As Harry and Meghan are 5,000 miles apart in California, and Prince Andrew is banned from polite society, the King’s vision of a ‘reduced’ monarchy seems too thin.
This is how a new member of ‘La Firma’ takes a step forward.
May I reveal that Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles undertook his first royal duty on behalf of the Queen Consort on Tuesday.
He formally represented his ex-wife at a funeral and friends say it could be the first engagement of many. ‘
Andrew is happy to do anything asked of him,” one of his friends tells me. He still enjoys a warm relationship with Camilla.
May I reveal that Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles undertook his first royal duty on behalf of the Queen Consort on Tuesday.
The news was recorded in the Court Circular, the official record of royal engagements.
“The Queen Consort was represented by Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles,” she says of her attendance at John Bowes-Lyon’s funeral at the London Oratory. Bowes-Lyon, who died last month aged 80, was a second cousin to the late Queen.
Formally representing Camilla meant that the 82-year-old Parker Bowles was given a prominent pew in the Roman Catholic church.
He and Camilla, who married in 1973, have two children. They separated in the 1980s and finally divorced in 1995, with a royal biographer once commenting: “It is said that an English gentleman will always give his wife for his country and this was certainly true of Andrew Parker Bowles.” .
Camilla married Prince Charles in 2005, while Parker Bowles exchanged vows with Rosemary Pitman in 1996. She died in 2010.
Parker Bowles and Bowes-Lyon were cousins. His great-uncle was the legendary roué Raymund of Trafford, whose athleticism in bed led his brother to offer him £10,000 if he agreed to be castrated.
Raymund replied that they would “cut a ball off him and settle for £5,000”.
Camilla married Prince Charles in 2005, while Parker Bowles exchanged vows with Rosemary Pitman in 1996. She died in 2010.
Parker Bowles and Bowes-Lyon were cousins. His great-uncle was the legendary roué Raymund of Trafford, whose athleticism in bed led his brother to offer him £10,000 if he agreed to be castrated.
Stitched Eddie on the red carpet
Torn Jeans have been in fashion since the 1980s, and now Eddie Redmayne is bringing the style to formal wear.
The Old Etonian, 40, showed up to a New York screening of his new movie, The Good Nurse, wearing a tailored suit with slits at the elbows and waist, as well as white stitching on the lapels.
Ripped jeans have been in fashion since the 1980s, and now Eddie Redmayne is bringing the look to formal wear.
It was created by Maison Margiela, the French fashion house run by designer John Galliano.
“It’s about choosing something you’re comfortable with because red carpet events never stop being surreal,” Redmayne said of her style in the past.
Emma likes being back at the hospital.
Emma Samms first imprinted herself on the collective male consciousness as Fallon Carrington Colby, the character on the ’80s soap opera Dynasty she once summed up as “a spoiled bitch” whose idea of fun is sleeping with her father’s chauffeur.
Now, he returns to another American soap opera with which he has an even longer association: General Hospital.
“I first started working on this show 40 years ago,” says the evergreen Samms, 62, who has temporarily left her home in the Cotswolds for an intense filming schedule in Los Angeles.
Lots and lots of lines. It’s like taking an exam every day for three weeks,” she says, explaining that the show airs “for one hour, five days a week.” But help is available from her husband, former BBC news presenter Simon McCoy. He has helped, Emma says, “discover Wi-Fi, air conditioning and the coffee machine.”
Icons of the 1960s reunited
Two Swinging Sixties icons got back together this week when Twiggy showed up at fellow model Pattie Boyd’s book launch party, My Life In Pictures.
Boyd, 78, who was married to George Harrison and Eric Clapton, inspired such classic songs as Something, Layla and Wonderful Tonight. He has remained close to 73-year-old Dame Lesley Lawson, as Twiggy is formally known, who appeared with her in Vogue Italia in 1970.
Two Swinging Sixties icons got back together this week when Twiggy showed up at fellow model Pattie Boyd’s book launch party, My Life In Pictures.
She has remained close to 73-year-old Dame Lesley Lawson, as Twiggy is formally known, who appeared with her in Vogue Italia in 1970.
“We definitely weren’t spoiled,” Boyd tells me, recalling his partying heyday, at The Lower Third bar in Soho.
“If you were booked for a shoot, you had to bring dark shoes and light shoes, jewelry, makeup, accessories, combs, and this and that. Plus we were only getting paid £4 an hour – things have changed drastically; everything is super glamorous.’
Oasis bros in new wonder brawl
They sang Don’t Look Back In Anger, but Oasis stars Liam and Noel Gallagher are in the crosshairs of their legacy once again.
Singer Liam, 50, has accused his 55-year-old brother of preventing his recent solo performances of Oasis songs from being included in an upcoming documentary, Knebworth 22. Liam performed several of the band’s songs during two summer concerts in Knebworth, in Hertfordshire. , but they will not be included on the screen after Noel’s intervention. Liam growls: ‘There are no Oasis songs, since the angry jet has blocked them.’ Can’t they settle their differences over a Champagne Supernova?
Traumatized by a burglary at their £31.5m West London mansion while they slept earlier this year, David and Victoria Beckham have been granted permission to install ‘Fort Knox-style measures’ in their barn Refurbished £6million in the Cotswolds. West Oxfordshire Council has given the go-ahead for an additional security building at the house, where there is already 24-hour security and a gated entrance.
The Chancellor of Eton College, Lord Waldegrave, had a new job for those who played for ‘Strawberry’, Eton’s gentlemanly cricket team that play for fun, at a dinner for students who left 40 years ago.
A guest tells me: ‘Waldegrave said that, given recent events, perhaps it would be better to choose the political class not from Eton scholars but from Strawberry scholars.’
Boris Johnson, the most celebrated scholar of the year in question, was conspicuous by his absence.
