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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Andrews allowance dates from when the Queen began funding the working royals from her Duchy of Lancaster income

CRAIG BROWN: Nolly, a drama about the sacking of the Crossroads lynchpin Noele Gordon (played by Helena Bonham Carter), is being screened this week.

English actress Noele Gordon was Queen of Crossroads as Meg Mortimer, and was mobbed in the street by fans. Now her astonishing story is re-created in a three-part series, Nolly.

“Education was the simplest of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe collection and possibly the most effective. McQueen evoked the look and feel of 1970s Britain with smoking headmasters and Roobarb on TV at teatime wonderfully. An eloquent and beautifully performed end to the anthology.” “This capper to an extraordinary run of work is the definition of a small axe, making its point with a tidy economy and focused just on a single oak-felling at hand. I was often reminded of Alan Clarke’s work f...

Lannick Gautry and Nadia Farès in The Red Shadows. Photograph: Fabien Malot/Channel 4 Imagine if Crossroads had been relocated to the south of France and the cast – Benny, Miss Diane and even Amy Turtle – replaced by impossibly beautiful women and men with abs so defined you could slice baguettes with them. Such is the Gallic hokum that is The Red Shadows (Channel 4). Domaine de Saint-Victoire boasts a hotel, a golf course, glamor...