Rebecca Hall lined up to star in Iron Man 3 Sir Peter Hall has taken a close, protective interest in the career of his daughter Rebecca, and it is her patented mix of "brains and beauty" that was said to have made her so alluring to Sam Mendes. And what, pray, is the star of such highbrow stage productions of As You Like It and Galileo's Daughter - both directed by her father, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company - going to do next? She is, by all accounts, in talks with Marvel Studios and Disney to appear in the great, cerebral classic, Iron Man 3. The money had better be good. Princess is reunited with an old flame The Princess Royal has, for once, managed to win a role that is likely to push the Duchess of Cambridge off the front pages, at least for a day. Mandrake can disclose that Princess Anne is to bring the Olympic flame to London. The Princess will fly to Athens next week for the ceremony at which the flame will be handed over to the organisers of the London Olympics. The flame will be lit this Thursday using the sun's rays at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, the home of the ancient Games. It will then be carried around Greece on an eight-day relay before being brought to Britain by the Princess, who is the president of the British Olympic Association, and Lord Coe, the chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympics Games. They will bring the flame on a British Airways gold-liveried aircraft, with the flight number BA2012, to RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall next Friday. BA has been given special authorisation to carry the burning flame on its chartered Airbus A319 from the Civil Aviation Authority. It will travel in a ceremonial lantern that is secured in a special cradle which is, in turn, fixed to its seat on the plane using a secure holding device. The lantern is designed so the torch can burn safely for up to 30 hours. "My team is looking forward to working with the Hellenic Olympic Committee, the Ministry of Defence and our commercial partners to create exciting events to mark the flame's Greek provenance and its arrival to our shores," says Sebastian Coe.