HER life has never been hemmed in by convention - an inevitable consequence, perhaps, of being born just three months before two of her sisters who had different mothers from her own.

HIS grandmother, in her dotage, was given to running down the street naked - which perhaps explains, in part, the inspiration behind his most famous lyric: ‘I hope I die before I get old.’

HER father, the late 2nd Baron Erskine of Rerrick, was declared bankrupt after a business venture went wrong, and now television chef Gizzi Erskine has been left ‘broken’ having suffered her own financial calamity.

HE PRODUCED the laser show for Kate Moss’s 40th, conjured up an ‘immersive, multi-sensory’ exhibition for the Prince and Princess of Waleses’ Norfolk neighbour the Marquess of Cholmondeley, and created what the National Portrait Gallery called ‘the most evocative image of a royal by any artist’ with a holographic portrayal of Queen Elizabeth.

AFTER Sir Keir Starmer appointed him Foreign Secretary, David Lammy declared: ‘I’ve been underestimated all of my life.’

HE AMASSED a £9.5billion fortune and acquired trophy properties in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Shanghai, dropping in on them by private jet — a Gulfstream G550, which comes with a £48 million price tag.

THEY were obliged to have a very restrained wedding, with just 20 guests — the late Queen Elizabeth among them — during the pandemic.

ARISTOCRATIC novelist Sophia Money-Coutts is hopping mad after the best-selling author of Crazy Rich Asians apparently named a character in his new book after her without permission.

TO KING Charles, choosing a DJ - until now - meant selecting which dinner jacket to wear.

WHEN Sir Stirling Moss died in 2020 aged 90, the party-loving motor racing legend left a detailed will including £1,000 to a pal, whom he ordered: ‘Enjoy a few nights out.’

WAS this Coronation a beginning or an end? As I watched its mostly ancient ceremonies, a briefly opened door into the astonishing past, I was often moved. It was full of glory, though rather melancholy glory.

KING Charles’s state visit to France has been cancelled at the 11th-hour amid violent protests in the country. Our Royal Editor Rebecca English explains the reasoning behind the sudden postponement below...

NOT only do we have a new Monarch, but after 25 years we shall soon have a new Princess of Wales.