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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: First Class Queen Camilla Uses Second Class Stamps to Save the Palace a Small Fortune

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Queen Camilla attends the Easter Mattins service at Windsor Castle. The Queen has recently cut back on her stationery in a bid to keep down the rising costs of the royal purse.

Queen Camilla has done her bit to save.

In an effort to reduce the actual postage and stationery bill, as revealed here last month, it has ditched the traditional heavy shield envelopes.

He likes to respond personally to as many letters as he can and always uses envelopes embossed with the royal coat of arms, sent by £6 special delivery.

Queen Camilla attends the Easter Mattins service at Windsor Castle. The Queen has recently cut back on her stationery in a bid to keep down the rising costs of the royal purse.

Queen Camilla has swapped her embossed stationery and special delivery for plain envelopes and 69p second-class stamps when sending her personal letters.

Queen Camilla has swapped her embossed stationery and special delivery for plain envelopes and 69p second-class stamps when sending her personal letters.

Now their letters are sent in cheaper, plain envelopes and by regular second-class mail.

At 69p each, the palace’s discounted commercial rate for second-class stamps, you save a small fortune. A first class Queen who uses second class mail!

Did Harold Wilson vent to the late Queen about his secret affair with his deputy press secretary?

A senior courtier quoted in Ben Pimlott’s biography of the late Queen recalled that Wilson and HM confided in each other in their increasingly prolonged private audiences.

She told him her concerns about the impact of the impending announcement in 1976 of her sister Margaret’s legal separation from Tony Snowdon.

Wilson informed him in advance of his resignation and gallantly scheduled the announcement for the same day that the Snowdon couple separated to soften its impact.

Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned. The royal separation flooded the news and Harold’s departure became third fiddle.

Former Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson (pictured at 10 Downing Street) had a secret affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies, 22 years his junior.

Former Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson (pictured at 10 Downing Street) had a secret affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies, 22 years his junior.

Ms Hewlett-Davies (pictured) was his then deputy press secretary.

Ms Hewlett-Davies (pictured) was his then deputy press secretary.

Home Secretary James Cleverly was urged yesterday by Conservative MP Miriam Cates to do something about the falling birth rate.

Cleverly is a lustful boy but he had to confess that the matter was “out of my control.”

Father-of-six Jacob Rees-Mogg has taken a more proactive approach.

Keeley Hawes laments her youthful naivety when posing in lingerie for men’s titles like Loaded.

“There was no one there except 20-year-old Keeley, who didn’t know how these things worked,” the actress told Stylist magazine.

‘They put you in a hotel room, sometimes alone with a photographer, without even “doing your hair” or “makeup.”

Keeley Hawes (pictured) told Stylist Magazine that she regrets posing in lingerie for men's titles like Loaded.

Keeley Hawes (pictured) told Stylist Magazine that she regrets posing in lingerie for men’s titles like Loaded.

‘It was deeply uncomfortable, but that was the expectation of what we did. It makes me feel horrible, really horrible. I feel sorry for myself.’

Dominic West, Prince Charles in The Crown, remembers the final week of filming at York Minster.

‘We had 400 extras bowing down to us, Olivia Williams and me. [his co-star, as Camilla Parker Bowles] getting married, with a whole orchestra and a full choir… it’s quite difficult to come home after that and the kids, my wife, refusing to bow, things like that!’

Dominic West as King Charles in the Netflix show The Crown marrying his on-screen wife Camilla

Dominic West as King Charles in the Netflix show The Crown marrying his on-screen wife Camilla

Ex-Python Michael Palin explains to BBC Radio 4’s Nick Robinson why his former, now often sad, colleague John Cleese is permanently irascible: ‘He’s got mood pills from the National Health Service, so it’s going to be like that’ .

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