EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Sign King Charles has left the general public stage
The most poignant signal but that the King has left the general public stage will come on Tuesday. Queen Camilla will lead the royal social gathering at a thanksgiving service for the late King Constantine of Greece at Windsor Castle, one thing the King had been anticipated to attend.
His father, Prince Philip, who was born on a kitchen desk in Corfu, baptised into the Greek Orthodox church and evacuated in an orange field when his household was exiled after the Greco-Turkish struggle, maintained robust hyperlinks along with his cousin, ex-King Constantine II, who was invited and handled in rank and priority as if he nonetheless had a kingdom.
The most poignant signal but that the King has left the general public stage will come on Tuesday
Queen Camilla will lead the royal social gathering at a thanksgiving service for the late King Constantine of Greece at Windsor Castle, one thing the King had been anticipated to attend
His father, Prince Philip maintained robust hyperlinks along with his cousin, ex-King Constantine II
Queen Camilla is a fan of the Greek islands, though the King has usually pursued a extra austere expertise.
He has often discovered solace on the Eastern Orthodox monastery at Mount Athos, north-eastern Greece, the place he has been an occasional pilgrim (accompanied by flunkeys and a number of baggage), together with three visits within the yr earlier than marrying Camilla.
Visits have dropped off since then, probably as a result of the monks are a contact misogynistic. Women aren’t allowed inside 500m of the monastery.
Ealing, London‘s leafy Queen of the Suburbs, pronounces ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman will grace its inaugural guide pageant on April 13.
After 30 years with the Stones, he felt his music concepts had been being ignored and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards did not deal with him with respect. Be that as it might, he has written 13 books, together with Billy In The Wars, chronicling his wartime childhood, and Bill Wyman’s Chelsea, his ‘manor’ since 1982. Bill, 87, was criticised over his mid-Eighties romance with Amanda Louise Smith (born July 17, 1970) whom he married in 1989 and divorced in 1993.
Ealing, London ‘s leafy Queen of the Suburbs, pronounces ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman (pictured) will grace its inaugural guide pageant on April 13
Lindsay Hoyle will probably be heartbroken if sacked as Commons Speaker however may be consoled by a perch within the Lords the place his father Doug – like Sir Lindsay an ex-Labour MP – sits.
If Lindsay is elevated – and Sir Keir Starmer can hardly refuse to appoint him, having reportedly received him into hassle – would possibly it dissuade the Labour chief from nominating John Bercow, who can also be accused of siding with Labour?
Lindsay Hoyle (pictured) will probably be heartbroken if sacked as Commons Speaker however may be consoled by a perch within the Lords the place his father Doug sits
Apropos of Baron Hoyle, a supply remembers: ‘Doug’s a convivial soul. I met him one night within the Midland Hotel, Manchester, in a type of elevators with mirrored partitions.
‘Spotting himself within the mirror, Doug – pondering it was somebody he knew – started a dialog along with his picture.’
Under hearth for favouring Labour within the Gaza vote, Sir Lindsay is even-handed in terms of naming his pets.
He christened his parrot Boris and his tortoise Maggie after the previous Tory prime ministers, and owns a cat known as Attlee after the Labour PM and a Patterdale terrier known as Betty, in honour of outdated Labour comrade and late speaker, Betty Boothroyd.
His deceased pets embody a Maine coon cat known as Patrick (after Tory peer Patrick Cormack) and a rottweiler, Gordon (Gordon Brown).
