Norwegian Princess and her shaman locked in unique picture deal row
Peter Phillips caused a headache for the Royal Family when he sold the photographic rights of his wedding to Autumn Kelly to Hello! magazine for a sum thought to be £500,000.
Queen Elizabeth, is said to have banned such deals as a result.
Now Norway’s Princess Martha Louise, who stepped down as a senior member of her country’s royal family, and is due to wed Durek Verrett, a bisexual ‘shaman’, has sparked a similar row.
The couple have granted exclusive access to their wedding to Hello! and Norwegians are not happy.
A spokesman for the royal family said ‘it denies other outlets fair access’.
Norway’s Princess Martha Louise (left) is due to wed Durek Verrett (right), a bisexual ‘shaman’
The couple have granted exclusive access to their wedding to Hello! and Norwegians are not happy. (Pictured, the couple in Oslo in June 2022)
Peter Phillips caused a headache for the Royal Family when he sold the photographic rights of his wedding to Autumn Kelly to Hello! magazine. (Peter Phillips and Autumn Phillips attend day five of Royal Ascot in 2019)
Sam Smith’s new business partner raises eyebrows
Pop star Sam Smith is likely to raise eyebrows with his new business partner.
The singer has appointed Russell Brand‘s ex business manager, Andrew Antonio, as a director of his music-making firms.
Brand is the subject of lurid accusations, which he denies, of historic sexual misconduct.
Pop star Sam Smith is likely to raise eyebrows with his new business partner. (Sam Smith performs in Stockholm, Sweden)
Poldark’s Beatie Edney struggles with modern menace
As strong-willed servant Prudie in the BBC’s hit drama Poldark, Beatie Edney helped see off the Cornish family’s enemies.
In real life, she’s struggling with a modern menace: thoughtless bike riders. ‘Just been knocked over by a male cyclist on the pavement rounding a corner,’ says the actress, 61.
‘I’m disabled; I’m walking my dog. Why are people cycling on pavements?’
Beatie, adds: ‘Why can’t cyclists follow the Highway Code? I’m fed up with it.’ As her Poldark character would say: ‘T’int Right, T’int Fair, T’int Fit, T’int Proper.’
Beatie Edney is struggling with a modern menace – thoughtless bike riders. (Pictured, Edney as s strong-willed servant Prudie in the BBC’s hit drama Poldark)
Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s trip is a ‘howler’
House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, an enthusiastic globetrotter, has just made an official visit to the Cayman Islands, complete with a gleaming white Range Rover limousine.
Not everything went smoothly, mind you. A local newsreader had trouble with his name and called him ‘Sir Lindsay Howl’.
Jewellery dealer and Queen’s pal Harry leaves £5.6m in will
When Harry Fane went into business selling objets d’art with Queen Camilla’s late brother, Mark Shand, in the 1970s, they were ‘like posh swagmen in linen suits’, Shand later said.
‘With sacks of beautiful booty over our shoulders, we hit the rich and famous, the old and new wealth in the money-drenched capitals of the Americas: Caracas, New York, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, and Miami.’
Harry Fane (pictured), who died last December aged 70, left more than £5.6 million in his will
The pair couldn’t avoid the odd scrape however, and were once, after buying human skulls, chased by Indonesian paramilitaries wielding M16s.
Probate documents published this week disclose that Fane, who died last December aged 70, left more than £5.6 million in his will.
The vintage jewellery dealer – a close friend of Camilla – left his estate in trust for his wife Tessa and their two children.
‘He was one of Mark’s very best friends,’ the Queen’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, told me after his death.
‘One of those rare people who one was always delighted to see.’
