Ephraim Hardcastle

THE late Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood, who died on November 4 aged 56, was liked by the Queen, whom he is thought to have striven to keep out of political quagmires. So a bit of ‘time-shifting’ was deployed to ensure he is remembered with due honour. The letters patent creating his peerage were rushed through and the award of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath backdated to October 31. DID the Remembrance centenary grate with local Germans, including LBC’s (and Channel 4’s) Matt Frei, 54? He said: ‘We’ve now had four years of Remembrance. Should we carry on remembering after this? Is the commemoration of war and the sacrifice always a good thing?’ Surely it was a commemoration of sacrifice, not war. AT the time of their 2005 wedding, officials said Camilla would become Princess Consort after the succession of Charles. Thirteen years later that commitment no longer appears on the Clarence House website. So while the Queen would not favour skipping a generation and the crown going to William, might HM prefer the promise made to her about not crowning Camilla and for the next crowned consort to be Queen Catherine? Was this on her mind while HM was flanked by them at the Cenotaph? WHO will play shamed tycoon Sir Philip Green in the TV film based on Oliver Shah’s highly critical biography, Damaged Goods, described as ‘the ultimate story of hubris and greed’? Surely they have to sign up New Jersey-born Danny DeVito, pictured. JACOB Rees-Mogg MP says we might be heading for an ‘accidental’ change of prime minister over Brexit and should not follow Australia’s experience of ending up with ‘short let’ or ‘Airbnb’ leaders. Isn’t honourable Jacob’s approach reminiscent of former Tory bigwig Norman Tebbit’s ‘stop rocking the boat!’ demands? EX-BBC newsmen Michael Buerk and John Sergeant will explore Britain’s coastline from a 50ft yacht for a Channel 5 series. Sergeant says of Buerk: ‘When Michael ate kangaroo testicles [on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here] his table manners were frankly appalling.’ Buerk on Sergeant: ‘Do take this please as a compliment but you have a mouth for oysters!’ KEIRA Knightley says it never occurred to her as a movie goddess how much she was getting paid compared with male costars. But she ‘asked very politely, with a please at the end’, and is no longer paid less. Sometimes she is paid more. Does she inquire very politely about that, too? THE Who’s Roger Daltrey says drummer Keith Moon’s explosive bass drum on US TV in 1967 was responsible for the then relatively unknown band making it big in the country, saying: ‘There was this giant explosion which blew me flat on my face, Pete’s hair straight up in the air and frazzled it. His hair was alight. We nearly ended up in jail for months from that show… it made every youngster in America want to come see the Who.’