With affirmation that Prince Andrew has been invited to spend time with the King at Balmoral later this month, it emerges that when the Epstein-related allegations towards him have been revealed in 2015, the late Queen was fairly dismissive of them.
Three senior members of the Royal Family wrote to Her Majesty suggesting it could be smart if Andrew have been suspended from royal duties pending a full inquiry.
The trio obtained a curt reply conveying the royal displeasure from an assistant non-public secretary.
And their invites to the employees Christmas social gathering that yr appeared to have gotten misplaced within the put up.
It emerges that when the Epstein-related allegations towards Prince Andrew have been revealed in 2015, the late Queen was fairly dismissive of them
Three senior members of the Royal Family wrote to Her Majesty suggesting it could be smart if Andrew have been suspended from royal duties pending a full inquiry, as his hyperlinks to convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein beginning to emerge
Prince Andrew has been invited to spend time with the King at Balmoral later this month
Hair to the throne
Prince William‘s new beard isn’t any match for the jumbo whiskers his father sported throughout a visit to the Arctic and Canada with the Royal Navy in 1975.
He shaved them off earlier than being invested as Nice Grasp of the Order of the Bathtub. Charles insisted on retaining a Clark Gable-like moustache for his investiture – a largely forgotten look, pictured, which did not final lengthy!
Charles shaved off his beard earlier than being invested as Nice Grasp of the Order of the Bathtub – however insisted on retaining a Clark Gable-like moustache for his investiture
Prince William’s new beard has set many a tongue wagging this week
Susan refused to be edited out
Harper Collins editor Susan Watt, who has died, was Bernard Cornwell’s editor for 44 years and owed her extended profession to the best-selling writer of the Sharpe books.
The agency deliberate to indicate her the door a decade in the past with a farewell social gathering, however Cornwell threatened to maneuver the books to a different writer.
HarperCollins relented, turning Watt’s retirement bash right into a celebration of her profession and selling her to editor-at-large.
A case of the sword being mightier than the pen?
Emily’s innovative coiffure
Returning to Netflix tomorrow in Emily In Paris, Lily Collins appears a trifle obsessed along with her coiffure, declaring: ‘I like the perimeter however Emily’s fringe is rising out this season… It was good to play with the perimeter, after which play with a half-fringe model.
‘The perimeter got here out of a little bit of a freak-out second final season.’
Coming quickly from Lily: The Fringe By means of The Ages?
Not fairly on the perimeter: Lily Collins returns within the new sequence of Emily in Paris
Not so Marr-vellous for Alan
Again on the Edinburgh Competition, Alan Cumming notes it is 40 years since his efficiency in double act Victor and Barry earned a scathing evaluation from younger Scotsman scribe Andrew Marr.
The duo sought revenge in tune, warbling: ‘We will thanks Andrew Marr, you are not as good as you wish to suppose you’re.’
Guess that gave wee Andy sleepless nights!
lan Cumming notes it is 40 years since his efficiency in double act Victor and Barry earned a scathing evaluation from younger Scotsman scribe Andrew Marr
Lynda bought a Non-public Eye-ful
My esteemed late colleague Lynda Lee-Potter will likely be spinning in her grave at Pakistan-born Tariq Ali’s disclosure in his new memoir of how he sabotaged her interview with then Non-public Eye editor Richard Ingrams.
Within the bathroom, he stripped to his underpants, tied a towel round his waist and ‘affecting the accent of a guru’ burst in to say: ‘Mr Ingrose, sir. Time for meditation. Please take away all garments.’
‘Lynda practically fainted,’ writes Tariq, ‘[and] hurriedly excused herself.’
