EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The naming of two royals allegedly accused of racism could make King Charles’s task of holding on to overseas thrones more difficult

The random naming of two royals allegedly accused of racism could make King Charles’s task of holding on to overseas thrones more difficult. 

With Barbados no longer a kingdom, other Commonwealth countries Jamaica, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda face growing republican sentiment. 

Plans are already under way for a referendum in Saint Kitts and Nevis. The monarch will not welcome this added headache from a Sussex cheerleader.

The random naming of two royals allegedly accused of racism could make King Charles’s task of holding on to overseas thrones more difficult

William and Kate not only drew the short straw for last night’s Royal Variety Performance but inflicted the show on Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and husband Prince Daniel. 

The event has become an annual chore adroitly dodged by the King after his mother sat through 38 of them, taking herself off the rota as a Diamond Jubilee present to herself in 2012. 

Charles and Camilla hoped they had done their last stint in 2016, leaving William and Kate to turn up in alternate years with Harry and Meghan. 

In the end, the Sussexes made just one appearance in 2018. Haven’t the Waleses suffered enough?

William and Kate not only drew the short straw for last night’s Royal Variety Performance but inflicted the show on Sweden ‘s Crown Princess Victoria and husband Prince Daniel

The shelving of a plan in the Scottish parliament to pardon the hundreds of witches condemned centuries ago would have disappointed the late Queen Mother. 

She befriended Doreen Valiente, the ‘mother of modern witchcraft’, summoning her to Balmoral in the 80s to warn her of plans to outlaw witchcraft. 

It had been banned in the 16th Century by Henry VIII and was punishable by death. To the relief of HM, no ban was introduced. Did Doreen work her magic?

Rishi Sunak’s adviser Frederika Mitchell reveals the PM’s dog Nova has worked out how to use the lift in No 10. 

He has mastered the art of getting up on his hind legs to push the ‘call’ button with a paw. With such talent, shouldn’t the labrador join the rest of Rishi’s boobies in Cabinet?

For Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire, the BBC butchering of her programme is a case of deja vu following the 2020 axing of her own show, when she described herself as ‘absolutely devastated’. 

Former anchor Emily Maitlis, pictured, refers to the Eagles’ hit, announcing: ‘Newsnight is our Hotel California. All of us who checked out never really left.’ 

Canny Emily jumped ship from sinking Newsnight in February 2022, landing a lucrative podcast contract over at Global.

For Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire, the BBC butchering of her programme is a case of deja vu following the 2020 axing of her own show, when she described herself as ‘absolutely devastated’

Unimpressed by cocky new University Challenge host Amol Rajan, Cambridge-educated broadcaster Joan Bakewell snaps: ‘Has University Challenge speeded up? Or am I slowing down?’

One-time ‘thinking man’s crumpet’ Joan firmly advises Amol and co: ‘Calm down folks… it’s not fun any more!’

Adios Shane MacGowan, gone to join old friend Sinead O’Connor in the celestial Top of the Pops. 

Sinead once rescued a drunken Shane, abandoned with a broken leg in a supermarket trolley at Dublin Airport. 

On second thought, the Pogues warbler’s arrival at the Pearly Gates might prompt Sinead to hide behind a cloud.

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