EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Andrew could study from Meghan 

As Prince Andrew ponders his method to discredit Virginia Giuffre’s recollections, may possibly he look for inspiration from nephew Harry’s account of Meghan’s very first assembly with the Queen, when she questioned Harry to establish HM’s ‘assistant’? ‘I asked who she was speaking about,’ Harry writes in Spare. ‘Meg replied, ‘The person holding the purse. The male who walked her to the doorway.’ ‘That was not her assistant,’ defined Harry. ‘That was her second son, Andrew.’ Could Meg’s non-recognition motivate Andrew to believe his alleged Tramp dancemate mixed him up with any individual else?

As Prince Andrew ponders his approach to discredit Virginia Giuffre’s recollections, may possibly he request inspiration from nephew Harry’s account of Meghan’s initial assembly with the Queen, when she asked Harry to detect HM’s ‘assistant’?

Additional woe awaits the Duke of York as Andrew Lownie cranks up his investigation equipment for an expose of disgraced Andrew. Says Lownie, writer of ‘Traitor King’ which uncovered the Duke of Windsor as a Nazi sympathiser: ‘My subsequent ebook is a biography of Prince Andrew. Love to talk to any person, off the record if preferred, who fulfilled him, have tales about him or can set me in touch with persons who realized or labored with him.’ Decrease periscope and dive Andrew!

Regular Folks star Daisy Edgar-Jones, pictured, stays remarkably sanguine at the Money Times listing of her as a ‘nepo baby’ whose ‘vertiginous rise helps make a lot more perception when you know that her father is Phil Edgar-Jones.’ But her father, previous Large Brother govt producer and now manager of Sky Arts, is not happy with her becoming lumped in with the likes of Brooklyn Beckham. ‘That’s just silly,’ he snorts. ‘As if Lenny Abrahamson, the Oscar-nominated director [of Normal People], would even know who I was.’

Ordinary People today star Daisy Edgar-Jones, pictured, continues to be remarkably sanguine at the Economical Periods listing of her as a ‘nepo baby’ whose ‘vertiginous rise will make a lot more feeling when you know that her father is Phil Edgar-Jones

Lord Sugar, midway by means of his 17th season of The Apprentice and eager to entire 20 years, tells Radio Occasions: ‘Maybe a person of the responsibilities for my last year is, I announce I am about to die and can a person design a awesome coffin for me? 1 that has communications developed in, in case I wake up. A keyboard and cell cell phone connectivity and rechargeable batteries for the funeral parlour.’ How about a Steam Age Amstrad for outdated times’ sake?

Donald Trelford, who has died at 85, once lunched with JFK’s mom Rose Kennedy just after purchasing her memoirs for The Observer, asking her if she realized Mr Ford. ‘You indicate the gentleman who makes the motor autos?’ she requested. Donald described he meant Richard Nixon’s successor as President, Gerald Ford. ‘No,’ Mrs Kennedy replied. ‘He is a midwesterner. I would not know a guy like that.’

Ice Cold in Alex star Sylvia Syms felt her thespian profession was blighted by remaining regularly puzzled with Richard Attenborough’s actress wife Sheila Sim. Sylvia has departed to the celestial Pinewood through Denville Corridor, affectionately dubbed Dunacting, just after her demise past 7 days aged 89. Sheila also took her past bow from the house for theatricals. A lot to speak about in the heavenly inexperienced space women!