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Princess Royal, 73, of Windsor Castle, posted an update on Instagram, the account that normally posts updates about King Charles, 75, and Queen Camilla, 76. The Princess Royal conducted her investiture service on Wednesday, with the King expected to be hospitalized for an elevated prostate, as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales also away from their regular duties after Kate's abdominal surgery. (Because of Anne's respect for Sir Stephen Frears) is the picture to be taken. Alexandra Johnson is pictured right and The Princess Royal has named Alexandra Johnson as an Officer of the British Empire.

On Friday, Kate Winslet and her partner Edward Abel Smith put on a low-key performance when they met with film director Stephen Frears in London. The actress, 48, wore black long sleeve top with a pair of jeans and suede boots. She threw her blonde hair back into a tumescent ponytail and wore a grey blazer over her arm.

Since being discovered in a pool of blood by his partner Isabella d'Amico on Boxing Day near their apartment in Rome, the British playwright has spent six months in the care of an Italian hospital. (Pictured from left: Hanif Kureishi, leaving the hospital in Rome where he's been treated)

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Was King Charles playing Windrush catch-up with his Buckingham reception ahead of this week's 75th anniversary of the boat's arrival? The Royal Family were behind the times when Windrush Day was established in 2018, with the Queen attending Ascot rather than the inaugural service at Westminster Abbey. Charles was in Salisbury on official business, William was off work, and Harry was in Lesotho. The King, who is determined to keep as many foreign thrones as he can, is now determined to do better.

If Cabinet Secretary Simon Case be compelled to lay down on his WhatsApp sword, his insider recollections would have journalists clamouring at his door. His memories from July 2018, when he unexpectedly appointed Prince William's personal secretary following the Harry and Meghan wedding, will be of particular concern. As the Sussexes fell out of love with the rest of the royals, he had a ringside seat. When bullying charges against Meghan were levelled by and against him, he was also front of house.

When staying at his apartment in Rome, the British playwright, novelist, and filmmaker, 68, who is best known for The Buddha Of Suburbia, Intimacy, and My Beautiful Launderette, died on a walk, leaving him unable to use his arms and legs. On Twitter yesterday, he penned a long thread announcing that he was eager to 'walk up the front door of my house, open the door, and step back to my old life.' (Pictured: His 1985 hit film My Beautiful Laundrette, Hanif Kureishi in 2017)

In its forthcoming limited series The Palace, HBO has premiered the first image of Kate Winslet. The 47-year-old actress is expected to appear in the film, the result of a partnership between Succession's producers Will Tracy and Frank Rich and The Queen's director Stephen Frears. As of yet, no information about the actress's character - who recently became the subject of adoration after she encouraged a young journalist in her first interview - has been published.

After a fall on Boxing Day, author of The Buddha of Suburbia (left) is in hospital and is in a wheelchair, and he is unable to move his arms or legs, he said. 68, the British playwright, novelist, and film director, who is best known for The Buddha Of Suburbia, Intimacy, and Mother, sent a note on Twitter in which he said he was being treated at Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. Mr Kureishi said he collapsed on December 26 while walking from Piazza del Popolo to Villa Borghese and then back to his apartment.

Richard III's discovery in a Leicester council car park in 2012 made international news. Shakespeare's crookback a flamboyant villain and suspected murderer of his younger nephews was a byword for tyranny for centuries. Now the amazing tale of how his body was discovered has been turned into a film, The Lost King, co-written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Cope and directed by Stephen Frears, the team behind Philomena. Sally Hawkins (Mrs Brown in Paddington), as Philippa Langley, Edinburgh-based amateur historian who discovered the king's body, was included in the 'Oscar-worthy' performance. Langley, who had been to Leicester to study a screenplay about Richard III, had a compulsion to step into the adult social services parking garage. It was a strange feeling.' My legs and feet are like something coming up through my legs and feet. I felt almost sick as it got bigger and stronger,' she says. The letter "R" appeared underneath my feet.' It was clearly for "Reserved" on the inside, but I felt I was standing on Richard's grave.'

BRIAN VINER: Philippa lives in Edinburgh, where she works in a dreary sales role and is rejected for promotion. You are at the right level for you,' says her condescending boss. She looks as though the King is speaking directly to her when she and her son attend a Richard III revival. Richard (Harry Lloyd)'s stage version starts arriving in visions, a feature that may seem quaintly archaic, but director Stephen Frears makes it work. Philippa's implication is straightforward: she might be a middle-aged divorcee stuck in a miserable career, but she identifies with this 15th-century monarch as well as the fact that he does with her.

In Stephen Frears' latest film In Stephen Frears's latest film The Lost King, the true story of Richard's body, led by determined amateur historian Philippa Langley, is told. Philippa was a long-serving member of the Richard III Society, the group that maintains Shakespeare's portrayal of the king as an evil hunchback was a blackening of his character in order to win over Tudor Queen Elizabeth I, whose family had fought Richard's for the throne.

The Lost King, a film about Richard III's (portrayed by Harry Lloyd, pictured left) bones underneath a Leicester parking garage in 2012 (the former burial place is shown bottom right). Philippa Langley's film, which premiered in the United Kingdom yesterday, is based on the unforgettable and moving tale of Philippa Langley (played by Sally Hawkins, pictured top center), 60, a film-maker and amateur historian. In an interview with writer Stephen Coogan (pictured top right) and filmmaker Stephen Frears in an interview with the entertainment website Collider at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, Langley is delighted with the film. In addition, Coogan and Pope said that the film was accurate and truthful. However, the academics and others interested say that some of the film have no connection to the truth, and that major portions of it contain such obviously deliberate lies that at least one of them has retained libel lawyers.

The cast and crew of "The Crown" are taking a moment to mourn Queen Elizabeth II's death. According to writer Peter Morgan, the royal, who died on Sept. 8, will suspend production on its sixth season indefinitely. "The Crown" is a love letter to her, and I have little to add for now," he wrote. "I hope we will stop filming out of respect," says the filmmaker. Stephen Daldry, who supervised four episodes of "The Crown," told the journal that if the queen dies while the Netflix series was in production, it would halt filming for a respectable length of time. "No one of us knows when the time will come," he said in 2016. "It'd be a simple tribute and a mark of honor." She's a global celebrity, and that's what we should do. . . She's an extraordinary woman, and no one will be upset." When the sixth season of Netflix has been announced, it has not yet announced when it will be released. POPSUGAR reached out to Netflix for feedback, but did not receive a response right away.