EXCLUSIVEEDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Shirley Conran will receive her damehood in her hospital bed as she 戦う／戦いs serious illness and is 'on her final 旅行', her son Jasper 明らかにする／漏らすs
She has led the most 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の life, from 令状ing bestsellers Superwoman and Lace to helping create one of our most talented design 王朝s.?
So what better final 行為／法令／行動する for Shirley Conran than to receive a damehood in her hospital bed.
'My mum is on her final 旅行,' explains her son, the designer Jasper Conran. 'She is looking 今後 to her party in the sky with all her friends and family. She is very much enjoying listening to messages.'
Before the unique investiture 儀式 on Tuesday, Jasper explained: 'This afternoon, she will be 投資するd with her damehood in hospital. The Palace have been incredibly 肉親，親類d and agreed to do this.'
Dame Shirley, 91, who 開始する，打ち上げるd the Daily Mail's Femail section in the 1960s, had been too unwell to travel to Buckingham Palace to collect the insignia of her damehood, which she was awarded in Liz Truss's 辞職 honours 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） last December.
Designer Jasper Conran (pictured, 権利) explained his mother Shirley Conran (pictured, left) is 'on her final 旅行' and would be receiving her damehood in her hospital bed?
Dame Shirley, 91, (pictured in 2005) had been too unwell to travel to Buckingham Palace to collect the insignia of her damehood
The former wife of Habitat co-創立者 Sir Terence Conran had told me in 2022 that she was surprised she still wasn't a dame.?
'I いつかs wonder why I'm not, if you look at the people who are, 特に if they've given a million 続けざまに猛撃するs to some 王室の charity,' she said.
In 最近の years, she 充てるd herself to helping people with 苦悩 about mathematics.?
'I've spent over a million 続けざまに猛撃するs of my money on the maths 調書をとる／予約するs,' she explained.??
'There are a hell of a lot of actors who just go along, get paid £25,000 to 削減（する） a 略章 at the 開始 of a supermarket, then they say they've worked for charity and get made a dame for it.'
Dame Shirley 明らかにする／漏らすd her most 劇の and secret challenge in 2020: 生き残るing an 操作／手術 to 除去する a brain tumour that was the size of an orange.
'The 半端物s were very high that I would die,' she told me at the time.?
The former wife of Habitat co-創立者 Sir Terence Conran said in 2022 that she was surprised she still wasn't a dame (pictured here at the Women of the Year Awards in 2014)
Shirley pictured here in 1990 with her two sons:?the celebrated designers Jasper (権利) and Sebastian Conran (left)
The author and 新聞記者／雑誌記者 開始する，打ち上げるd the Daily Mail's Femail section in the 1960s having been 任命するd the Daily Mail's women's editor at the age of 36 (pictured in 1968)
She has led the most 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の life, from 令状ing bestsellers Superwoman and Lace to helping create one of our most talented design 王朝s
Shirley 明らかにする／漏らすd her most 劇の and secret challenge in 2020: 生き残るing an 操作／手術 to 除去する a brain tumour that was the size of an orange (pictured in 2014)
'The 操作／手術 took five-and-a-half hours. When I （機の）カム out of it, within hours I had two seizures, so I was in 集中的な care for two days.'
Dame Shirley, who coined the phrase 'Life's too short to stuff a mushroom', has two sons with Sir Terence: the celebrated designers Jasper and Sebastian Conran.
After the 操作／手術, she 明らかにする／漏らすd that she was working on her memoirs.?
'For 40 years, people have been asking me to 令状 my autobiography and I've always said no because it would bore me. When 地雷 is finished, I will decide whether I want it published.'
Oil be just 罰金! Getty heiress Ivy puts her love 分裂（する） behind her?
Heiress Ivy Getty recently とじ込み／提出するd for 離婚 from her husband, the British photographer Toby Engel, but she's 決定するd not to let her marriage woes get the better of her.
The 広大な／多数の／重要な granddaughter of oil industrialist J. Paul Getty 提起する／ポーズをとるd at the Ralph Lauren Fashion Show in New York, 冒険的な a £2,800 embellished satin cocktail dress by the U.S. fashion house. 'Always a 楽しみ,' the model s ays of the occasion.
The American socialite, 29, married Engel, the son of former 載冠（式）／即位（式） Street 星／主役にする Cheryl Prime, in 2021, one year after her father, John Gilbert Getty, died of a fentanyl overdose and heart problems 老年の 52.
