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Ephraim Hardcastle

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JONATHAN Dimbleby apparently missed out on getting the Royal Victorian Order from Prince Charles for his 1994 biography because, in the accompanyi­ng ITV documentar­y, he prompted Charles’s admission of committing adultery with Camilla. Dimbleby’s latest spout about a not very bright Harry, led by the nose by Meghan into a vortex of insignific­ance, will surely have restored him to the heir’s good books. RVO in the post soon, Jonners?

WITH the Queen’s three Derby hopefuls now non-runners, HM’s only hope of a winning bet rests with the annual sweepstake she organises in the Royal Box before the race. The palace won’t comment on her wagers but her last recorded Derby sweepstake triumph was in 1991 when she won £16 courtesy of Generous, owned by Prince Fahd, the eldest son of King Salman of Saudi Arabia. She apparently jumped with glee. So did Fahd. He trousered £335,000 in prize money.

ANIMAL psychologi­st Dr Roger Mugford, trainer of the Queen’s corgis, tells Harper’s Bazaar how HM used to personally supervise meal times with a royal factotum presenting a tray of bowls: ‘They were all individual battered household pots and pieces of silverware, each containing a unique supper of various home-made concoction­s, some with homeopathi­c additions.’ If they were greyhounds, would they have passed the dope test at Romford?

WITH filming about to begin on Paddington 3, producers seek foreign stars to dub the marmalade-loving bear in different languages for the internatio­nal market. Who will voice the bear in Ukrainian? The regular dubber Volodymyr Zelensky, pictured above with Paddington, is surely far too preoccupie­d to do the voiceover.

HAVING announced that another ‘older woman should take the reins’ on TV’s Countdown, departing presenter Anne Robinson, 77, tells Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour: ‘You’ve got Prue Leith, Mary Berry, then you’ve got me.’ What about Esther Rantzen, an evergreen 81?

DISCUSSING the upcoming Platinum Jubilee celebratio­ns, Dame Joanna Lumley credits the late Terry Wogan for identifyin­g the curious effect talking to the Queen has on people: ‘It’s the royal effect... you say the first thing that comes into your head and you carry the memory of your foolishnes­s with you to the grave.’

VETERAN Eurovision compere Pete Murray tells a forthcomin­g Channel 5 documentar­y how he breached the BBC black tie dress code when he forgot his trousers. ‘Why are you wearing jeans with a dinner jacket?’ he was asked by a horrified Beeb jobsworth. Retorted Murray: ‘But we’re only on the radio!’

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