Prince Andrew played a version of musical chairs at Windsor’s St George’s Chapel for the late King Constantine’s memorial service. He was expected to sit next to his ex-wife Sarah on the second level.
The front row was reserved for Queen Camilla and working members of the royal family, plus Marina Ogilvy who cared for her mother, Princess Alexandra – seen for the first time in a wheelchair.
But like a huge cuckoo, Andrew the Duke of Kent, who should have been standing next to his sister and niece, bounced into the second row.
Could the absent William – who has little time for Andrew (who took pole position as the highest in the current line of succession) – relegated his uncle to his proper place?
Prince Andrew played a version of musical chairs at Windsor’s St George’s Chapel for the late King Constantine’s memorial service
Andrew sent the Duke of Kent, who should have been sitting next to his sister and niece, to the second row
Andrew was expected to sit next to his ex-wife Sarah on the second level
With Cheltenham’s National Hunt Festival approaching, has the betting started on BBC Radio 4 as to who will be Martha Kearney’s successor?
While the early money appears to be going to Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett, there is a wave of interest in outsider, BBC’s perky Europe editor Katya Adler.
With Martha staying until after the general election, it will be some time before Nick Robinson declares ‘weighed in’.
The widow of Sir Bruce Forsyth, former Miss World Wilnelia, pictured, tells ITV’s Loose Women how impressed she was by the number of friends Bruce seemed to have when she started dating him in 1980.
“I remember a lot of people saying, ‘Nice to see you, nice to see you!’ I said, ‘Oh my God, do you have all these friends?’ I had no idea it was a slogan.”
David Dimbleby, in a forthcoming BBC Three documentary, recalls former Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s anger when he asked him, after being deposed by Ted Heath, how much he had made from a book serialisation.
Wilson replied, “Did you ask (Heath) who paid for his yacht?”
‘Today it’s like talking to the Leader of the Opposition, asking him a question about what he earns from a book and he says, ‘Did you ask him who paid for his wallpaper?’ says Dimmers.
“I never spoke to him again because I wasn’t allowed to.”
In a forthcoming BBC Three documentary, David Dimbleby recalls former Prime Minister Harold Wilson asking him how much he had made from a book serialisation.
Succession’s Shiv alias Sarah Snook, multitasking in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theater Royal Haymarket, won’t like Spectator theater critic Lloyd Evans’ review, in which he accuses her of ‘caressing and caressing every syllable with self-conscious reverence’ .
It gets tiring quickly,” he meows. ‘Imagine Orson Welles reciting the Pizza Express wine list in the manner of King Lear. This show is a lightweight pastiche. It takes 120 minutes. That’s 118 too many.’
Shouldn’t Shiv channel her movie dad Brian ‘Logan Roy’ Cox and tell Evans to ‘f*** off’?
Launching his podcast with Tory peer Baroness Warsi, David Baddiel recalls: ‘In 2007 I was voted the sixth sexiest Jew in the world, which I was quite pleased with… until I discovered number five had gone to Alan Sugar . I mean, for God’s sake!’