Flash Gordon is a hit at Buckingham Palace Flash Gordon was a peculiarly camp 1980 film which featured the muscular actor Sam J Jones in the title role and a soundtrack from Queen. Although it was, of course, the rock band rather than the monarch, the film still appears to have achieved a devoted following among the courtiers at Buckingham Palace. The column was seen as mildly embarrassing for the Archbishop of York, but now, of course, he has little to lose. Sentamu's official explanation for not returning earlier from the "retreat" which had, in July, stopped him writing his "Sunday Service" column, was that he was upset that the tabloid had published "lurid" pictures of Prince Harry in the buff. "I was surprised and disappointed it had published them," he said. He took the matter up with the powers-that-be, but, for all their protestations to him that their publication served a greater good, he was "not convinced." Still, time clearly heals, and Sentamu is, after all, in the forgiveness business. Gabriella's capital idea Although she has studied at Brown University in America, and last year enrolled on an anthropology PhD course at Oxford, Lady Gabriella Windsor, would now appear to be ready to make her way in the world. "I live in London now, not Oxford," the 31-year-old tells me adamantly at Newbury racecourse. I've finished my studies, so I'm back here to follow on from that. She wouldn't tell me what kind of work she is looking for, but I trust that she has a number of options to weigh up.