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The last batch of the late Queen’s patronages – all 376 of them – have now been re-allocated.
The majority of them to Charles and Camilla. William and Kate were persuaded to take on one, the Royal Marsden NHS Trust.
Apparently the King tried to get them to take on the English National Ballet which had been without a royal patron since it lost the too notorious Prince Andrew.
In the end Camilla took the ENB under her wing. ‘Maybe William would be more interested if the Taylor Swift fan club asked for a patron,’ says my cynical source.
Princess Kate and Prince William had been encouraged by the King to take on the English National Ballet
In the end Queen Camilla took the ENB under her wing which had been without a royal patron since Prince Andrew
The last 376 of the late Queen’s patronages have now been re-allocated among the Royal Family
Former James Bond Daniel Craig, who was pictured recently in absurdly baggy breeks, was interviewed this week by France’s equivalent of Radio 4, where again he denounced ‘violent ultra-masculinity’.
My French snout comments: ‘Amusing to see how hostile the French listeners’ comments were. Blokes haven’t felt this let down since George Lazenby as Bond appeared in a frilly shirt.’
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz attending the Loewe Womenswear Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week
Germany’s incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz is reportedly hoping to be part of a ‘nuclear umbrella’ provided across Europe by the UK and France. Some umbrella!
Our Trident missiles are more than 40 years old. When HMS Vanguard fired one last year it reportedly ‘plopped into the sea’.
This was all foretold in 1986, in the never-rivalled BBC political comedy Yes, Prime Minister.
Trident would be great ‘if it works’, the PM was told by his private secretary, who added: ‘We didn’t have the means of firing Polaris for some years. Cruise was the same. Trident probably will be too.’ Cheering thought isn’t it?
Friedrich Merz is reportedly hoping to be part of a ‘nuclear umbrella’ provided across Europe by the UK and France
One of the five architects through to the final round of the race to design the official memorial to the late Queen is Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank.
Naturally the King will have a say on who gets the commission. Foster though is no fan of the King’s conservative approach to architecture.
He led a group of professionals in 2009 criticising Charles for using his ‘privileged position’ to ‘skew the course’ of the planning of the former Chelsea Barracks.
Two years ago Foster said he would ‘love the opportunity’ to talk to the King about the ‘benefits of change’ in architecture.
Architect Lord Norman Foster, who is among the five finalists being asked to submit their plans for honouring Elizabeth II
Ex-Tory Cabinet minister Michael Portillo, 71, pretends not to remember any British prime ministers after Margaret Thatcher in his new Channel Five travel series on Portugal as he traverses the river Lima which, according to legend, makes people lose their memories.
He reels off the names of Attlee, Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Wilson, Callaghan and Thatcher before exclaiming: ‘I can’t remember anyone after Thatcher! This river must be more powerful than I imagined!’
The poor soul lost his Enfield Southgate seat in 1997 and although he returned to the Commons in 1999 it was, to quote poet Robert Browning’s The Lost Leader, far from ‘glad confident morning again’.
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