Prince Andrew marks his 65th birthday tomorrow. This year is also the fifth anniversary of his enforced exile when the late Queen cancelled his 60th present of promotion to full Admiral.
He had been fitted for a new kit including a tailcoat dress option which he planned to wear to the celebrations. The Queen also cancelled plans for a lavish dinner and party at Windsor Castle.
Prince Andrew marks his 65th birthday tomorrow. This year is also the fifth anniversary of his enforced exile when the late Queen cancelled his 60th present of promotion to full Admiral
The Queen also cancelled plans for a lavish dinner and party at Windsor Castle
Ex-wife Sarah Ferguson was determined to carry on regardless at Royal Lodge. Alas, potential guests suddenly found diary clashes, causing a very sparsely attended event. Happy Groundhog Day, Andrew?
When King Charles next visits Washington will the hamburger-chomping President Trump offer him his first Big Mac?
Franklin Roosevelt served his grandparents George VI and Queen Elizabeth hotdogs when they met in 1939. Elizabeth, never having encountered a hotdog, asked Roosevelt for advice.
When King Charles next visits Washington will the hamburger-chomping President offer him his first Big Mac? Pictured: A Trump-branded burger at Trump-themed restaurant Trump Burger in Texas
‘Very simple,’ he answered, ‘push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone.’ The Queen opted for a knife and fork instead.
Will her grandson receive from Trump the additional delights of French fries and a chocolate milkshake complete with plastic straw?
Lamenting the ‘trigger warning’ on her nude bottom scene in 1973’s The Wicker Man, Britt Ekland fumes: ‘The whole thing is absurd… England has turned very woke in the last couple of years.’
Lamenting the ‘trigger warning’ on her nude bottom scene in 1973’s The Wicker Man (pictured), Britt Ekland fumes: ‘The whole thing is absurd… England has turned very woke in the last couple of years’
Awkwardly, the posterior wasn’t actually Ms Ekland’s. After she clarified at the time that ‘anything below the waist was private’, a double was brought in without her knowledge.
Irked to see the stand-in’s rear was ‘much bigger’, Britt also wailed about the bottom being owned by a stripper from Glasgow.
Portraying Princess Anne in The Crown, Erin Doherty wore trousers, a practice she reprises to play Victorian shoplifter Mary Carr in Steven Knight’s BBC drama A Thousand Blows.
Portraying Princess Anne in The Crown, Erin Doherty wore trousers (pictured)
It is a practice she reprises to play Victorian shoplifter Mary Carr in Steven Knight’s BBC drama A Thousand Blows (pictured)
Erin told Radio Times the trousers ‘were kitted out with giant pockets in order to hide her loot’.
Knight adds: ‘Erin plays the queen of the gang the Forty Elephants. They went to Harrods where they’d steal so many things that they would waddle out looking like elephants.’
Celebrating Conclave’s best film Bafta win, German director Edward Berger pays tribute to screenwriter Peter Straughan, enthusing: ‘Thank you Peter, for your wonderful script.’
Celebrating Conclave’s best film Bafta win (pictured), German director Edward Berger pays tribute to screenwriter Peter Straughan, enthusing: ‘Thank you Peter, for your wonderful script.’
Berger went on to namecheck the cast, producer and distributors with no mention of author Robert Harris (pictured)
Berger went on to namecheck the cast, producer and distributors with no mention of author Robert Harris.
Robert remarked: ‘The writer generally is like the drunken old uncle everyone really doesn’t want to see turning up.’
Superannuated Sex Pistol John Lydon, sharing his vinyl collection with Record Collector magazine, is asked: ‘Did anything by Bob Dylan ever grab you?’
‘No, never very much,’ he replies. ‘When I first heard “The answer is blowing in the wind”, I thought it was about farting.’