The King seems to have inspired some of the Royal Family’s younger members to follow his love of nature. Lady Amelia Windsor, left, the granddaughter of the Duke of Kent and second cousin to the King, is now working on a wildflower plot that will be exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show this year.
Amelia, 28 – once dubbed the most beautiful member of the Royal Family – is also carving out a career as a freelance gardening writer to go with her modelling work.
The stylish aristocrat pictured among daffodils in a post on her social media account, says of her Chelsea role: ‘So excited and honoured to be a very small part of the team for Kent Wildflower Seeds’s first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.’
Quite the blossoming career!
Amelia, 28 – once dubbed the most beautiful member of the Royal Family – is also carving out a career as a freelance gardening writer
The stylish aristocrat pictured among daffodils in a post on her social media account
Sophie won’t let the music stop
Pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor is spearheading efforts to save a historic live music venue
Pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Florence Pugh’s singer brother Toby Sebastian are spearheading efforts to save a historic live music venue.
Bush Hall in West London has seen acts such as Amy Winehouse, REM, Nick Cave, Alicia Keys and Paul Weller grace its stage, but now it needs to raise £42,000 to keep going as the cost of living crisis continues to bite.
Toby tells me: ‘It’s honestly mad how many places are closing down or having their hours restricted. I don’t know if the aim is to have us all in bed by 9pm but unfortunately no one wants to go to a gig at 4pm.’
Author Anthony Horowitz says he may spoil his ballot at the next election – even though his son Cassian is part of Team Rishi.
Anthony was previously open about his Conservative politics but says he won’t back the party this time.
Ills continue for Camilla’s Farmacy
Accounts filed for Camilla’s Notting Hill vegan restaurant Farmacy show another £800,000 loss, on top of the accumulated £5million deficit already reported last year.
More bad news for Camilla Fayed I’m afraid. The daughter of the late Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed is at war with her siblings over their father’s billions and facing charges of ordering her bodyguards to steal her brother’s £1,900 iPhone.
Now I can reveal recent accounts filed for Camilla’s Notting Hill vegan restaurant Farmacy show another £800,000 loss, on top of the accumulated £5million deficit already reported last year.
Chloe Madeley is not going to let her ex, James Haskell, foil her career
After their break-up, Chloe Madeley is not going to let her ex, James Haskell, foil her career and will keep their reality show, A Family Affair, going without him.
Her dad, Richard Madeley, tells me she will ‘carry on in her own right’, with James making occasional appearances.
Grace: the love poet laureate
The model, daughter of supermodel Christy Turlington and producer Edward Burns, published her book of poems
Not many of us are experts on love at the tender age of 20, but Grace Burns apparently knows enough to write an entire poetry collection.
The model, daughter of supermodel Christy Turlington and producer Edward Burns, published her book of poems Derived From Us at the end of last month and insists in the introduction: ‘While I’m not quite sure what I have, I feel I have something to say.’
The young poet looks to have won the approval of her celebrity friends, including Lila Moss, who wrote: ‘Love your little mind, so proud’ on a social media post.
Footballer, Match Of The Day host, crisp enthusiast… now Gary Lineker can add property mogul to his CV.
Four years after he launched GCGL Properties Ltd, with builder George Constand, the pair’s accounts show they’ve paid £675,000 cash for a pad.
Sadly, I still think Gary’s team need to work on their charm. When I contacted his agent and said I hoped he was well, the agent replied: ‘Let’s face it, you couldn’t give a monkey’s whether I am well or at death’s door!’
Florence, 35, married the incoming Lord Mayor of London, Alastair King, 55
And the bride wore… a dress bought in a panic at 2am! Florence Walker tells me her £180 Ghost outfit was hastily purchased from the John Lewis website when all other options were exhausted.
Florence, 35, married the incoming Lord Mayor of London, Alastair King, 55, at a ceremony held at St Lawrence Jewry, London, last month. It was a glamorous affair, with guests including Florence’s brothers-in-law, restaurant critic Giles Coren and Pointless host Alexander Armstrong.
Florence, whose ‘side hustle’ is embellishing soft furnishings, tells me she plans to dye the dress a different colour so that she can use it again.
Back in the game
Iwan Rheon is back on the dating scene after splitting with his girlfriend
Game Of Thrones star Iwan Rheon is back on the dating scene after splitting with his girlfriend and the mother of his child, Zoe Grisedale-Sherry.
Last year, the Welsh actor, left, admitted he had had therapy to help deal with his feelings, which he said he had a tendency to ‘bottle up’ after a big break-up. But it doesn’t look like he’s as sore about this split any longer, as my spies have spotted his profile on the posh dating app Raya, and his profile song is Weird Fishes by Radiohead.
The 38-year-old, who is also known for his role in the TV series Misfits and the BBC drama Wolf, is thought to have met his former girlfriend while holidaying in France in 2017.
Despite Prince Andrew apparently being delighted at Rufus Sewell’s representation of him in the new Netflix film Scoop, there is one person who’s less than happy – the actor himself.
Rufus, 56, admits he was hurt after watching the first edit because they had taken out ‘so much of the stuttering’.
In the infamous BBC Newsnight interview between Andrew and journalist Emily Maitlis, the Duke of York sometimes struggled to answer difficult questions, which Rufus claims was key to the interview. ‘I was like, ‘You can’t take the ‘um’ away!’ he says.
