King Charles doesn’t have much luck with popes. His and Camilla’s visit to the Holy See in early April might be problematical given Pope Francis’s indisposition.
In 2005, their wedding was delayed by a day as Charles had to represent his mother at the funeral of John Paul ll.
In 1985, he and then wife Diana met Pope John Paul on an official tour but were forbidden by the Queen from attending a Roman Catholic Mass.
The then Prince Charles and Camilla with the Pope in 2017. King Charles and Camilla’s visit to the Holy See in early April might be problematical given Pope Francis ’s indisposition
Prince Charles and Princess Diana with Pope John Paul II in 1985. While on this official tour they were forbidden by the Queen from attending a Roman Catholic Mass
As the PM faces arguably the trickiest meeting a British leader has ever had with a US President, I wonder if he has been reminded of US war hero Senator John McCain’s 2018 verdict on Donald Trump’s cosy relations with Vladimir Putin: ‘No [US] president had ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.’
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US war hero Senator John McCain’s 2018 verdict on Donald Trump ’s cosy relations with Vladimir Putin : ‘No [US] president had ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant’
President Donald Trump posts an AI video on Truth Social showing a golden statue of himself
Donald Trump is said to want a giant golden statue of himself placed in the ‘Gaza Riviera’ he envisages arising from the bombed-to-smithereens home of Palestinians.
Might he be copying the unhinged Roman emperor Nero who had a massive bronze statue known as The Colossus of Nero built to impress the masses?
Pointing out that her second ex-husband Geoffrey Robertson left Nigella Lawson, for her 35 years ago, Australian super-gossip Kathy Lette muses during a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra: ‘How could good-looking, brilliant QC [Robertson] break up with beautiful, gorgeous Domestic Goddess [Ms Lawson] and the daughter of the Chancellor [the late Nigel Lawson] for a loudmouth, colonial, nymphomaniac?’ Good question!
Seth Rogovoy’s new book about Beatle George Harrison says that, stuck while writing song Piggies, he asked his mother, Louise Harrison: ‘What rhymes with “something lacking”?
To which she replied: ‘A damn good whacking’. Rogovoy comments: ‘Never underestimate the power of a mother to contribute, however slightly, to the work of some of the greatest geniuses of our time.’
The Beatles in 1963. Seth Rogovoy’s new book about Beatle George Harrison (centre) says that, stuck while writing song Piggies, he asked his mother, Louise Harrison: ‘What rhymes with “something lacking”?
The Army has 497 horses in its stables. Are their days numbered? They don’t have QEII to protect them any more.
The Ministry of Defence was thwarted in the past by the late Queen’s battle to save them.
In 2012 the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery’s home in St John’s Wood was sold-off to a property developer for £250million and the troops moved out to Woolwich.
Facilities include outdoor training areas, an indoor riding school, a veterinary clinic, stabling for 140 horses, saddlers’ and tailors’ workshops and the largest blacksmith’s forge in the Army.
Most of Woolwich Barracks will be sold off in 2028 although the horses will stay – for now. Might the Household Cavalry’s Hyde Park home also fall victim to a MoD in need of cash?
Comic John Cleese announces: ‘I’m glad Trump is playing so much golf. It always cheers me up, because I remember that Hitler shot himself in a bunker.’