SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: From pram-pushing to bar-hopping: The very …

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While Prince Harry’s exes are generally lithe, blonde and pretty, the similarities between them tend to end there.

On the one hand, there’s Florence Brudenell-Bruce, the lingerie model who dated the Prince in 2011 before marrying her long-term boyfriend, Henry St George, last summer.

On the other, there’s Cressida Bonas, dancer, nascent actress and now, following a photoshoot, Vanity Fair’s darling.

Not so similar: Former lingerie model Florence Brudenell-Bruce, 28, seen pushing her newborn daughter Iris (left), while 25-year-old Cressida Bonas (right) is caught puffing on a cigarette outside a London bar

Florence, 28, was spotted pushing her newborn daughter, Iris, in a pram through Notting Hill. Cressida, 25, meanwhile, was caught puffing on a cigarette beside a drinks-laden table outside a London bar.

In the world of would-be-royals, what a difference three years make.

Sir David’s son tries to cut it as the new Frost

It’s been less than a year since Sir David Frost died, but fans will be consoled that his son, Wilfred, appears to be following in the  late broadcaster’s footsteps.

On Wednesday, Eton and Oxford-educated Wilf, 28, sat down to interview Michael Jackson’s former friend Uri Geller for ITV Meridian.

He asked the acclaimed spoon-bender: ‘When you started out in Britain, people were astonished by the things you did — the bending of the spoon, which is still astonishing — but today people are perhaps a little bit more sceptical of your abilities. How do you respond to people?’

Following his father’s footsteps: Wilfred Frost has interviewed Uri Geller for ITV Meridian

It’s not exactly Frost/Nixon, but it’s a start.

Perhaps Wilf would do better to seek his fortunes on the big screen. He made a convincing ‘Wolverine’ — the superhero portrayed by Hugh Jackman in the X-Men film franchise — at a fancy-dress party last year, as my picture shows.

The BBC has lowered the minimum studio audience age (14) for its gymnastics-themed Saturday night talent show, Tumble, and children as young as ten are being invited to confect an atmosphere of unbridled enthusiasm.

Louis Smith and Nadia Comaneci are panel judges on the Splash!-inspired contest, which has attracted the likes of TOWIE’s Lucy Mecklenburgh to perform gymnastic challenges.

Perhaps the Beeb should have gone the whole hog and just revived Crackerjack! instead.

From the Costa del Sol I hear of the death of one of Soho’s most notorious Sixties gangsters.

Lebanese-born Raymond Nakachian, a partner of the slum landlord Peter Rachman, was a rival of the Krays and a friend of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies.

Known as Nash, his greatest claim to fame was taking over the failing Establishment Club in Greek Street after Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett took their satirical show, Beyond The Fringe, to New York in 1962.

‘Nash was a traditional Soho type,’ Cook told his biographer Harry Thompson. ‘He never drank, never smoked and always carried a briefcase full of cash. He was later sent to jail for gold smuggling in Tokyo.

‘He and his fellow gangsters were utterly bewildered as to why the goose had suddenly ceased to lay golden eggs. The Establishment Club  soon reverted to a sex cinema.’

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