King Charles is known for repairing rather than spending, especially on his favorite old coats. Now he is looking for an upholsterer to maintain the rooms of his palaces.
The Royal Household ad admits the post – based in Windsor – will ‘stretch’ the successful candidate. Commanding a less than royal annual salary of £25,000 a year, the job description says the new upholsterer will “help preserve a collection which will be enjoyed by future generations”.
Royal: King Charles is known for fixing rather than spending, especially on his favorite old coats
Having received the title of Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honors list for his services to music and charity, Sir Brian May, as he is now known, suggests that it is high time people started to take action Consequently.
“People aren’t bowing enough, and I don’t have my round table yet, but we’re working on it,” jokes the Queen guitarist, 75, who is married to former EastEnders actress Anita Dobson, 73. . .
Emma from Sex Education won’t get carried away…
Rising actress Emma Mackey has some advice for aspiring actors who risk overstretching themselves to make a name for themselves in the acting industry.
‘You have to protect yourself because you’re going to be very tempted to give in to those sides of yourself because you want to prove yourself and be like, ‘I can do this and watch whatever I can do, I’m going to do n’ whatever,” the Sex Education star tells me at a screening in central London.
The 27-year-old Franco-British actress, who played Emily Bronte in Emily, adds: “But actually save some of that for yourself and save it for the special people.”
Mackey is one of five actors to be nominated for an EE Rising Star Award at this year’s Baftas, the only award to be voted on by the public.
Actor: Rising star Emma Mackey has advice for aspiring actors who risk overstretching themselves to make a name for themselves in the acting industry
After informing his children that they would not get any part of his estimated £320million fortune when he died, Sting put salt in the wound by telling two of them who got into the music industry that it’s not just about making money.
Outlining his life advice to Joe, whose band Fiction Plane supported The Police on their 2007-2009 reunion tour, and Eliot, who has released three albums, the 71-year-old said: “I told them that music is always its own reward, and it’s not about having success or selling concert tickets or having platinum records.
“They said, ‘Well, you’re fine, dad.
Last year, Sting further bloated his coffers by whipping his back catalog in a deal worth £183m.
Hush! Loyal pals plan a big party for Dame Viv
Despite her fame and thirst for publicity, punk queen Dame Vivienne Westwood, who died in December, had a very low-key funeral at a small church in the Peak District, with just a scattering of close friends and family.
But I can reveal that a grand farewell to high society is being organised, which will see supermodel Kate Moss and most of Dame Vivienne’s famous friends mourn the designer at a memorial service to be held. will be held in London.
That’s according to one of Dame Vivienne’s best friends, famed photographer Ki Price, whose famous subjects have included Johnny Depp.
“Was there even a funeral? he asks me at the launch of artist Ray Rossi’s exhibition at the Red Eight Gallery, Royal Exchange.
“I’ve always been loyal to Vivienne so I don’t really want to talk about it. But something is happening now. I expect everyone to be there.
Eddie Redmayne won an Olivier for his menacing turn as emcee during last year’s Cabaret revival at the Kit Kat club in London’s West End.
And the 41-year-old Oscar-winning actor got ready to perform the song Two Ladies, by, uh, stripping down.
Talent: Eddie Redmayne won an Olivier for his menacing turn as emcee during last year’s Cabaret revival at the Kit Kat club in London’s West End
“When we were in rehearsal, we tried to come up with ideas and it was good but a little polite. There was a moment when we were encouraged to try something different and. . . basically I undressed almost naked to humiliate myself as much as possible.
“When you see that moment in the show, that song is like an orgy, with positions you can never imagine people getting into and copies of Mein Kampf being used for horribly inappropriate things.” Achtung!
The smart set talks about… Daredevil Delphi 80mph Cresta Race
She turned heads before Christmas by dyeing her locks red, but now Delphi Primrose – the third of Lord Dalmeny’s five broods with ex-wife Caroline – is a high-speed blur.
Tatler’s cover girl, who features on the Storm Models books, has just hurtled headfirst down the Cresta Run, St. Moritz’s fearsome icy toboggan run, banned for women in 1929 – a ban finally lifted in 2018 .
“There was concern that they would damage their breasts on the slides, causing breast cancer,” says a member of Cresta, reminding me that expert riders hurtle down at over 80 mph.
Fortunately, 19-year-old Delphi, seen celebrating her achievement (right), did it in one piece.
Achievement: She turned heads before Christmas by dyeing her locks red, but now Delphi Primrose – the third of Lord Dalmeny’s five broods with ex-wife Caroline – is a high-speed blur
Late broadcast hero and Voice Of Rugby Bill McLaren, who would have been in his 100th year, will be greatly missed today as the Six Nations kick off.
However, I can reveal that his family keeps his sporting influence alive. This week, a life-size metal bull is sold by the foundation created in its name, and “Bull McLaren” hopes to collect several thousand of them to invest in the training of new talents in its sport. Bull is up for grabs at a fundraiser in Edinburgh. His daughter Linda Lawson tells me, “We’re going to be throwing a school tournament in dad’s hometown of Hawick on his behalf.”
