EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Queen 'can't be everywhere' to attend 7/7 tenth anniversary commemoration... instead will be represented by the Duke of York
The tenth anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings next week will be commemorated with a service at St Paul’s Cathedral.
The Queen is to be represented by the Duke of York. Hopes that events in Tunisia might persuade HMQ to change her diary came to nought.
My source says: ‘The answer was “CBE” – palace-speak for “Can’t be everywhere.” ’ Something of a contrast to last month’s bicentenary remembrance of Waterloo, when Prince Charles led a large royal delegation into St Paul’s.
It had been hoped the Queen would lead the nation during the upcoming 7/7 tenth anniversary commemoration
Instead, she will be represented at this solemn occasion by the Duke of York, pictured
Prince Edward ‘interviewed’ Dame Judi Dench at St James’s Palace on behalf of a charity, Films Without Borders.
My source says it was a dire affair but the prince is keen on a media career – specifically a cameo role in the TV show about the BBC, W1A, which he admires.
Alas he may not have been forgiven for his last BBC outing – 1987’s It’s A Royal Knockout, in which he, Prince Andrew and wife, Fergie, capered for the cameras, a cringeworthy production dreamed up by Edward and the now-imprisoned TV host, Stuart Hall.
Pop sexpot Katy Perry, 30, plans to buy and convert a convent in Los Angeles, overlooking Hollywood, but she’s opposed by local nuns.
Have they heard of pastor’s daughter Katy’s 14-month marriage to scabrous comic Russell Brand in 2010?
Kate Garraway, pictured, admitted on television yesterday that she was not wearing any underwear
Good Morning Britain, on ITV, featured Kate Garraway on a sofa among Wimbledon crowds, being fanned by two handsome, almost-naked men.
Attired in a cream trouser suit and pink cardigan, the minx confided, during a discussion about the guidance Wimbledon offers competitors about suitable underwear: ‘I’m not wearing any at all, to be honest.’
Too much information!
The tiresome practice of shortening the names of famous people – pretending familiarity with them – now infects Westminster.
Discussing the Heathrow runway row on Victoria Derbyshire’s BBC 2 show, political correspondent Norman Smith – referring to the Prime Minister and Chancellor – chirps: ‘No sign of Cammo or Osbo.’
Nor might there be of ‘Normo’ if he continues with such impudence.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid, back from Glastonbury, tells CBI dinner guests: ‘The audience here couldn’t be more different from the crowd at Worthy Farm.
One is well-off, middle-aged businessmen enjoying expensive food and discussing their stock portfolios.
And the other is CBI members and their guests!’
A familiar trope but I fear it’s considered hilarious by dying-to-sound-clever ministers.
Thank goodness Prince Charles wasn’t on hand to witness the opening of Damiano Michieletto’s production of William Tell at Covent Garden, when the audience booed the rape scene.
Royal Opera patron Charles likes to entertain in the royal box – bringing his crockery, cutlery, food and wine from Clarence House.
Goodness knows what delicacies he might have hurled on stage.
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