Justin Welby‘s previous affiliation with serial abuser John Smyth may have jeopardised the royal knighthood he was awarded for presiding at King Charles‘ Coronation.
My well-placed supply whispers that Welby’s former hyperlinks to Smyth and the continued inquiries into his abusive behaviour led courtiers to red-flag the King’s nomination of Welby to the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order within the New Yr Honours.
The unanswered questions would most likely have prompted some other gong to be no less than paused by the honours scrutiny committee.
Nevertheless, the King does not must seek the advice of anybody about handing-out the RVO and determined to disregard courtiers’ warnings.
Justin Welby ‘s previous affiliation with serial abuser John Smyth may have jeopardised the royal knighthood he was awarded
Justin Welby is made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order by King Charles III at Windsor Citadel
Custom dictates that departing Welby can be garlanded with the Royal Victorian Chain, a hardly ever awarded honour normally given to retiring archbishops.
It is also completely within the King’s reward. However Welby is not the one tainted prelate to obtain it. George Carey was awarded it in 2002 regardless of his lengthy involvement defending disgraced abuser Bishop Peter Ball.
When Welby grew to become archbishop he ordered an impartial inquiry. Satirically, given how Welby clung on, he ordered Carey to resign as an honorary assistant bishop in Oxford.
How did Cathy Newman wind down after roughing up the Archbishop on Channel 4 Information final Thursday? By filling the Channel 4 Information studio with music. Kathy gave a virtuoso efficiency on the violin together with her string quartet The Statutory Devices. It wasn’t perchance The Lambeth (Palace) Stroll, Cathy?
How did Cathy Newman, pictured, wind down after roughing up the Archbishop? By filling the Channel 4 Information studio with music
Apropos my story concerning the late Queen not wanting a Nobel prize. May her son have an opportunity of turning into the primary British royal Nobel Laureate?
Severe discussions have been had about nominating Prince Philip, primarily for his conservation work and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, however the self-effacing consort did little to encourage his zealous mates.
Princess Anne was nominated in 1990 by president Kaunda of Zambia for her work with Save The Kids however misplaced out to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mates of King Charles have lengthy thought he deserved the accolade for his many years of pioneering environmental work – one thing he’s decided to hold on with. There’s nonetheless hope.
King Charles III is topped with St Edward’s Crown by The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby
Gary Lineker had informed Esquire journal he accepted he’ll ‘should decelerate in some unspecified time in the future’. This from a man who seems for a dozen minutes of display screen time in only one hour-long programme every week, for £1.35million p/a. ‘Decelerate’ any additional and he’d be comatose.
Having changed Sally Hawkins within the position of Mary Brown within the newest Paddington film, Emily Mortimer counted herself fortunate that when performing reverse Paddington he was represented by a bear’s head.
‘Usually the place you are performing with one thing that is not actually there, you simply get a tennis ball on a stick,’ she says. That is no approach to talk about Hugh Bonneville, Emily!