Oldman quizzed Miller over marriage to Monroe: EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
Alarming for Queen Camilla is Macron's gift to the King of a French Cavalry trumpet. The president was probably unaware that Charles learnt to play the trumpet as a teenager at Gordonstoun, occasionally joining the school's orchestra. Camilla must hope that after a 60-year gap, HM doesn't take it up again. She could, if necessary, adopt a precaution taken by the family when he had a brief flirtation with the bagpipes – they banished him to the bottom of the garden.
Once finding himself at a New York dinner party with playwright Arthur Miller, actor Sir Gary Oldman recalls: 'I had enough vodka in me by then and said, 'I just have to ask you a question: Did you ever walk down the street, suddenly stop and pinch yourself and go: F***, I was married to Marilyn Monroe?'' Oldman adds: 'And he looked at me and went, 'Yeah!''
BBC Radio 4 Today show's Anna Foster had co-host Nick Robinson cringing when she told listeners that his wife Pippa had featured in the Mail's Wimbledon royal box coverage, looking 'absolutely radiant' sitting next to Hugh Grant. 'You've been cropped out, Nick,' she said. Doesn't turbo-tongued Robinson possess a face more suited to radio?
Shamelessly attempting to bribe police officers when he was caught riding his motorbike while over the alcohol limit in Soho, Sir Stephen Fry confesses: 'I emptied my pockets and out came three audience tickets for Blackadder Goes Forth, which we were recording at the time. I offered the tickets to the three police officers who were booking me in. They said they'd be delighted to come along.' Fry clarifies: 'It didn't work as a bribe though. Still had a court appearance and lost my licence for a year. Heigh-ho. They enjoyed the show at least.'
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, with more time on his hands since losing his seat in Parliament, has been reading PG Wodehouse. 'I am taking a leaf out of his book by keeping quails in Somerset,' he tells The Spectator. 'I bought a few to get started but now want to breed some more. I must see if I can get a pig next.' Be warned Moggy. Plum, who wrote Pigs Have Wings, declared: 'God put pigs on this good green earth to be kidnapped.'
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