EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Happy news for King's Coronation planner as his son gets ... trends now
The Duke of Norfolk has a busy year ahead.
Not only is he tasked with organising King Charles’s Coronation, as Earl Marshal, but he now also has another big gig: the wedding of his youngest son.
I hear that Lord Philip Fitzalan Howard, 26, who founded the Fauna brewery, has become engaged to events manager Georgia Fowler, 27, co-founder of the British Racing Club.
‘I am absolutely delighted,’ the Duke, Edward Norfolk, tells me from his family seat, Arundel Castle in West Sussex.
Lord Philip says: ‘We got engaged at Arundel. We are planning a long engagement.’
No chance of it interfering with the King’s big day then . . .
Not only is he tasked with organising King Charles’s Coronation, as Earl Marshal, but he now also has another big gig: the wedding of his youngest son. Pictured: Edward Fitzalan-Howard with Francesca Herbert (left) and Lord Philip Fitzalan Howard and Georgia Fowler (right)
‘I am absolutely delighted,’ the Duke, Edward Norfolk, tells me from his family seat, Arundel Castle in West Sussex. Pictured: With Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the State Opening of Parliament in 2015
Sussexes are to blame for ‘civil war’, says ex-royal chaplain
Prince Harry and Meghan’s lawyer, Jenny Afia, talks about a ‘war’ being waged against her clients in the new trailer for the couple’s Netflix reality show.
However, one of Queen Elizabeth’s chaplains believes it’s the Duke and Duchess of Sussex who have launched hostilities.
Dr Gavin Ashenden, who was a chaplain to Her Late Majesty for nine years until 2017, says the Royal Family should be deeply concerned about the ‘docu-series’.
‘I’m afraid they have to be very worried,’ Dr Ashenden says. ‘Meghan and Harry have created a kind of existential civil war and there’s no doubt at all they’re capable of landing severe damage on the Royal Family, partly because they’re fitting in with a certain social mind set, and society is divided into two halves, a reactionary and a progressive half.
‘The progressive half will support them without thinking, and the reactionary half, the conservative half, if I can call it that, has no protection against them.
‘It would be much better if this civil war wasn’t happening, but it is, and it will cause damage all round.’
Dr Ashenden, 68, resigned as chaplain to the Queen after criticising a service at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, at which a Muslim student had been invited to read (in Arabic) a passage from the Koran that explicitly declared that Jesus is not the Son of God.
His advice to the royals on how to respond to the brickbats from Montecito? ‘They have to ignore it and pretend it’s not happening,’ he says on LBC. ‘Given the position they hold in society, they don’t have a mandate to attack.’
Catherine puts Lenique in the loop
The Princess of Wales has been quietly showing her support for a jewellery designer who started her business with a loan from the Prince’s Trust
