There is no doubt about it: Coronation fever is in the air.

No, not in a certain £11m Spanish Revival mansion in Montecito, Californiawhich, according to some accounts, boasts nine bedrooms and 19 bathrooms – and which, according to their spokesperson, recently received an email from Buckingham Palaceadvising Harry and Meghan to “save the date” for Saturday, May 6.

Instead, I’m referring to the tension building in the smaller living quarters – one or two stately homes as well as low-key estates – that lack the gym, bar, five-car garage and other amenities of Harry and Meghan’s residence.

These houses – some of them in almost constant repair – are the homes of those who are or have long considered themselves to be good friends of King Charles and Camilla, but from whom they have not yet received the precious letter. .

“Some of them are furious, especially those who have made quite a bit of their royal friendship over the years,” an amused nobleman tells me. “They find waiting painful. And for some, it will end in humiliation.” Indeed so.

At least 5,000 people were crammed—almost closed by crows—into Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953.

“The flags were specially installed so that row after row more or less sat on top of each other,” the historian of the abbey’s state events muses.

“But such an arrangement for Heath Robinson is simply not possible today for health and safety reasons.”

Therefore, no more than 2,000 will be able to attend this time. Aware of this, some, I’m told, are trying to highlight their connections to charities that are likely to get a few invitations.

After all, Camilla is a patron of over 100 such organisations, ranging from Macmillan Cancer Support and Marie Curie to the National Literacy Trust.

But such gimmicks, of course, offer no guarantee of an invitation, which will be mailed only after potential guests have received—and confirmed—the precious, advance email.

A royal source told me that the emails are sent in batches — periodically. “It’s a practical arrangement,” I’m sure.

The mine should be among this party. . .

At least 5,000 people were crammed—almost closed by crows—into Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953.

Forest! Why does Queen Consort Camilla have an axe

As King Charles evicts Prince Harry and Meghan from Frogmore Cottage, Windsor, his wife Camilla clears the scum from her own front yard.

I hear the Queen Consort’s head gardener, Paul Jelliman, has applied for permission to carry out extensive work on nine huge trees at Raymill House, the Grade II listed property she kept as a country retreat after marrying the future king in 2005.

Jelliman had to apply for permission from Wiltshire Council because the trees are in a conservation area.

She wants to cut down two alder trees and carry out significant work on three ash trees and four more trees.

The Apprentice star Alan Sugar seems determined to show that Gary Lineker is not the only BBC big name to cause controversy with his social media posts.

The Apprentice star Alan Sugar seems determined to show that Gary Lineker isn’t the only BBC big name to cause controversy with his social media posts

In this week’s episode of his show, contestants took on the challenge of creating dog food.

And referring to one pet’s reaction, Lord Sugar remarked on Twitter: “I think the dog looked a bit sad, like he was about to appear on MasterChef North Korea.”

The reference to the East Asian taste of dog meat is not the first time the mogul has poked fun at a racial stereotype.

In 2018, he was forced to apologize after sharing a picture of the Senegalese soccer team with a towel in front of them loaded with sunglasses and handbags for sale.

He commented: “I recognize some of these guys from the beach in Marbella. Multitasking, resourceful guys.”

Fashion designer Rupert Lissett Green, who was one of the three men who inspired Jilly Cooper to create Rupert Campbell-Black’s caddy character, revealed that the old dog still has plenty of life left in him.

The 84-year-old has revealed that he recently completed the Cresta Run, 71 years after he first raced the forbidden St Moritz course.

“To ride the Cresta is to slide down an ice sled track at over 70 miles per hour, lying on your stomach with your face inches from the ice,” he says. “I’m still plugged in.” It would certainly have amused his late father-in-law, poet laureate Sir John Betjeman.

Quote of the week

What Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel said to Emily Maitlis when she turned down an invitation to join the broadcaster at a party at the home of faded matinee idol Hugh Grant.

Nothing in moderation for Dame Prue’s Bake Off

Prue Leith’s colleagues were amused by her claim that they were obliged to order a coat of arms to mark their new status.

