![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/10\/21\/74186265-12394893-image-a-29_1691698928184.jpg\")
<\/p>\nCould the Beckhams’ reported distancing from Harry and Meghan have anything to do with David’s so far failed bid for a knighthood?\u00a0<\/p>\n
He hasn’t given up hope of getting a K, but having a foot in the wrong camp doesn’t help his cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He may yet face the indignity of seeing his wife Victoria get an upgrade from her OBE for services to fashion in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/10\/21\/74186285-12394893-image-a-30_1691699023646.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
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)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her support for charities could see her reach the dizzy heights of a CBE or damehood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In football parlance, would Dave be over the moon… or sick as a parrot?<\/p>\n
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.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Others have been dispatched to the Royal Archives to be preserved as mementoes of a unique period in HM’s reign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.’<\/span><\/p>\n How will King Charles react to the sale of a 50-year-old lock of his hair for \u00a39,995?\u00a0<\/p>\n It was cut by George Crisp, personal barber to the Royal Family from 1929 to 1971.<\/p>\n The lock of the King’s hair was cut by George Crisp, personal barber to the Royal Family from 1929 to 1971<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The pair had an embarrassing falling out during Zac’s ill-fated battle with Labour’s Sadiq Khan to become London mayor in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.’<\/span><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n 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<\/p>\n He lamented: ‘I will not be surprised if I am dismissed from my honourable office.’<\/p>\n 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.’<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/10\/21\/74186327-12394893-image-a-31_1691699089832.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/10\/21\/74186685-12394893-image-a-40_1691699477924.jpg\")
<\/p>\n