EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Unlike his late mother, King Charles has little enthusiasm for horse racing
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Unlike his late mother, King Charles has little enthusiasm for horse racing…but he is expected to attend Ascot
Six weeks after the coronation, King Charles faces the first test of his reign: Royal Ascot. Unlike his late mother, he has little enthusiasm for horse racing.
During the early days of his marriage to Diana, he was the subject of the Queen’s three-line whip to attend, often slipping out after the first race to play polo.
Already in the middle of downsizing the Royal Stud at Sandringham, he won’t be looking forward to what most in Queen Camilla’s circle consider to be the crown jewel of the season.
The Ascot office, which runs the racecourse, expects him to be on hand every day to bolster attendance.
The problem is that he owns Ascot and revenue is desperately needed to help pay the £185 million cost of the 2006 grandstand unkindly described as the world’s only airport terminal without a runway.
Six weeks after the coronation, King Charles faces the first test of his reign: Royal Ascot. Unlike his late mother, he has little enthusiasm for horse racing
Already in the middle of downsizing the Royal Stud at Sandringham, he won’t be looking forward to what most in Queen Camilla’s circle consider to be the crown jewel of the season.
David Baddiel, promoting his book The God Desire, considers the royal family to be science fiction.
“The fact that it moves from the instant death of the Queen to the instant anointing of King Charles is an idea of resurrection akin to Doctor Who,” he spouts, apparently straight-faced.
What Does Love Have To Do With It? screenwriter Jemima Goldsmith, is appalled by the arrest of her ex-husband and former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Jemima Goldsmith attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 9, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California
While feverishly promoting the rom-com, she tells Vanity Fair, “I really wanted to make a film that showed a little bit of the kind of beautiful Pakistan, the kind of welcoming, fun and vibrant Pakistan that you never get to see. .’ Now a bit more difficult!
Revealing that Edna O’Brien had a soft spot for John Lennon, a song the flame-haired novelist wrote for the Beatle is up for sale in an upcoming Dublin manuscript auction.
Written in 1971, when Edna was 41 and John 31, she posted the typewritten composition from her home in Chelsea to Lennon, asking him to add some verses. It was signed in ballpoint pen: “Love, Edna.” Definitely a bargain at £2,000?
In the same sale, a 1971 handwritten letter from Lord Mountbatten, on Classiebawn Castle letterhead, to a local police chief, thanking him for security advice and ‘for the admirable arrangements you have made for my protection’ is expected to fetch £1,000 .
The lot also includes a gift from the Earl of a paperback copy of his biography. Tragically, almost exactly eight years later, the so-called security arrangements failed. Mountbatten was killed by the IRA within sight of the castle.
Judi Dench played Shakespeare’s Imogen in Cymbeline in Stratford and startled her co-star Ben Kingsley by showing her bare breasts on stage.
Her character had a birthmark on one breast and Judi had jokingly written the word Mole on one breast. “I tried to make him laugh,” she explains. ‘It didn’t go well at all. Ben gave me good advice.’ It is clear that Gandhi’s sense of humor is no laughing matter.