EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Harry’s US residency may now be hanging by a gossamer thread

Prince Harry‘s US residency may now be hanging by a gossamer thread. 

He has been helped by a very friendly Department for Homeland Security vigorously opposing attempts to release his visa application documents. 

But Trump’s appointment of South Dakota governor Kristi Noem to run Homeland Security should concern Harry. 

She takes no nonsense and no prisoners having shot and killed her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer Cricket in a gravel pit because he was ‘untrainable’ and ‘dangerous’.

Prince Harry ‘s US residency may now be hanging by a gossamer thread. He has been helped by a very friendly Department for Homeland Security vigorously opposing attempts to release his visa application documents

Trump’s appointment of South Dakota governor Kristi Noem (pictured) to run Homeland Security should concern Harry

Hugo Vickers’s new biography of Clarissa Eden, wife of former PM Anthony, reveals her surprise at the Queen’s choice of after-dinner film during a 1955 visit to Balmoral.

 It was ‘a French X film about gang warfare with a very loud soundtrack and shots of women with their breasts exposed’, recalled Clarissa. 

Traditionally HM chose flicks she thought her guests would enjoy. Maybe she thought perennially unwell Anthony would perk up at the spectacle.

An attempt by The Guardian to embarrass Jacob Rees Mogg over his obsession with money has backfired. 

After quoting at him Matthew 6:24 ‘you cannot serve both God and money’, Moggy replied: ‘Wine maketh merry but money cureth all things.’ Adding, sweetly: ‘The devil can quote scripture.’

Septuagenarian heartthrob Charles Dance, pictured, fondly recalls his ‘life-changing’ appearance in The Jewel In The Crown. ‘I was the thinking woman’s crumpet’, he boasts.

 ‘Joan Bakewell was the thinking man’s and we met on The Croisette at Cannes. I’d never met her before. She was coming towards me and I said: ‘Hello, crumpet’ and she smiled and said: ‘Hello, crumpet.’

Polymath Gyles Brandreth tells breakfast TV that his wife Michele watched Paul Mescal in Gladiator II wearing an eye mask and ear plugs. 

Polymath Gyles Brandreth tells breakfast TV that his wife Michele watched Paul Mescal in Gladiator II wearing an eye mask and ear plugs

‘She finds the noise in these films so oppressive that she goes to the cinema with earplugs.

 And she’s taken to wearing her eye mask too because sometimes it’s too violent.’

 Might the sainted Michele be coping with 51 years of marriage to gibbering Gyles?

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Band Aid, Bob Geldof tells Radio Times that when Top Of The Pops refused to play Do They Know It’s Christmas? he went to then-BBC boss Michael Grade who offered him a pre-show slot saying, ‘Can you get someone to introduce it?’ 

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Band Aid, Bob Geldof tells Radio Times that when Top Of The Pops refused to play Do They Know It’s Christmas ? he went to then-BBC boss Michael Grade who offered him a pre-show slot saying, ‘Can you get someone to introduce it?’

‘I said, “I could f****** do that,” and he said, “Mmm, perhaps somebody else, Bob”.’ 

Bob had to hand over his Feed the World T-shirt to David Bowie.

Bookie Barry ‘Bismark’ Dennis, known as the Romford Foghorn who died aged 83 last month, once called 999 after cutting his hand badly opening an oyster.

When the operator asked: ‘Where exactly are you bleeding from?’ he replied: ‘I’m from bleeding Romford!’