Guests at the three-day wedding in San Francisco 含むd Princess Olympia of Greece.
Ivy Getty (pictured) …に出席するs the Ralph Lauren fashion show in Midtown on April 29, 2024 in New York City
Lady C: Give us 厳密に Morris Dancing...
The Countess of Carnarvon, chatelaine of Highclere 城, has 5,000 acres at her 処分 and a dining room lined with portraits, 含むing a 先頭 Dyck of Charles I.
But never assume she 無視（する）s the outside world ― 特に today, May Day, when Morris ダンサーs weave their way 一連の会議、交渉／完成する a May 政治家.
'We should all raise a glass to the Morris ダンサーs,' says Fiona Carnarvon, arguing that they deserve the s ame television 治療 as other terpsichorean disciplines. 'Thanks to programmes like 厳密に Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice, ballroom dancing and ballet are much better known,' laments Lady Carnarvon, who, since childhood, has delighted in the 'rhythmic choreography' of Morris ダンサーs.
作曲家 Sir Arnold Bax 同意しないd, of course, arguing 'one should try everything once, except incest ― and folk dancing'.
Lady Carnarvon, the owner of Highclere 城, (pictured) 提起する／ポーズをとるs in the stately home known around the world as the 発生地 for 'Downton Abbey', in Highclere, Britain, March 10, 2023
Dragon 星／主役にする's night out... with mother-in-法律?
Good to see Duncan Bannatyne out with a woman his own age for a change ― his mother-in-法律.
But instead of 雇うing a リムジン, the former Dragons' Den 星／主役にする, 75, did 軍隊 Malokhat Suleymanova to squeeze into a 黒人／ボイコット cab に引き続いて a night out at Scott's restaurant in Mayfair with her and her daughter, Nigora.
The Clydebank foundry 労働者's son, who has an 概算の fortune of more than £400 million, married Nigora, who's 31 years his junior, in 2017.
They met when he was a 患者 at the Harley Street dental 外科 where she was a receptionist.
Instead of 雇うing a リムジン, Duncan Bannatyne, 75, (pictured) did 軍隊 Malokhat Suleymanova to squeeze into a 黒人／ボイコット cab
He sold his house there for nearly £30 million in 2022, but Richard Curtis's 出発 from Notting Hill doesn't seem to have dented its 控訴，上告.?
Indeed, I can 公表する／暴露する that the expensive west London 飛び領土 is 群れているing with 安全 職員／兵員 as filming begins of Too Much, a Netflix romantic comedy by Lena Dunham, creator of 攻撃する，衝突する series Girls, and starring Emily Ratajkowski, Richard E. 認める and Stephen Fry.?
'Could be the new 'blue door' moment,' a 地元の tells me, referring to the bookshop immortalised by Curtis in Notting Hill and which, 25 years later, remains a tourist 神社.
Fat-cat former （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 George Osborne may hope not.?
He bought a lesser house in the same road for £10 million ― just as Curtis moved out.?
出発／死ing into the night with her Variety Club Showbusiness Award, Dame Joan Collins barks at waiting photographers to make it snappy as she's been at the event for five hours.?
'So have I,' wails one of the lensmen. 'But you 港／避難所't been in heels,' Joanie 答える／応じるs.?
(L to R) Christopher Biggins, Dame Joan Collins, Percy Gibson and Hazel Collins …に出席する The Variety Club Showbusiness Awards 2024 at The Londoner Hotel on April 28, 2024 in London
TV chef Ken Hom, who created the 公式の／役人 street party lamb recipe for King Charles's 載冠（式）／即位（式）, is '荒廃させるd' that the 君主 has 癌, having beaten the 病気 himself.?
But the Chinese-American 星／主役にする does seem to be good at lightening the mood.?
'When I saw the King last, I hadn't seen him in a couple of years. I said, 'Hi, Sir, you don't remember me, but the last time we met we both had hair and you still have yours,' Hom, 74, tells me at the Golden Chopsticks Awards at the 王室の Lancaster Hotel in London.?
'He laughed so hard, his 護衛 （機の）カム over to check he was 承認する.'
Sir Terry Wogan's son 示す, a chef and restaurant owner, says vegetarianism has been slow to become 受託するd in his family's native Ireland.
Talking about trying to find 非，不，無-meat dishes, 示す says: 'Not 平易な. Go into an Irish restaurant, [ask] 'What's the vegetarian 選択?' 'Stay at home.'
It's like the Irish had potatoes, then they discovered pork.'
