EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles snored while at college
Royal chronicler Ingrid Seward tells a London literary lunch of King Charles’s schoolboy snoring and how fellow pupils recorded him sending up the Zs.
Ingrid, whose late husband Ross was a fellow pupil at Gordonstoun, reveals: ‘Charles’s bed was by an open window, so the boys above dangled over the window a recording device and recorded him snoring away.
Charles had a terrible problem with his snoring – and I think he still does.’ Does Camilla wear ear plugs, or has she sewn a tennis ball into the back of his regal nightshirt?
A loud snoozer: A young King Charles in his final year at Gordonstoun School, Moray, Scotland in 1967
Ingird Seward’s (pictured on Good Morning Britain) late husband Ross was a fellow pupil of his majesty
Catching some Z’s: She says fellow students of the monarch – her husband included – used to record King Charles snoring (pictured: Gordonstoun, Scotland)
Queen Camilla and King Charles III departing from the Easter Mattings Service at Winsdor Castle on March 21, 2024
A royal wedding guest
Prince Andrew looks set to be the Cinderella figure at the English leg of the lavish wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant at Stoke Park, six miles from his Windsor home.
He once hoped the rich-as-Croesus Ambanis would back his Pitch@Palace business scheme.
As a golfer at Stoke Park, he was keen for a role in the course’s redevelopment after they bought it in 2021.
Perhaps they’ll have a slice of wedding cake couriered over to him.
Prince Andrew (pictured at the Easter Mattins Service in Windsor) looks set to be the Cinderella figure at the English leg of the lavish wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant at Stoke Park
Dame Joan’s never wigless
Clearing his throat for his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Old Fart Gassing, famed advertising guru Jeffrey Stark, 81, fondly recalls working with Joan Collins, pictured, who never allowed anyone to see her wigless.
‘Stars usually arrived early for hours of hair and make-up,’ he recalls.
‘Joan always arrived immaculate with her wig in place. When she turned her head to address you, her hair followed almost immediately afterwards.’
Always glam: Dame Joan Collins attending the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards in 2024
The hunt for Cleese’s funny bone continues
The late Terry Wogan’s BBC Radio 2 traffic presenter Sally Boazman has accused John Cleese of rudeness, telling him: ‘The first thing you said to me was, “Nice to meet you, you look very silly”. It didn’t endear me to you.’
Cleese also snored loudly after her travel update.
In mitigation, Traffic Sally, the search continues for Cleese’s lost funny bone. He hasn’t made anyone laugh since 1979.
The late Terry Wogan’s BBC Radio 2 traffic presenter Sally Boazman has accused John Cleese (pictured on Lorraine in 2024) of rudeness
Claire Balding’s first love
Asked about her first kiss, Clare Balding says: ‘The first love of my life was called Frank. I thought he understood me.
‘I kissed him a lot on the nose. I loved him. I adored him and he was good with me. He did everything for me until he trod on my toe and broke it.’
Frank was Clare’s childhood pony.
Claire Balding at the Nominees’ Party for the BAFTA Television Awards in April 24, 2024
The Four Tops dodged Lockerbie tragedy
Abdul Duke Fakir, the last of The Four Tops, who has died at 88, almost departed prematurely with the rest of the band in 1988 when the recording of Top of the Pops in London over-ran, forcing them to miss their plane to the US.
It was Pan Am Flight 103, which was brought down by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie.
American vocal quartet the Four Tops in 1965 (left to right: Renaldo Obie Benson, Levi Stubbs, Abdul Duke Fakir and Lawrence Payton)
Abdul Duke Fakir of the Four Tops and wife Piper Fakir at The Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards in 2009
Askwith reveals why he quit porn
Confessions Of A Window Cleaner porn star Robin Askwith explains why he quit the Confessions films.
‘Every position had been done and there were no more jokes about it to be made,’ he wails.
‘Every position had been done and there were no more jokes about it to be made,’ Robin Askwith (pictured with Madame Blanc Mysteries co-star Sue Holderness) wails
‘The films came to an end as I had shagger’s block.’
Is there a doctor in the house?
