EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles breaks with tradition

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles breaks with tradition as he fails to appoint Prince William as chair of the Royal Collection

Have Royal Collection trustees been spared a potential vandal at the helm? 

King Charles, who has succeeded his mother as patron, has broken with tradition and failed to appoint his son William as its chairman. 

If Wills had taken up the number two role, then his stance on ridding the collection of dozens of items of ivory would have placed him on a potential collision course with the trustees. 

Primatologist Jane Goodall, a close friend of William, divulged that he would like to see all of them destroyed as part of his campaign to save the elephant. 

However, the trustees shouldn’t be lured into a false sense of security. As soon as William does become king, his word will prevail.

King Charles, who has succeeded his mother as patron, has broken with tradition and failed to appoint his son William as its chairman (pictured on July 5)

Greta Thunberg’s lame excuse for pulling out of the Edinburgh International Book Festival because its lead sponsor allegedly invested ‘heavily’ in fossil fuels must have raised a royal eyebrow. 

King Charles, who has no truck with fossil fuel investors, gratefully accepted Royal Collection sponsorship from the firm, Baillie Gifford. 

Dunce’s hat (biodegradable) for Greta.

The Lionesses’ progress to the Women’s World Cup quarter finals poses a potential headache for the Honours Unit. 

After they won the Euros last year, just four of the team picked up gongs with an OBE to the captain, Leah Williamson, and MBEs to others, despite a clamour for all to be honoured. 

Not even Chloe Kelly, who scored the winning goal, got a medal. Precedent always prevents the honours system from being spontaneous, with most of the 1966 men’s team ignored. 

If the girls lift the World Cup the Honours Unit may not get away with being so parsimonious with the medals.

Clive Myrie, pictured, introduced Sinead O’Connor’s funeral as the lead item

On Tuesday’s edition of the BBC Six O’Clock News, Clive Myrie, pictured, introduced Sinead O’Connor’s funeral as the lead item followed by an extensive report from Colin Paterson. 

While Sinead might have been flattered by the Beeb overkill, she was probably spinning in her grave at the presence of U2’s Bono among the mourners. 

She banned him from delivering an oration, saying she was opposed to ‘the idea Bono might speak at my funeral’ adding, sweetly: ‘He’d sh*te on it.’

Does Rolling Stone Keith Richards deserve to be immortalised in bronze alongside Mick Jagger, with their statues unveiled yesterday in his hometown of Dartford? 

‘I got out of there as soon as I could do,’ he boasted in 2017. ‘It was just somewhere you lived, I’ve no particular affection for it.’ 

And recalling his move to London, he added: ‘That was a blessing, just to get out of Dartford really.’ 

Fingers crossed no irate Dartford resident makes a ship-to-shore call to the mob who threw Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour!

Welsh wrestler Adrian Street alias Kid Tarzan, who has died aged 82, refused to throw a bout against Jimmy Savile in 1971, beating him so severely he never wrestled again. 

‘I kicked his legs from underneath him so he hit the deck, then I picked him up by his hair, held him upside down and dropped him on his skull,’ recalled Adrian. ‘I absolutely crucified the bloke.’

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