EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Do Harry and Meghan require a protocol expert to guide them?
Do Harry and Meghan require a protocol expert to guide them?
Their statement on the California wildfires was headed ‘Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex’.
Quite why Meghan wasn’t called princess, which she is as the wife of a prince, is a mystery. On son Archie’s birth certificate, she listed herself HRH The Duchess of Sussex and occupation as ‘Princess of the United Kingdom’.
By the time of daughter Lilibet’s birth, she was simply ‘Rachel Meghan Markle’ (not a Mountbatten-Windsor), with no occupation listed.
Should she have a third child, will the birth certificate list her as ‘jam maker?’
On son Archie’s birth certificate, Meghan Markle listed herself HRH The Duchess of Sussex and occupation as ‘Princess of the United Kingdom’
Newly released official documents say the late Queen wasn’t told her trusted art adviser Anthony Blunt was a Russian spy until nine years after his 1964 confession.
But his KGB connections were an open secret at Buckingham Palace long before. Tommy Lascelles, private secretary to George VI and the Queen, routinely referred to Blunt as ‘our Russian spy’.
King George sent Blunt on a mission to Germany in 1945 to recover documents linking Edward VIII to Hitler. He also retrieved letters written by Philip to his sisters (three of whom were married to Nazi Party members).
These remain secreted in the Royal Archives in what courtiers call Room 101, where papers the family don’t want anyone to see disappear.
Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute in 1970 with Queen Elizabeth II
Rachel Reeves is adept at hoovering up other people’s money to throw into her black hole, but one perk has eluded her grasp.
The Arts Council has valued John le Carre’s literary archives, now in the care of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, at £1.5m.
This means his sons can offset that amount against their inheritance tax bill.
Rachel could hardly dent the Treasury’s black hole with Le Carre’s loot, but every little helps.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaking in the House of Commons, Westminster, answering questions from MPs for the first time since her return from a trip to China criticised by political opponents for coinciding with a week of volatility for the pound and soaring yields on UK bonds
Veteran Shakespearean actress Dame Judi Dench told Trinny Woodall that she described the Bard as ‘the man who pays the rent’.
‘Was he the man,’ asked the beauty guru, ‘who later in your career helped pay the mortgage?’
‘No,’ replied Judi. ‘That was Clover butter.’
Veteran Shakespearean actress Dame Judi Dench told Trinny Woodall that she described the Bard as ‘the man who pays the rent’
Alan Cumming, appearing as a dandy Scottish laird as host of the US version of The Traitors at the same castle where Claudia Winkleman presents the British version, can’t resist a dig at his rival.
‘I think it’s so hilarious that the American version of this show is much campier and more theatrical than the British version.
'I don’t think that that can ever have happened before. And I think it’s because of our work.’
Let’s hear it for Alan appearing in Claudia’s Mr Mittens jumbo-sized jumper and Spanx leggings!
Alan Cumming said of the UK Traitors show: ‘I think it’s so hilarious that the American version of this show is much campier and more theatrical than the British version'
Coleen Rooney clarifies for chum Gary Neville her husband Wayne’s annoying habit of using a whirring hair dryer to help him sleep.
She explains that when she shares the marital bedroom, he uses a fan instead.
‘A blowy one?’ asks Gary, cheekily. ‘Not three people in the bed, no,’ replies Coleen with a straight face.
Coleen Rooney clarifies for chum Gary Neville her husband Wayne’s annoying habit of using a whirring hair dryer to help him sleep
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