NCP tycoon ‘leaves £50m – to the Royals’

THE yachting world is awash with whispers that Donald Gosling, the late millionaire boss of National Car Parks, has left £50million in his will… to the Royal Family.

It seems the donation is to put towards an as-yet unspecified scheme to commission a new Royal Yacht. Sir Donald, who died in September aged 90, was as outraged as the Queen when the Royal Yacht Britannia was taken away from her by Tony Blair’s Government in 1997. And like Her Majesty, he shed a tear at its decommissioning ceremony.

Afterwards, Sir Donald offered her full use of his £50million Leander G vessel, which she used for her Diamond Jubilee tour.

Details will be made clear when the will is published at the end of the year. I hope Sir Donald didn’t leave the monster sum in vain – the Queen has no plans to acquire a new yacht at this stage in her life!

FOR someone so funny and popular, Chelsy Davy has been strangely unlucky in love since dumping the former most eligible bachelor on the planet.

Prince Harry’s ex has, I hear, now parted ways with dashing US film director James Marshall. The pair, pictured above, were seen kissing passionately just after Harry’s wedding to Meghan last year. It was rumoured at the time that Meghan may have played a hand in setting them up, as divorcee James was formerly married to her friend Elettra Wiedemann.

Chelsy split from Prince Harry in 2014 because she didn’t want to become a member of the Royal Family.