EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: King Charles seeks a furniture upholsterer to keep the palaces up to par

King Charles has been known to repair rather than spend, especially on his favorite old coats. He is now looking for a furniture upholsterer to keep the rooms in his palace up to par.

The Royal House announcement admits that the position, based in Windsor, will ‘stretch’ the successful applicant. At a less-than-real annual salary of £25,000 a year, the job description says the new upholsterer will “help preserve a collection that will be enjoyed by future generations.”

Having been awarded a Knight Bachelor in the New Year’s Honors List for services to music and charity, Sir Brian May, as he is now known, suggests that it is about time people start acting on it.

“People don’t really bow enough, and I don’t have my Round Table yet, but we’re working on it,” jokes the 75-year-old Queen guitarist, who is married to former EastEnders actress Anita Dobson, 73. .

Emma from Sex Education won’t let herself be carried away…

Rising star Emma Mackey has some advice for aspiring actors who risk overexploiting themselves to make a name for themselves in the acting industry.

You have to protect yourself because you’re going to be very tempted to give way to those sides of yourself because you want to prove yourself and say, “I can do this and look at all the things I can do, I’ll do it.” do anything,” the Sex Education star tells me at a screening in central London.

The French-British actress, 27, who played Emily Bronte in Emily, adds: “But really keep some of that to yourself and save it for those specials.”

Mackey is one of five actors nominated for an EE Rising Star Award at this year’s Baftas, the only award voted for by the public.

Actor: Rising star Emma Mackey has some advice for aspiring actors who are at risk of overusing themselves to make a name for themselves in the acting industry.

Having informed his children that they would not receive any of his estimated £320m fortune upon his passing, Sting added insult to injury by telling two of them who entered the music industry that it’s not just about winning. money.

Describing his life advice to Joe, whose band Fiction Plane supported The Police on their 2007-2009 reunion tour, and Eliot, who released three albums, the 71-year-old says: “I told them music is always his own reward.” , and it’s not about having hits or selling concert tickets or having platinum records.

“They said, ‘Well, that’s fine with you, Dad.'”

Last year, Sting bloated his coffers even further, selling his back catalog in a deal worth £183m.

shh! Loyal friends plan a big job for Dame Viv

Despite her fame and lust for publicity, punk queen Dame Vivienne Westwood, who died in December, had a very low-key funeral in a small Peak District church, with only a few close friends and family.

But I can reveal that a grand socialite send-off is now in the works that will allow supermodel Kate Moss and most of Dame Vivienne’s famous friends to mourn the designer at a funeral in London.

That’s according to one of Dame Vivienne’s best friends, celebrity photographer Ki Price, whose famous people include Johnny Depp.

‘Was there even a funeral?’ he asks me at the launch of the artist Ray Rossi exhibition at the Red Eight Gallery, Royal Exchange.

I’ve always been loyal to Vivienne, so I don’t want to talk about it. But something is happening now. I hope everyone is there.

Eddie Redmayne won an Olivier for his menacing performance as emcee in last year’s revival of Cabaret at the Kit Kat club in London’s West End.

And the 41-year-old Oscar winner got ready to perform the song Two Ladies, taking off all his clothes.

Talent: Eddie Redmayne won an Olivier for his menacing performance as emcee in last year’s revival of Cabaret at the Kit Kat club in London’s West End.

‘When we were rehearsing, we were trying to brainstorm ideas and it was good but a bit polite. There was a time when we were encouraged to try something different and . . . I basically stripped almost naked to humiliate myself as much as possible.

“When you see that moment on the show, that song is like an orgy, with positions you can never imagine people getting into and copies of Mein Kampf being used for terribly inappropriate things.” Achtung!

The smart set is talking about… Daredevil Delphi 80mph Crest Race

She turned heads before Christmas by dyeing her locks red, but now Delphi Primrose, the third of Lord Dalmeny’s five-member brood with ex-wife Caroline, is a high-speed blur.

Tatler’s cover girl, who’s in the Storm Models books, just ran, head first, down Cresta Run, the fearsome ice sledding run in St. Moritz, where women were banned in 1929, a ban finally raised in 2018.

‘It was feared that the breasts would be damaged on the slides, causing breast cancer,’ says a Cresta member, reminding me that expert cyclists hurtle at over 80mph.

Happily, 19-year-old Delphi, seen celebrating her achievement (right), made it in one piece.

Achievement: Turned heads before Christmas by dyeing her locks red, but now Delphi Primrose, the third of Lord Dalmeny’s five-member brood with ex-wife Caroline, is a high-speed blur.

The ultimate broadcast hero and Voice of Rugby Bill McLaren, who would have turned 100, will be sorely missed today as the Six Nations kicks off.

However, I can reveal that his family keeps his sporting influence alive. This week, the foundation established in his name is selling a life-size bull made of metal, and ‘Bull McLaren’ hopes to raise several thousand to invest in nurturing new talent in his sport. Bull is up for grabs at a fundraiser in Edinburgh. My daughter Linda Lawson tells me, ‘We’re going to launch a school tournament in Dad’s hometown of Hawick in his name.’