While the King’s doctors express their satisfaction at his progress, a source expresses concern at his determination to take on so many outside commitments. In the next six weeks, events Charles wants to attend include the Chelsea Flower Show, Trooping the Colour, Garter Day, Royal Ascot and the state visit of the Emperor of Japan. With Camilla on the doctors’ side urging caution, she has been reminding him to slow down with discreet notes in her briefings that include “catch the monkey gently, gently” and “prudens qui patiens” (the prudent man is patient ).
The King’s 150 new orders keep him in every comfort with several wine merchants and cheesemongers, a ski equipment maker, a bacon curer, his hairdresser, a button maker, a gunsmith, a straw weaver and a dyer. , a boot maker, a kilt maker, your favorite clematis and magnolias. nurseries, the royal supplier of fishing tackle, as well as Twining’s Tea, the Ritz Hotel and Waitrose. Camilla’s seven orders cover all the essentials of a lady: a jeweller, a chemist, a stationer, a florist, two purveyors of spirits and the greatest of all shopkeepers, Fortnum and Mason.
While the King’s doctors express their satisfaction with his progress, a source expresses concern about his determination to take on so many external commitments.
King Charles III and Prince William, Prince of Wales, during the official handover ceremony as Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps on March 13.
Pioneer as she was, the late Dame Shirley Conran was one of the first “wives” of the late Marquess of Bath, also known as “The Loins of Longleat”. Abandoned by his wife Anna Gael in 1970, Bath accepted Shirley as his new chatelaine with the prospect of becoming a marchioness and sharing in his £150 million fortune. It didn’t go well. Having criticized her first husband, Terence Conran, for her meanness, she discovered that her first Sunday lunch at Longleat was nothing more than an undercooked rabbit trapped in the orchard, washed down with disgusting homemade wine. Shirley soon became an ex-wife.
When Harry Styles, pictured, was born in 1994, Joan Collins had long ditched her Dynasty wigs and was more than 40 years into a stellar career. So it was a little unfair when the evergreen Joan was leaving the Variety Club Awards and a supporter asked her what she thought of Harry. “I have no idea who he is,” Joan, 91, responded this month. ‘No. Who is he?’
When Harry Styles, pictured, was born in 1994, Joan Collins had long ditched her Dynasty wigs and was more than 40 years into a stellar career.
Joan Collins (pictured) said she had no idea who Harry Styles was as she left the Variety Club Awards.
Contestants searching for the briefcase containing £250,000 in Stephen Mangan’s The Fortune Hotel, which began on ITV last night, are in for disappointment. Random bag snatchings in Granada, where the series is filmed, posed too big a risk, says editor Ben Wilson. ‘We only had £5,000 in £50 notes on top of the briefcase. The rest was paper.
Pictured: Dame Judi Dench attending the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 press day
Dame Judi Dench strutted when a postman arrived at the front door of her Surrey farm with a parcel and asked: “Can I take a photo?” She agreed and prepared for the close-up of her. But the postman took a photo of the package. Judi lamented: ‘I thought I wanted one of my own!’