ROYAL BLUSH
NO SOONER HAD JUDI Dench courageously joined popular condemnation of Th e Crown, than grubby journalists were eagerly reporting she’d privately been in “serious talks” to play the Queen Mother in the drama only months before.
So-called “television insiders” even had the temerity to suggest the size of Judi’s fee was among determining factors when it came to her not joining the cast. While the hoi polloi will doubtless imagine some kind of double standard on the great lady’s part, such folk can hardly be expected to grasp the intricacies of high-end show business.
◆ Apropos , I shall be joining irate royalists officially “boycotting”
