Talk of the Town

FOLLOWING my news that the Queen has been deluged with hundreds of letters of support in the wake of the Meghan and Harry interview, I have now been deluged too!

Royal devotees have revealed the replies they got back from Windsor Castle after sending Her Majesty their best wishes. One response, by ladyin-waiting Dame Annabel Alice Hoyer Whitehead, said that the Queen was ‘most grateful for your support during this sad time for her family’.

Last week a Palace aide confirmed there had been a spike in correspondence since the bombshell Oprah interview.

GREAT to see Dara Huang putting her expertise as an architect to good use – she’s contemplating turning an old church or warehouse into a stunning new home. Dara, 38, who has a five-year-old son, Wolfie, with Edo Mapelli Mozzi, the husband of Princess Beatrice, has a new boyfriend and the pair have been property hunting near Kensington Palace.

Meanwhile, I gather that Dara and Edo’s very modern ‘birdnesting’ arrangement with Wolfie – in which they take turns to stay at a house with the youngster, so as not to upset his routine – ended when Dara moved into her wealthy boyfriend’s flat in Knightsbridge last year. She now says: ‘I have been looking to buy something in London and convert it into a home. A warehouse, shed or church… a large space for my future family.’

DAVID WALLIAMS’S ex is praying for a belated wedding gift… from the Prince of Wales.

Sylvia Flote, who married Lord Oakeshott’s son Luke last weekend, is fighting plans by the Duchy of Cornwall to turn a former county court near her home in South London into flats – and hopes the Prince will order his designers to rethink a proposal to add an extra storey.

‘I have a high opinion of Prince Charles and the speeches he’s made about preserving the historic character of London from get-rich-quick architectural vandals,’ says Sylvia, 38, a former Miss Norway contender who dated Walliams in 2017.