Willem Marx, an aspiring reporter for ITN, was unlucky not given the assignment to cover Meghan Markle’s anti-royal Spotify podcast due to personnel shortages during the Christmas season.
It may have been uncomfortable. Prior to William, Kate Middleton dated Willem when they were both students at Marlborough College.
He accepted Kate’s invitation to her 2011 wedding while still on good terms. He is now happily married to TV personality Johanna Botta.
Willem was sent to Wembley to cover football player Jill Scott’s retirement while ITN royal correspondent Chris Ship described Meghan’s sorrow at being compelled to attend an official engagement after a fire in Archie’s bedroom.
Fortunately, aspiring journalist Willem Marx (pictured) wasn’t tasked with covering Meghan Markle’s anti-royal Spotify podcast.
Relationships between Prince Charles and Xi Jinping, the president of China, have been in a deep freeze. His Sustainable Markets Initiative has a presence in Jiangxi and aims to encourage company sustainability. Could the prince, who has abstained from Chinese presidents’ official trips, be about to call his Traveling Yeoman for a trip to Beijing?
Prince Charles has announced that, on November 7 and 8, business executives from across the world will assemble in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, via his Sustainable Markets Initiative and its Terra Carta Action Forum.
Smelling salts please. A twenty-something neatly dressed man made the following menacing pitch to Jacob Rees-sister Mogg’s Annunziata in Mayfair: “I simply had to come over and tell you I think you really beautiful.”
Annunziata, 43, who turned down the approaches for love, says it wasn’t a pleasant experience. It made me more alert. Why would someone harm a complete stranger, much less one who is old enough to be their mother?
She has gone through worse. David Cameron claimed her name was too fancy when she ran for a Tory seat. Nancy Mogg was his other name, which she refused.
Simon Case, Cabinet Secretary, may get a gong from outgoing Boris. He received a CVO in 2017 for his 16 months of service as Theresa May and David Cameron’s personal secretary, but nothing else afterward. Case has not yet received anything, not even automatic membership in the Privy Council, which is typically awarded to the top mandarin upon appointment. Simon is going to the employment center no matter who wins the keys to Downing Street, right?
David Cameron awarded an MBE to his barber Lino Carbosiero, an OBE to Sam Cam’s stylist Isabel Spearman, and an MBE to Thea Rogers, the advisor who gave George Osborne the controversial “austerity haircut.”
Will Boris go to his hairdresser, if only as an act of consolation for continuously ruining the stylist’s work with a ruffle?
Maureen Lipman, who lost her hubby playwright Jack Rosenthal in 2004, is hoping to get back on the romance carousel after losing her partner Guido Castro last year. She says: “I’m not necessarily looking for love, although there’s much to be said for getting up to use the restroom in the middle of the night and returning to that leg in the bed.” Has Scotland Yard received a message?