In the unlikely event that the Queen ever gets bored with Miss Marple and Poirot, her Buckingham Palace accountant Sir John Parsons might possibly suggest she braves the noisier airwaves of music channel MTV.
Sir John, 66, the Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse, and his wife Anne, who is sister of retired MI5 chief Baroness Manningham-Buller, have been proudly watching MTV ever since their comely daughter, Lilah, landed a job there. Lilah, 24, has just become the latest pretty face to join MTV’s Chart Show, where she interviews all the new names in the music business.
She is also due to present coverage of the Snow Bombing Festival from Mayrhofen in Austria this April for the channel.
‘We are very proud of her,’ says Sir John, whose job means he is jointly responsible for the financial management of the Queen’s royal household and the Civil List.
Lilah, who was discovered at 16 by a fashion scout and has modelled for Chanel, Vivienne Westwood and Swatch, describes herself as a ‘total adrenaline freak’.
She says: ‘I’m a trained ski instructor and I recently took up indoor rock climbing again. I also used to be in the Territorial Army.
‘Ask me to jump out of a plane and I’ll jump. I’ll try anything once.' dailymail.co.uk