Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait

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Gyles Brandreth is one of Britain’s busiest after-dinner speakers and award ceremony hosts. He has won awards himself, and been nominated for awards, as a public speaker, novelist, children’s writer, broadcaster (Sony and Royal Television Society), podcaster (Best Entertainment Podcast), political diarist (Channel Four), journalist (British Press Awards), theatre producer (Olivier), and businessman (British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy). He has featured on This Is Your Lifeand Desert Island Discsand is a former chairman and now vice-president of the National Playing Fields Association. In 2017 he succeeded the late Duke of Westminster as Chancellor of the University of Chester.

Cynthia Nixon's hunger strike to try and end Israel-Palestine conflict will only last two or three DAYS, source claims Katherine Ryan says she turned down I'm A Celebrity because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people like Nigel Farage' for entertainment From her childhood in the 1920s to the era of Harry and Meghan in the 2020s, from her war years at Windsor Castle to her death at Balmoral, this is both a record of a tumultuous century of royal history and a truly intimate portrait of a remarkable woman. This being an “intimate portrait”, most readers will enjoy that the author has impeccable access, as he recounts (mostly trivial) conversations he had with the Queen. He is admiring of his subject, even when remembering a discussion with the monarch at a drinks party in 1990, in which his small talk led her to comment that being a vegetarian, like his wife, “must be very dull”. Alan Carr, 47, cosies up to his hairdresser boyfriend Callum Heslop, 27, as they head out to grab a coffee in Santa Monica

Linda Nolan 'cries her eyes out' as she shares a heartbreaking cancer update and admits her fears that this Christmas could be her last Emma Stone stars with DOLL in surreal Athens photo-shoot by The Favourite director... and quips that she wishes all her films were SILENT

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon begins HUNGER STRIKE in bid to trigger Israel-Hamas ceasefire: Is mom to two Jewish kids with her ex-husband He continued: "By late afternoon, however, rumour is rife. I have a call from my son-in-law (a former Coldstream Guards officer) to say that he is at the Cavalry & Guards Club in Piccadilly, where groups are gathering to discuss the detail of Operation London Bridge—the codename for the action-plan that comes into being the moment the sovereign dies. Friends and family put their initials on the envelope, but almost all the correspondence The Queen receives comes from strangers.’Bradley Cooper says he almost quit making Maestro prior to eerie encounter with Leonard Bernstein's purported granddaughter on plane Molly Mae Hague is seen without her engagement ring AGAIN after fiancé Tommy Fury 'snubbed' her after partying with women in Abu Dhabi

Matthew Perry's family asks his fans to donate to late star's foundation on Giving Tuesday to help others suffering from addictionAs you may recall, the scandalous and scurrilous elements of Spare included: Harry taking cocaine at 17; Harry trying ‘magic mushrooms’ and hallucinating in a lavatory; Harry losing his virginity in a field behind a pub to ‘an older lady’ who used him ‘not unlike a young stallion’; Harry killing 25 members of the Taliban, whom he viewed as ‘chess pieces’ taken off the board; Harry describing his frostbitten ‘todger’ and being advised to apply Elizabeth Arden cream to it, the smell of which reminded him of his mother. Bed-ridden British mother, 39, battling long Covid 'death sentence' wants to end her life in Switzerland after almost two years of suffering that has left her in constant agony and unable to care for her four children Teyana Taylor EXASPERATED with Iman Shumpert for 'leaking their divorce to the public'... after accusing him of jealousy and narcissism Included in the post was a photo of a programme for the “service of prayer and dedication following the marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall”, which took place on Sunday 9 April 2005.