EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Who was keener on marriage - King or Camilla? trends now
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Was Camilla happy to remain as Charles's mistress rather than marry him? So suggests her friend Petronella Wyatt.
'I sometimes breakfasted with Mark Bolland [then Charles's deputy private secretary],' she writes in The Spectator.
'I received the impression that it was Charles who desired to marry Camilla whereas she was content with a less formal arrangement. I never heard it said that Camilla had any desire to become Queen Consort.'
Deep waters.
Will King Constantine's friend Selina Scott be among the attendees at his funeral near his former summer palace Tatoi? The exiled monarch once turned up at the BBC to be interviewed by her and his driver told the security man he had the King of Greece in the back of the car. The guard examined his clipboard, stuck his head through the window and asked: 'Where d'ya say you're the king of, mate?'
Lovelorn Gyles Brandreth recalls falling head over heels for actress Sinead Cusack when he met her on a TV chat show in 1970. 'Our hands kept touching,' he howls. 'I was bowled over by her. And she liked me. I know she did,' adding:
