EMILY PRESCOTT: Heart throb equerry to King Charles, Johnny Thompson, gets a promotion

The king’s dashing equerry – known to royal fans as Major Johnny – needs a new nickname after being promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Kilt-wearing Jonathan Thompson has also forced himself a pay rise.

He now earns up to £87,716 – an increase from the maximum £64,642 for an Army Major.

Lieutenant Colonel Thompson, of the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, is married but made his heart skip a beat when he was pictured mourning the Queen and accompanying Prime Minister Liz Truss to meet the King at Buckingham Palace.

The king’s dashing equerry – known to royal fans as Major Johnny – needs a new nickname after being promoted to lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Thompson, of the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, is married but made his heart skip a beat when he was pictured during the Queen’s mourning period, and accompanying Prime Minister Liz Truss to meet the King at Buckingham Palace

Avalon Otis, as Alice points out… the party is over

They’ve been a couple for seven years and certainly look good together – but we may not see Lady Alice Manners and Burberry model boyfriend Otis Ferry in this kind of embrace again.

Whispers of a split seemed to be confirmed when Alice, 27, shared a message about a full lunar eclipse that read, “There will be interruptions and interruptions, but all this is so you can break through.”

She also wrote ‘Yup’.

They’ve been a couple for seven years and certainly look good together – but maybe we won’t see Lady Alice Manners and Burberry, model boyfriend Otis Ferry, in hugs like this anymore

As a young aspiring director, Danny Boyle resorted to underhanded tactics to fill theaters. If there were fewer people in the audience than on stage, the show couldn’t go on, he admits. “So we were going to visit a nursing home on King’s Road in Chelsea and hand out tickets. The nurses would say, “Not you again!” ‘

Gaia with good voice

Is Emma Thompson’s daughter Gaia Wise, like her mother, destined for greatness?

I’m only asking because Gaia tells me she’s landed a part in The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohorrim, an animated movie coming out in 18 months.

She will voice Hera, daughter of Helm Hammerhand, voiced by Brian Cox. It may be a great performance, but 22-year-old Gaia – whose father Greg is also an actor – insists it’s not due to family ties and, like many young novices, has a waitress on the side.

At the Pink Ribbon Foundation’s charity gala at the Proud Central Gallery in London, she said: ‘My parents always say there is no favoritism here. Only if you’re good you get it and if you’re not, you don’t.’

Is Emma Thompson’s daughter Gaia Wise, like her mother, destined for greatness?

Queen guitarist Brian May has long complained against “iceberg houses,” blaming neighbors who dug deep basement extensions for causing a flood at his multimillion-pound London home last year, ruining cherished rock memorabilia and family photos.

So heaven knows what May, 75, makes of the news that the new owners of a house he recently sold have requested the construction of a huge underground leisure complex with a pool, sauna and spa – renovations, they say, that are ‘a better fit with their lifestyle and wishes’.

Maybe they thought, if you can’t beat them, join them…