The Prince of Wales wrote to Spice Girl Geri Halliwell when she quit the group, saying he would miss her "wonderfully friendly greeting," Britain's Mirror newspaper reported yesterday.
Ginger Spice Geri, who quit the chart-topping fivesome on May 31st, made a habit of giving Charles a big kiss and even pinching his bottom when they met at charity concerts.
"Dear Geri, I wanted to drop you a line to say how sorry I was to discover you had decided to leave the rest of the Spice Girls. I suspect I am not the only one to feel sad either! The group certainly will not be the same without your wonderfully friendly greeting in the future," wrote Charles, who earlier this year invited the girls to tea with his younger son Harry.
Christoph Meili, the former security guard fired for saving Naziera papers from destruction, will become a millionaire thanks to the deal between two Swiss banks and Holocaust survivors, Zurich's Blick newspaper claims.
Meili (30) is to receive $1 million in connection with a lawsuit he lodged against Union Bank of Switzerland in January, Blick quoted New York lawyer Paul Gallhager as saying.
The Beatles are still top of the pops with the British after 35 years. One of the biggest polls conducted into musical tastes puts the "Fab Four" ahead as the top recording act of all time. Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Queen follow them in the top 100 list, compiled from the favourite acts of 5,000 music fans for Mojo magazine.
Seaghan Maynes, a former Reuters correspondent who covered the D-Day landings, the liberation of Paris and the Nuremberg war crimes trials, died in hospital on Thursday after a heart attack. He was 82. He served at various times as correspondent for Commonwealth affairs, defence, and his native Northern Ireland.