SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Snap-happy Beckers and a camera-shy son 

It may take some time for Amadeus Becker to become as camera-loving as his parents, Wimbledon tennis champ Boris Becker and his second wife, model Sharlely Kerssenberg.

While Boris and Sharlely often post pictures of themselves on social media, Amadeus averted his eyes at his fifth birthday celebrations yesterday.

No doubt his family will do their best to help Amadeus learn to love the flashbulb.

Boris Becker's youngest child Amadeus is more camera shy than his father, left, and mother right  

Boris Becker's youngest child Amadeus is more camera shy than his father, left, and mother right  

His older half-brothers Elias and Noah, from Becker’s first marriage to Barbara Feltus, are both prolific Instagram users, while his older half-sister Anna, from Becker’s infamous broom-cupboard tryst with Angela Ermakova, made her runway debut at Berlin Fashion Week last month.

Sharlely, who married tennis ace Boris in 2009, is so selfie-obsessed she gave every child who attended her son’s birthday party a mug printed with their own . . . mug.

Battle of Downton rages on 

No sign of any thawing of the sub-zero relations between Lady Carnarvon and her Hampshire neighbour Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The two have been on non-speakers since the composer made an audacious offer to buy Carnarvon’s Highclere Castle, following a row over plans to sell off land for housing to secure the castle’s future.

Thanks to revenue from the success of TV’s Downton Abbey — which films at Highclere — the sale was called off and Lord Lloyd-Webber’s plans scuppered. But by the sounds of it, Lady C is still fuming.

Highclere Castle, home of Downton Abbey was never up for sale according to Lady Carnarvon, pictured

Highclere Castle, home of Downton Abbey was never up for sale according to Lady Carnarvon, pictured

‘It was never up for sale. He did it as a PR stunt,’ she tells Town & Country magazine. ‘It was an extraordinarily aggressive and unneighbourly thing to do, which made us absolutely furious.’

The row has been rumbling since 2010. ‘Andrew, along with a number of other local residents, had real concerns about the Carnarvons’ intentions to build new homes in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,’ says a spokesman for Lloyd Webber. ‘To suggest otherwise is utter nonsense.’

Time for Maggie Smith’s acid-tongued sage of diplomacy, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, to intervene.

Has Catherine Mayer, pictured, lost the chance to plug her controversial book on Prince Charles on the Jonathan Ross Show? 

Has Catherine Mayer, pictured, lost the chance to plug her controversial book on Prince Charles on the Jonathan Ross Show? 

Catherine Mayer may have lost the chance to plug her controversial Prince Charles biography on the Jonathan Ross Show sofa. 

The author innocently tweeted Ross to ask: ‘Was it you who once told me about getting caught out reviewing a film you hadn’t seen by describing it as B&W when it was colour?’ 

Surely the one-time host of BBC1’s weekly Film review programme didn’t rely on researchers to sit through the more tedious movies on his behalf?

Matthew Willetts appeared for Trinity College, Cambridge on University Challenge on Monday. 

The 22-year-old physics student barely troubled the scorers, however, as his team were thrashed 300-55 by Magdalen, from arch-rivals Oxford. 

His father, Tory MP David Willetts, recently wrote a book about the baby-boomer generation grabbing all the goodies and leaving too little for their offspring. 

In this case, brains, of which David famously has two. 

Bafta chief Amanda Berry has apologised to the family of Sir Donald Sinden for the ‘hurt’ it caused them by snubbing the late actor at Sunday’s ceremony. 

It failed to include the star of The Cruel Sea and Doctor In The House, who died last September, in its ‘departed colleagues’ tribute. 

‘I am deeply sorry for any distress caused to you or your family,’ Berry says in an email to Sinden’s son Marc. 

‘Please allow me to reassure you that the Academy has not forgotten your father’s outstanding contribution to both film and television.’

 A tribute to Sinden will feature at Bafta’s TV awards in May, she adds.

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