EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will Meghan’s reported plan to revive ‘The Tig’ lifestyle blog remind admirers of her enthusiasm for booze?

Will Meghan’s reported plan to revive ‘The Tig’ remind admirers of her enthusiasm for booze? She named the lifestyle blog after Tignanello, a luxury red wine from Tuscany. 

She told cookery blog Delish: ‘I’d forgo a gooey, chocolate dessert for a big, beautiful red just about any day. 

In the summer, though, when I’m out with my friends, it’s rosé all day.’ And in style blog New Potato, she enthused: ‘God, do I love wine – a beautiful full red or a crisp white. 

But if it’s cocktails, I love a spicy tequila cocktail, Negroni or good Scotch – neat.’ Surely none of the windows of her Montecito mansion has a bottle on a rope hanging outside like Ray Milland’s in the movie The Lost Weekend!

Sarah Ferguson, revealing that the royals love board games, omits mention of Monopoly – the only game that is officially banned. The late Queen’s cousin Lady Elizabeth Shakerley once revealed that Monopoly ‘gets too vicious’ when played by the royals. 

Presumably, it will be even trickier now that Charles is King, with his penchant for an ever-expanding property portfolio. Most of the family are dependent on him for somewhere to lay their heads in return for a reasonable rent. Apart from the King, only senior royals Anne and Harry own their homes. For the rest of you, do not pass Go!

Fergie also discloses that she frequently looks after daughter Beatrice and Edo’s bambino Sienna, who calls her Gee-Gee, explaining: ‘Sienna comes in and says, “Gee-Gee let’s come and play”, and now every minute of the day she wants to come and play!’ What about Grandpa Andrew? 

He wasn’t allowed in the family photos marking Bea and Edo’s 2020 wedding. Has he checked the children’s menu for Sienna at Pizza Express?

Eighteen years after her hair suddenly fell out, Gail Porter, recalls her mother Sandra’s bizarre theory for the loss. Making the TV series Dead Famous – involving searches for the ghosts of deceased stars – Gail remembers: ‘I think my mum nailed it. 

She said it was because I was dealing with the dark side and the ghosties took my hair.’ Gail playfully concludes: ‘So that’s how you get alopecia.’

Gail Porter in 2019 having just finished Celebrity Big Brother

Ray Connolly, promoting his memoir Born At The Right Time, recalls visiting John Lennon’s Berkshire mansion – where the ex-Beatle had housed a shaven-headed bunch of monks who wandered the grounds, chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ and ‘Peace’. ‘On a further visit, however, I noticed that they had left,’ says Ray. 

‘They were driving me mad with all that “Hare Krishna… Peace, man” chanting all the time,’ Lennon wailed. ‘I couldn’t get any f*****g peace.’

Eyebrows skywards at the World Chelsea Bun Awards when judge Princess Michael of Kent declines to taste any of the 22 entries. 

Standing in for her actress daughter-in-law Sophie Winkleman, she tells a forthcoming Channel 5 documentary: ‘I’m not going to food taste. I’m just going to judge on appearance.’ 

So Baroness Marie-Christine, how did the buns rate for poise and currant deportment?

Princess Michael of Kent at day twelve of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships