King Charles is planning Queen Camilla’s 80th birthday party in 2027 with a national thanksgiving service, writes EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

Now that his coronation is behind him, the King is planning Camilla’s 80th birthday in 2027. Like the late Queen Prince Philip and the Queen Mother, who celebrated their 80th birthday in style, he wants her big day to be celebrated with a national service. of thanksgiving.

At least Camilla won’t be as grumpy as Philip, her predecessor as consort. His 95th fell on the same day as the national service at St Paul’s for the Queen’s 90th and he rejected suggestions that it should be a joint celebration.

And at a garden party that happened to fall on his birthday, he refused a gift from a well-wisher, grumbling that he didn’t want to lug it around the garden.

Angela Ripponnamed Oldie of the Year at a National Liberal Club luncheon, was enthusiastically received by the founder of Hot Gossip Arlene Phillips‘s idea of ​​an OAP dance group.

“A senior Hot Gossip or Pan’s People,” Arlene suggested, referring to the Top Of The Pops hoofers.

‘Who else can we register?’ she added, staring around at potential candidates Amanda Barrie, Sheila Hancock and Maureen Lipman.

Not to be missed, Dame Joan Bakewell chirped: ‘In my youth I was brilliant at the fox trot!’

Dawn French recalls meeting the king after playing Mrs Beaver in the 2005 film The Chronicles Of Narnia and says Charles remembered seeing her in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the theatre.

‘He said to me, ‘Well, the last time I saw you, I saw your butt’. I thought, “Okay, we’re off.” And I said, “Tonight, sir, you’ll see my Beaver!” And then I laughed way too much. And he moved on very quickly.”

Dawn French recalls meeting the king after playing Mrs Beaver in the 2005 film The Chronicles Of Narnia and says Charles remembered seeing her in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the theater (File Photo)

King Charles meets Dawn French, Ray Winstone and other cast members during the Royal Film Performance and World Premiere of The Chronicles Of Narnia at the Royal Albert Hall on December 7, 2005 in London

Has Jason Isaacs, who plays Cary Grant in the upcoming series of ITVX, taken his forensics too far? Investigating a story that the Hollywood star became enraged when his wife Dyan Cannon ate one of his lovers Cadbury‘s Flakes imported from England, he said, “Well, I talked to Dyan, and she was in the bedroom, and she was eating a picnic bar!”

BBC Africa editor Mary Harper’s acceptance of payment as an expert witness for Yaqub Ahmed, 34, a rapist from Somalia who is fighting deportation – whose case has cost taxpayers more than £1 million – makes former royal correspondent Michael Cole fumes.

He recalls being denied money when he appeared as an expert witness in an insurance claim when he was a BBC reporter in war-torn Beirut. “I didn’t charge a dime, unlike Mary Harper,” he says.

‘Is it any wonder that the BBC has lost the respect of many right-thinking Britons – those who also pay for the BBC, on top of the taxes needed to deport people who have no place in this country.’

Faced with an empty fridge, located in Kensington Palace Princess Beatrice and husband Jack Brooksbank ordered a takeaway curry from Deliveroo. But instead of waiting at the door, the couple put on their pajamas and drove to the gate to meet Mr Deliveroo. She told the Table Manners podcast: ‘We could walk, but I don’t want to stand outside in my pajamas.’