Ephraim Hardcastle
AFTER Royal Victorian Order honours went to Harry and Meghan’s communications assistant Marnie Gaffney last year and to aide Clara Loughran in the New Year Honours List, will there be further baubles for additional Sussex aides in the June list? My source says: ‘I doubt it. After all, Billy Tallon, the Queen Mother’s page for over 50 years, was never admitted to the order.’
THE Queen told her private secretary to take a very important message to the Prime Minister. It was this: ‘Harry is not very bright but nevertheless I want the PM to do something for him.’ She suggested: ‘Make him Ranger of Richmond Park.’ The Queen, Mary (1910 to 1936), was referring to her fourth child, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who died in 1974.
SOCIALITE Kathy Lette, who visited WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, says: ‘Disgusted by spying revelations on Assange. I also took Ruby Wax and Pamela Stephenson and hope our sharp tongues and cutting remarks lacerated their evil, eavesdropping eardrums.’ They might lacerate their own eardrums if the spy tapes are leaked.
SIXTIES pop heartthrob Jess Conrad – born Gerald Arthur James and renamed after outlaw Jesse James and writer Joseph Conrad – sends me this snap as evidence for his boast: ‘If I’m not the best- looking actor at 84, I’ll eat my Equity card.’
HOLLYWOOD star Nicolas Cage, who has a village home near Glastonbury, Somerset, says: ‘I like to go into Glastonbury town and feel like I’m walking through a pack of tarot cards.’ Won’t the locals be pleased!?
IF Donald Trump (as expected) wins a second term on November 3 he might face another impeachment attempt by rival Democrats. Should they win control of the Senate he could be forced out of the presidency for alleged crimes not covered in the earlier impeachment. No US President has ever been impeached twice but there’s no ‘one and done’ impeachment clause in the constitution.
WHEN a monarch dies, their serving Lord Chamberlain (currently Earl Peel) is meant to snap his ceremonial wand of office in half over their grave. But our ‘waste not, want not’ monarch has approved a wand that can be unscrewed into two halves and reassembled. The idea came from the cues in the billiard room at Sandringham, don’t you know.
GEORGE Lazenby, 80, who at 29 was the youngest James Bond in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, says: ‘They have asked me to go to the premiere of No Time To Die in LA in April.’ The Aussie has never watched a Bond film since his own. ‘Why watch an inferior Bond?’ Some movie buffs do think OHMSS is the best 007 flick.