After that wedding... secrets of the bridesmaids, the sari and an old phone bill!

BEFORE the big event, some misinformed celebrity watchers were tipping Millie Mackintosh to be a bridesmaid at the Royal Wedding. Yet when the day arrived, she was watching it at home on TV. Could it be that Millie’s more suited to the scene in this picture, left? Sipping tins of gin and tonic on the train to her hen night on Friday, Millie was clad in plastic tiara and veil in a prelude to her own wedding to MIC co-star Hugo Taylor next month. You’d have thought her hens, including Lily Fortescue and health guru Madeleine Shaw, could have stretched to a first-class upgrade. EAGLE-EYED fans of The Crown will have spotted a link with real life during the Royal Wedding – in the form of cute bridesmaid Florence van Cutsem, right. Florence, three, is the niece of actor Harry Hadden-Paton, who plays the Queen’s private secretary Martin Charteris in the series. Uncle Harry is Sarah Ferguson’s godson, and a contemporary of Prince William at Eton. His sister Alice is married to wealthy business developer Nicholas van Cutsem, who has known William and Harry since childhood – which of course explains why their daughter Florence is Prince Harry’s goddaughter.

I CAN reveal Prince Harry will play in his Sentebale Polo Cup in the UK this summer. ‘It will be at a royal polo club in England,’ former England captain Malcolm Borwick tells me. Harry’s Sentebale charity supports the mental health and wellbeing of children affected by HIV in Lesotho and Botswana. THE walk up to St George’s Chapel in Windsor was like a fashion catwalk with celebrities and socialites dripping in designer gear, but James Matthews had one unusual accessory – a BT bill. Surely the multi-millionaire hedge fund manager has a direct debit for that? His excuse is that wedding guests needed to show ID, but as he’s married to the future Queen’s sister, he had more chance than most of being recognised by officials.