EMILY PRESCOTT: A beautiful response from Amanda Ghost who James Blunt tried to write out of the history of his hit song

Singer James Blunt has accused his co-writer Amanda Ghost of exaggerating her involvement in the production of his hit You’re Beautiful.

In his new memoir, which he says is ‘inspired’ by the truth, James, 49, writes that he gave Amanda credit for ten per cent of the song – which spent five weeks at No1 in 2005 – even though she had only made a passing comment about ‘[tying] up the end of the chorus’. But Amanda, 49, who is working on a musical of The Great Gatsby, is not rising to the bait.

Amanda tells me: ‘I hope with his new book that James proves himself as one of the most important novelists of his generation.’

Do you sense the sarcasm?

Singer James Blunt has accused his co-writer Amanda Ghost of exaggerating her involvement in the production of his hit You’re Beautiful

Amanda tells me: ‘I hope with his new book that James proves himself as one of the most important novelists of his generation’

Princess Margaret’s son David Linley has spent most of his life privately working on his bespoke furniture business. But I can reveal David, 61, has teamed up with Made in Chelsea’s Mark-Francis Vandelli for a TV show. Mark-Francis, 34, told me at the Maddox Gallery: ‘It’s very exciting and it’s all about vintage things.’ 

Forget reports that Princess Diana’s childhood home Althorp is haunted – the creepiest thing about the house are its paintings. So says Earl Spencer’s wife Karen, who is busy arranging family portraits to hang in the newly refurbished attic. Karen, who wed Diana’s brother in 2011, has revealed her simple rule for what goes where: ‘I prefer paintings of women and children in bedrooms, she says. ‘It’s a bit creepy to have old men looking down at you when you’re trying to go to sleep.’

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