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The death of Queen Elizabeth sent the royal postage bill soaring to £1.2 million, an increase of £100,000. All sympathy letters, cards and gifts must receive a reply.
The Coronation and two sick royals have led to further pressure on the postal budget with the King also picking up the tab for Prince and Princess Michael’s replies to those who sympathised after the death of their son-in-law.
The Royal Household may be regretting offering to pay for its stamps back in 2001.
Until then it enjoyed free postage under an edict of Edward VII.
King Charles III reads cards and messages, sent by well-wishers following his cancer diagnosis, on February 21, 2024 in London
The death of Queen Elizabeth sent the royal postage bill soaring to £1.2 million (File)
After Prince Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview, producer Sam McAlister, left alone in the Queen’s waiting room at Buckingham Palace, behaved like a star-struck teenager.
‘I was left with my mobile phone,’ she trills. ‘It started with pictures of my legs and when I realised nobody was going to take me to the Tower I got ambitious, with pictures of a side table, furniture and here is the not-so-classy bit, selfies.
‘I wish I had nicked something. I am a real nick-things person.’
Promoting her portrayal of Emily Maitlis in new movie Scoop, Gillian Anderson recalls a chance encounter with the real Emily at a charity event during a break from filming.
Gillian chuckles: ‘The hilarious part of it was that I’d come to this event not having prepared at all and was really dishevelled.
‘She showed up like Emily Maitlis, who looks like a movie star, with a short white skirt and tanned legs and everything. I looked like her great-aunt!’
Gillian chuckles: ‘The hilarious part of it was that I’d come to this event not having prepared at all and was really dishevelled’
Lord Snowdon was flattered when, at Christie’s party for Pattie Boyd’s auction last Thursday, a well-wisher complimented him on the scent he was wearing.
‘That’s because I wash with soap on Thursdays,’ he replied. ‘The other days of the week I use Santa Maria Novella.’ Fancy!
Posh IRA fanatic Rose Dugdale caught the eye of deb’s delight Ferdie Mount at her coming-out ball after she was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 1958.
‘I said something smarmy about the party,’ recalls Ferdie. Rose, who has died at 83, gave a ‘merry chuckle’ and replied: ‘It’s a complete and utter waste of money.’
Lots to talk about later when Ferdie was head of Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street Policy Unit and Rose was chucking milk-churn bombs out of a hijacked helicopter over Strabane RUC station.
Rose Dugdale, member of the IRA, pictured outside the Tottenham Civil Rights Centre (undated)
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