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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Could Prince Andrew get inspiration for his plan to discredit Virginia Giuffre from his first meeting with Meghan?
As Prince Andrew ponders his strategy to discredit Virginia Giuffre’s memories, could he look to nephew Harry’s account of Meghan’s first meeting with the Queen for inspiration, when he asked Harry to identify HM’s ‘assistant’? “I asked her who she was talking about,” Harry writes in Spare. ‘Meg replied: ‘The man holding the bag. The man who walked her to the door. ‘That wasn’t her assistant,’ Harry explained. That was his second child, Andrew. Could Meg’s non-recognition encourage Andrew to believe that his supposed dance partner Tramp mistook him for someone else?
As Prince Andrew ponders his strategy to discredit Virginia Giuffre’s memories, could he look to nephew Harry’s account of Meghan’s first meeting with the Queen for inspiration, when he asked Harry to identify HM’s ‘assistant’?
More trouble awaits the Duke of York when Andrew Lownie turns on his investigative apparatus to expose the disgraced Andrew. Says Lownie, author of ‘Traitor King’ which exposed the Duke of Windsor as a Nazi sympathizer: ‘My next book is a biography of Prince Andrew. I love talking to anyone, off the record if you prefer, who knew him, has stories about him, or can put me in touch with people who knew or worked with him.’ Lower the periscope and dive in, Andrew!
Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones, pictured, remains remarkably bullish on the Financial Times listing her as a ‘nepo baby’ whose ‘rocketing rise makes more sense when you know her father is Phil Edgar-Jones ‘. But her father, a former Big Brother executive producer and now head of Sky Arts, isn’t happy about her being cast with Brooklyn Beckham. “That’s nonsense,” she snorts. ‘As if Lenny Abrahamson, the Oscar-nominated director [of Normal People]he would even know who I was.
Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones, pictured, remains remarkably bullish on the Financial Times listing her as a ‘nepo baby’ whose ‘rocketing rise makes more sense when you know her father is Phil Edgar-Jones
Lord Sugar, halfway through his 17th season of The Apprentice and looking forward to his 20th birthday, tells the Radio Times: “Maybe one of the tasks for my senior year is to announce that I’m about to die and someone can design a nice coffin for me? One that has communications built in, in case I wake up. A keyboard and mobile connectivity and rechargeable batteries for the mortician.’ How about a Steam Age Amstrad for the good old days?
Donald Trelford, who has died at 85, once had lunch with JFK’s mother, Rose Kennedy, after buying her memoirs for The Observer, and asked if she knew Mr. Ford. “You mean the man who makes the cars?” she asked. Donald explained that he was referring to Richard Nixon’s successor as president, Gerald Ford. “No,” replied Mrs. Kennedy. He is from the midwest. I wouldn’t know a man like that.
Ice Cold in Alex star Sylvia Syms felt her acting career was ruined by constantly being mistaken for the wife of Richard Attenborough actress Sheila Sim. Sylvia left for heavenly Pinewood via Denville Hall, affectionately nicknamed Dunacting, after her death last week at age 89. Sheila also did the last curtsy for her from the theater house. Lots to talk about in the heavenly green room, girls!