Duke and Duchess of Cambridge should appear at Wimbledon next week after being absent from Royal Ascot
Liberal peer Lord Avebury, 86, tells House magazine he expects to die within a year of myelofibrosis, a blood cancer, and is looking forward to serving on the Dignity in Dying’s parliamentary advisory group which meets for the first time on Thursday, saying: ‘It will be good to be one of the first to have the right to an assisted death.’
Known as Orpington Man after his sensational 1962 by-election victory, Eric Lubbock (as he then was) once spoke of leaving his body to the residents of Battersea Dogs Home.
A new book on the relationship of the Queen and Mrs Thatcher claims HMQ regularly mimicked the Prime Minister. The monarch has impersonated all of her Prime Ministers.
My source says: ‘Only two impressions needed props – a handbag for Mrs Thatcher and a cocktail stirrer doubling as a pipe for Harold Wilson. She struggled for a long time to get the current Prime Minister right but now is pretty good. Lots of long “Errrrrrs,” bowing continually and rubbing of hands in the manner of (creepy Dickens character) Uriah Heep.’
A new book on the relationship of the Queen and Mrs Thatcher claims Her Majesty regularly mimicked the Prime Minister
Recalling the 1982 Falklands War, a retired Parachute Regiment sergeant tells me a curious story about one of his corporals who was killed in action.
‘When his body was brought off the battlefield his webbing was checked for live ammo. Inside an ammo pack was found 14 enemy ears.’
Were they repatriated, I wonder?
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