King Charles' new Chamberlain Richard Benyon has lucrative sideline

The King's new Lord Chamberlain, former Conservative MP Richard Benyon, has a lucrative sideline renting his country pile Englefield House for movies such as The King's Speech and Star Wars TV series The Acolyte. 

It also featured in Midsomer Murders, a favourite of the late Queen. 

Surely Lord Benyon won't persuade Charles to raise revenue by letting Buckingham Palace feature in a show with more homicides per head than any part of the UK.

Caterwauling Indigenous Australian senator Lidia Thorpe, who heckled the King, has form. 

Last year, she got into an altercation outside a strip club in Melbourne, yelling profanities at a group of men and accusing them of stealing her land. The venue has banned her for life.

Might the Buck House basement hold a labour-saving device for the King to deploy during his Oz tour? 

During a 1982 walkabout, three students presented the Queen with a strange contraption – a moving wooden arm complete with a gloved hand which imitated the royal wave. 

The Queen, highly amused, said: 'Thank you very much. It's just what I've always wanted.' She told them it might be adapted to fit her car door to rest her arm, but it hasn't been seen since.

Carol Vorderman still seethes after being sacked from her BBC Radio Wales show last year for breaching social media guidelines. 

She discovered that the people who fired her were subsequently told Huw Edwards had been arrested.

'And within 24 hours those same people made the decision not to sack Huw Edwards,' she tells Saga magazine. 'There are no words.'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who is replacing every painting in 11 Downing Street's State Room with artworks of or by women, should ask her next-door neighbour Keir Starmer to lend a hand. 

Couldn't he gift her the Margaret Thatcher and Elizabeth I portraits he removed from No 10?

Having taken tea with the late Queen, Paddington Bear has now been given a passport. 

Making the forthcoming film in which he travels to Peru, co-producer Rob Silva asked the Home Office to grant Paddington a passport. 

'They actually issued Paddington with an official passport complete with photo inside,' he tells Radio Times. 'You wouldn't think the Home Office would have a sense of humour, but under official observations, they've just listed him as "Bear".'

Amber Rudd's wacky daughter Flora Gill, just 20 weeks after marrying her husband Adam Vallance, announces: 'He went on holiday alone while I'm heavily pregnant, so I took down every photo of the two of us in our home and replaced them with photos of me and my bestie. 

'Make sure he knows he's replaceable!' Who said it wouldn't last?