EMILY PRESCOTT: Singer Tom Walker says he and Kate Middleton still make a good musical duo

He’s a singer who goes viral with his protest song criticizing Partygate and she’s the future queen destined for political neutrality, but Tom Walker tells me he and the Duchess of Cambridge still make a good musical duo.

In December they performed together at Westminster Abbey, and Tom says they had “a few laughs during rehearsal” when Kate played the piano to his vocals.

The Scottish singer also says he would like to work together more in the future.

Tom works with mental health charity Mind and says how happy he is that the Duchess is trying to break the stigma surrounding addiction.

He’s a singer who goes viral with his protest song criticizing Partygate and she’s the future queen destined for political neutrality, but Tom Walker tells me he and the Duchess of Cambridge still make a good musical duo. (Above Kate and Tom performed together at Westminster Abbey last Christmas)

Tom says he and the Duchess had ‘a few laughs at rehearsal’ when Kate played piano to his vocals

Her 90th birthday is fast approaching and Dame Sheila Hancock says she’s not in the mood to celebrate but fears her three daughters will defy her and throw a surprise party anyway.

“I’m not a party animal and when you’re my age it’s very hard to hear in a crowded place,” she told me at Prospect’s summer gathering last week.

Her 90th birthday is fast approaching and Dame Sheila Hancock says she’s not in the mood to celebrate but fears her three daughters will defy her and throw a surprise party anyway

The actress already has a full house, as she suffers from a mouse infestation that outsmarts the expensive traps she has bought to humanely capture them.

“In the end I just let them stay,” she says.

Hope they enjoy the snacks…

A big adjustment for Emerald

Andrew Lloyd Webber and co-writer Emerald Fennell have begun tweaking their beleaguered musical Cinderella as it heads to Broadway.

The West End show, which the composer called a “costly mistake,” was closed this month following pandemic issues.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and co-writer Emerald Fennell have begun tweaking their beleaguered musical Cinderella as it heads to Broadway

Above, actress-filmmaker-writer Emerald in central London in March

However, they are determined to revamp the production before it hits New York, and I’ve heard they’ll work hard to make the jokes more appealing to American audiences.

A source in the Big Apple tells me, “There’s a lot of pressure to get this version perfect, another flop is unimaginable.”