Will the Princess of Wales, keen to focus more on her message than her outfits, accelerate her habit of recycling her clothes to match the King and the Princess Royal?
Charles, notoriously frugal when it comes to clothing – lamenting the amount sent to landfill – once wore a frayed patchwork jacket on BBC‘s Countryfile.
He also walked Meghan down the aisle in a 40-year-old coat.
His sister Anne’s black outfit worn after the Queen’s death debuted at Princess Diana‘s funeral in 1997.
And her 1980 Royal Ascot outfit also appeared at the Derby in 1985, 2015 and 2018. Why is Anne a keen recycler? ‘Because I’m mean,’ she admitted in 2020.
The King’s decision to reintroduce palace receptions for newly elected MPs would have had his father smiling.
Prince Philip enjoyed such events when he definitely didn’t have to be a diplomat.
On one occasion, cornering two Labour newbies, he asked what they had done ‘before taking up this lark’. One told Philip that he had been a trade union official. ‘So, b****r all then,’ snapped back the duke.
‘And what did you do before you married the Queen?’ the other MP bravely asked. ‘I fought in the Second World War,’ answered Philip.
Portraying Cassandra in the BBC’s Miss Austen, Keeley Hawes is seen playing canasta with her sister Jane. This was 140 years before the invention of the game in Uruguay.
‘The Misses Austen might well have played whist, piquet or loo in 1790s England but they most certainly wouldn’t have known about canasta,’ writes Richard Hopton in The Times.
‘The producers should hang their heads in shame. They might as well have had the sisters playing Space Invaders.’
Comedian Jack Whitehall confirms his estrangement from Prince Harry by revealing on Australian radio: ‘I was quite good friends with Harry back in the day, pre-Meghan, when he was a tearaway. But I got culled… I was dropped.’
No wonder. At one Royal Variety Performance, attended by Harry, Jack called him ‘Ginger Nuts’.
Jewish director Jesse Eisenberg, promoting his new film A Real Pain tells BBC Radio 4 Today’s presenter Emma Barnett: ‘Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors should wake up every morning, go outside and kiss the ground that they’re alive.’
Barnett asks: ‘Are you kissing the ground now, having made this film in Poland?’ Eisenberg clarifies: ‘I’m a germaphobe, I still don’t kiss anything.’
Succession star Brian Cox recalls his appearance on BBC Question Time with Sir Keir Starmer telling the Oxford Union: ‘He never spoke to anybody once. He came on and did the show and I thought, ‘What is this man? What is he at?’ Good God. I mean you know he is like a fart in the bath.’
