CAMILLA Parker Bowles rode out with the Beaufort Hunt yesterday morning - but there was no sign of Prince Charles. As speculation continued to mount that they would - or would not - soon be seen together in public, she set off with the hounds at Tetbury, not far from Highgrove House, his Gloucestershire country home.
Ralph Fiennes (35) and Francesca Annis (51) have stepped out in public together, at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, for the first time lifting the veil on one of the most private relationships in show business.
A peer will learn this week if he can be released from a 40 year life in mental hospitals to take his seat in the House of Lords. The third Lord Bicester, old Etonian Angus Smith (64), has been in mental institutions for nearly two thirds of his life. However, the man known as a character" to bookmakers and publicans in York is campaigning to be released, and an independent tribunal in York has considered his future.
Author Salman Rushdie has criticised the EU for its inability to persuade Iran to lift its eight year old fatwa against him and accused extremists of attacking intellectual freedom.