The Duchess of Sussex’s trip to Dublin in 2013 – when she attempted to pour Guinness – only took place after Trinity College’s debating society failed to seduce a better-known actor, according to a student blog.
“After we invited her, it was decided that she was not important enough to be an honorary patron, so we gave her what we called a Bram Stoker Medal, named after the former member of the society who wrote Dracula,” it says.
Meghan Markle during a visit to Belfast in March 2018
Trinity College Dublin (Stock Image), where Meghan Markle was invited to visit in 2013
‘In retrospect, given that she might still rival Princess Diana for her fame and star power, that was a bit of a mistake. But she still seemed very happy with the little plastic medal in a box.”
She poignantly displayed the piece of jewelry proudly in her Suits dressing room.
Enthusiastic about his long-standing bond with the king, accelerator Stephen Fry fails to mention that he severely tested that friendship after admitting in his 2014 memoir to secretly snorting cocaine at Buckingham Palace.
When asked if Charles knew at the time, Fry replied: ‘Well, of course not… but now he does. I certainly don’t expect the Order of the Thistle or any major state honor to fall over my head.’
Gyles Brandreth reflects on mortality and says he has abandoned plans for a funeral. ‘Cemeteries can be quite gloomy in winter.
Tombstones can be moved or vandalized and the inscription often fades,” he says, explaining that he now wants to leave his ashes to a well-known artist… “and invite them to mix a little of me into their paint, so that I end up on one of their canvases.’
Could formaldehyde enthusiast Damien Hirst put Brandreth’s ashes in a dead shark and call it Gyles’ physical impossibility without a dumb jumper?
Gyles Brandreth on This Morning on July 17, 2023
On the eve of the Tate Modern retrospective of work by Yoko Ono, pictured, former Channel 4 arts head Waldemar Januszczak blames TV station managers for demolishing Yoko’s giant marble sculpture of a woman’s leg in front of C4 headquarters .
“At the last minute, management stomped their foot and said no,” laments Waldemar, who commissioned the piece.
‘It wasn’t about the money: Yoko would pay for it all. It was the idea of a giant woman’s leg disguised as art. They thought it was nonsense.’
Not as stupid as Channel 4’s Naked Attraction, right?
Musing on the official decision not to tell Charles’ grandfather, George VI, that he had a fatal form of cancer, Charles Moore writes in The Spectator: ‘It remains a crime to ‘bypass the death of the Sovereign’… which means you simply imagine it. The reason for this is that such conversations often had an insidious intent.”
Murky waters.
Funeral actor Michael Jayston, who has died aged 88, was a prankster who once received a lengthy response from London Zoo after posing as a pensioner with a parrot that once had a vocabulary of 1,500 words but suffered a ’bout of the tongue’.
He wasn’t so lucky with Dame Thora Hird. She did not respond to the suggestive love letters he wrote in the guise of a lecherous retired colonel.