Ephraim Hardcastle

HARRY and Meghan’s happy event, 50 weeks after their wedding, restores the royal tradition of early babies. Prince Charles’s wife Diana had William 11 months after their 1981 wedding. Queen Victoria was even swifter, her first child arriving nine months after she married. The Queen had Charles 51 weeks after her wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh. Her delight at the safe delivery of her eighth greatgrandchild is enhanced by Meghan being spared a protracted labour. She had to endure 30 hours before Charles appeared via a Caesarean. HAVING memorably exhibited her curves in a swimsuit in the 2014 diving series Splash!, new Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt celebrates her ample cleavage. ‘I could probably hold Her Majesty’s Stationery Office under my bosoms,’ she’s joked. Or the jumbo aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth! THE late George Best’s ex-wife Alex, 47, back in the news for a drink-driving offence after crashing into a tree, fails to live down accusations of cashing in on his death in 2005. Before his demise she wrote a highly critical memoir, Always Alex. After he popped his football boots, she frantically rewrote it, changing the title to Loving George. ANNUNZIATA ReesMogg, pictured, regurgitates the dogeared tale of how David Cameron amended her name to Nancy for the 2010 general election. As far back as 1999 she was called Nancy in newspaper cuttings and her friends have been using her nickname since childhood. Nancy, in the original Hebrew, means ‘God has favoured me’, which sounds apt. IRISH ambassador Adrian O’Neill attends the removal of a life-size statute of John Alcock and Arthur Brown at Heathrow Airport today before its move Galway, where the aviators landed in 1919 after completing the first transatlantic flight. A festival is planned to mark the centenary. The pair received a £10,000 prize from the Daily Mail, equivalent now to £500,000 . OPRAH Winfrey’s feud with Anjelica Huston still rankles, with Huston recalling her 1986 Oscar for Prizzi’s Honor when Oprah thought she was a shoo-in for The Colour Purple. ‘She never had me on her show, ever. She won’t talk to me,’ wails Anjelica. Girls! THERE is no escaping Donald Trump’s notorious wall – even in Portsmouth. Pompey citizens are threatening to don Mexican sombreros to protest at the erection of a steel wall to deny them a view of the Queen and Trump at next month’s D-Day commemoration. Should make him feel at home. THE £370million refurbishment of Buckingham Palace prompts the long-overdue ditching of hundreds of outdated fax machines, recalling the misunderstanding when Princess Margaret mislaid her speech at Stirling University. The vicechancellor suggested: ‘Fax it up.’ To which the princess replied: ‘It does rather.’