Ephraim Hardcastle

NeITHeR Calcutta-born Amol Rajan, 34, BBC Media editor, nor newscaster Clive Myrie, 52, who has Jamaican parents, complain during the Corporation’s gender pay row, despite both earning below the £150,000 threshold. I am told they were called into head of news James Harding’s office and given £30,000 pay boosts, bringing their salaries up to £150,000, muting accusations of ethnic-minority discrimination. Harding himself earns £340,000, incidentally. HOW goes Project QC, ensuring that Queen Camilla is popular when the time comes? Princes William and Harry’s TV tribute to their late mother Diana is a blow. Nothing nice was said about Camilla, despite authoress Penny Junor’s earlier efforts to put the case for the duchess in an approvedby-her-friends book. The BBC will transmit a similar documentary. As for Charles and Camilla, they’ll spend the next six weeks at Birkhall. A loyal source says: ‘Charles deserves the support of his sons for getting them into Eton, where they had a pleasant time, even popping over the road for tea at Windsor Castle with granny, who also topped-up their tuck money.’ As distinct from his miserable days at Gordonstoun. ReFleCTING on her 27-year marriage to human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robinson, now over, feisty authoress Kathy lette, 58, pictured, has said: ‘The trouble with being married to a human rights lawyer is you can never get the high moral ground. So when I’d say to him, “Geoff, can you come in here and help me change this nappy?” he’d say, “I’d like to but I have 350 people on Death Row in Trinidad.” I started saying, “Oh, let them die!” After the second baby I was like, “I’m going to go there and kill them myself!”’ JEREMY Vine, whose Radio 2 show was hosted by former party leaders Ed Miliband and lain Duncan Smith while he was on holiday, remarks that the former was ‘warm and popular’ while the latter told him, ‘I wished I’d done more of that sort of thing.’ Small wonder given Vine’s bumper £700,000 pay packet! Re Prince Charles’s lobbying of Tony Blair over foxhunting. He confided to a farmer privately, ‘If we, as a group, were black or gay, we would not be victimised or picked upon.’ Charles intended going to the 2002 Countryside Alliance march with Camilla but was talked out of it by flunkeys. THE former Dean of Westminster, Wesley Carr, who has died aged 75, disliked Christmas trees, considering them pagan symbols. Hearing of this the Queen offered to send him some baubles bearing the royal cipher for his tree – an offer he felt unable to refuse. ‘Her eyes twinkled throughout their conversation,’ says my source. SO what did you think of the trusted ‘friends of Diana’ appearing in William and Harry’s TV tribute last night? The ‘safe choices’ included former lady-in-waiting Anne Beckwith-Smith, from whom the princess parted, and Harry Herbert, whom Diana considered ‘very wet’. Certainly noone could say anything too interesting.