"My agency were, like, 'No, you can't, it will be a career killer," " she said. Who likes Posh Spice, really? No one. I was like, 'Who the heck is she?"" Dr Williams, who becomes the master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in the new year, was invited to Buckingham Palace last week for a private audience with the Queen. She invested him with the Royal Victorian Chain, a personal token of esteem from the monarch. The gold, white enamelled Maltese Cross, which was awarded to Dr Williams's two predecessors, must be returned when he dies. The three most exhausting things in a woman's life are children, housework and giving dinner parties. I don't deal with any of those. Clare Balding tells Jilly Cooper her secret at the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury