EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Andrew basks in the limelight at thanksgiving service with King Charles, William and Kate absent

Prince Andrew was the center of attention at yesterday’s thanksgiving service in honor of King Constantine of Greece.

With King Charles and Kate absent through illness and William withdrawing from the Windsor service at the last minute, it meant Andrew was outranked only by Queen Camilla.

The protocol is very strict and these things matter to Andrew. Despite the slings and arrows he has suffered, he surely welcomes any public reminder that he is still the third adult in line to the throne.

Five cents for Meghan’s thoughts on donald trumpThe tirade against Harry’s ‘unforgivable’ betrayal of the late Queen.

Before becoming a duchess, she threw a tantrum and threatened to leave her homeland and move to Canada if Trump won the 2016 election, calling him “misogynistic” and “divisive.”

She didn’t keep the promise. Ought Justin Trudeau Getting ready for a phone call? But, Frogmore Cottage It’s still empty.

Going public with the sale of her husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton’s love letters, Patti Boyd is keeping quiet about her flirtation with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood when he stayed with her and George at their Henley mansion.

At bedtime, Ronnie took George aside and told him that he was going to sleep with Patti. Ronnie wrote in his 2007 memoir: “Seemingly calm, George pointed to the room my first wife, Krissy, and I were staying in and said, ‘I’ll sleep there.’

When the time came, we both stood on the landing outside our respective bedrooms.

‘Let’s do this?’ I asked. “I’ll see you in court,” George replied, and we went inside.

A warning for Sam Mendes, who is currently screening four different films about each of the Beatles. Paul McCartney He is notoriously sensitive when it comes to being portrayed on screen.

When Gary Bakewell performed it on Backbeat, he complained: “They’ve actually taken away my rock’n’roll.”

And when Thomas Brodie Sangster He was Macca in 2009’s Nowhere Boy and received some negative comments: “The only comment I got was that he didn’t like the fact that Aaron Taylor Johnsonwho played John, was taller than me, because he said that wasn’t the case!’

A tribute in Spectator Life to Derek Draper by Julie Burchill says she was “fond” of the former New Labor luminary.

“A feeling that probably wasn’t mutual,” he says, “when I cut the bird off.” A reference to his former lover, the writer Charlotte Raven.

ABBA fan Frank Skinnerclearing his throat for the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision-winning song Waterloo in April, he declares: “It begins: ‘My God, at Waterloo Napoleon surrendered…”

“But I noticed that the Duke of Wellington is never mentioned in the song and he won.” Is Frank a member of Keith Waterhouse’s Useless Information Society?