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resemblance to Playboy founder hugh hefner. And they both know what it’s like to live in a house full of blondes. OUT ON A SCHOOL NIGHT: Seventeen-year- old Lottie Moss, who is currently studying for her A-levels, was spotted with celebrity offspring Ella Richards, granddaughter of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith. A PR for Lottie, the half- sister of Kate Moss, assured me the cocktail I spotted her sipping was alcohol-free. FROCK HORROR: Socialite Mary Charteris, who turned 28 on Thursday, left little to the imagination underneath a sheer dress. Just a pair of Bridget Jones granny pants spared her blushes.

I T MUST have been with some trepidation that American Ambassador Matthew Barzun attended a dinner party at Windsor Castle last week, hosted by the Queen and Prince Philip, after complaining last autumn: ‘I must have had lamb and potatoes 180 times since I’ve been here. There are limits and I have reached them.’

Fortunately for the Kentucky native, not only has the Queen appeared to have forgiven him for insulting her national dish — i nviting both Barzun and his whiskey heiress wife, Brooke, to the banquet — but she also made sure that lamb was not on the menu.

For I hear that guests, who included Dame Maggie Smith, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bank of England governor Mark Carney, were served chicken.

No doubt her Majesty has plenty of sympathy for Mrs Barzun. After all, Prince Philip is no stranger to the occasional gaffe, memorably once telling a visually impaired woman: ‘They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.’