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ANDREW PIERCE: Book that will reveal the truth about Camilla

Published: 19:45 EST, 27 September 2015 | Updated: 02:23 EST, 28 September 2015

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Earlier this month, David and Samantha Cameron had an audience at Clarence House with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall.

The Duchess and Samantha get on famously. Mr Cameron will, of course, have a key diplomatic role, if he happens still to be PM when Charles becomes King, over whether Camilla will be Queen.

The sensitive issue of the title is likely to be examined in the first authoritative biography of Camilla.

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Privately, Charles was known at the time to hope public opinion would eventually enable Camilla to be crowned Queen by his side

Commissioned by HarperCollins, it is being written by Penny Junor, the respected royal biographer, who has already penned acclaimed books on Prince William and Prince Harry.

She is currently working on a biography of the hard-working Princess Basma, sister of the late King Hussein of Jordan. The sympathetic but no-holds-barred biography of the former Mrs Parker Bowles will chart her childhood, marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles, and relationship with Charles, which resumed during his unhappy union to Diana.

On past form, Junor — who has also written two books on the Prince of Wales — is likely to be able to gain access to the couple's most trusted aides and friends, which will make the book, working title 'Camilla', effectively a semi-authorised biography. Downing Street, I understand, will also co-operate.

At the time of the royal marriage in 2005, Buckingham Palace said it was 'intended' that Camilla would be known as Princess Consort when Charles succeeds to the throne.

Privately, Charles was known at the time to hope public opinion would eventually enable Camilla to be crowned Queen by his side.

Most polls suggest opinion is moving that way.

Widders, the foxy lady

Repeatedly snubbed by David Cameron for a seat in the Lords, former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe is to star in a Christmas panto.

Saintly Widders will play the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. Widders will be starring opposite Basil Brush, which should go down well — oh, yes it will — since she is opposed to fox hunting.

Veteran Lib Dem Lord Tyler bemoans the absence of government plans to reform the House of Lords. 'We are faced with five years of a government whose only contribution to the second chamber of Parliament will be to swell its size still further,' he said.

'No wonder many more of the public now view abolishing the Lords altogether as preferable to carrying on as we are.'

He has a point, but last month 11 Lib Dems were ennobled taking their total to 114 Lords. They have just eight MPs.

Jezza's minister for benefits?

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Jezza. Trashy reality TV 'star' White Dee from Benefits Street, told Nick Ferrari on LBC radio: 'I'd been thinking of getting into politics because everyone says I'm so good with people. Seeing what Jeremy Corbyn has done has persuaded me. I want to work with him.'

The shadow work and pensions brief perhaps? She certainly knows a thing or two about welfare.

TV 'star' White Dee from Benefits Street, told Nick Ferrari on LBC radio: 'I'd been thinking of getting into politics because everyone says I'm so good with people. Seeing what Jeremy Corbyn has done has persuaded me

Delusion of the week: Angela Eagle, shadow business secretary, was asked if Comrade Corbyn could be a more successful Labour leader than Tony Blair, who won three elections. 'He may well,' she said.

Quote of the week: Former Labour minister Kim Howells isn't impressed by the Corbyn ascendancy. 'A bunch of old Trotskyites are not going to win political power,' he said gruffly.

Most Labour MPs are resigned to a 2020 election wipe-out under Corbyn. 'When he talks about broadening our geographical appeal,' sniffed one, 'he means holding Islington North (his constituency) and Islington South.'

Unemployed since losing his Lib Dem seat, Steve Webb is still doing his bit for the community. When the village of Coalpit Heath, in his old Gloucestershire constituency, needed someone to open the post office, he stepped in.

Corbynomics? The BNP got there first

The centrepiece of so-called 'Corbynomics' is a plan for the People's Quantitative Easing, or printing money on a grand scale.

It was devised by obscure economist Richard Murphy, who says QE could be 'used to fund essential infrastructure improvements that could increase employment and create business opportunities'.

There were similar sentiments in a 2010 election manifesto, which said: 'We would have employed at least a significant element of the new funding to create capital projects and investment in new infrastructure, which would have created real jobs.'

Whose manifesto was it? The British National Party.