Do Harry and Meghan need a protocol expert to guide them?
Their statement on the California wildfires was entitled “Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex.”
Why Meghan was not called a princess, which she is as the wife of a prince, is a mystery. On her son Archie’s birth certificate, she listed herself as HRH the Duchess of Sussex and her occupation as ‘Princess of the United Kingdom’.
By the time daughter Lilibet was born, she was simply ‘Rachel Meghan Markle’ (no Mountbatten-Windsor), with no occupation listed.
If she has a third child, will she be listed on the birth certificate as a ‘jam maker’?
On son Archie’s birth certificate, Meghan Markle listed herself as HRH The Duchess of Sussex and occupation as ‘Princess of the United Kingdom’.
Newly released official documents say the late Queen was only told nine years after his 1964 confession that her trusted art adviser Anthony Blunt was a Russian spy.
But his KGB connections had been an open secret at Buckingham Palace long before that. Tommy Lascelles, private secretary to George VI and the Queen, routinely referred to Blunt as “our Russian spy.”
King George sent Blunt on a mission to Germany in 1945 to recover documents linking Edward VIII to Hitler. He also retrieved letters that Philip had written to his sisters (three of whom were married to members of the Nazi Party).
These remain secret in the Royal Archives, in what courtiers call Room 101, where papers that the family does not want anyone to see disappear.
Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen’s photographs, photographed at the Courtauld Institute in 1970 with Queen Elizabeth II
Rachel Reeves is adept at sucking up other people’s money to throw into her black hole, but one perk has eluded her.
The Arts Council has valued John le Carre’s literary archives, now in the care of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, at £1.5 million.
This means that his sons can offset that amount against their inheritance tax assessment.
Rachel could barely dent the Treasury’s black hole with Le Carre’s loot, but every little bit helps.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks in the House of Commons, Westminster, answering questions from MPs for the first time since her return from a trip to China, criticized by political opponents as it coincided with a week of volatility for the pound and rising interest rates on Great Britain Britain bonds
Veteran Shakespearean actress Dame Judi Dench told Trinny Woodall that she described the Bard as ‘the man who pays the rent’.
“Was he the man,” the beauty guru asked, “who helped pay the mortgage later in your career?”
“No,” Judi replied. “That was Clover Butter.”
Veteran Shakespearean actress Dame Judi Dench told Trinny Woodall that she described the Bard as ‘the man who pays the rent’
Alan Cumming, who appears as an elegant Scottish laird hosting the American version of The Traitors in the same castle where Claudia Winkleman hosts the British version, can’t resist voicing his rival.
‘I think it’s so hilarious that the American version of this show is much campier and more theatrical than the British version.
‘I don’t think this could ever have happened before. And I think it’s because of our work.”
Let’s hear it when Alan shows up in Claudia’s Mr Mittens jumbo sweater and Spanx leggings!
Alan Cumming said of the UK Traitors show: ‘I find it so hilarious that the US version of this show is much campier and more theatrical than the UK version’
Coleen Rooney explains to boyfriend Gary Neville her husband Wayne’s annoying habit of using a buzzing hairdryer to help him sleep.
She explains that when she shares the marital bedroom, he uses a fan instead.
“A blown up one?” Gary asks cheekily. “Not three people in a bed, no,” Coleen replies with a straight face.
Coleen Rooney clears up her husband Wayne’s annoying habit of using a buzzing hairdryer to help him sleep for boyfriend Gary Neville