Why Prince Harry won’t be pocketing as much of his £10million payout as he hoped… and why Donald Trump could be the ultimate winner. Another sensational royal scoop from RICHARD EDEN

The Duke of Sussex’s settlement with The Sun’s publisher was described as a ‘monumental victory’ by his barrister David Sherborne on Wednesday.

But how much of the payout, understood to be in excess of £10million, will Prince Harry pocket? 

The majority is thought to be to pay his lawyers’ fees. And what remains will, I hear, have to be shared with Donald Trump’s administration.

‘As a US resident Harry has to pay tax on his worldwide income unless it’s been taxed in Britain,’ a source says. 

‘And here’s the sting in the tail: legal damages are not taxed in the UK.’

As a US resident, Harry has to pay tax on his worldwide income unless it’s been taxed in Britain, a source says

Stand-in for King admits buying rare Army medal

As one of His Majesty’s Deputy Lieutenants he is called upon to stand in for the King’s representative in a county – or Lord-Lieutenant – at awards ceremonies and formal events.

It’s a role – reserved for those who have given ‘distinguished service’ – for which the Rev Dr Isaac Thompson would seem perfectly suited.

But there is, it transpires, rather a blot on Dr Thompson’s escutcheon. For among the splendid row of medals he wears when on certain duties as a Deputy Lieutenant is the late Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal.

The medal, inset, was conferred on a handful of Armed Forces personnel in 1977, the year of Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee. ‘About three were awarded per regiment,’ I’m told.

Therein lies the problem. Dr Thompson, pictured, was for 18 years a member of the Territorial Army, but his service did not begin until a decade later in 1987, when he was commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department. 

In ’77, he was a teacher, serving part-time as a reservist in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Dr Thompson, who is Chaplain for the Royal British Legion in Northern Ireland as well as Deputy Lieutenant for County Tyrone, assures me that he has made a mistake, explaining that he received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 – given to all members of the Armed Forces, police force and prison services who’d completed five years’ service.

Deputy Lieutenant Rev Dr Isaac Thompson, who was in the Royal Ulster Constabulary reserve when the Silver Jubilee Medals were handed out in 1977, believed they were given to everyone in the services 

‘It was at that time I saw advertised ‘Silver Jubilee medals for sale’,’ he tells me. ‘I immediately thought back to my service in the police reserve, and in my ignorance assumed that the Silver Jubilee Medal was given to everyone in the services.’ He adds: ‘I will take steps to have the medal removed from the rest and no longer wear it.’

Alas, that fails to mollify former Territorial Army serviceman Martin Shaw.

‘People know instinctively that medals are awarded in recognition of service rather than purchased,’ he tells me. ‘It belies logic for a member of any uniformed service to buy his or her own. The fact that a representative of the Sovereign would resort to such behaviour discredits the whole system.’

At 85, and with three marriages and six children under his belt, actor Paul Hogan accepts it’s time for the cut. 

Nothing, of course, to do with his personal equipment – simply his view of the updated version of Crocodile Dundee, the 1986 film which propelled him to stardom and is now back in cinemas Down Under. 

Among scenes which have had the snip is the moment when Mick Dundee meets a statuesque woman with a voice lower than expected – prompting him to make an exploratory hand movement.

This cut is ‘not a matter of wokeness’, insists Hogan. ‘[Dundee] is outback. He wouldn’t grope people.’ 

Moss actress rocks iconic jacket on set

We must wait to see if Ellie Bamber is convincing as Kate Moss in the film Moss & Freud, but the authenticity of her costumes is not in doubt.

On set in London this week, Ellie, 27, who is known for her role as Cosette in the BBC adaptation of Les Miserables, wore Moss’s original John Galliano Union Jack Blazer. 

Actress Ellie Bamber wore Kate Moss’s original John Galliano Union Jack Blazer on the set of the film Moss & Freud in London this week

It was worn by the model, now 51, on the Paris runway in 1993. She is an executive producer of Moss & Freud, which is directed by James Lucas and is a dramatised account of her relationship with artist Lucian Freud – played by Sir Derek Jacobi, 86.

Freud painted Moss in 2002, with the portrait selling for £3.9million three years later.

Moss says she has been involved ‘in all aspects as the [film] has developed’.

They once had two ancestral seats in Staffordshire – Ingestre Hall and Alton Towers, into whose gardens they first admitted visitors in 1860.

But the glory days of the Chetwynd-Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury, are now far behind them.

A century after selling Alton – and 65 years after flogging Ingestre to West Bromwich Council – they’re parting with the family’s parliamentary robes. Made in Queen Victoria’s reign and worn by Earls of Shrewsbury ever since, including the 22nd and current Earl, Charles, the robes go under the hammer today at Bamfords auctioneers.

They are expected to sell for between £600 and £1,000. The auction is prompted by the ejection of hereditary peers from the House of Lords. ‘I find it very sad,’ the Earl, 72, tells me, explaining that he doesn’t want the robes to ‘moulder away at the bottom of a trunk’.

Joanna: I’m happy to play ‘ugly’ roles

Dame Joanna Lumley, 78, pictured at a BBC screening in London yesterday, says she has no problems playing an aged, bearded witch in The Addams Family spin-off, Wednesday

Known for her enduring beauty, Dame Joanna Lumley says she has no problems playing an aged, bearded witch as Grandmama in the new series of The Addams Family spin-off, Wednesday. 

Grandmama sports frizzled white locks, light facial hair and a dull complexion, but Dame Joanna, 78, says: ‘You can’t be vain as an actor.

‘In Ab Fab, we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic. I’ve never had a problem with ‘ugly’ roles.’