EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Late Queen Elizabeth’s main groom to be installed as a knight at Windsor Castle

This would have pleased our late Queen: your stable boy will be installed as a Military Knight at Windsor Castle, which means he can spend the rest of his days in the Berkshire home of his former boss.

Terry Pendry, 72, could always be seen at Queen Elizabeth’s side (pictured) as she toured the property.

He took part in one of the most emotional aspects of her funeral, bringing his favorite horse, Emma, ​​along to say a final goodbye. Pendry will be made a Military Knight in St. George’s Chapel today.

The position is unpaid, but it does come with a house in the castle’s Lower Quarter, which will be yours for as long as you can fulfill your duties. For most Knights, this brings them to the end of their days.

A source says: “Her late Majesty would see this as appropriate and take comfort.”

Lord raises the creeps for the plan to charge for the walkies

Lord Ivar Mountbatten has proven so adept at managing his hectic private life that his ex-wife, Penny, agreed to give it away when she married the airline’s director of cabin services, James Coyle.

Your business affairs present more of a challenge. I heard the aristocratic TV personality, who became the first member of the extended royal family to have a same-sex wedding, upset locals by announcing that he plans to charge them to walk their dogs on his 100-acre property. acres in Devon. A rumored £60 annual fee.

‘The increase in living and operating costs in the last 12 months means that our maintenance, administration and operation obligations have skyrocketed far beyond what the return on coffee, cake and community events can cover,’ he writes in the parish magazine.

‘James and I are left with some tough decisions for next year.

“I want to continue to offer access to the Orangery and Parkland seven days a week.

“But if we’re going to stay open, we need our guests and visitors to support us a little bit more if they can.”

However, a dog walker tells me: ‘As you can imagine, people are not very happy. It’s one thing to charge non-locals a daily fee to visit, but quite another to exploit what is truly a captive audience. I don’t think people pay for it.

“It’s a pretty nice park, but you have to keep your dog on a leash because of all the deer roaming around and all the waterfowl on the lake.”

Lord Ivar, who was first cousin, once removed, to Prince Philip and third cousin, once removed, to Queen Elizabeth, opened Bridwell Park, in Culm Valley, to the public during the pandemic.

He and Coyle launched the Orangery cafe to supplement their income after their lucrative wedding business was hit by Covid restrictions.

He appeared on the ITV program Keeping Up With The Aristocrats.

Lunch can be a pretty basic affair for Dame Prue Leith.

Asked if he could imagine cheesy banana as a tasty combination on toast, The Great British Bake Off judge said: “Oh, I can.” Sometimes, if I’m in a rush for lunch, I have a banana in one hand and a piece of cheddar cheese in the other and take a bite of one and then a bite of the other.

I hope they don’t teach that at Leiths School of Food and Wine!

In a daring flash, Gigi takes a curtsy

While Liz Hurley became famous in a pinned-up dress, Gigi Hadid relies on three bows to protect her modesty.

The 27-year-old model wore a gray Valentino pencil skirt, with a daring thigh-high slit, for a media appearance in New York.

Hadid, who has a daughter with her ex-boyfriend, former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, also wore long Princess of Wales-style gloves.

King Charles is creating the greenest of gardens, with climate change at the center.

Work begins in the coming weeks to transform an area within the formal gardens at Sandringham, Norfolk.

The area to the west of Sandringham House, now a large lawn, will be transformed into a climate-friendly Topiary Garden.

It will bring naturalistic plantings to the area to enhance biodiversity.

Mick and Diane ‘keep kicking’

Sir Mick Jagger rarely gets satisfaction from women his age, but he seems to have a soft spot for Diane von Furstenberg.

The 76-year-old Belgian fashion designer, known for inventing the wrap dress, shared this selfie of herself with the Stones singer, who turns 80 in July. Says Von Furstenberg: ‘Two old friends, many decades later, still kicking and, most importantly, grateful.’

Von Furstenberg is married to American businessman Barry Diller, 81, while Jagger has a six-year-old son, Deveraux, with his girlfriend Melanie Hamrick, 36.

Even ‘Diddy’ David Hamilton, the veteran DJ who taps into old Radio 2 listeners on new rival Boom Radio, is scared of the awakening cancellation culture.

“I used to be known as the ‘cheeky guy’ on Radio 1, but I’m careful what I say on the air now,” Hamilton, 84, tells me.

“I don’t want to be bland, but people are very easily offended these days.”

And he adds: ‘They canceled me, it was during the pandemic and I was booked on Nonsense Celebrities, but they said I couldn’t continue at my age due to health insurance.

I told my wife, “I think it’s over for me.” Two weeks later Boom Radio rang. . .’

Buy Cushing’s haunted house

Would you dare to live in a house once owned by Peter Cushing, the Hammer Horror star who played Baron Frankenstein in six movies and Dr. Van Helsing in five Dracula movies?

The two-bedroom property in Whitstable, Kent, where the actor lived for 25 years until his death in 1994, aged 81, went on the market for £1.4 million.

The house has a blue plaque dedicated to Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars. Such was his popularity in the city that there is even a local pub named after him.

I reported last year that fans were spitting blood due to the increasingly dilapidated state of the waterfront home. But since then it has been completely renovated.