The Duchess of Sussex’s trip to Dublin in 2013, when she tried her luck pouring Guinness, came only after Trinity College’s debating society failed to attract a more famous actor, according to a university student blog.
“After inviting her it was decided that she was not important enough to become an honorary patron, so we gave her something called the Bram Stoker Medal, named after the former member of the society who wrote Dracula,” he records.
Meghan Markle during a visit to Belfast in March 2018
Trinity College Dublin (archive image)
“In hindsight, considering she could still rival Princess Diana in fame and star power, that was a bit of a mistake. But she still seemed very happy to receive the little plastic medal in a box.’
Poignantly, she proudly displayed the trinket in her Suits dressing room.
Enthused by his long-standing bond with the King, throttlebot Stephen Fry makes no mention of severely testing that friendship after admitting in his 2014 memoir that he had secretly snorted cocaine at Buckingham Palace.
When asked if Charles knew at the time, Fry replied: “Well, of course he didn’t… but he knows now.” I certainly do not expect the Order of the Thistle or any great honor of state to fall on my head.
Reflecting on mortality, Gyles Brandreth says he has abandoned burial plans. ‘Cemeteries can be quite gloomy in winter.
Tombstones can be moved or vandalized and the inscription often fades,” he says, explaining that he now wants to bequeath his ashes to a notable artist… “and invite them to mix a little of me into their painting so it can end up in one of his canvases.
Gyles Brandreth on this morning of July 17, 2023
Could formaldehyde-loving Damien Hirst stuff Brandreth’s ashes into a dead shark and call it The Physical Impossibility of Gyles Without a Silly Jumper?
Ahead of Tate Modern’s retrospective of Yoko Ono’s work, former Channel 4 artistic director Waldemar Januszczak blames TV station managers for scrapping Yoko’s giant marble sculpture of a woman’s leg for C4 headquarters.
“At the last moment, the management ogres stamped their feet and said no,” laments Waldemar, who commissioned the work. ‘It wasn’t the money: Yoko was going to pay for everything. It was the idea of a giant woman’s leg disguised as art. It seemed silly to them.
It’s not as silly as Channel 4’s Naked Attraction, is it?
Yoko Ono attends the 10th anniversary celebration of ‘The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil’ at the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in July 2016.
Reflecting on the official decision not to tell Charles’s grandfather, George VI, that he was suffering from fatal cancer, Charles Moore writes in The Spectator: “It remains a crime to ‘prove the Sovereign’s death’… that is, to simply imagine it.” . , the reason is that such conversations often had treasonous intentions.’
Cloudy waters.
The grim-faced actor Michael Jayston, who has died aged 88, was a prankster who once received a lengthy response from London Zoo after he posed as a pensioner with a parrot that once had a vocabulary of 1,500. words but he had developed a ‘tongue attack’.
He wasn’t so lucky with Dame Thora Hird. She didn’t respond to the suggestive love letters he wrote disguised as a horny retired colonel.