Prince Andrew was basking in the limelight at yesterday’s thanksgiving service for King Constantine of Greece.
With King Charles and Kate absent through illness and William pulling out of the Windsor service at the last minute, it meant that Andrew was outranked only by Queen Camilla.
Prince Andrew was basking in the limelight at yesterday’s thanksgiving service for King Constantine of Greece
With King Charles and Kate absent through illness and William pulling out of the Windsor service at the last minute, it meant that Andrew was outranked only by Queen Camilla
Andrew surely welcomes any public reminder that he is still the third adult in line to the throne
Protocol is very strict and these things matter to Andrew. Despite the slings and arrows he’s suffered, he surely welcomes any public reminder that he is still the third adult in line to the throne.
Five cents for Meghan’s thoughts on Donald Trump‘s tirade against Harry’s ‘unforgiveable’ betrayal of the late Queen.
Before she became a duchess, she threw a tantrum and threatened to leave her homeland and move to Canada if Trump won the 2016 election, calling him ‘misogynistic’ and ‘divisive’.
Before she became a duchess, Meghan threw a tantrum and threatened to leave her homeland and move to Canada if Trump won the 2016 election
She didn’t follow through on the promise. Should Justin Trudeau be preparing for a phone call? If not, Frogmore Cottage is still empty.
Publicising the sale of her love letters from husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Patti Boyd remains mute about her dalliance with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood when he stayed with her and George in their Henley mansion.
Patti Boyd, pictured in her youth, remains mute about her dalliance with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood when he stayed with her and George Harrison in their Henley mansion
At bedtime, Ronnie took George aside and told him he would be sleeping with Patti. Ronnie wrote in his 2007 memoir: ‘Seemingly unflustered, George pointed to the room my first wife, Krissy, and I were staying in and said, “I shall be sleeping there”.
When the time came, the two of us stood on the landing outside the respective bedrooms.
‘Are we going to do this?’ I asked. ‘I’ll see you in court’, George replied, and in we went.’
A warning to Sam Mendes, currently casting four separate movies about each of The Beatles. Paul McCartney is notoriously thin-skinned about being portrayed on screen.
When Gary Bakewell played him in Backbeat he complained: ‘They’ve actually taken my rock’n’roll-ness off me.’
Paul McCartney is notoriously thin-skinned about being portrayed on screen
And when Thomas Brodie-Sangster was Macca in 2009’s Nowhere Boy he received some negative feedback: ‘The one comment I did get was that he didn’t like the fact that Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who played John, was taller than me, because he said that wasn’t the case!’
A tribute in Spectator Life to Derek Draper from Julie Burchill reads that she was ‘fond’ of the former New Labour luminary.
A tribute in Spectator Life to Derek Draper from Julie Burchill reads that she was ‘fond’ of the former New Labour luminary
‘A feeling that probably wasn’t mutual,’ she says, ‘As I nicked his bird.’ A reference to her former lover, writer Charlotte Raven.
ABBA aficionado Frank Skinner, clearing his throat for April’s 50th anniversary of Eurovision-winning song Waterloo, declares: ‘It begins “My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender…”
‘But I notice that the Duke of Wellington never gets a mention in the song, and he won.’ Is Frank a member of Keith Waterhouse’s Useless Information Society?
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