Hardcastle

rUDe chef Gordon ramsay claims on Us TV’s The late show that the Queen uses the kind of fruity language he favours. receiving his OBe in 2006 from hM, he says, ‘I got a little handshake and a polite f*** off,’ adding: ‘she sort of mutters it under her breath.’ Warning: The scot, 50, is currently plugging a new series of his TV show, The F Word. BBC3’s documentary The Man Who Lives with a Magpie stars Charlie Gilmour, 27, who was jailed for four months for violent disorder after swinging from a Union flag during protests at the Cenotaph six years ago and leaping on to the bonnet of a Jaguar in a royal convoy. He discusses Benzene, a stray magpie who defecates in his hair while living with him and his wife, Janina, marvelling: ‘The bigger she grew, the more she s***, until our bedroom became this world of bird s*** and the rotting dog food we feed her.’ Would the BBC broadcast this rubbish – albeit only online – if barmy-sounding Gilmour wasn’t the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and novelist Polly Samson? DIsCUssIONs are under way about a royal presence at sunday’s benefit concert, again starring ariana Grande, for the victims of the May 22 Manchester bombing. The presence of William and/or harry would be appropriate. In 2007, they organised the fundraising concert starring sir elton John to mark the tenth anniversary of their mother’s death. FORMER government minister Greg Barker – now life peer Baron Barker of Battle – campaigns on behalf of ex-Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, who hopes to win back his Richmond Park seat. Barker, 51, is accompanied by his loyal dachshund Otto, pictured. Barker attracted adverse comment while climate change minister for heating Otto’s pillow in his office microwave. PrINCess anne’s son, Peter Phillips, attending the london Food Month party in the City, says: ‘I’m like Bear Grylls, a bit of a hunter-gatherer. My wife (Canadian autumn Kelly) gets slightly upset when I bring a rabbit back and skin it on the kitchen table.’ his unsentimental mother would wring a reindeer’s neck if necessary. BBC newscaster Huw Edwards, 55, is quietly fuming about the corporation’s decision to renege on a promise to grant him overnight anchoring of the June 8 general election results programme. Instead, David Dimbleby, 78, lands the job for the tenth time. ‘Have you seen the ousted Edwards since?’ inquires Radio Times. ‘No, we never meet, actually,’ replies Dimbleby. Edwards tells friends: ‘I might say more when the time is ripe.’ PrINCe harry and his girlfriend Meghan Markle seek a ‘des res’ in the countryside, ideally close to William and Kate’s anmer hall, which is part of the Queen’s sandringham estate. how about the Bachelor’s Cottage, once a refuge for excess male guests at sandringham, renamed York Cottage when it was given to the future George V and Queen Mary? Currently it’s office accommodation but it’s being considered a possible rustic roost for harry and Meghan.