Prince Charles 'interested" by abdication Last year, Charles, 64, spoke of "running out of time." He said: "Impatient? What a thing to suggest. Yes, of course I am. I'll run out of time soon. I shall have snuffed it if I'm not careful. "It seems odd that there aren't even that many women cabinet ministers, so things do seem to be going markedly in the wrong direction," the actress says at the BFI screening of A Liar's Autobiography. Asked, however, which woman politician would make a good party leader, Front says: "I can't really think of any at the moment." Hollywood can wait for Barks Samantha Barks, the television talent contest winner, beat the American pop singer Taylor Swift to the role of Eponine in Les Misérables. Despite the film's huge success, she will not, however, be moving to Hollywood. "London is enough of a jump from the Isle of Man, as it is," she tells me. I'm an Isle of Man girl at heart, so I can't see me relocating to Hollywood anytime soon.