Ephraim Hardcastle

PRINCE Charles and Camilla will be in Canada today, celebrating its 150th anniversary, thus sparing them an awkward moment. Diana’s grave is to be rededicated tomorrow, nearly 20 years after her death. William, Kate and Harry, along with the Cambridge children George and Charlotte, will be present at the private service on what would also have been her 56th birthday. On the tenth anniversary, Charles wanted Camilla to accompany him to the memorial service. The Queen intervened, telling Camilla to spare everyone’s blushes and stay away. NAUGHTY sex and drugs star Lindsay Lohan, 30, pictured, offers fans a £2.30-amonth peek into her new website, promising: ‘I’ll tell you all my secrets,’ including her ‘personal diaries, exclusive personal photos… and much more.’ A bargain! PENNY Junor’s book mentions a spat between the Queen and Prince Charles after HM refused him the use of a royal jet to collect Diana’s body from Paris. What is less well known is that the Queen was also opposed to Diana’s body resting in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace. She felt it should remain either in a funeral home or at Kensington Palace. It was only on the insistence of Charles – and the intervention of the Queen Mother – that the monarch backed down. APROPOS the victim of paedophile bishop Peter Ball not getting a response to 17 letters he wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury – mentioned here on Tuesday – I notice the Most Revd Justin Welby’s website explains: ‘He hopes correspondents will understand that because so many letters and emails are sent to him, he is unable to read or reply personally to many of them.’ The Queen usually manages, comments a C of E source, adding: ‘There is one sure way of getting a response from Welby. Request a signed photo.’ THE brilliant Pakistani-born star Art Malik, 64, pictured, isn’t concerned about not appearing in the Queen’s birthday honours, despite great performances in The Jewel in the Crown, A Passage to India and other prestige productions, saying he wouldn’t accept an MBE, OBE or CBE because ‘I grew up aware of 250 years of imperial rule’. I’ll drag this up if he ends up accepting one. FORMER Tory bigwig Lord (Chris) Patten, 73, a Roman Catholic, attacks Theresa May for seeking support from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, claiming: ‘The DUP is a toxic brand. There is a danger of us (the Tories) looking like a nasty party again. Their values are not ours.’ Irish historian Ruth Dudley Edwards (a Catholic) notes: ‘It’s open season on the DUP for the sins of being white, Christian and a bit oldfashioned.’ Incidentally, Patten personally toxified the Tories by enforcing the hated 1989 poll tax, later abandoned.