EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How King Charles’ husbandman angered republicans when he last visited Australia
When King Charles last visited Australia in 2018, he angered republicans by bringing along a landowner to help dress him.
The ‘luggage man with an age-old title’, as one politician described him, was part of a 13-strong entourage whose £160,000 bill angered locals.
Now, ten months before the King and Queen make their first official visit as monarchs, the Australian Republic Movement has launched a petition saying: ‘Aussie taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for it. More than 78 percent of Australians believe the royal family – and not Australian taxpayers – should foot the bill.”
Would it assuage the anger of the criminals Down Under if Charles left the traveling countryman at home?
Then-Prince Charles is greeted by members of the public during a visit to Brisbane on April 4, 2018 in Brisbane, Australia
Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling’s junk-metal sculptures have infuriated Countess Bathurst. “This isn’t art,” she spits.
‘Why does the winner of the Turner Prize have to make something that you would probably find in a construction dumpster?’
Lady Bathurst, who once worked as a barman, added: ‘Recycling is a good thing, all good, but should we really have it rammed down our throats disguised as ‘art’?’
Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling’s junk-metal sculptures have infuriated Countess Bathurst
Loose Women star Denise Welch plays the late Queen in Diana: The Musical and recalls how she slammed Prince Andrew for making ‘disrespectful comments’ about Diana. “It was at a celebrity dinner and I had had a few vodkas,” says now teetotal Denise. ‘As he left, Andrew rudely said to my then husband Tim Healy: ‘Better you than me, sir.’ ‘
Gavin & Stacey star Alison Steadman, pictured, had her return to the public eye when she appeared naked on stage in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.
But she didn’t expect a peeping tom between the rafters.
“Someone had crawled through the stage door,” she remembers.
“He went up the stairs and looked down at me. That’s sad, isn’t it?’
Gavin & Stacey star Alison Steadman, pictured, had her back to the audience as she appeared naked on stage in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
Ex-teen idol Donny Osmond’s tour of Britain has produced frenzied scenes as fans in cheaper seats rushed onto the stage and pushed past people in the front row.
A seated OAP, waving a banner for Puppy Love, said: ‘These women are usually in their 60s, old enough to know better and are ruining it for the rest of us.’ At least they’re not smothering Donny, 65, with jumbo bloomers!
Has Denny Laine’s death finally solved the mystery of why he abruptly left his friend? Paul McCartney‘s band Wings in 1981?
His departure followed the cancellation of a Japanese tour after McCartney was jailed for nine days for marijuana possession.
When McCartney was released and deported, he refused to compensate Denny for lost tour expenses. The furious Denny left, refusing all pleas to return. He and Macca did not speak for twenty years.
Michel Roux Jr. will soon be serving. his millionth signature soufflé Suissesse at Le Gavroche before it closes, and chuckles about the Gruyere cheese and cream creation being compared to Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa. “Honestly,” he says, “I’m sick of it.”