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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Queen refuses to return to London to meet President Obama

By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail01:29 18 Mar 2016, updated 08:15 18 Mar 2016

The Queen refuses to come to London to meet President Barack Obama next month.

Instead, accompanied by his security circus, he’ll trundle to Windsor in his bomb-proof, seven-ton limo for lunch.

He’s due to stand alongside the PM and urge Britain to stay in the EU.

‘But he’d be well advised not to give a pro-EU sermon over lunch after the row about the Queen supporting Brexit,’ says my source.

The Queen, pictured, is refusing to return to London to meet US President Barack Obama, who instead has to travel to Windsor for lunch, where if he is wise, will not raise the issue of remaining in the EU

Princess Anne will be at Cheltenham today to present the Gold Cup, sprinkling royal stardust on the festival’s incontinent punters.

Unlike Ascot, where the Gold Cup was renamed to honour the Queen’s 90th birthday, this royal milestone is ignored in Cheltenham, in what is temporarily known as Chavshire.

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Is Jeremy Corbyn trying harder?

For Budget day, he wore a sober jacket, tightened his tie and gave a well-received-by-comrades response to the Chancellor’s speech.

Now a bigger test looms.

Will he join the PM and walk into the Lords on May 18 to hear the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament?

His past practice was skulking in the Commons with fellow Leftie Dennis Skinner.

Elizabeth Hurley, pictured with Sean Bean commented about the fond memories of filming the hit TV show Sharpe in 1994

Elizabeth Hurley, 50, tweets: ‘Just found 20-year-old pic of me and Sean Bean in [the 1994 ITV series] Sharpe. Fond memories.’

Rough diamond Bean, 56, has said that he recalls ‘seeing Elizabeth Hurley’s t**s while filming’.

Leader of the Commons Chris Grayling’s denigration of his shadow, Labour’s Chris ‘Captain Underpants’ Bryant, continues.

Now he ridicules Bryant’s ambition to become Speaker, sneering: ‘You do actually have to be popular and respected across the House.’

Really? They’re not adjectives often applied to the incumbent, John Bercow.

Magician Paul Daniels, who has died aged 77, gave an interview to a Daily Mirror reporter when the paper was owned by pension-looting crook and ex-Labour MP Robert Maxwell, telling him: ‘I’m a good magician but I’m not a great one.

If I was, I could make that fat f**k Maxwell disappear!’

Daniels’s widow, Debbie, is mocked unkindly about being asked on TV by Mrs Merton, aka Caroline Aherne:

‘So, Debbie, what attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?’

Few remember her good-natured reply: ‘When I married Paul in 1988 he wasn’t one.’

Chancellor George Osborne deserves credit for agreeing to be interviewed by Radio 4’s inimitable John Humphrys, 72, a day after the Budget.

Humphrys began by remarking: ‘You’re not very good at keeping your promises and keeping your targets, are you?’

Goading floundering Osborne, he remarked: ‘I suppose what I’m asking really is, “What’s a bloke got to do in your job to get the sack?”’

Shoot George! Now!

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Chancellor George Osborne, pictured at St Benedict's Catholic Primary School in Garforth, yesterday had earlier appeared on BBC Radio 4 with John Humphrys who mercilessly goaded the chancellor

Dame Sian Phillips, 82, says marrying Lawrence of Arabia star Peter O’Toole brought her acting career to a halt, complaining in The Stage: ‘I kept working, but in a much lower key than I would otherwise have done.’

Maybe, but didn’t she enjoy huge, career-enhancing publicity after marrying O’Toole in 1959?

They had two daughters, divorced in 1979 and he died, aged 81, in 2013.