EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Harry’s blaming of William exposes his incapacity for independent thought

The fact that Harry blames William and Kate for allegedly endorsing his wearing a Nazi uniform doesn’t just upset the Prince and Princess of Wales. It surely also exposes Harry’s inability for independent thought and his lack of a sense of history. He wore the offending outfit to a costume party hosted by William, who had established the ‘colonial and native’ theme. Both brothers were reprimanded by Prince Philip over the affair. Her mother, Princess Alice, an opponent of the Nazi regime, spent the war sheltering Jews in Athens and was honored by Israel, granting her wish to be buried on the Mount of Olives.

During a 2009 interview with the BBC’s Newsround, William was asked who would win a match between him and Harry. “It’s not even a contest,” he bragged to himself. “Obviously I would win.” And he added: “As an older brother, you have that psychological power over your brother.” Harry should have taken that into account before the TKO of him.

Much jubilation in France over Harry and William’s punches as Bruce Toussaint, star anchor of BFMTV, the country’s biggest news network, laughs: “First we had Will Smith slaps, now Will Windsor slaps,” adding :”That’s a good job Harry got at the dog feeder instead of the dog. Gallic sense of humor is no laughing matter.

Will former BBC Breakfast presenter Selina Scott, pictured, take part in the show’s 40th birthday celebrations next week after current presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty gleefully promoted images of their bête noire Frank Bough fronting the first Program? Selina has complained about her “obscene comments” about his manhood, saying, “He was a nightmare working with.”

Lady Antonia Fraser admits that she and her late husband Harold Pinter stole books from public libraries, including an early Samuel Beckett book that ended up in the Pinter book collection that Antonia sold to a collector after his death in 2008. “The Collector contacted me to say that he had found a book taken from the Hackney library in 1946,” he tells Radio 4’s The Confessional. ‘He then wrote to the Hackney Library and they said the fines were ‘fantastic’!’ Antonia made a donation to the library’s rebuilding fund, adding: ‘That was an expensive way to borrow a book!’

Julie T Wallace, the vengeful Ruth in the late Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She Devil on the BBC, fondly remembers her screen dates with Tom Baker. “It was brilliant,” she says. “He’s crazy and then I’m fucking Doctor Who.” Send for the Daleks!

Battleaxe Christine Hamilton chides former BBC war correspondent Martin Bell, who ousted her husband Neil as an MP in the 1997 election, for claiming that nothing he had encountered in the Bosnian war zones had prepared him for the impact of meeting her. “This may surprise you, but I don’t like confrontation,” she tells a podcast. ‘I don’t like to get into trouble. Everyone thinks I’m wearing the pants. [with Neil] but we carry one leg each. Where does he put his axe?