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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: The Queen’s head? Painter Freud had other interests...

Portrait of the Queen by British artist Lucian Freud

(Picture: Getty Images)

Welcome to the last Londoner’s Diary of the week. First up one of Lucian Freud’s models has revealed the artist’s ‘real interest’ when he was due to paint the Queen. Later, Omari Douglas speaks about why he thinks heterosexual actors should steer clear of queer roles and arist Tracey Emin recalled the meeting with art collector Charles Saatchi when she sold him her unmade bed. In SW1A Shaun Ryder compares Sir Keir Starmer to a screwdriver and Dominic Raab hoists himself by his own petard.

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