The king is waiting for a response to his invitation to President Biden last April for a state visit to London in 2024.
With time running out before the November presidential election, my source whispers that I hope the visit could be part of Biden’s trip to Europe in June to attend the G7 summit in Italy.
But there’s a catch. The Palace wants the visit to take place before the G7 and not after. Why?
Because it clashes with Royal Ascot, where the King appears determined to equal his late mother’s high attendance record.
Don’t tell Sleepy Joe!
King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend the first day of Royal Ascot on June 20
President Biden could visit London this year for a state visit
Could Rishi Sunak’s weekly 36-hour fast interest the King?
His Majesty rarely eats lunch, preferring a daily mini-fast from after breakfast until his boiled egg and soldiers at four o’clock.
And a source says that with Lent just a fortnight away, he will be preparing to be even more frugal.
Apparently he forgoes the noon egg for forty days, which would be a great test of his willpower.
Sunak fasts for 36 hours every week and only drinks water, tea or black coffee from 5pm on Sunday to 5am on Tuesday
His Majesty rarely eats lunch, preferring a daily mini-fast from after breakfast until his boiled egg and soldiers at four o’clock
Did Lord Sugar’s friend Claude Littner get the elbow on The Apprentice?
Claude, a regular on the BBC show, which resumes tonight, only appeared in one episode last year due to illness.
Now the healthy and hearty Claude tweets: ‘Unfortunately I won’t be back. It’s not my decision.’
Claude Littner (right), 74, previously appeared on the show with Baroness Karren Brady (left), Lord Sugar (centre)
Sienna Miller, 42, admits she worries about the 14-year age gap between her and boyfriend Oli Green.
“I don’t think you can legislate on matters of the heart. “I certainly never managed to do that,” she tells Vogue.
Shouldn’t Sienna, pictured, be invoking Joan Collins’ mantra?
When Joan, 90, was asked about the 32-year gap between her and hubby Percy, 58, she replied: ‘If he dies, he dies.’
Oli Green, 27, and Sienna Miller, 42, recently welcomed the birth of a baby girl together
Percy Gibson and Joan Collins attend the 2024 Netflix Primetime Emmys afterparty on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles
Radio 3 Essential Classics presenter Georgia Mann had to wade barefoot from Eel Pie Island to her parked car after a flash flood from the Thames blocked the path.
Requests for a Handels Water Music turntable will be honored at short notice.
Looking back on the passage of time, Stephen Fry, 66, once described as an idiot’s idea of smart clogs, announces: ‘Personally, I’m not interested in a long life for myself… I’m not someone who wants to live longer than the rest of my friends.”
Did Fry tell this to husband Elliott Spencer – 30 years his junior?
Stephen Fry and Elliot Spencer at a Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2017
Priscilla director Sofia Coppola once showed her then-boyfriend Quentin Tarantino a picture book photo from her 2006 film Marie Antoinette, featuring donuts with a pink glaze.
Tarantino recalled that she liked “the pink shade and I want Marie Antoinette’s sofa to have that quality.”
“And when I saw the movie, I actually wanted to eat the damn furniture,” he said.
Director Quentin Tarantino poses with director Sofia Coppola in 2003
Biographer Roger Lewis has enjoyed his story about Welsh actor Richard Burton’s reaction when a fan asked if he was Celtic – and he pronounced it ‘Seltic’.
He replied: ‘It’s pronounced Celtic, you sunt.’
