Amanda Staveley, the woman touted as Prince Andrews future wife, declines to attend his birthday party

Tim Walker Published: 9:45PM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

Catrina Skepper and Caroline Habib both former girlfriends of the Duke attended, along with Sarah, Duchess of York, his former wife, but Miss Staveley, whilst she was invited, had to put commercial operation prior to pleasure.

I am told that Miss Staveley is now in Dubai, where her boutique advisory organisation PCP Capital Partners has been generally active given the emirate got in to difficulties.

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Seven years ago, when she was reported to have been on the verge of marrying the Duke, Miss Staveley, 36, told me: "Romance is the last thing on my mind."

Note to John Prescott"s Twitter followers: Do not feed this man

Food seems to be seldom, if ever, off the mind of John Prescott. The former emissary budding minister, who owned up to problems with bulimia in his memoirs, wrote on his Twitter site over the week end how he was "taking orders for pizzas".

The last time I speckled the old butt at a party, I beheld how one of his associates waved afar a waiter who had attempted to suggest him a sausage on a stick. I know that Pauline, his long-suffering-wife, additionally goes to good heedfulness to have certain he cooking sensibly.

Now, after his coming on Newsnight last month when he looked bigger than ever, I am commencement to consternation if he isn"t utilizing the amicable networking site as a

way of clandestinely grouping junk food.