EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Could David Beckham’s distancing from Harry and Meghan have anything to do with his so-far failed bid for a knighthood?
Could the Beckhams’ reported distancing from Harry and Meghan have anything to do with David’s so far failed bid for a knighthood?
He hasn’t given up hope of getting a K, but having a foot in the wrong camp doesn’t help his cause.
His expletive-laden whinge about not receiving a K and his well-remunerated support for Qatar during the World Cup didn’t do him any favours either.
He may yet face the indignity of seeing his wife Victoria get an upgrade from her OBE for services to fashion in 2017.
His expletive-laden whinge about not receiving a K and his well-remunerated support for Qatar during the World Cup didn’t do him any favours
He hasn’t given up hope of getting a K, but having a foot in the wrong camp doesn’t help his cause (Pictured the Duke and Duchess of Sussex)
Her support for charities could see her reach the dizzy heights of a CBE or damehood.
In football parlance, would Dave be over the moon… or sick as a parrot?
The late Queen was so charmed with the plethora of children’s rainbow paintings sent to her during Covid that a selection has been added to the Royal Collection.
Others have been dispatched to the Royal Archives to be preserved as mementoes of a unique period in HM’s reign.
Whispers my source: ‘For a monarch used to high art and old masters, these proved to be a surprising source of great joy. Many are destined for posterity.’
How will King Charles react to the sale of a 50-year-old lock of his hair for £9,995?
It was cut by George Crisp, personal barber to the Royal Family from 1929 to 1971.
The lock of the King’s hair was cut by George Crisp, personal barber to the Royal Family from 1929 to 1971
Described grandly as the only piece of Charles’s hair ever offered for sale, it comes with the scissors and comb that George used on the royal crown.
When first man on the Moon Neil Armstrong discovered his barber was selling locks of his hair, he changed salons. No such luck for Charles.
Does Tory peer Zac Goldsmith’s announcement that he’s ‘very tempted’ to back Labour at the next election meet with the approval of sister Jemima?
The pair had an embarrassing falling out during Zac’s ill-fated battle with Labour’s Sadiq Khan to become London mayor in 2016.
An admirer of Sadiq, Jemima publicly announced: ‘Sad that Zac’s campaign did not reflect who I know him to be – an eco- friendly, independent-minded politician with integrity.’
Poet Laureate John Betjeman was so fearful that he had embarrassed the Queen with Banana Blush, a record of his verse set to music, that he wrote to Buckingham Palace in 1974 apologising for demeaning the role.
Poet Laureate John Betjeman was so fearful that he had embarrassed the Queen with Banana Blush that he wrote to Buckingham Palace in 1974 to apologise
He lamented: ‘I will not be surprised if I am dismissed from my honourable office.’
Betjeman kept his job, perhaps because he’d added: ‘They’ve had a T-shirt made for me to wear which I’ve refused to do.’
Sir Derek Jacobi, soon to back on our TV screens in I, Claudius, might not have got his big break in Robert Graves’s masterpiece if BBC wallahs had had their way.
Their preferred actor for the title role was Ronnie Barker. He wasn’t interested. Instead, Ronnie launched stammering Arkwright and became the brown- overalled emperor of Open All Hours.
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