Purchasing a copy of the late Queen’s Launer handbag – £2,640 for the Traviata style at the Royal Collection shop – will not help solve the mystery of what HM kept in her ubiquitous accessory.
But Admiral Lord West discloses what the Queen Mother kept in hers.
Sitting next to her at dinner, a lady-in-waiting passed him the royal’s purse after she had signalled her need of a handkerchief.
Lord West opened the bag. ‘It was completely empty,’ he tells Radio 4.
Former Cabinet Secretary Lord O’Donnell wades into the Downing Street wars to say that the top civil servant should be paid more than £200,000 a year.
His lordship is so hard-up these days that he was reduced to accepting two free tickets to the FA Cup final in May.
Is there anyone in the establishment who has NOT been given football freebies?
Have I Got News For You saw Ian Hislop boasting that, aged 64, he won’t be affected by the axing of pensioners’ winter fuel allowance.
‘I won’t get there for a very long time,’ he purred. Silence from co-star Paul Merton, 67.
Given that they both earn a reported £400,000, isn’t it a case of pass the onion rather than sympathise?
Susannah Constantine endorses author Anna Whitehouse’s criticism that clothes-shop lighting makes her ‘arse look like the Alps’.
‘The worst for me is Zara on the King’s Road. You go into that store and you take your clothes off and I almost burst into tears,’ Susannah wails.
‘I get undressed to try something on and I look at myself in the mirror. I go, “You will not do at all in any way, shape or form”. It’s so demoralising.’
Is playwright Sean O’Casey spinning in his grave at Mark Rylance’s performance as feckless drunk Captain Jack Boyle in Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre?
Critics have panned his portrayal of a ‘leering, gurning loafer who bears more than a passing resemblance to Charlie Chaplin’s tramp.’
Adds one: ‘He might as well be auditioning for Mrs Brown’s Boys.’ Sir Mark’s world, as O’Casey once noted, ‘is in a state of chassis’.
Highlighting a joke on his comedy special Armageddon about directing an illegal immigrant to preachy BBC star Gary Lineker’s house, Ricky Gervais now cockily announces: ‘Thanks to everyone who complained about this trailer and even signed a petition to get Armageddon removed from Netflix.
‘You helped it win a Golden Globe and become the most-watched special in the world.’
As if millionaire Gervais gave a fiddlers!
Former BBC man Jon Sopel and colleague Emily Maitlis synchronised their departure from the Corporation when setting up their podcast The News Agents.
‘We both rang our bosses at the same time to say we were handing in our resignation,’ he tells Radio Times.
How did people react? ‘I think there was a “Holy s**t!” moment that went through the newsroom.’ Wailing or cheering, Jon?
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