While the king’s doctors express satisfaction with his progress, one source reports concern over his determination to take on so many outside assignments. Over the next six weeks, Charles plans to attend the Chelsea Flower Show, Trooping the Colour, Garter Day, Royal Ascot and the state visit of the Emperor of Japan. Now that Camilla has sided with the medics and urged caution, she has reminded him to slow down with discreet notes in his briefings, including “gently, gently catches the monkey” and “prudens qui patiens.” [the prudent man is patient].
The king’s 150 new arrest warrants ensure that he can be provided with all the comforts of various wine merchants and cheese sellers, a ski equipment maker, a bacon maker, his hairdresser, a button maker, gunsmith, thatcher and dike maker, boot maker, kilt maker, his favorite clematis and magnolia nurseries, the royal supplier of fishing tackle, as well as Twining’s tea, the Ritz Hotel and Waitrose. Camilla’s seven arrest warrants cover all the essentials of a lady: a jeweller, pharmacy, stationery shop, florist, two liquor suppliers and the largest of all grocers, Fortnum and Mason.
While the king’s doctors express satisfaction with his progress, one source reports concern over his determination to take on so many outside assignments.
King Charles III and Prince William, Prince of Wales during the official handover ceremony for the role of Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps on March 13
Pioneer that she was, the late Dame Shirley Conran was one of the early ‘wifelets’ of the late Marquess of Bath, also known as ‘The Loins of Longleat’. Abandoned by his wife Anna Gael in 1970, Bath took Shirley on as his new chatelaine with the prospect of becoming a marchioness and sharing in his £150 million fortune. It didn’t go well. After castigating her first husband Terence Conran for his meanness, she discovered that her first Sunday lunch in Longleat was little more than a poorly cooked rabbit snared in the vegetable garden, washed down with disgusting home-made wine. Shirley was soon an ex-wife.
When Harry Styles, pictured, was born in 1994, Joan Collins had long since mothballed her Dynasty wigs and was already pursuing a stellar career for more than 40 years. So a bit unfair when the evergreen Joan emerged from the Variety Club Awards and a well-wisher asked her for her opinion on Harry. “I have no idea who he is,” Joan, 91, replied this month. ‘No. Who is he?’
When Harry Styles, pictured, was born in 1994, Joan Collins had long since mothballed her Dynasty wigs and had a stellar career of more than 40 years
Joan Collins (pictured) said she had no idea who Harry Styles was when she emerged from the Variety Club Awards
Contestants looking for the suitcase containing £250,000 in Stephen Mangan’s The Fortune Hotel, which started on ITV last night, are in for a letdown. Random bag thefts in Grenada, where the series is filmed, posed too much of a risk, says editor Ben Wilson. ‘We only had £5,000 worth of £50 notes on top in the suitcase. The rest was paper.”
Pictured: Dame Judi Dench at the press day for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023
Dame Judi Dench dressed down when a postman arrived at the front door of her Surrey farmhouse with a parcel and asked: ‘Can I take a photo?’ She immediately agreed and prepared for her close-up. But the postman took a photo of the package. Judi whined, “I thought he wanted one from me!”