Absent from the plethora of official documents just released is the embargoed opinion the then prime minister Tony Blair received on the legality of Charles and Camilla marrying in a register office in 2005.
Lord Chancellor Charlie Falconer apparently allowed the then Prince of Wales’s marriage to proceed, declaring that the 1998 Human Rights Act trumped the ban on royal register office weddings contained in the 1949 Marriages Act.
Curiously, Charles once detested the Human Rights Act. When an earlier Lord Chancellor, Derry Irving, pontificated on the act in a letter to him, Charles scrawled ‘Rubbish’ on it.
Presumably he has softened a little since then.
At last the curse of performing as Doctor Who has been broken after 15 actors playing the Time Lord were ignored by the Honours Unit.
Forty-four years after laying down his sonic screwdriver, Tom Baker, 90, has been given an MBE.
Prurient Tom admits to enjoying sexual perks during his stint, adding: ‘I was often pulled by women who were keen fantasists.
‘The Star Trek women seemed to be very libidinous and extremely forward. But, of course, there were Who fans and Dracula fans and ex-nuns, too, who were all keen to have a slice of me.’
Announcing the New Years Honours list, the Cabinet Office press release highlights gongs for Gareth Southgate, Sarah Lancashire and Carey Mulligan.
But no mention of London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Is someone, somewhere embarrassed by the reward-for-failure knighthood?
Stephen Fry boasts in his memoir of snorting cocaine in Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Sandringham and Clarence House.
He also brags of hoovering up ‘the old nose candy’ in the House of Commons lavatories.
When he gets his knighthood and has his shoulders tapped with a sword, Sir Stephen had better make sure there’s no dandruff on his collar.
The palace footmen might suspect it’s something else.
The Split star Stephen Mangan, who announces that he would refuse to accept an honour and bow to King Charles because of his Irish immigrant parents, didn’t mind being nicknamed ‘Spud’ at Cambridge.
‘I filed it under ‘affectionate’ and ‘I’m proud to be Irish’,’ he says. ‘I think these days we’d file that under ‘casually racist’.’
Romeo and Juliet star Olivia Hussey, who has died at 73, was just 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli selected her to portray Juliet in his 1968 film version.
And who did Franco originally audition for the role of Romeo, which was eventually taken by Leonard Whiting? Step forward Beatle Paul McCartney.
Macca and Juliet isn’t quite what Shakespeare had in mind.