Hollywood star Ernest Borgnine on why his marriage to actress Ethel Merman collapsed after 32 days Ernest Borgnine, who died this week aged 95, was married to his third wife, Ethel Merman, for just 32 days, following a disastrous honeymoon trip. "Everybody knew me, but they didn't know Ethel overseas," the Hollywood star once told Mandrake. The more they recognised me, the madder she got. That's what hurt her, so she started taking it out on me. The Queen's comic canon resigns Julian Ovenden, who played the spitfire pilot Andrew Foyle in Foyle's War, says his father, Canon John Ovenden, will step down as the Queen's chaplain later this year. "He includes a joke in each Sunday sermon, by royal request," says the actor, who has released an album of songs, If You Stay. Lady Natasha is married to fashion The Marquess of Reading can look forward to at least one saving when his daughter Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs marries Rupert Finch, a former boyfriend of the Duchess of Cambridge, next year. She is to make her own wedding dress. "It's definitely going to be Beulah," she says of her fashion label.