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The most poignant sign yet that the King has left the public stage will come on Tuesday. Queen Camilla will lead the royal entourage at a service of thanksgiving for the late King Constantine of Greece at Windsor Castle, something the king was expected to attend.
His father, Prince Philip, who was born on a kitchen table in Corfu, baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church and evacuated in an orange box when his family was exiled after the Greco-Turkish War, maintained strong ties with his cousin, the former king Constantine II, who was invited and treated in rank and precedence as if he still had a kingdom.
The most poignant sign yet that the King has left the public stage will come on Tuesday.
Queen Camilla will lead the royal entourage at a service of thanksgiving for the late King Constantine of Greece at Windsor Castle, something the king was expected to attend.
His father, Prince Philip, maintained strong ties with his cousin, the former King Constantine II.
Queen Camilla is a fan of the Greek islands, although the king has often sought a more austere experience.
He has regularly found solace at the Eastern Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in northeastern Greece, where he has been an occasional pilgrim (accompanied by lackeys and lots of luggage), including three visits in the year before he married Camilla.
Visits have decreased since then, possibly because the monks are a bit misogynistic. Women cannot be within 500 meters of the monastery.
Ealing, the leafy queen of the London suburbs, announces that former Rolling Stone member Bill Wyman will grace its inaugural book festival on April 13.
After 30 years with the Stones, he felt that his song ideas were being ignored and he was not treated with respect by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Be that as it may, he has written 13 books, including Billy In The Wars, which chronicles his wartime childhood, and Bill Wyman’s Chelsea, his ‘mansion’ since 1982. Bill, 87, was criticized for his romance mid-80s with Amanda Louise. Smith (born July 17, 1970), whom he married in 1989 and divorced in 1993.
Ealing, the leafy queen of the London suburbs, announces that ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman (pictured) will grace its inaugural book festival on April 13.
Lindsay Hoyle will be heartbroken if she is sacked as Speaker of the House of Commons, but she could be comforted by a seat in the House of Lords where her father Doug holds (as does Sir Lindsay, a former Labor MP).
If Lindsay is promoted – and Sir Keir Starmer can hardly refuse to nominate him, having allegedly gotten him into trouble – could he dissuade the Labor leader from nominating John Bercow, who is also accused of siding with the Labor Party?
Lindsay Hoyle (pictured) will be heartbroken if she is sacked as Speaker of the House of Commons, but she could be comforted by a place in the House of Lords where her father Doug sits.
Regarding Baron Hoyle, one source recalls: ‘Doug is a nice soul. I met him one afternoon at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, in one of those elevators with mirrored walls.
“Seeing himself in the mirror, Doug, thinking it was someone he knew, started a conversation with his image.”
Criticized for favoring Labor in the Gaza vote, Sir Lindsay is impartial when it comes to naming his pets.
He named his parrot Boris and his tortoise Maggie after former Conservative prime ministers, and has a cat called Attlee after the Labor prime minister and a Patterdale terrier called Betty, after former Labor comrade and late speaker, Betty Boothroyd. .
His deceased pets include a Maine Coon cat named Patrick (after fellow conservative Patrick Cormack) and a Rottweiler, Gordon (Gordon Brown).