Prince Charles has given his companion's son "the roasting of his life" for revelations in a newspaper that he took cocaine, the British press reported yesterday.
"Stupid!" the prince was said to have roared in a telephone call to Tom Parker Bowles in Cannes, where he is working as a public relations executive at the French film festival.
The Prince of Wales was said to have "read the riot act" to his godson, who is the son of Camilla Parker Bowles and a close friend of Charles's eldest son, Prince William (16).
At the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that Parker Bowles (24), educated at Eton and Oxford, had admitted to its reporters that he had taken cocaine.
The paper said it had been tipped off by one of Parker Bowles's friends, who was concerned about his influence over William.
Two psychologists said yesterday that leading actors - from Charlton Heston to Daniel Day- Lewis - have fallen prey to "possession syndrome" and cannot separate their roles from real life.
Soap opera stars are among the leading victims of this thespian identity crisis, along with method actors encouraged to immerse themselves totally in a part.
Glenn Wilson and Andy Evans from London's Institute of Psychiatry found in research for a new book, Fame: The Psychology of Stardom, that fictional alter egos could end up dominating the actors who played them.
He cited the case of Day-Lewis, playing Hamlet in 1989. He got horribly confused on stage between the ghost of Hamlet's father and the ghost of his own father, Cecil Day-Lewis. "He could not carry on in the part," he said.
A classical music tribute to Linda McCartney written by eight British composers, including her husband, Sir Paul, was announced yesterday. A Garland for Linda will be premiered in July alongside brand new choral arrangements for five Beatles songs.
The announcement follows last month's rock tribute to Linda, who died of cancer in April last year, at London's Albert Hall. The new tribute is an eight-song cycle for an unaccompanied choir. Each composer contributes one song.