EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Duchy of Cornwall estate paid Prince Charles’ sister-in-law £63k

Worthwhile instances for Annabel Elliot, inside designer sister of the Duchess of Cornwall. 

A shopper she will all the time depend on is her brother-in-law, Prince Charles. 

Prince Charles is married to Annabel Elliot’s sister Camilla

His Duchy of Cornwall property paid her £32,920 in ‘charges and fee’ plus £30,373 for ‘furnishings, furnishings and retail inventory’ final 12 months, in response to its official report.

The heatwave is observed by HM. Throughout a go to to a hospice she distributed with three of her daytime necessities – hat, coat and gloves. Nearly unprecedented.

Together with her much-plugged TV present, Problem Anneka, because of return, Miss Rice, 63, recollects how she purchased big volumes of condoms when she labored on a earlier programme, Treasure Hunt. 

The presenter, pictured, explains: ‘We would have liked quite a lot of them as a result of, at any second, I might leap off a cliff into the ocean so I needed to wrap the mic in layers and layers of condoms.’ 

I’m wondering if the story could be judged true or false if she advised it on TV’s usually amusing Would I Lie To You?

Dame Maureen Lipman is irked by snobbish feedback about her present function in Coronation Avenue, telling Reader’s Digest: ‘When taxi drivers ask me what I am doing and I inform them I am in Coronation Avenue, they have a tendency to go: ‘Ah, one thing will come up. I by no means watch it,’ and I mutter, ‘Effectively, I by no means drive a cab’.’ Mustn’t be so sensitive, Maureen.

Cooking skilled Delia Smith recollects being commissioned by a photographer to make a ‘gaudy cake’. She used mauve icing and pink cherries, the outcome being ‘as gaudy as I might’. When she delivered it to the studio, she found it might be photographed for the duvet of the Rolling Stones 1969 basic LP, Let It Bleed.

Requested if he regrets not swapping his sturdy northern accent for Acquired Pronunciation or a regionally impartial accent like fellow octogenarian northerner Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Tom Courtenay responds: ‘Ian McKellen? I do not assume I wish to give him any publicity, thanks very a lot!’ No love misplaced between the luvvies?

Broadcaster Andrew Neil says his attorneys have now tracked down Boris Johnson’s pole-dancing ex-squeeze, Jennifer Arcuri, who falsely related the previous Sunday Instances editor with the late paedophile billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein. ‘My authorized brokers managed to serve official paperwork on Jennifer Arcuri,’ he says. ‘She was holed up in her place in Panama Metropolis, Florida however they staked it out. She has two months to serve defence.’ Hey ho!

Diary-writing Tory spouse Sasha Swire feedback on the management battle: ‘I’ve been by way of 5 of those Starvation Video games-style contests now they usually all comply with the same sample, with everybody firing off accusations and unsubstantiated innuendos concerning the different… ‘Tax dodger!’ ‘Treacherous snake!’ ‘Boris in a costume!’ ‘Cosmic c***!’ ‘Spad s***ger!’ If solely it had been that fascinating.