EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Andrew wants to improve the status of his daughters by asking the Queen to allow their future husbands to have earldoms  

Whereas the entire Queen's youngsters obtained to be HRH, solely these grandchildren born to the monarch's sons accomplish that. Thus, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie – daughters of Prince Andrew – are HRHs however Peter and Zara, youngsters of Princess Anne, are usually not. 

Now Andrew desires to enhance the standing of his daughters by persuading the Queen and her inheritor Prince Charles to permit their future husbands to have earldoms. 

'In any other case his daughters' youngsters shall be commoners, outlined as one of many unusual or frequent individuals, versus the aristocracy or to royalty,' my supply explains. 

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Andrew desires to enhance the standing of his daughters by persuading the Queen and her inheritor Prince Charles to permit their future husbands to have earldoms

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie – daughters of Prince Andrew – are HRHs however Peter and Zara, youngsters of Princess Anne, are usually not and Andrew desires it to remain that means

Jet-lagged Prince Harry's return from the Caribbean coincides with Royal Marine Alexander Blackman successful the precise to a recent enchantment. 

After Blackman was jailed for all times in 2013 for killing a mortally wounded Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, Harry went on a charity stroll with injured Marines and – ignoring royal protocol – known as the choice to prosecute the sergeant 'ludicrous'. 

In distinction, his grandfather Prince Philip, the Marines' Captain Common, remained publicly silent after being requested to intervene.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a devotee of Midsomer Murders, says Mock the Week star Hugh Dennis. Filming a visitor look for the 19th collection of the ITV present, he says: 'I heard it was considered one of Angela Merkel's favorite programmes. 

She will get despatched field units.' Maybe if ITV affords a cameo function to Frau Merkel – as a visiting homicide sufferer? – she may help our Brexit negotiations.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a devotee of Midsomer Murders, says Mock the Week star Hugh Dennis

Baron Metal of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC, 78 – Liberal chief from 1976 till his occasion's merger with the defunct Social Democratic Get together in 1988 – says friends must be awarded a 'depart of absence' from the Home of Lords after they're 80, mentioning: 'If that have been to occur on the subsequent election, 221 members of this Home would disappear, together with me.' 

Not earlier than time, some may say. 

As a Liberal MP, Metal launched the 1967 Non-public Members' Invoice that legalised abortion. He was described unkindly by Labour's Michael Foot as having 'handed from rising hope to elder statesman with none intervening interval'.

Shadow overseas secretary Emily Thornberry – who resigned as shadow lawyer common in 2014 after inflicting uproar with a tweeted 'picture from Rochester' that confirmed a white van and three Union flags outdoors a terraced home throughout a by-election – carried out moderately effectively standing in for occasion chief Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs. 

Her 'political adviser' – Gordon Brown's controversial handler Damian McBride, 42, who was compelled out of Downing Road in 2009 for allegedly smearing opponents – gazed down proprietorially from the Press Gallery.

RE PMQs, Meerkat-like Chief of the Home David Lidington, 60, standing in for Theresa Might, described squabbling Labour members being like 'Mutiny On The Bounty re-shot by the Carry On workforce'. A fairly good joke, if a bit dry. Crucially for Lidington, it did not upstage any of the PM's personal latest thigh-slappers.

 

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