SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Albert Clarence Eliot - the 11th Earl of St Germans - throws a formal banquet at the age of 13

Prince Harry took part in a State visit for the first time last year at the grand age of 32, escorting King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain to Westminster Abbey.

But in Cornwall, they get cracking with their public duties decades earlier — at the tender age of 13, in fact, in the case of Albert Clarence Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans.

For I can disclose that Albie, as the young Earl is more familiarly known, will tomorrow greet guests at Port Eliot, his magnificent family seat — it’s generally thought to have 124 rooms, 13 staircases and 82 chimneys — for a banquet celebrating the Royal Wedding.

‘Albie will be meeting the guests,’ confirms a spokesman for Port Eliot. ‘It should be a really fun way for people to enjoy the Royal Wedding.’

Unlike Harry and Meghan Markle’s bash, where guests will have to eat bowl food standing up, this will be a four-course, sit-down feast in the Drawing Room.

The Earl inherited his title in 2016 when his grandfather, Peregrine, (pictured) died aged 75 

The Earl inherited his title in 2016 when his grandfather, Peregrine, (pictured) died aged 75 

Before the nuptials, guests are invited to enjoy a glass of Pimm’s or champagne and canapes in Port Eliot’s conservatory, before watching the service on a large screen in the Round Room.

Guidance is available for those who are unsure how to attire themselves: ‘Dress: Up.’

Two glasses of wine are included in the £50 ticket price, with a cash bar available for those who feel the need to make repeated toasts to Harry and Meghan.

The Earl inherited his title in 2016 when his grandfather, Peregrine, died aged 75, a decade after the traumatic death of his son Jago — Albie’s father — who suffered a fatal epileptic fit in the bath.

In 2015, Peregrine proposed selling Port Eliot to the Prince of Wales for £10 million — ‘a sensational deal,’ according to his third wife, Cathy Wilson, a former magazine journalist some 30 years his junior.

But the sale did not go through and Cathy moved out last November.

Locals appear eager to welcome the new era: tickets for the banquet have sold out. But presumably young Albie will be celebrating with nothing stronger than Ribena.

 

Has Prince Harry invited all his immediate cousins to his wedding? I can reveal that Lady Kitty Spencer, the 27-year-old daughter of Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, is taking her mother, Victoria Lockwood, as her date to the nuptials.

‘They both went to get their hats fitted together at Philip Treacy in Battersea this week,’ says my source. Former model Victoria, 52, was Spencer’s first wife, until an acrimonious divorce in 1997.

A spokesman for Earl Spencer declines to say whether his three other children by Victoria — Viscount Louis and Ladies Amelia and Eliza — are also invited.

The three blonde sisters were lined up in a row in Westminster Abbey at Prince William’s wedding in 2011.

 

BoJo's bro shows of new wife

Max, 32, who works for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, shared online this picture of himself and his wife, Gabriela Maia. ‘3 month wedding anniversary tomorrow — so happy I married this woman,’ he captioned the shot 

Max, 32, who works for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, shared online this picture of himself and his wife, Gabriela Maia. ‘3 month wedding anniversary tomorrow — so happy I married this woman,’ he captioned the shot 

Boris Johnson's half-brother Max is already celebrating his wedding anniversary — just months after eloping to Indonesia with his Brazilian former model girlfriend.

Max, 32, who works for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, shared online this picture of himself and his wife, Gabriela Maia. ‘3 month wedding anniversary tomorrow — so happy I married this woman,’ he captioned the shot.

Max is Stanley Johnson’s youngest son by his second wife, Jenny. Gabriela speaks four languages and has a degree in marketing from the University of Hull.

 

Interior designer and style arbiter Nicky Haslam, who has worked with Prince Charles, is unimpressed with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to serve bowl food at their wedding. 

‘Bowl food is awful. It’s like something out of Oliver!,’ he tells me at the book launch of The Accidental Botanist by Robbie Honey. 

‘It’s the most awful thing in the whole world. 

'I think they should just have cake and then let everyone leave.’

