Page 39ELLIE GOULDING, who sang at Prince
William’s wedding reception and
once reportedly canoodled with
Prince Harry under a blanket at the
polo, has made sure her wedding
tomorrow will be fit for a princess.
The 32-year-old is to tie the knot
with Old Etonian art dealer Caspar
Jopling, 27, at York Minster, where
the Duke and Duchess of Kent were
married in the Sixties.
The reception will be held at
Castle Howard, setting for Eighties
drama Brideshead Revisited.
Ellie, who grew up in a council
house in Herefordshire, is said to
have invited her friends Princesses
Beatrice and Eugenie, as well as
their mother, the Duchess of York.Bride Ellie’s
big day fit for a
princess (or 2)
WHILE Tony Blair has
made a fortune since
leaving No 10, eldest son,
Euan, is struggling to keep
up. The former banker set
up a recruitment company,
WhiteHat, and its newly
published accounts show
huge losses. They were
£2.79 million in the 12
months to March, a
£1.6 million hike on the
previous year. However,
Euan is taking it in his
stride. ‘Almost every high-
growth tech business at our
stage is loss-making,’ a
spokesman tells me.
‘WhiteHat continues to
grow rapidly and raised
£13.1 million from leading
venture capital firms.’■
Katy Perry keeps a close
eye on Cara and Orlando!
ORLANDO BLOOM brought along
his pop star fiancée, Katy Perry,
for the premiere of his Amazon
fantasy series Carnival Row.
It was, however, his co-star Cara
Delevingne who made sure the
Canterbury-born actor was look-
ing his best for the cameras,
tenderly removing the fluff from
his jumper at the Ham Yard Hotel,
Soho. Bloom plays a detectivewho has an affair with Cara’s Irish
fairy. ‘Making her Irish just made
me love her more,’ she tells me.
‘The accent just made sense to me
— it probably was all the Guinness
I drank when I was younger.’
Meanwhile, Katy did her best to
remain incognito, telling me: ‘I
was trying not to be spotted, but
had to come to the bar to get a
drink of tequila.’BROADCASTER Andrew Neil is nursing cracked ribs after
flying over his handlebars while cycling in the South of France.
The 70-year-old reveals going ‘ arrsum overe titium, as we say in
Latin’. He adds: ‘To hit a road at 30km per hour is not a good idea.
Who knew?’ And of his injuries, he tells me nonchalantly: ‘I just
cracked and bruised my ribs. Rather badly. Extremely unpleasant
and immobilising.’ Still, you can’t keep a good man down: he’s
signed up to present a new programme on BBC2, The Andrew Neil
Show, starting next Wednesday. ‘I fear some psychological damage,
but I won’t know for sure until I get my teeth into a politician.’■
Edited by: RICHARD EDEN
Daily Mail, Friday, August 30, 2019