Meanwhile, away from the swamp...

IT WAS an annual ritual at Christ Church college, Oxford – a snap of members of the Bullingdon Club in all their finery, most famously posed by the young David Cameron and chums including Boris Johnson, above. But I can reveal that this year’s gang were marched off the premises by security staff when they turned up in their £3,000 blue tailsuits to reproduce the photo on the same college steps. Sources tell me that the allure of the club has diminished hugely since negative publicity followed the Cameron picture amid claims of the club’s debauched antics, and the Bullers are now banned from Christ Church.

IT’S surely final proof that the boy from the East End back streets has finally joined the ranks of the properly posh. My moles tell me that David Beckham and his son Romeo have become members of one of the world’s most exclusive tennis clubs, Queen’s in West London, where the annual cost of joining regulars such as Pippa Matthews and Lady Melissa Percy on the hallowed courts is £1,775 a year. The talk of the club is that Romeo, 14, is so talented that his father has taken up the sport to encourage him and train with him. It’s a whole new balls game for David!

AFTER suffering a worrying brain injury in a riding fall, I’m pleased to report that Lady Tatiana Mountbatten is back in the saddle.

Tatiana, 26, a professional dressage rider, feared she might never ride again after being thrown from her young horse during a practice in April, sustaining bruising to her brain and whiplash. Now ‘Tats’, eldest daughter of the Marquess of Milford Haven, reports: ‘I’m back on board – on a very old, kind polo pony – and I’m the happiest I’ve been in a while.’

SHE apparently wants to get back into the Royals’ good books, but I’m not sure the Duchess of York is going about it the right way. Prince Andrew’s ex last week posted an Instagram snap, below, of her with self-proclaimed ‘Modern Day Wizard’ Andrew Wallas, an author and life coach who says he can ‘cast spells’ to ‘transform people’s energy’. I think Fergie, 57, should stick to, err, less colourful characters if she wants an invitation to dinner from Her Majesty.