EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Bare-legged Kate stands out in India but what about 'boring' Wills?
Bare-legged Kate is turning heads in India while working her way through a wardrobe of dazzling outfits. Can the same be said for William, in his dark suits and chinos?
My court source says: ‘He’s nicknamed Compo [from Last Of The Summer Wine] by flunkeys. His appearance in a single-breasted dinner jacket without a cummerbund has our diplomats reaching for their pink gins.’
Hasn’t Kate ordered him a new wardrobe from fashion designer Mr Porter? ‘More Mr Pooter [from Diary Of A Nobody] than Mr Porter,’ snipes my source. Unfair, surely.
Bare-legged Kate is turning heads in India while working her way through a wardrobe of dazzling outfits. Can the same be said for William, in his dark suits and chinos?
Today the royal couple visit the Kaziranga National Park. India’s wildlife has always fascinated British royals. Charles will become the first monarch since Queen Victoria not to have witnessed a tiger hunt. The Queen watched Philip bag his first tiger in 1961. Since then, crocodiles, stags, boar, rabbit and an estimated 30,000 pheasants have been his targets.
Top Gear’s ex host, Jeremy Clarkson, on turning 56, exhibits a birthday card from colleagues on his new Amazon TV show.
It’s signed by a producer called Greg who writes: ‘I would usually write something insulting at this point, but you are in charge. So have an extremely agreeable day.’
Top Gear’s ex host, Jeremy Clarkson, on turning 56, exhibits a birthday card from colleagues on his new Amazon TV show
Given Clarkson’s form when it comes to disrespectful producers I’d say that Greg is cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
RE Panama, bank accounts and avoiding HM’s tax inspectors: is it merely a coincidence that our monarch’s first state visit, in 1953, was to Panama? She ‘took control’ of a US ship, Junior, carrying 80,000 bunches of bananas as it passed through the canal. ‘Her first step on foreign soil since she was crowned Queen!’ boomed a Pathe News commentator. No mention of her opening an account.
Broadcaster Jeremy Paxman’s attack on the French and their ‘useless’ language – in an article for the Financial Times – must have intrigued his younger brother, ex-diplomat Giles.
He’s a former minister and deputy head of mission at our embassy in Paris. From 1978 to 1979 he attended the Ecole nationale d’administration – a finishing school for French movers and shakers – in Paris. Surely Giles didn’t turn Paxo against the French!?
Ex Labour MP David Miliband is visiting us again from his £425,000 job with a New York charity, keeping his home profile high with a Radio 4 interview in which he champions the EU. Meanwhile Labour MPs plot against lacklustre leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Might these events be connected?
Historian Niall Ferguson ‘can’t imagine’ Senator Ted Cruz becoming US president, he says.
After meeting the Right-wing Texan, he concludes: ‘He is a quick-witted conversationalist, and yet something put me off.’
What might that have been? Ferguson, 51, is a clever fellow. But so is Cruz, 45. A graduate of both Harvard and Princeton, he’s described by his professor, renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz, as ‘off-the-charts brilliant’. More so than Niall? It hardly seems possible.
Historian Niall Ferguson ‘can’t imagine’ Senator Ted Cruz, pictured with his wife Heidi on April 5, becoming US president, he says
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