EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How does Meghan feel about Charles handout? 

Now that Meghan reportedly once complained that she wasn’t being paid for taking royal tours, what was her reaction to her father-in-law Charles’s huge payments?

In her and Harry’s last year as ‘working’ royals, Charles paid his sons £4.5 million – the split undisclosed – to cover their official duties and lifestyles in taxpayer-funded palaces.

Harry’s claim to Oprah that Charles cut him off financially after they left the gilded cage was debunked by the revelation that his father had actually been generous with a payout.

The Sussex duo’s faltering memory is probably the main reason the rest of the family has trust issues with the exiles.

Amber Rudd’s journalist daughter Flora Gill, highly critical of Liz Truss, has no ill word for the chancellor, once stating on her radio show: ‘Shout out to Kwasi, love you!’ She’s been a fan since Kwarteng’s romance with her mother haunted.

The Duchess of York has won a Literary Titan Gold Award for her novel Demon’s Land, described as ‘brilliant’ with her ‘unique writing style, complex characters and original ideas’. Does the booker beckon? Unfortunately no. Previous award winners, including Master Your Mortgage and Crush Medical Debt, failed to capture the judges’ attention.

Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett, pictured, who is expecting her second child after grueling fertility treatment, has tried to relax during pregnancy by indulging in £60 gong baths, where you lie down and ‘bath’ to the sound of someone who strikes a gong.

“I didn’t like the gong bath and fell asleep part of it,” she laments.

Emma, ​​why don’t you tune in to News At Ten and doze off at the opening bongs. It’s cheaper!

In tonight’s ITV documentary about Jeremy Paxman’s struggle with Parkinson’s, he is reunited with former Home Secretary Michael Howard, who avoided answering a question about prisons on Newsnight in 1997. “My death announcement,” Paxman moans, “will be: the same question dies 18 times.” Cheer up Paxo. You’ve only asked him 12 times.

Monica Lewinsky admits she needs at least five therapists and says, “I have a regular therapist, who is a trauma psychiatrist. I have my energy man. I have a therapist who is also kind of a friend, but kind of an emergency caller. And I started somatic therapy during the pandemic. There will be other people walking in and out.’ She adds, “I’m very lucky, because I’m in a position where I am now self-sufficient, where I can afford to give myself the kind of healing things I need.” Is Bill Clinton casting a long shadow?

When friendless David Dimbleby is looking for boyfriends at the BBC, Gary Lineker isn’t on his list. “I just don’t understand Lineker,” he says. “He just seems to be screaming his mouth over everything. I don’t know what he’s doing.’ He adds provocatively: ‘Was he a footballer?’