We know James Middleton loves dogs, but this is barking!
The brother of the Princess of Wales celebrated the publication day of his new title, Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life, in a bookstore with fans invited to bring their own pets.
Dozens turned out for the event in Waterstones, on London’s Tottenham Court Road, where 37-year-old James revealed he plans to open a center for abandoned animals.
“I would really like to have a shelter in the future,” says the businessman. ‘It’s a dream that I hope to make come true. I want to give back to the dogs as much as they gave to me.”
James, whose book was published in the Ny Breaking, added: ‘There are also dogs that can work in police, mountain rescue, medical detection – I’d like to explore that area.’
James Middleton, 37, unveiled plans to open a center for abandoned animals and launched his new book at Waterstones, on London’s Tottenham Court Road
The Princess of Wales’s brother signs copies of the new book Meet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life
“I want to keep Ella’s legacy alive,” James said
Devastated by Ella’s death almost two years ago, he adds: ‘I want to keep Ella’s legacy alive.’
James became emotional as he told how Ella had helped him overcome mental health issues and suicidal thoughts, eventually leading him to meet his wife Alizee after the spaniel wandered through the park.
The thrilling books banned by Camilla
Queen Camilla is an avid reader and patron of literary organizations, but there were a few books she forbade her son, Tom Parker Bowles, from purchasing when he was a teenager.
“We were going to Waterstones,” he says. ‘My mother always bought us – we were so lucky – whatever books we wanted. And only twice has she excluded me from two books.”
Tom Parker Bowles has revealed the only two books the Queen ever refused to buy him. The pair will appear together at the Queen’s Reading Room Literary Festival
Speaking on the Rosebud podcast, the food writer says: ‘I remember reading about the Marquis de Sade and getting quite excited, and I came back with Justine. She put it on the counter and said, “You don’t have that when you’re 13.” So that went back.”
Justine, which is about a woman in search of virtue who is forced to become a sex slave, is not the only book rejected by Camilla. Tom adds: ‘I seem to remember a book by Elmore Leonard, and it was a book called Stick, and on the back line it said, “Stick take no bulls***”. And of course that went straight back.’
Lucy is building a bright future
Former model Lucy Wigram married Ben Sangster, son of racehorse owner and heir Robert Sangster.
Their daughter, Eliza, 32, has found love outside the racing world. She is engaged to architect Johnnie Llewellyn, whom she met at Oxford Brookes University. “We are very happy,” said Lucy, 57, adding that the wedding is expected to take place “early next year”.
Eliza Wigram (pictured with model mum Lucy) is engaged to architect Johnnie Llewellyn, who she met at Oxford Brookes University
Robinson has been overthrown
When I asked Anne Robinson last December if she was dating Queen Camilla’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, the former Weakest Link host dismissed the idea as “ridiculous” and even talked darkly about legal action.
However, the pair have been an item ever since, although never pictured together.
And on Saturday, Robinson will introduce the dashing former brigadier, 84, who was married to Camilla for 22 years, to friends at her 80th birthday party in the Cotswolds.
Anne Robinson will introduce 84-year-old Andrew Parker Bowles, who was married to Queen Camilla for 22 years, to friends at her 80th birthday party on Saturday
This time next year, Kate, we’ll all be millionaires…
Could this explain supermodel Kate Moss’ switch to her lifestyle brand Cosmoss?
A fellow model has revealed that Moss is obsessed with another colorful south London character: Del Boy, the Peckham trader played by David Jason, pictured right, in Only Fools and Horses.
“The strange thing about Kate is that even though she’s very cool, she loves Del Boy,” says Jade Parfitt, who is organizing Bath’s first ever Fashion Festival with her friend Erin O’Connor. ‘We were once working abroad and Kate tried to describe the program to a foreign model.’
Parfitt adds: ‘She asked me to explain it to the bewildered girl, so I hummed the theme tune.’
Great cheering!
A fellow model has revealed that Kate Moss is obsessed with Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses
The Peckham merchant is played by David Jason (right) in the sitcom which ran from 1981 to 2003
Plans of misery for Sarah
Sarah Beeny has found herself in hot water again after splashing around in a boathouse on her ‘mini Downton Abbey’ estate without planning permission.
The TV presenter, 52, has already faced possible enforcement action from council officials over a treehouse in an Alpine winter wonderland and earth banks built without permission. Now the Property Ladder star and her husband, Graham Swift, could be forced to demolish a ‘modest’ 8-by-8-foot boathouse with wooden and thatched roofs and a Victorian greenhouse.
Documents filed with the municipality show that construction work on the unauthorized structures began three years ago and was completed last year. Beeny has now applied for retrospective permission for a ‘change of use’ of former agricultural land to extend the garden of her new-build seven-bedroom villa, near Wincanton in Somerset.
But in an objection letter, the parish council said: ‘The council remains concerned about the loss of agricultural land.’
Sarah Beeny has found herself in hot water after splashing on a boathouse without planning permission
Jeremy the comeback Kidd
Celebrated sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s grandson Jeremy Kidd is back in Britain to relaunch himself as an artist after years of trying to find himself, surfing and taking a road trip across the US.
“I had to leave London because I came from a dysfunctional English family,” says Jeremy, 62, who is preparing for his new West End exhibition, Home Coming, at the NOHO gallery in Fitzrovia. “I went to America and dug the road for a few dollars an hour.”
His mother Rachel was Hepworth’s daughter with esteemed artist Ben Nicholson. His father was noted Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Michael Kidd.
Speaking at the Chelsea Arts Club, Jeremy tells me, “I came from a smart family who didn’t talk about their feelings.”