Breaking News: Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts have joined Idris Elba in having publicly shown their support for the royals, while Hollywood cools toward Harry and Meghan.

In the vein of you can’t keep baby in the corner, you can’t dump Tom Cruise in a supporting role. Except if you’re the royal family.

You can keep your missions, impossible and your guns, top, Scientology’s answer to Willy Loman has repeatedly in recent years happily taken back seat, a B-list, second-string parts in events when asked to by the House of Windsor.

The eerily ageless A-lister happily played second fiddle to Kate the Princess of Wales at the London Top Gun: Maverick premiere and then accepted a simple ensemble role in 2022’s televised Royal

Royal Windsor Horse Show – the real star of which was Platinum Jubilee gal herself, the late Queen.