 

Harry who? Prince's girl parties after THAT snub 

But the 37-year-old daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent was happy to attend a Belgravia party this week with her live-in banker boyfriend Tom Kingston (right), whom she has been dating since 2015

But the 37-year-old daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent was happy to attend a Belgravia party this week with her live-in banker boyfriend Tom Kingston (right), whom she has been dating since 2015

Lady Gabriella Windsor would be forgiven for wanting to keep a low profile.

Not only has she been Not Flippin’ Invited to childhood pal Prince Harry’s wedding, but her ex, Aatish Taseer, caused a stir recently by claiming they took drugs and went skinny-dipping in the Buckingham Palace pool.

But the 37-year-old daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent was happy to attend a Belgravia party this week with her live-in banker boyfriend Tom Kingston, whom she has been dating since 2015.  

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Kelly Hoppen's mum says good riddance - to Knightsbridge

Former Dragons’ Den star Kelly Hoppen did not pull her punches on the BBC show for budding entrepreneurs — and it seems her mother, Stephanie, is equally outspoken.

She has just sold her art gallery in Walton Street, Knightsbridge, because she hates its ‘boring’ shops.

‘I’ve finally had enough,’ she tells me. ‘It’s gone terribly downhill. It was a marvellous street for years and everybody wanted to go there.

‘Now, they’re trying to turn it into a high-rent thing with the same shops that you have everywhere, which is so boring. I’ve been there since 1981, for a very long time. I’m delighted to say goodbye to it.’

 

Former Cabinet secretary Amber Rudd is speaking at a Future Of Work conference today. 

What a shame she didn’t know her own future of work would be losing her job as Home Secretary over her handling of the Windrush scandal.

 

Mamma Mia! Look away now Mrs Brosnan

That same day, Judy Craymer, producer of the forthcoming Mamma Mia! film sequel in which he stars, shared online this snap of them embracing on set (right)

Former Bond star Pierce Brosnan is a hit with the ladies, just like his alter-ego.

The Irish actor arrived at Cannes on his 65th birthday this week with his wife of 17 years, producer Keely Shaye Smith, 54, on his arm.

That same day, Judy Craymer, producer of the forthcoming Mamma Mia! film sequel in which he stars, shared online this snap of them embracing on set. 

‘I used to assume I was going to get married and have children, but it was never the right time,’ Judy, 60, has said.

Let’s hope Keely, who matched Pierce in black, is not the jealous type . . .

 

Turner Prize-winning sculptor Sir Antony Gormley says it doesn’t matter who wins the award — simply being shortlisted for the £25,000 prize is advertisement enough.

‘The Turner Prize has done a very good job. Now, it’s just an opportunity to see four extraordinarily accomplished artists together,’ Gormley, who won the accolade in 1994, tells me. 

‘And, actually, who wins it is almost besides the point. The fact that people assume Tracey Emin has already won it, even though she didn’t, means job done. She doesn’t need to win it now.

‘Her not winning it hasn’t hindered her career at all. I can’t remember if Damien Hirst has won it.’

Hirst did win, in 1995, for Mother And Child Divided: a cow and calf cut in two and pickled in formaldehyde.

 

Why lonely Mariella is begging chums to visit

Husky-voiced Mariella Frostrup admits she’s begging her female friends to move in with her and her husband, human rights lawyer Jason McCue, after her menage a trois recently came to an end.

‘My best friend who was living with us left, she went back to Florence, but she might be coming back in a month — I’m really hoping so, because it’s very lonely without her,’ the 55-year-old mother-of-two tells me. ‘My life is bereft. I want her back.

‘I’ve been trying to encourage other female friends to come and live with me in her absence.

‘But most of them are married with children and they keep going: “It’s not convenient.” ’

And what is the secret to her 15-year marriage? ‘Compromise, compromise, compromise!’

 

Icelandic warbler Bjork complains that the ‘silences’ on her song Black Lake have been wrongly credited to her producer, Arca.

‘He did the beat for that song, but I had written it months before he came on the project. 

'Those silences were already there. They were mine,’ the eccentric songstress argues. 

Good luck to bonkers Bjork — her silence is golden, as anyone who has heard the song will confirm.