EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Shouldn’t William comply with the late Queen’s instance?

After William’s shock intervention within the Israel-Hamas battle, there are fears he has been used as a Foreign Office mouthpiece. 

His outgoing high canine, Jean-Christophe Gray, who was as soon as David Cameron‘s spokesman, is now off to the Cabinet Office. 

His new man, Ian Patrick, is a Foreign Office veteran. 

The late Queen at all times appointed her personal secretaries solely after that they had served her in one other capability and gained a deep information of protocol. 

Shouldn’t her grandson comply with her instance and keep away from kidnap by mandarin?

After Prince William’s shock intervention within the Israel-Hamas battle, there are fears he has been used as a Foreign Office mouthpiece

His outgoing high canine, Jean-Christophe Gray (pictured), who was as soon as David Cameron ‘s spokesman, is now off to the Cabinet Office

Coincidence that BBC newscaster Clive Myrie and ex-colleague Jon Sopel have been put up for membership of the Garrick Club. 

Neither ought to endure the destiny of former BBC man Jeremy Paxman, blackballed in 1993 over his anti-Establishment e book Friends In High Places. 

But has Sopel, joined on the skilled hip to podcast accomplice Emily Maitlis, bought her approval to affix the men-only salmon and cucumber relaxation dwelling?

Geri Halliwell-Horner, cheered that husband Formula One boss Christian has been absolved of all misconduct allegations, takes up the reason for Henry VIII’s beheaded spouse Anne Boleyn. 

‘The extra I learnt, I believed: ‘God, that is terrible,’ says the previous Spice Girl, selling her Tudor kids’s e book. 

‘It was horrible what he did… I used to be like: ‘Let’s have fun her and provides her some redemption.’ 

Better late than by no means, Geri!

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell pictured together with her Red Bull staff principal husband Christian Horner

Explaining her loathing of the ‘impolite and horrible’ intercourse scenes in movies the place girls need to strip bare, Joanna Lumley urges a ban. 

‘The second you’re taking your garments off, the viewers appears at you, the actor, and your attributes – what your breasts and genitals are like,’ she rages in Radio Times. 

‘There’s a playground ingredient to it – pull your pants down and let’s examine what you have bought.’ 

Fingers crossed Joanna is not inadvertently reviving curiosity within the seedy 1971 film Games That Lovers Play through which she appeared topless.

Explaining her loathing of the ‘impolite and horrible’ intercourse scenes in movies the place girls need to strip bare, Joanna Lumley (pictured) urges a ban

Dame Margaret Drabble has been taken to activity within the Times Literary Supplement for claiming that author Bryan Johnson took a deadly overdose in his Islington dwelling in 1973. 

Not so, states his good friend Inspector Morse author Peter Buckman. ‘In reality, he slit his wrists in a heat bathtub – Roman model,’ writes Peter within the TLS. 

‘He left a glass of brandy on the sting of the tub for whoever discovered him and wrote ‘These Are My Last Words’ in his personal blood on the tiles. I believed this was proof of his sense of humour.’

Isn’t Buckman affected by a dose of TMI (Too Much Information)?

Mourning the loss of life of her puss Magnificat, Prue Leith confides that she needs to be buried in her backyard alongside the cherished pet. 

‘I’m wondering if it is going to be authorized for me to go in there too sooner or later?’ she wails. 

‘I feel you need to be 6ft deep and 50m from a water course.’ 

Coming to TV quickly: Prue’s Great British Dig Up?