Rugby-mad Prince Harry is expected to awkwardly make his presence felt back at his beloved Twickenham. A regular in the Twickers stands down the decades, Harry gave up being England's rugby patron in 2021 after relocating to the US, with Princess Catherine replacing him in the post the following year.
Spectator sport in the stands
With his estranged sister-in-law regularly seen cheering on the team since, the sight of the pair diplomatically avoiding one another during match days threatens to prove a spectator sport all of its own.
In other royal news, the late Dolly Parton sadly never got her wish to have tea with Queen Camilla and Princess Catherine. She'd hoped to finally meet both royals last October, after scheduling issues previously prevented her planned get-together with Catherine in 2023. Alas, ill health forced Dolly to cancel her scheduled trip to the UK last autumn.
Celebrity confessions and kitchen hits
Reflecting on news rugby star Danny Cipriani's ex-wife Victoria Rose is flogging the possessions he left behind, Nigel Havers awkwardly confesses: “My first wife just dumped all of my stuff in bin bags outside my agent's office. I shall never forget it. I said: "Is that everything I've got?'" Havers cheated on first spouse Carolyn Cox with future second wife Polly Williams.
While old foe Miriam Margolyes recalls “venomous” John Cleese and pals “refusing to speak to her” during Cambridge University Footlights days over 60 years ago, Cleese now cuttingly responds: “Several of us, rather repressed and socially unskilled lower-middle class boys, had literally never met someone so brash and vulgar. I'm afraid we shrank away from her. No abuse or anything. We just kept out of her way.”
Unexpected hits at home
Struggling with the popularity of amiable hubby John Playfair on her home-based cookery show Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen, Dame Prue playfully complains: “That wasn't the plan! I suggested he got involved, as I thought he'd get fed up if his house was full of camera crews. I didn’t expect him to become such a hit.” She also huffs: “In the shops recently, the woman on the till told him, ‘I’m in love with you,’ and packed all the bags without giving me a glance!”
Divorced from Earl Spencer last year, third wife Karen took the couple’s orphaned lambs Minty and Lucky with her when relocating down the road in Northants. Previously raised inside Spencer's Althorp residence, the pampered duo have more than filled out since. “Sadly, I have had to lock them in a paddock because they are, according to the vet, obese,” Karen now reports. “I’m not sure why, all they eat is grass, but too much of it apparently. I am constantly being chastised by the vet, so they are regularly put on a diet, which they really don’t enjoy.” The pair's confinement isn't exactly going to plan, however. “They frequently break out of the paddock somehow and I find them like I did tonight, enjoying some freedom,” she adds.
