EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: First-class Queen Camilla uses second-class stamps to save the palace a small fortune

Queen Camilla has done her part to make cuts.

In a bid to cut the royal postage and stationery bill, as revealed here last month, she has jettisoned the traditional heavyweight envelopes.

She liked to answer as many letters personally as possible and always used envelopes embossed with the Royal Coat of Arms, sent with a £6 special delivery.

Queen Camilla has swapped her embossed stationery and special mailing for regular envelopes and 69 cent second-class stamps when she mails her personal letters

Now her messages are sent in cheaper, unembossed envelopes and by regular second-class mail.

At 69 cents each, the palace’s business discount rate for second-class stamps, it saves a small fortune. A first class queen using second class mail!

Did Harold Wilson open up to the late Queen about his secret affair with his deputy press secretary?

A senior courtier, quoted in Ben Pimlott’s biography of the late queen, recalled that Wilson and HM confided in each other during their increasingly lengthy private audiences.

She did tell him of her concerns about the impact of the impending announcement in 1976 of the divorce of her sister Margaret and Tony Snowdon.

Wilson gave her advance notice of his resignation, boldly placing the announcement on the same day as the Snowdon marriage divorce to soften its impact.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go according to plan. The royal divorce flooded the news as Harold’s departure played third fiddle.

Former Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson (pictured outside 10 Downing Street) had a secret affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies, who was 22 years his junior

Mrs Hewlett-Davies (pictured) was his then deputy press secretary

Home Secretary James Cleverly was yesterday urged by Tory backbencher Miriam Cates to do something about the falling birth rate.

Cleverly is a lustful boy, but had to admit that the matter was ‘beyond my control’.

Father-of-six Jacob Rees-Mogg has taken a more proactive approach.

Keeley Hawes laments her youthful naivety in posing in lingerie for boys’ titles like Loaded.

“There was no one there except 20-year-old Keeley, who didn’t know how these things worked,” the actress told Stylist magazine.

‘You were put in a hotel room, sometimes with a male photographer on your own, without even ‘hair’ and ‘make-up’.

Keeley Hawes (pictured) has told Stylist Magazine she regrets posing in lingerie for boys’ titles such as Loaded

“It was very awkward, but that was the expectation of what we did. It makes me feel terrible, really terrible. I feel it for myself.’

Dominic West, Prince Charles in The Crown, remembers the last week of the York Minster shooting.

“We had 400 extras bowing to me, Olivia Williams and me [his co-star, as Camilla Parker Bowles] getting married, with a whole orchestra and a full choir… it’s quite difficult to go home afterwards and the children, my wife, refusing to bow, that kind of thing!’

Dominic West as King Charles in the Netflix show The Crown marries his on-screen wife Camilla

Ex-Python Michael Palin explains to BBC Radio 4’s Nick Robinson why his former, now often cheerless, colleague John Cleese is permanently short-tempered: ‘He’s got grumpy pills from the National Health Service, so he must be like this.’