PRINCE CHARLES has agreed to the establishment of a fellowship in his name for the study of the Islamic world, the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies said yesterday. The first holder of the fellowship will be historian Farhan Ahmad Nizami, the founding director of the Oxford Centre.
The Duchess of York still owes the British taxman £1.6 million after paying off her £4 million bank overdraft the Sunday Times said yesterday. She is considering selling her house to meet the debt the report said.
Senator Edward Kennedy has sold his home in McLean, Virginia, to a Hong Kong magnate for $6 million. The 1962, residence has six bedrooms, nine baths, a tennis court and heated swimming pool. Kennedy and his wife Vicki are moving to Washington, to be closer to the private school attended by her children.
A row over evangelical services broke out in the Church of England yesterday when the Right Rev Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Wakefield, criticised the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Runcie, for his hostility to "alternative" forms of worship.
Lord Runcie had attacked modern "rave in the nave" services and appealed for the church to hold on to traditional forms of worship. The Bishop said his colleague was "forgetting" that the Church of England was a "broad church".
Oasis star Liam Gallagher took to his bed yesterday as the pop world was left guessing about his marriage plans. His fiancee, actress Patsy Kensit, was with him at their home in St John's Wood. Meanwhile, speculation was rife that the couple would be tying the knot today, but the location of the ceremony and reception was still a closely guarded secret.