EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Harry further irks his father with the timing of his next Invictus Games

By EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE FOR THE DAILY MAIL

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Prince Harry further irks his father with the timing of his next Invictus Games in Birmingham in July 2027. 

It coincides with Charles’s lavish celebrations for Queen Camilla’s 80th birthday. 

The King is planning to pull out all the stops for his Queen, with events centring on a thanksgiving service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. 

The arrival of Harry’s bandwagon at the same time will be an unwelcome distraction. 

However, he is unlikely to lose sleep, given his fractious relationship with his stepmother.

Prince Harry further irks his father with the timing of his next Invictus Games in Birmingham in July 2027

Prince Harry further irks his father with the timing of his next Invictus Games in Birmingham in July 2027

It coincides with Charles¿s lavish celebrations for Queen Camilla ¿s 80th birthday

It coincides with Charles’s lavish celebrations for Queen Camilla ’s 80th birthday

 

Donald Trump, redeveloping his Turnberry golf course in Ayrshire, imperiously ordered a digger driver to carve out a huge US-style lake from a small stream running beside a green. 

Appalled course architect Martin Ebert instructed the chasm to be back-filled and the burn reinstated. 

Backing down, Trump declared: ‘Martin Ebert is the most stubborn guy I know.’ 

Shouldn’t beleaguered Volodymyr Zelensky hire Martin for his peace negotiations with Trump?

Donald Trump playing golf at his Trump Turnberry course in South Ayrshire during his visit to the UK in May 2023

Donald Trump playing golf at his Trump Turnberry course in South Ayrshire during his visit to the UK in May 2023

 

Back throwing his weight about after being appointed by Yvette Cooper to front her new efficiency drive in the Home Office, has Gordon Brown’s enforcer Damian McBride renewed his friendship with her husband Ed Balls? 

Ed wasted no time cutting Damian adrift after he was forced out of

Downing Street in 2009 for smear tactics against political rivals. 

Anxious not to be linked with such skulduggery himself, Balls claimed at the time: ‘I did not know he was doing personal briefings. It is shocking and hideous.’

Has Gordon Brown¿s enforcer Damian McBride (pictured) renewed his friendship with her husband Ed Balls?

Has Gordon Brown’s enforcer Damian McBride (pictured) renewed his friendship with her husband Ed Balls?

Podcaster Frank Skinner asks what do Irish Eurovision winner Dana and former Watford striker Troy Deeney have in common? 

‘On Celebrity Mastermind, they’re the only two people to get zero in their specialist subjects,’ says Frank, explaining that Dana’s was UK hit singles from 1969 to 1976, while Troy’s was Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films. 

‘There’s a general sense, I think, that celebrities are imbeciles,’ concludes Frank.

 

Would Globe Theatre founder Sam Wanamaker, who died aged 74 in 1993, have embraced assisted dying? 

Zoe Wanamaker thinks her father, who died in 1993, would have embraced assisted dying

Zoe Wanamaker thinks her father, who died in 1993, would have embraced assisted dying

His daughter Zoe seems to think so, telling Radio Times: ‘I discovered that when my father was ill, he begged me to help him go. He’d been suffering from prostate cancer for some time.

'He fell asleep before he could [end his life]. But it was awful. The Globe took 27 years of his life and he never lived to see the opening.’

 

Steve Coogan, clearing his throat to play Irish football manager Mick McCarthy in Saipan, a film about Roy Keane’s nation-dividing abrupt departure from the team days before the 2002 World Cup, says he is 51 per cent for Mick and only 49 per cent in favour of Keane’s action. 

Has Coogan seen I, Keano the musical? It’s subtitled ‘He Came. He Saw. He Went Home.’

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