EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Harry’s efforts to reinstate his security staff are being watched by Prince Andrew, whose daughters Beatrice and Eugenie lost their own full-time officers
Prince Harry’s efforts to reinstate his security staff are being closely watched by his uncle, Prince Andrew, who was dismayed when his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie lost their own full-time security officers.
Their penchant for frequent holidays did nothing to tame a royal security bill estimated at more than £100 million.
Andrew must have been furious when his own security was removed after being demoted as a full-time royal member like his cousin.
Prince Andrew was devastated when his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie lost their own full-time security guards
Andrew closes in on Prince Harry’s attempts to recover his security details
Fortunately, the King helped by apparently digging deep to pay for Royal Lodge’s private security.
If Harry gets his security back, a source says, Andrew will surely clamor for the bodyguard’s reinstatement.
Unconvinced after Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Piers Morgan complains that two English female footballers have won SPOTY in successive years.
England and Manchester United goalkeeper Mary Earps was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year after helping England to the World Cup final in Australia
The England goalkeeper won the Golden Glove for her performances, but presenter Piers Morgan thinks there are ‘many men who deserve it more’
‘Last year Beth Mead was deserved winner as the Lionesses won the European Championship, but this year they lost the World Cup final and failed to qualify for the Olympics. Many men earn more. Sporting superstars with big personalities like Rory McIlroy, Frankie Dettori and Ronnie O’Sullivan have never won it.’
Unseated ex-Tory MP Peter Bone has long enjoyed innuendo-laden references to his wife Jenny when her name was regularly checked in Parliament. David Cameron particularly enjoyed making cheeky references to ‘pleasing Mrs Bone’ and ‘giving pleasure to Mrs Bone’.
MP Peter Bone divorced his wife in 2016 after beginning a romance with a younger woman
In 2016, Peter split from his wife after beginning a romance with physio Helen Harrison, 20 years his junior. The youthful jokes evaporated. Was that a relief to Mrs. Bone?
Dame Mary Berry, pictured, reveals her strangely festive habits when sharing gifts with husband Paul, telling Waitrose magazine: ‘On the breakfast table we leave each other behind others a card with beautiful words in it, and ‘IOU’.
Dame Mary Berry revealed she sometimes jokes with husband Paul about what she wants for Christmas
‘When we are on holiday, or when we see something we want and it is a luxury – a special outfit, or a huge flower pot – then I say: ‘I would like that for last Christmas.’
Aspiring rock star Harry, Duke of Beaufort, divorced his first wife, the actress and environmentalist Tracy Ward, to marry his mistress Georgia Powell, a former Daily Telegraph obituary.
How does Harry, formerly Bunter Worcester and music singer of the band The Listening Device, now deal with Tracy, mother of their three adult children?
The Duke of Beaufort lives on a palatial badminton estate. He is divorced
“She still lives in the rather charming house in the badminton village we once shared,” he tells Tatler. “That’s a minor irritation every time I drive past it.”
Yo Ho Ho and Merry Christmas to you Bunter!
Jude Law, who will return to cinemas next year as an elderly Henry VIII with sixth wife Catherine Parr in Firebrand, relied on a better-fed ‘bottom double’ for a sex scene.
A Cannes critic bluntly compared Jude’s gigantic fake butt to a “giant, shorn sheep.” As Jude didn’t say, “Ewes are terrible!”