EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Hanbury’s fury at flight fiasco at Stansted

With her son a page of honor at the coronation and her husband a Lord in Waiting to King Charles, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley is used to palace doors swinging open for her.

Still, I hear that the former model’s father, Tim Hanbury, has suffered the humiliation of having the gates closed on him at the airport.

The web designer, 70, is said to have arrived at Stansted Airport in Essex over the weekend to board a Ryanair flight with a friend abroad for a few days.

But staff at the low-cost airline’s check-in counter refused to let him on board, even though his passport was due to expire in nine months.

“Tim was very upset and frustrated,” says one of his friends. “He was disappointed with Ryanair because he couldn’t have the weekend away he was looking forward to.”

What Hanbury apparently did not know is that since Brexit, British passports cannot be older than ten years when traveling to the European Union. expires.

Perhaps he should have seen if his daughter Rose, 39, and her husband, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, aka filmmaker David Rocksavage, 62, could have used their connections to help.

The couple are key figures in the royal court, with the Marquess as Lord Great Chamberlain under Queen Elizabeth and now Lord in Waiting for the King. Lord Oliver, one of his 13-year-old twin sons with Rose, helped carry the King’s train at Westminster Abbey.

Hanbury declines to give more details about the incident when I call him at his home in South Devon and say, ‘Sorry, I’m incredibly busy so I can’t comment.’

It was unlike Hanbury not to use an alternative means of transportation. He is said to have once commandeered a bus full of Japanese tourists parked near Annabel’s club in Mayfair. Greek playboy and sportsman Taki Theodoracopulos once claimed that the bus driver stopped to answer a call from nature. Realizing this, Hanbury jumped in and drove off, “swiping sideways” most of the sleek, expensive cars parked nearby, Taki claimed.

As the Japanese tourists “cried for help,” Hanbury reportedly left the bus and returned to Annabel’s, where police were chased off by the unhesitating testimony of Sydney, the bartender.

Hanbury insists this version is “massively exaggerated.”

A Ryanair spokesperson tells me: ‘As this passenger’s passport was issued in May 2013, it does not meet the first entry requirement under EU law.’

Sophie dresses up in her pajamas for the Eurovision Song Contest

Done: Gentleman Jack star Sophie Rundle wears glitter boots with pajamas because she has to watch Eurovision at home due to the lack of a babysitter

Peaky Blinders star Sophie Rundle refused to give up the glitz despite being confined to her house ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Rundle, 35, who has a son with actor Matt Stokoe, paired her pajamas with diamond-studded pink platform boots. She explains the look is for when it’s “Eurovision night, but you can’t leave the apartment because your two-year-old is sleeping in the next room.”

Line Of Duty star Vicky McClure was flustered after being upgraded to the presidential suite at a five-star hotel. Previous guests at the suite at the Celtic Manor resort in Newport, South Wales, which costs at least £1,245 per night, include former US President Barack Obama, as well as music stars Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen. “They said, ‘Oh, we upgraded you,'” McClure says.

‘There was a reception room, extra bedrooms, a grand piano. There was a steam bath in the bathroom. I was really confused.

“So I called and just said, ‘Who are we sharing with?’ ‘

Former Strictly star Natasha Kaplinsky – who was on the same island in the Maldives as Jamie Oliver when the TV chef renewed his wedding vows with his wife, Jools – is considering following suit.

“I’d like to renew our vows,” says the newsreader turned chief film censor, who married banker Justin Bower in 2005. At the Fragrance Foundation Awards, she told me, “We went to our local church on our 10th wedding anniversary with renewal in mind, but our kids were screaming, so we put it off for a while.”

While many have seen the outside of Bridgewater House, as it doubles as the London residence of the Crawley family at Downton Abbey, few have yet seen the inside of St James’s property.

The family of the late shipping magnate Yiannis Latsis, who owns it, organized an auction for BrainWaves, a mental health charity. A game of tennis with David Cameron raised £3,500, while lunch with Jacob Rees-Mogg raised £720.

It is one of the few golf courses in Scotland where Prince Andrew is still welcome, and Balmoral is now seeking members from the local community.

Balmoral Golf Club is opening its membership to permanent residents in the areas of Braemar and Ballater, a spokesman for the golf course on the King’s Aberdeenshire estate confirmed.

The Duke of York gave up his membership in the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, was stripped of the title of Honorary President of Inverness Golf Club and had his membership of the Royal Dornoch Golf Club revoked.