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<\/p>\nWas King Charles irked by the inclusion, in the first segment of the BBC Jimmy Savile\u00a0biopic The Reckoning, of footage of him lauding the paedophile’s fundraising abilities?\u00a0<\/p>\n
As producers used publicly available news footage rather than items where the Palace retains copyright, there was no need for the\u00a0BBC\u00a0to seek royal permission.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the King would have been relieved there was no mention of Savile’s boast of ingratiating himself into Charles’s circle via Lord Mountbatten.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bragged Savile: ‘It was the respect that Lord Louis had for me… that’s how I got to know all these people.’<\/p>\n
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Was King Charles irked by the inclusion, in the first segment of the BBC Jimmy Savile biopic The Reckoning, of footage of him lauding the paedophile’s fundraising abilities? Pictured: Charles, then-Prince of Wales, and\u00a0Sir Jimmy Savile in 1999<\/p>\n
Queen Camilla, celebrating the 20,000th episode of The Archers last month, wished for ‘the end of Rob Titchener once and for all!’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ambridge’s bad boy, whose coercive control led to him being stabbed by wife Helen, isn’t going quietly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Now terminally ill, he is demanding that the local vicar baptise him. As baptism, except in extremis, has to be a public event, the vicar doesn’t want to. Maybe Camilla could help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Despite Church law, royal children are routinely baptised in private, and Meghan was baptised and confirmed privately. Could Camilla lend Ambridge a King’s Chaplain?<\/span><\/p>\n Queen Camilla, (pictured in Paris last month) celebrating the 20,000th episode of The Archers last month, wished for ‘the end of Rob Titchener once and for all!’<\/p>\n Santa Palmer-Tomkinson shares her embarrassment at a book launch when she was chatting and eating nibbles with a woman in a low-cut dress with a jumbo cleavage.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘She was charming,’ recalls Santa, now wed to historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I leaned over because I saw that there was a nut down her cleavage, and I said ‘by the way, you’ve got a pistachio stuck down your cleavage’.\u00a0<\/p>\n She says: ‘Oh no, it’s a mole.’ How do you get out of that?’<\/p>\n Writer Anthony Holden, who has died aged 76, once threatened to resign from the judging panel of the Whitbread Prize after describing a shortlisted book as ‘a tedious, clunkily written version of Billy Bunter on broomsticks’.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was\u00a0<\/span>JK Rowling<\/span>‘s <\/span>Harry Potter<\/span>\u00a0and the Prisoner of Azkaban.<\/span><\/p>\n Writer Anthony Holden, who has died aged 76, once threatened to resign from the judging panel of the Whitbread Prize after describing a shortlisted book as ‘a tedious, clunkily written version of Billy Bunter on broomsticks’<\/p>\n Tony, who also wrote a biography of Prince Charles\u00a0and became a friend of Diana, described her grandmother Ruth, Lady Fermoy as ‘the ghastliest woman I’ve come across in my researches’.\u00a0<\/p>\n And when the trial of butler\u00a0Paul Burrell for theft collapsed in 2002 after it came to light that the Queen was aware that Burrell was in possession of some of Diana’s personal effects, Holden called for the monarch to face legal action for wasting police time.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/23\/76399871-12616597-Queen_Camilla_pictured_in_Paris_last_month_celebrating_the_20_00-a-2_1696976158462.jpg\")
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