To King Charles, choosing a DJ – until now – meant selecting which dinner jacket to wear.
But our monarch’s horizons have become unexpectedly broader and he’s now embroiled in an awkward row about his charity’s choice of disc jockey.
The Prince’s Trust, which he created in 1976, invited a DJ who has used private jets to present its sustainability prize at the charity’s annual awards show. This has led to accusations of hypocrisy from eco campaigners.
DJ Cuppy — real name Florence Otedola — handed out the Global Sustainability Award at the Prince’s Trust Awards in London in May. She’s such a fan of private jets that she even sang about them in a 2020 song called Jollof On The Jet.
She later met King Charles, who is known for his outspoken views on climate change, at a special reception for the charity’s award winners at Buckingham Palace.
The Prince’s Trust , which he created in 1976, invited a DJ who has used private jets to present its sustainability prize at the charity’s annual awards show. This has led to accusations of hypocrisy from eco campaigners
DJ Cuppy — real name Florence Otedola — handed out the Global Sustainability Award at the Prince’s Trust Awards in London in May
The Stay Grounded climate group has now slammed the Prince’s Trust for choosing Ms Otedola to present the sustainability award.
Magdalena Heuwieser, co-founder of Stay Grounded, which seeks a ban on private jets, said: ‘It is hypocritical to choose someone who glamourises private jets to present a sustainability award. Private jets are the most climate-wrecking form of transport.’
A spokesman for the Prince’s Trust — now operating as The King’s Trust International — said: ‘We are committed to helping young people gain green skills, develop climate literacy and secure green jobs.’
Ms Otedola, 31, shares photos of her lavish lifestyle on her social media pages, some of which show her on private jet trips and others with a fleet of luxury cars. The musician, whose oil tycoon father is the 19th richest man in Africa, also previously performed at the Oil Barons Charity Ball in Dubai.
Kelly Hoppen shows the love at 65th
Kelly Hoppen is clearly no wicked stepmother. As she celebrated her 65th birthday, the interior designer was joined by Hollywood star Sienna Miller, 42, who was her stepdaughter during her 14-year marriage to American former banker and art dealer Edwin Miller.
Displaying their mutual affection, they kissed each other on the lips at the Michelin-starred River Cafe in Hammersmith, West London.
‘Big love,’ Hoppen wrote next to the photograph, which she shared online.
A favourite interior designer of the Princess of Wales, Hoppen still considers herself to be Miller’s stepmother.
She previously explained: ‘I’ve never understood when people say ‘Sienna’s ex-stepmother’, because if you love a child and you are there for a majority of their childhood, you don’t just switch that off.’
Kelly Hoppen is clearly no wicked stepmother. As she celebrated her 65th birthday, the interior designer was joined by Hollywood star Sienna Miller, 42
Rosie and Ross wedding night – pretty in tents!
Ascot TV presenter Rosie Tapner placed a winning bet on rugged adventurer Ross Turner, whom she has now married.
‘I’m still on cloud nine and won’t be coming down for a while,’ says the society model, 28, who exchanged vows with Turner, 35, in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire.
‘From start to finish, it was perfect.’
The Burberry model is an adventurous spirit herself and was the first person to zip-wire across the Thames, hurtling at 40mph while 170ft in the air.
Typically, they ‘camped in the garden’ for their first night as Mr and Mrs.
With his identical twin brother Hugo, Turner holds the world record for being part of the youngest four-man crew to row the Atlantic.
Ascot TV presenter Rosie Tapner placed a winning bet on rugged adventurer Ross Turner, whom she has now married
‘I’m still on cloud nine and won’t be coming down for a while,’ says the society model, 28, who exchanged vows with Turner, 35, in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire
John Le Carre’s youngest son writes thriller
Inspired rather than daunted by his father’s reputation as the supreme spy writer, John Le Carre’s youngest son, Nick Harkaway, has assumed his authorial mantle. The result — a new thriller, Karla’s Choice, featuring Le Carre’s greatest creation, George Smiley — will be published this autumn.
The only child of Le Carre’s second marriage, to Jane Eustace, Harkaway says ‘the book contains [my father] and my mother in unlikely corners of the story, in shadows and reflections’.
It’s a poignant observation, coming four years after his father’s death and two years after Le Carre’s lover, Suleika Dawson, published an eye-poppingly candid memoir, The Secret Heart.
So intense was their passion, wrote Dawson, that she and Le Carre wore clothes only on their ‘top halves’, so as ‘to keep the lower parts ready for action’.
A whole new meaning for ‘coming in from the cold’.
Inspired rather than daunted by his father’s reputation as the supreme spy writer, John Le Carre’s youngest son, Nick Harkaway, has assumed his authorial mantle
Prince Harry’s ‘bad boy’ past revealed
Prince Harry was so pleased with his taxpayer-funded protection officers that he took legal action against the Home Office after they were removed when he and Meghan quit royal duties.
His girlfriends were not always so keen.
GB News presenter Isabel Webster recalls her university flatmate’s experience of a romantic encounter with King Charles’s younger son 20 years ago. ‘She’d met Prince Harry at a Cirencester ball,’ Webster says.
‘They were snogging against a wall when she realised they weren’t alone.
‘She refused the invitation back to Highgrove — three’s a crowd, don’t you know.’
A lucky escape, perhaps?
GB News presenter Isabel Webster recalls her university flatmate’s experience of a romantic encounter with Prince Harry
