EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: First-class Queen Camilla uses second-class stamps to save palace for a small fortune

Queen Camilla has done her part to save.

In a bid to cut the royal postage and stationery bill, as revealed here last month, she has ditched the traditional heavy envelopes.

She likes to answer personally as many letters as she can and she always used envelopes embossed with the Royal Coat of Arms, sent out by £6 special delivery.

Queen Camilla has swapped her embossed stationary and special delivery for plain envelopes and 69p second class stamps when sending her personal letters

Now her letters are sent in cheaper, plain envelopes and sent by normal second-class mail.

At 69p a pop, the Palace’s discounted business price for second-class stamps, it saves a small fortune. A first class queen uses second class mail!

Did Harold Wilson confront the late Queen about his secret affair with his deputy press secretary?

A senior courtier quoted in Ben Pimlott’s biography of the late Queen recalled that Wilson and HM confided in each other in their increasingly long private audiences.

She told him of her concerns about the impact of the impending 1976 announcement of her sister Margaret’s legal separation from Tony Snowdon.

Wilson gave her advance notice of his resignation, gallantly timing the announcement on the same day as the Snowdon marriage split to soften its impact.

Alas, it didn’t go according to plan. The royal separation flooded the news with Harold’s departure playing third fiddle.

Former Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson (pictured outside 10 Downing Street) had a secret affair with Janet Hewlett-Davies, who was 22 years his junior

Ms Hewlett-Davies (pictured) was his deputy press secretary at the time

Home Secretary James Cleverly was yesterday urged by Tory backbencher Miriam Cates to do something about the falling birth rate.

Cleverly is a happy boy, but had to admit that the matter was ‘beyond my control’.

Father-of-six Jacob Rees-Mogg has taken a more proactive approach.

Keeley Hawes laments her youthful naivety by posing in lingerie for boys’ titles such as Loaded.

“There was nobody there but 20-year-old Keeley who didn’t know how these things worked,” the actress told Stylist magazine.

‘You would be put in a hotel room, sometimes with a male photographer on your own, not even with “hair” and “makeup”.

Keeley Hawes (pictured) has told Stylist Magazine she regrets posing in lingerie for boys’ titles such as Loaded

‘It was deeply unpleasant, but that was the expectation of what we did. It makes me feel terrible – really terrible. I feel for myself’.

Dominic West, Prince Charles in The Crown, recalls last week’s shooting at York Minster.

‘We had 400 extras bowing to us, me and Olivia Williams (his co-star as Camilla Parker Bowles) got married, with a full orchestra and a full choir… it’s quite difficult to go home after that and the kids, my wife, refuses to bend, that sort of thing!’

Dominic West as King Charles in the Netflix show The Crown marries his on-screen wife Camilla

Ex-Python Michael Palin explains to BBC Radio 4’s Nick Robinson why his former, now often cheerful, colleague John Cleese is permanently rebellious: ‘He’s on nagging pills from the National Health Service, so he’s like that’.