EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Is Prince Andrew’s coronation role threatened by the Netflix drama?

Rufus Sewell’s portrayal of Andrew in the Netflix talk drama Newsnight could inadvertently cost the disgraced prince a key role in his brother’s coronation.

Charles is currently selecting the four luminaries that will hold up the canopy over him at his anointing.

Traditionally, it falls to four Knights of the Garter. But, with a quarter of the 24 seats vacant and many of the survivors too frail to participate, the King is considering inviting his heir William and his three brothers to play the part.

However, as Netflix highlights Andrew’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the monarch may have doubts.

No word yet on who will play Beatrice in the Netflix drama. When she discovered that her father had agreed to the inquisition, she insisted on attending.

Recalled BBC producer Sam McAlister: “She asked to come in too… All of a sudden, she was in that room with us.”

Before Andrew hit the self-destruct button, he insisted that Emily Maitlis be the interrogator.

Have you given Emily’s Netflix doppelganger Gillian Anderson a similar thumbs up?

The appearance of King Charles with a hole in his right sock at a Brick Lane mosque should have sent shivers of apprehension through his dressing room crew.

Did your locker room team know that your engagement involved removing your shoes and that your socks weren’t in good shape? It would not have happened in Australia.

On his last visit there, Charles’s 13-member entourage included a dresser, a butler, a valet, and a traveling helper to handle his clothes.

Oscar nominee Paul Mescal, pictured, reveals that his stellar success prompts his Irish neighbors to bring him down to earth.

“If they ever feel like I’m getting too big for my boots, it appears I once promoted Denny’s sausages,” he tells Radio 4, describing how, after three years at drama school, he was poor and needed the money.

But I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to eat them all. You were supposed to spit them out in a bucket. I felt it was rude.

“But I’ve learned my lesson that it’s better to spit it out than eat 15 sausages in one morning.”

The Globe Theatre’s silly ‘misogyny’ warning to audiences ahead of the upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream evokes memories of Sir Peter Hall’s 1968 film version of Shakespeare’s play starring the late Diana Rigg.

“I had this little cotton dress on,” Dame Diana recalled. And I bought some wool panties to wear underneath. I was up in a tree and I heard Peter Hall say, ‘Diana, take off your panties!’

Former Labor MP Janet Anderson, who has died at the age of 73, treated the Queen to a daily diet of gossip as an official Parliamentary deputy chamberlain, including describing ‘Squeaker’ John Bercow as a ‘rather obnoxious little Tory MP for Buckingham ‘.

Fingers crossed HM and Janet, on some heavenly cloud, laugh at his description of Michael Fabricant as ‘for the whole world like he wore a wig but wouldn’t admit it’.