Rest in Peace, Kenny

On a personal note, I mark the passing of singer Kenny Rogers at his home in Georgia at the age of 81.

Rogers, who was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, used to entertain at a number of charity events in New York where I last saw him at the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation gala with the late Mary Tyler Moore at the Waldorf Astoria in 1997.

Best known for hits including “Lucille,” “The Gambler,” and his duet “Islands in the Stream” with Dolly Parton, Rogers was a three-time Grammy winner, releasing 65 albums and selling more than 165 million records.

Nuptials Postponed

Queen Elizabeth‘s granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, 31, is reportedly planning to postpone her May 29 wedding to real estate developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 36, stepson of an old prep school classmate, the late Christopher Shale.

The ceremony in the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace, where Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, will have an extremely limited guest list, given the new coronavirus rules introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Church of England.

Beatrice, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is now going to have the nuptials in 2021 after a reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by the Queen was also cancelled.

Stay tuned…

Sightings: Actor Jason Gedrick checking out the Three Pickles… Oscar winner Kevin Costner noshing at Oliver’s… Star Wars director George Lucas at Los Arroyos

Pip! Pip! – and be safe