunder came on his TV show Unspun World when he said: ‘It’s been six years since, in a result that surprised almost everyone, the people of the United Kingdom voted by a very small margin to leave the European Union. ‘ In fact, the BBC’s own poll on the eve of the referendum showed ‘both Leave and Stay at 45 per cent’.
As Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, Miriam Margolyes says she had more money in her pants than at any other time in her career. Asked if there was magic in the JK Rowling stories, she replied: “The intangible magic was when I went to the bank.”