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Harry insists that the US is now his residence but specialist expatriate law firm Blevins Franks warns of the pitfalls: ‘HMRC will look for any indication that you see Britain as your homeland and may return one day. Even stating in your will that you wish to be buried in the UK could work against you.’ So has Harry stipulated where he will be interred? Even Wallis Simpson is reposing in the family graveyard at Frogmore following a royal reconciliation, although she and the Duke of Windsor had bought burial plots in Baltimore where her father is buried. Meghan, however, does not seem to be in any mood to be reconciled with her own family, let alone her in-laws. Harry could become the first royal to be laid to rest in the US.
FURTHER to my disclosure of the King’s annoyance over the publication of photographs of his late mother with her hands in her pockets. Could his ire have been fuelled by his father Prince Philip’s curious views on pockets? He banned flaps from the pockets of his Anderson & Sheppard suits, inflicting this fashion faux-pas on his son Charles.
REFLECTING on angela rayner calling rishi Sunak a ‘pint-sized loser’, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell praises her ‘robust’ performance, but piously claims: ‘I don’t do that sort of thing.’ really? Didn’t he notoriously call for Tory opponent Esther McVey to be ‘lynched’, describing her as a ‘stain on humanity’. refusing to apologise, he later announced: ‘Sometimes you need to express honest anger.’
PLAYING Kellogg’s Frosties mascot Tony the Tiger in his new movie Unfrosted, Hugh Grant, pictured, unsuccessfully attempts to steer his own five offspring away from sugary cereals. ‘I’m such a hypocrite on that,’ he concedes. ‘I say to one of my sons, “It’s disgusting to watch you eat those cocoa puffs. I mean, God’s sake. You’ve just had three bowls, have you any idea what you’re doing to yourself?” And then he says, “Do you want some?” I go, “yeah, absolutely.”’
COUNTRY Life writer Flora Watkins has now been expelled from the Jilly Cooper Book Club after publicly complaining that instead of ‘drinking champagne and shrieking about Jilly’, members have now opted to discuss abortion rights and gender, with one becoming ever more ‘strident in her radical trans views’. ‘It was a horrible shock,’ Flora reports in The Spectator. ‘The final message I saw on the Whatsapp group was someone saying it gave them “great pleasure” to tell me “to f*** off from us for good. Bye!”.’
GLASTONBURY founder Sir Michael Eavis recalls welcoming Prince Harry, despite his cheeky gatecrashing of the festival. ‘I’ve got security all over the place, spies everywhere’, he says. ‘I think he jumped the fence.’