Will President-elect Donald Trump get a second state visit here? A US embassy source says officials should be working on sending the King over there.
Senior royals avoided the US during Trump’s first term and, apart from attending George Bush Sr’s 2018 funeral, the King hasn’t visited since 2015.
No British monarch has made a state visit since 2007. ‘Allowing Trump to host HM would be the ideal way to massage his ego,’ I am advised. ‘So would slipping him an honorary knighthood…’
Senior royals avoided visiting the US during Donald Trump’s first term in office
A US embassy source says officials should work on a state visit for the King to the US
Dad-dancing Donald, who enjoys gyrating publicly to gay anthem YMCA, used to be a full-on disco Don in the bedroom, according to his late ex-wife Ivana.
She told androgynous Amanda Lear, 1970s pop star ex-muse to David Bowie and Salvador Dali: ‘When I was married to Donald, he loved playing your record Follow Me to get him in the mood. It really excited him.’ Look out!
Boris Johnson appeared on France 5’s C MediaTV show on Sunday. Reminding the Froggies of his stint on Have I Got News For You, he boasted: ‘That was a launchpad for me. I think there are some regrets at the BBC… They have started to feel like Dr Frankenstein, who created the monster. Now it’s too late!’
Another of our national lady killers appeared on France’s biggest TV chat show, too. Hugh Grant, pictured, was advised that Bojo was promoting his book in France.
Grant ranted ‘I detest him, he has destroyed our country’, adding childishly that he ‘certainly would not’ be reading Boris’s memoirs.
While on TV in France, Boris Johnson joked that he was launched to prominence by appearances on Have I Got News For You
Preparing to step down from Radio 4’s Today show after 11 years, Mishal Husain was active in privately shining a light on male colleagues deemed to be sex pests.
‘The group was a closely guarded secret, but Mishal was considered one of the big hitters,’ I’m told.
In his 2010 memoir A Journey, Sir Tony Blair revealed his wife Cherie backed John Prescott’s famous punch – much mentioned in obituaries – when he returned home that day 23 years ago.
‘I said, “My God – what was John thinking of?” “Oh, don’t be ridiculous,” said Cherie. “Why shouldn’t he hit him? The other man hit him first”.’
Cherie ‘is a Liverpool girl’, Blair pointed out, adding that she also said: ‘Well, what would you have done? Put on one of your smiles and ask him not to do it again? He got what he deserved.’ Put on one of his smiles!
Michael Heseltine and Peter Mandelson have both paid tribute to former Labour deputy PM John Prescott (pictured)
There was an adroit tribute to former Labour deputy PM John Prescott from ex-Tory counterpart Michael Heseltine, who enthused on Radio 4: ‘He really continued and completed the work I had begun.’
Meanwhile, twice-sacked Cabinet colleague of Prescott’s Peter Mandelson was fulsome in his praise. Unique among Blair’s old lags, the serpentine peer remains a player, touted as our next Washington envoy.
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