So it’s true ...Victoria is posher than a duchess!

NO WONDER Victoria Beckham is known as Posh – she had more cleaners for her London home than the Duchess of Rutland did for her 356-room Belvoir Castle. The Duchess, Emma Manners, says in her memoir The Accidental Duchess that Victoria, pictured left in surely an uncharacteristic pose, once visited the Leicestershire pile with husband David when son Brooklyn was a toddler, and at one point asked how many cleaners were employed at the castle. When Emma replied ‘One-and-a-half’, Victoria looked aghast and replied: ‘Oh, I’ve got three!’

HAVE Kwasi Kwarteng’s hopes of joining gentlemen’s club Pratt’s been dashed by the mini-Budget brouhaha? Quite possibly. My man in the cigar room at the St James’s club, which boasts bigwigs such as Sir John Major and Nicholas Soames as members, says: ‘Unless Kwasi is prepared to make amends for crashing the economy by standing in the corner with a conical hat with a “D” on it, I can’t see him getting any support.’ Sounds pretty final to me!