Proof King Charles does not share late mother's love for horseracing

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: With Royal Ascot looming, there’s further proof that King Charles does not share his late mother’s enthusiasm for horseracing

With Royal Ascot looming, further proof that King Charles does not share his late mother’s enthusiasm for horseracing. 

Statistics show that in the flat seasons from 2019 until her passing the Queen sent out 585 runners, had 107 winners and pocketed £1,793,044 in earnings. 

By contrast the King and Camilla have, over the same period, had 23 runners, three winners and earned £85,133. 

The King’s lukewarm interest in horse racing is underlined by his absence tomorrow from the Epsom Derby, an event rarely missed by his mother. 

Instead of training the Royal binoculars on riders and runners, he’ll be smelling flora in Transylvania.

By contrast the King and Camilla have, over the same period, had 23 runners, three winners and earned £85,133

No bells nor gun saltues today, the first time in seventy years that Coronation Day isn’t marked. 

It was always significant in the late Queen’s year and she evidently found her own Coronation more gripping than that of her parent’s in 1937. 

Aged eleven she wrote to them: ‘The end of the service got rather boring as it was all prayers. 

Grannie [Queen Mary] and I were looking to see how many more pages to the end, and we turned one more and then I pointed to the word at the bottom of the page and it said Finis. We both smiled at each other.’

Paris media gleefully point out that Rishi Sunak cannily outdid habitual charmer Emmanuel Macron during their recent respective visits to Japan, with Macron making several faux pas, including manhandling the Japanese PM’s back, wearing black and white when not at a funeral, and placing his briefcase on the floor at the summit meeting – all strict no-nos in Nipponese etiquette/superstition. 

This has been compared to Rishi’s general air of genial humility, and brilliant red socks coup. Jinsei wa sodaide wanaidesu ka (Isn’t life grand).

This has been compared to Rishi’s general air of genial humility, and brilliant red socks coup

Sex Education regular Samantha Spiro portrays Dame Esther Rantzen in One Life – the forthcoming film about stockbroker Nicholas Winton who rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi genocide. 

She recreates Esther’s 1988 That’s Life special when she turned to the audience asking: ‘Is there anyone here who owes their life to Nicholas Winton? If so, could you stand up please?’ Everyone stood up, reducing Nicholas to tears.

Sex Education regular Samantha Spiro (pictured) portrays Dame Esther Rantzen in One Life – the forthcoming film about stockbroker Nicholas Winton

Should Holly Willoughby be apprehensive about her return to This Morning, she might seek comfort from the blurb for her 2021 book, Reflections, which reveals that she combats ‘moments of self-doubt, feelings of guilt and anger’ by listening to her ‘inner voice… looking up at the moon or finding the perfect red lipstick… in order to face her fears head on.’ Attagirl Holly!

Polly Toynbee, in her memoir An Uneasy Inheritance, pulls no punches about her late father Philip’s drunkenness. 

Recalling her first day at her permanently thirsty dad’s old paper The Observer, she writes: ‘Alf, on reception, who had been there for ever, leans across the counter to say, ‘I hope you’re not like your dad. I hope you don’t pee in the lift.’

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