Prue Leith’s colleagues were amused by her claim that they were obliged to order a coat of arms to mark their new status

“When you become a woman, you have to have a motto, your coat of arms,” ​​the Great British Bake Off judge told Radio 4.

“I have ‘Nothing in moderation’.”

Leith, 83, was made a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honors List in 2021.

However, one woman tells me, “The idea that you were told to order a coat of arms is very funny.

“You’ll only get one if you go to the College of Arms and pay them thousands of pounds for the privilege.”

A spokesperson for the college confirms: “Having a female title would automatically entitle that person to apply for a coat of arms for themselves, but they do not have to.” I really hope she has a delicious cake.

Now here is the picket I would like to see

These days Emily Ratajkowski (pictured) believes that they need to form a trade union to protect their rights

Linda Evangelista once memorably remarked of her fellow supermodels, “We don’t wake up on less than $10,000 a day.”

These days Emily Ratajkowski thinks they need to form a union to protect their rights.

The London-born model and actress, 31, laments: “There’s no modeling union, so you have these young women who are often foreign and have no family and no business sense or anything another. They are completely exploited.”

Ratajkowski, who is separated from her husband, film producer Sebastian Beer-McClard, adds: “In my 20s I felt like a mess.

“I guess I looked confident, but really a big part of me was a bit of a ragdoll.

“I see it now with girls in their 20s and I’m like, ‘Damn, how am I going to teach you to stand up for yourself.’ ‘

Expect a few more riders to fall at Oasby Horse Races in Lincolnshire this weekend.

For Jeremy Clarkson’s refreshments, Hawkstone is sponsoring the event.

“If things don’t go as planned this weekend and you crash or fall out, I’ll offer you a free case of beer, cider or vodka to drown your sorrows,” says the 62-year-old Grand Tour host, who makes drinks using ingredients grown on his Diddly Squat Cotswolds farm.

Neighbors broke Rusedski’s yoga plan

He won the BBC Sports Personal of the Year award after making it 30 wins with Team Great Britain in the Davis Cup, but former British tennis No.1 Greg Rusedski lost the battle on the home front.

Former Wimbledon star Greg Rusedski (right), 49, and his wife Lucy (left), an NHS GP, wanted to run residential bed and breakfast workshops for 12 guests at their farmhouse in West Sussex

I can report that he has been forced to concede defeat in his three-year battle to turn his £2 million country home into a wellness and yoga retreat.

The former Wimbledon star, 49, and his wife Lucy, an NHS GP, wanted to run residential bed and breakfast workshops for up to 12 guests at their farmhouse in West Sussex.

They applied for “change of use” permission for their Grade II listed 18th-century house and officials had to recognize the proposed development as “in” rather than “out”.

But the local planning authority issued a legal opinion, bringing in lawyers to argue that the proposed use was as a hotel or guest house, not mixed housing.

Almost half a dozen residents and the parish council objected, saying access to Rusedski’s home was “completely unsuitable” for commercial use as it lay on a track shared with six other properties.

It was feared that her doomed budget had cost Britain £65bn. However, Liz Truss still managed to get a freebie at the Brit Awards.

The former prime minister recorded that she was given £1,320 worth of hospitality at a pop music jamboree at the O2 Arena in London last month.

The gift was donated by UK Music, whose chief executive is former Tory special adviser Jamie Njoku-Goodwin.

Truss is a huge fan of Taylor Swift, but unfortunately the American superstar did not perform at this year’s ceremony. Haters gonna hate. . .

(Very) modern manners

Lord Waldegrave, who I reported this week will step down as Eton’s vice-chancellor next year, has no intention of slowing down the pace of change he is overseeing with the headmaster, Simon “Fashionable Handy” Henderson.

Last week, Waldegrave welcomed the Eton Dragonflies – a club of old gay Etonians – who were joined for dinner by “a few staff and a couple of older lads”.

Ethan declares it a “huge success”. Some graduates express doubts.

“It’s pure fashion Handy,” one tells me, recalling OE, who wrote in The Mail on Sunday that being gay was no big deal [until] we have become a protected community. . . By my senior year, a kid four years younger than me was running around calling us all “fags.”