Did King Charles give himself a pat on the back for saving the Australian government a small fortune on the $326,000 cost of last October’s tour Down Under – nearly £1million less than his late mother’s final trip in 2011?
Alas, now ungrateful Aussies are bleating about the £33,000 cost of business-class flights for an advance Buckingham Palace group who flew out in June to prepare the groundwork.
Under Freedom of Information law, they’ve discovered the cost. ‘Frivolous,’ rages Brian Marlow of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance.
‘The government doesn’t need to fork out other people’s money to bring over Buckingham Palace aides when a simple Zoom call would suffice.’ Brian, don’t tempt the King to replace his next visit with a hello from Zoom.
The King’s concern for French feelings in apparently recommending the re-naming of HMS Agincourt follows in the footsteps of his late mother’s 2004 scheme to avoid offending French president Jacques Chirac.
He was invited to mark 100 years of the Entente Cordiale with a Windsor banquet and after-dinner performance of Les Miserables.
Queen Elizabeth discovered the event was being held in Windsor’s thoroughly non-cordiale Waterloo Chamber. ‘Rename it,’ the Queen told staff. ‘We’ll call it The Music Room – for one night only.’
King Charles III and Queen Camilla visiting the Sydney Opera House, to mark its 50th anniversar
The King’s concern for French feelings in apparently recommending the re-naming of HMS Agincourt follows in the footsteps of his late mother’s 2004 scheme to avoid offending French president Jacques Chirac (file image)
How did arachnophobic Nigel Farage overcome his fear of creepy crawlies for his jungle stint in I’m A Celebrity…? ‘The trials were tough,’ he tells ITV’s This Morning.
‘The week before I went to see [hypnotist] Paul McKenna, I said, “I’m not looking forward to snakes and spiders, I don’t want to scream on television in front of millions of people”. Paul taught me a few tricks of the mind that you can use to overcome fear and it worked.’ Can Mystic McKenna cure Starmer of his fear of Farage?
Rageh Omaar, alias the Scud Stud, not seen nor heard on ITV since he suffered a suspected mini-stroke on air during News at Ten last April, has delivered his first news report in nine months.
Omaar became an unlikely pin-up during his 2003 Iraq war dispatches for the BBC. However, the still-recovering Omaar wasn’t sent to a war zone by ITV. He did the voiceover on film from the bloody rebellion in the Democratic Republicof Congo.
Rageh Omaar presenting ITV News At Ten. Not seen nor heard on ITV since he suffered a suspected mini-stroke on air during News at Ten last April, he has delivered his first news report in nine months
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Radio 4’s Today showpony Emma Barnett (pictured) delights in informing listeners: ‘I’ve actually presented without shoes on for the first time in my life… because my boots were still wet this morning and they’re the ones I can silently put on by the door [at home]’
Radio 4’s Today showpony Emma Barnett delights in informing listeners: ‘I’ve actually presented without shoes on for the first time in my life… because my boots were still wet this morning and they’re the ones I can silently put on by the door [at home].’
She adds: ‘But I’ve got socks on, I promise.’ She can boast that since leaving Woman’s Hour she has been working her socks off on Today!
When trencherman Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, who has died aged 85, launched his own publishing company in 1989 he ensured maximum publicity by leaking the story that his glamorous secretary Sarah Johnson was the long-term mistress of Jilly Cooper’s husband, Leo. It was standing-room only.
