Nearly a Century Old and Still Going Strong
Mum was the word in Britain Wednesday as 5,000 loyal subjects gathered to hail the Queen Mother on her 99th birthday. Daughter Queen Elizabeth II, grandson Prince Charles and great-grandsons William and Harry were all on hand to toast the most beloved of the Windsor clan. She showed she still has the right royal stuff. Not only did she stand and greet well-wishers for nearly an hour assisted by only a cane, but the Sunday Mirror reports she has invited the other woman, Camilla Parker Bowles, to tea in the fall despite her reigning daughter’s bitter objections. “The Queen Mother believes that the time has come to deal with the Charles and Camilla situation,” a royal aide told the London tab. Not a moment too soon. British papers also reported that Camilla joined Charles and his sons for a family cruise in the Mediterranean on Thursday. The palace remains tight-lipped.
A Kennedy Wedding
Rory Kennedy has taken the first steps toward putting last month’s tragedy behind her, walking down the aisle with Mark Bailey in Greece last Monday. Her elaborate July 17 wedding at the family’s Hyannis Port compound was postponed after cousin John Kennedy Jr.’s plane crashed en route. Last week’s nuptials were a stark contrast to the bash they originally planned: only 25 guests attended the ultraprivate ceremony at Greek shipping tycoon Vardis Vardinoyannis’s Athens villa. Greek TV caught a glimpse of Kennedy, 30, wearing her wedding gown as she boarded Vardinoyannis’s yacht for her honeymoon.
Our Hero
If “Dawson’s Creek” ever dries up, Joshua Jackson has earned his spot on “Baywatch.” Last week the “Dawson’s” heartthrob helped save two damsels in distress who were drowning off the coast of North Carolina where the WB hit films. Action Jackson, 21, and a pal dived into the rough water, swam over to the drowning duo and “kept them safe and floating until the Coast Guard got there,” confirmed one of the show’s producers. Just the kind of real-life melodrama that makes us swoon.
