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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Queen drops in on bash for her favourite man in tights

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 19:07 EST, 22 July 2015 | Updated: 19:38 EST, 22 July 2015

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She may be in her 90th year, but that doesn’t stop the Queen enjoying a good party.

Her Majesty was guest of honour earlier this week at the 55th birthday celebration of royal television commentator Alastair Bruce.

Alastair Bruce of Crionaich is no ordinary presenter. Besides his job providing commentary on the monarchy for Sky News, he is descended from Scottish nobility and boasts Robert the Bruce as a direct ancestor.

In 1988, the Queen appointed him as one of her heralds — Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary — which sees him dressing up in tights (‘quite legally,’ he has joked) and parading in front of her at the State Opening of Parliament and the annual Order of the Garter service.

Her Majesty was guest of honour at the 55th birthday celebration of royal television commentator Alastair Bruce, which was held at the headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment in central London this week

Alastair Bruce of Crionaich, 55, (pictured left alongside Downton Abbey star, actor Hugh Bonneville), who descended from Scottish nobility, provides commentary on the monarchy for Sky News broadcasts

He has also worked as a ‘historical adviser’ on the costume drama Downton Abbey and Oscar-winning films such as The King’s Speech.

And as a former Scots Guard and Falklands veteran he held his black-tie birthday bash at the headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment in Horseferry Road, Central London.

The Queen, who rarely appears at such social events, was accompanied by her son, Prince Andrew, and driven there from Buckingham Palace.

She returned to the palace after a few hours, however, having a full diary of meetings and audiences the following day.

Although it might be seen by some as surprising for her to attend a party thrown in honour of an employee of a Rupert Murdoch-owned organisation just days after his newspaper, The Sun, published home video footage of her giving a Nazi salute as a young girl, sources say she would have been too fond of Bruce to decline.

For despite making a living out of talking about the royals, Bruce is the very soul of discretion when it comes to his own links. When asked about the Queen’s presence at his party, he replied: ‘Feel free to write what you wish.’

As I predicted two weeks ago, Laura Kuenssberg, Newsnight’s chief correspondent, is to replace Nick Robinson as the BBC’s political editor.

It seems the Beeb was indeed keen to give the job to a woman. In farcical scenes worthy of BBC2 satire W1A, the news was announced yesterday on Twitter by Jonathan Munro, head of newsgathering at the Corporation — only for his tweet to be deleted moments later.

Apparently, James Landale, the highly regarded deputy political editor who might have expected to land the job, is on holiday and had yet to be informed of the appointment. Don’t expect him to hang around too long.

Cressie's playboy brother

Is Jacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, the half-brother of Prince Harry’s ex Cressida Bonas, taking inspiration from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner?

The 32-year-old, who splits his time between a City job and DJing under the name Housekeeping, was spotted in Ibiza clutching a 4.5-litre bottle of vodka and flanked by four women in French maid-style bikinis.

Jacobi is used to being surrounded by women, though usually that includes his girlfriend Irene Forte and friend Chelsy Davy, another of Harry’s exes. Neither of them were anywhere to be seen on this occasion. No doubt Jacobi was missing them sorely.

Jacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, the half-brother of Prince Harry’s ex Cressida Bonas, was spotted in Ibiza this week clutching a 4.5-litre bottle of vodka and flanked by four women dressed in French maid-style bikinis

Party Times, the online magazine run by the Duchess of Cambridge’s younger sister Pippa, gave its readers palpitations after publishing an article headlined ‘Katie and Baby Summer Party Video’ accompanied by a drawing of a brunette woman with a baby girl.

Alas, despite the tantalising title, it’s not a clip from Kate Middleton’s home video collection but a plug for her parents’ firm Party Pieces, recorded by a ‘mummy blogger’ called Katie. What a coincidence.