Seasonal celebrations for showbiz royalty
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SOMERSET House held a party to celebrate the launch of season two of the Crown last night. The stars of the show, Matt Smith and Claire Foy, who play the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen, were there as was Vanessa Kirby (Princess Margaret) and Billy Jenkins (the young Prince Charles).
Series creator Peter Morgan and his girlfriend
PRAYERS for departed journalists were held last night at St Bride’s church on Fleet Street. The Duchess of Cornwall listened intently as Sky foreign editor Sam Kiley gave a powerful address. “I believe democracy is under intense pressure, it’s under intense pressure from lies through social media.” Also nodding along in the pews was Rebekah Brooks, her flame-red locks having had a good trim. “I was beginning to look like a lady with a lot of cats,” she told The Londoner. Gillian Anderson also joined the party. Anderson was said to have been a shoo-in to play the Queen in series three but the role of the ageing monarch was given to Olivia Colman. Maybe Morgan will give his squeeze a role in the Queen’s latter years — after all, Anderson did play Miss Havisham in Great Expectations so beautifully. THE “special relationship”
is saved! The Londoner had wander down Bond Street a
yesterday, and while much still undergoing a facelift, of it is
one old fixture has returned: statue of Franklin D Roosevelt the
and Winston Churchill in conversation, removed for
preservation purposes. The has had a polish, and Churchill’s bronze
cigar, stolen a few years by an unknown assailant, back
has been replaced. He’s waiting years for a smoke. been