EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Andrew may be relieved he doesn’t feature in the upcoming final segments of The Crown
Prince Andrew could be breathing a sigh of relief that he won’t appear in the upcoming final parts of The Crown, which ends a decade before the publication of the first allegations that he had sex with Virginia Giuffre.
And Prince Harry barely gets a mention, with creator Peter Morgan admitting he hadn’t read Spare: “I haven’t read a word of it,” he said. “I didn’t want his voice to permeate my thinking too much.”
Feverishly promoting his new play about Diana’s Panorama interview, Jonathan Maitland accuses Prince William of enabling ‘blatant censorship’ by urging the BBC to ban it.
“Then why are the BBC and William behaving this way?” he asks. ‘There is dramatic irony here. The son Diana raised to have the courage to speak out silenced his own mother for having the courage to speak out.β
Prince Andrew will be relieved he doesn’t feature in the final segments of the Crown, a decade before the first published allegations that he had sex with Virginia Giuffre, writes EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
Netflix series creator Peter Morgan admitted he hadn’t read Prince Harry Spare’s memoirs and said he didn’t want the Duke of Sussex to ‘inhabit his mind’
Where is predecessor Liz Truss’s roll of honor as Rishi celebrates his first anniversary as Prime Minister?
Both the honors unit and the House of Lords Appointment Commission have long since finished vetting the fourteen names (probably including four peerages).
My mole whispers that it has temporarily disappeared into a Room 101-esque filing cabinet between the Honors Unit and Rishi’s desk. It took nine months for Boris’ longer and more controversial list to appear, which was a record in itself.
Stanley Baldwin had only been in Downing Street for eight months when he issued his 1924 resignation list with 38 names, including one peerage, nine baronetcies, nineteen knighthoods and two damehoods.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, a Prime Minister with a term in office almost as short as Liz Truss’s, murdered thirteen people β one fewer than Liz β after his 363-day term in office.
My mole tells me that Liz Truss’s honors list is a Room 101-esque filing cabinet, with the Honors Unit and the House of Lords Appointment Commission having long since vetted the 14 names included in it
Extras star Ashley Jensen reveals her 14-year-old son’s disapproval of seeing Kate Winslet, pictured, appear on a film set in the satirical show with Ricky Gervais, saying: ‘You’re guaranteed an Oscar if you play mentally. ‘
“My son watched it,” Ashley says, adding that he “couldn’t believe” it was in the script. βSome of the kids in his year are quite divided about that kind of comedy,β she said. “And I’m like, wow, God.”
Clive Myrie has traded dodge missiles in Israel to promote his new memoir in London. The BBC has given Clive permission to leave the front line to compete at the Wimbledon Bookfest. Isn’t life great?
Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly one of the first guests booked into Claridges’ new Β£60,000-a-night ninth-floor penthouse with four bedrooms and a roof garden.
It also features artwork by Damien ‘formaldehyde’ Hirst, including a hideous sculpture of St Bartholomew on a coffee table. Shouldn’t Leo ask for a discount?