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PRINCE’S JELLIED EELS BOOZE CURE
WOULD you Adam and Eve it! Prince William has revealed his secret Cockney hangover cure... jellied eels.
William, 38, said he was nursing a hangover after a “bender” when he tucked into the delicacy, a staple of London’s East End since the 18th Century
He let slip his booze cure while visiting a homeless centre in Peterborough.
Roofer Gary Griffiths, who was living in his truck, asked William: “Excuse me, sir, have you lost weight?”
William replied: “I’m worried now where you’re looking. Do I look like I’ve lost weight? Around the jowls maybe, have I lost a bit a weight up here, around the chin? Maybe lockdown hasn’t been quite so bad.”
Londoner Gary, 55, said: “You need a bit of pie and mash in you, fatten you up a bit.” William hit back: “Don’t, I ate jellied eels for a hangover, after a bender.”
Gary said later: “I thought that was quite good of him, at least he’s human.”
Gary, who helped to repair Windsor Castle after it was ravaged in the 1992 blaze, is among those Light Project Peterborough is helping.
William was there on Thursday as part of his mission to “crack” homelessness, a passionate cause for his mother Diana, who took him and brother Harry to meet rough sleepers.
The Duke said he had heard New York was buying up hotel rooms as permanent accommodation for rough sleepers, as tourist demand will be flat for some time.
He said Britain also needed to be a “a bit bold” and seize the opportunity to house people permanently. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said rough sleepers and those at risk will be helped to secure tenancies through £105million of funding, £85million of which is new spending.
PRINCE Andrew is notably absent from daughter Princess Beatrice’s official wedding photos as the row over his links to the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse scandal rumbles on.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were the only royals in pictures of the 31-yearold’s marriage to Italian property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 37, released by Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of York, who walked Beatrice down the aisle, her mum Sarah, Duchess of York, and the groom’s parents are missing from the officially released pictures.
So too is Edo’s three-year-old son Christopher, known as Wolfie, who was best man and pageboy.
The official photos show beaming Beatrice leaving the chapel holding her husband’s hand and the happy couple standing, at a social distance, with a smiling Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
Intimate
Others show Beatrice’s stunning bouquet being placed on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey and the Abbey’s canon, The Reverend Anthony Ball, carrying the flowers.
Beatrice wore a vintage ivory taffeta gown, encrusted with diamanté, borrowed from the Queen and a diamond fringe tiara, worn by Her Majesty on her wedding day.
Fewer than 20 guests saw Beatrice tie the knot on Friday morning in Windsor, at the intimate Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge.
She and her mum planned the wedding in just two weeks after the pandemic dashed her plans to wed at the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace this spring.
Details only emerged on Friday morning when royal photographers, in Windsor to capture the Queen knighting hero NHS fundraiser Captain Tom Moore, noticed the monarch, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, being driven to the chapel.
A pal of the couple said: “Bea has had an awful lot to deal with this year. The whole business with her father, the effect that has had on the family and then her wedding being cancelled. But she is so sweet and she’s handled it all with remarkable good grace. She decided she had an opportunity to try to lift the dark cloud over the family and give them all something to smile about.
“She didn’t want the big showy wedding in the first place.”
The small service was a far cry from that of younger sister Eugenie, now 30, who wed wine merchant Jack Brooksbank in a lavish ceremony in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in October 2018.
The Duke of York, 60, has had a spectacular fall from grace since having to step down from royal duties following a disastrous interview on Newsnight in November.
He was widely criticised for his feeble attempts to explain his controversial relationship with late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The billionaire financier was found dead in a New York jail cell last August, aged 66, while being held for trial accused of the sexual abuse of young women. Andrew was effectively sacked from The Firm after calling Epstein’s vile behaviour “unbecoming” and failing to apologise to the victims while suggesting their relationship had been beneficial to him.
Sarah Ferguson was also forced into a grovelling apology after it emerged she took £15,000 from disgraced Epstein to clear her debts in 2011.
The Duchess and Andrew’s family have stood by him in the face of mounting pressure for him to cooperate with US prosecutors who continue to investigate Epstein’s sick web of abuse – involving dozens of young women and girls he trafficked round the world. Andrew is accused with having sex on three separate occasions with Virginia Giuffre, then known as Roberts, in 2001 when she was 17 – which he vehemently denies.
This month’s arrest of his close, longtime pal and Epstein’s former lover Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, has piled more pressure on Andrew, who may yet be further implicated in the ongoing investigation. Maxwell has denied charges of trafficking minors and is in custody awaiting trial in July next year. US prosecutors have implored the Duke to set a date to speak to them in person, despite his team insisting he has offered to cooperate at least three times this year.
A well-placed palace insider said: “The Duke is determined to clear his name through the correct channels and when the time is right. He does not believe the US investigators are behaving honourably with their intentions and the whole case is turning into a circus by employing an act of theatre at every twist and turn by continuingly using his name. “His family is behind him. He hopes the joy felt by everyone at his daughter’s wedding will be a sign of happier times to come.”
The service was followed by a private reception at Andrew’s Royal Lodge home.
Buckingham Palace said: “The couple decided to hold a small private ceremony with their parents and siblings following the postponement of their wedding in May.
“Working within guidelines, the service was in keeping with the unique circumstances while enabling them to celebrate their wedding with their closest family.”