EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why Princess Anne should get counsellor role
Princess Anne’s heartfelt dignity in the public mourning of her mother prompts the question: Why hasn’t she been appointed a new Counsellor of State and allowed to stand in for her brother, the King?
With Charles’s elevation to the throne, Princess Beatrice takes his place as counsellor, joining William, Harry and her father Andrew.
Anne was a counsellor from 1971 until she was replaced by William in 2003 when he turned 21.
With non-working royals Andrew and Harry surely unsuitable to continue as counsellors, shouldn’t King Charles send them packing, amend the Regency Act 1937 and restore his sister as a matter of urgency?
Princess Anne’s heartfelt dignity in the public mourning of her mother prompts the question: Why hasn’t she been appointed a new Counsellor of State and allowed to stand in for her brother, the King?
The King’s brotherly concession to allow Andrew to wear his uniform at one of the ceremonial farewells comes after the disgraced prince pointed out he was the only one of the Queen’s four children to have seen active service (the senior medal on his chest is the South Atlantic medal awarded after the Falklands conflict). Charles served but not in a theatre of war, Anne never served and Edward managed four months of training with the Royal Marines.
Anne’s husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence was expected to be promoted by the Queen to Admiral in 2020 to mark his 65th birthday at the same time as Andrew received the honour for his 60th. When Andrew’s promotion was halted, so was Tim’s. The King is expected to make amends to his brother-in-law.
Following a clash on the airwaves with Lady Victoria Hervey, pictured, Boris’s former paramour Petronella Wyatt snaps: ‘Was on Piers Morgan [Uncensored] with the most extraordinary woman called Lady Victoria Hervey. Most snobbish person I have ever met.’
She adds of model Hervey, daughter of the late 6th Marquess of Bristol: ‘Insisted on being called ‘Lady Victoria’ and described her profession as ‘aristocrat’. Enough to make one a Communist.’
Following a clash on the airwaves with Lady Victoria Hervey, pictured, Boris’s former paramour Petronella Wyatt snaps: ‘Was on Piers Morgan [Uncensored] with the most extraordinary woman called Lady Victoria Hervey. Most snobbish person I have ever met’
Sir Kenneth Branagh complains that portraying Boris in the Sky Atlantic drama, This England, involved three hours of daily make-up.
‘I had to wear various prosthetics, a hairpiece and we had to pull down the eyelids,’ he wails. ‘It was brilliant but meant I was a soup-consuming person all day. I wasn’t allowed to chew.’ Eton Mess through a straw anyone?
Sir Kenneth Branagh complains that portraying Boris in the Sky Atlantic drama, This England, involved three hours of daily make-up
Is pen company founder George S Parker spinning in his grave after the new King’s ink malfunction at Hillsborough Castle?
The company has two Royal Warrants from the late Queen and her successor, manufacturing pens and pencils for mum and grander sounding writing instruments for Charles. At least he didn’t bark: ‘I can’t bear this bloody writing instrument.’
HM’s royal tantrum amuses former jewellery boss Gerald Ratner – who disastrously joked about selling ‘total crap’ more than 30 years ago. He tweets: ‘I think it was me who sold Charles that pen.’
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