I was in bits, he said. Seeking someone fit to eulogize his sister, Spencer was stumped after rummaging through his big thick address book and called his mother from Heathrow Airport to admit defeat, saying, I've got an awful feeling it's going to have to be me. He said his mother noted the hunch was correct, and that he'd been chosen in absentia.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales have been successful in legal proceedings brought in France against the owner of Paris Match, which published a grossly intrusive article and long-lens paparazzi photographs of their private family holiday in the Alps in April. The ruling affirms that, notwithstanding their public duties as members of the royal family, their Royal Highnesses and their children are entitled to respect for their private lives and family time, without unlawful interference and intrusion.
It happened, as so many things seem to nowadays, on a yacht. Last weekend, the Daily Mail published a series of photographs in which the American pop star Katy Perry was spotted making out on the upper deck of her boat, the Caravelle, with her apparent new love interest, the former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Perry, who earlier this year split from her longtime partner and father of her daughter, the actor Orlando Bloom, was wearing a dark one-piece bathing suit.