The Queen has carried out her first royal duty since the Duke of Edinburgh’s death last week. She hosted a private ceremony at Windsor Castle to mark the retirement of her household’s most senior official, Earl Peel. The Royal Family is observing two weeks of mourning after Prince Philip died on Friday, aged 99. However, members of the Royal Family are continuing to carry out “engagements appropriate to the circumstances", an official said.

The Earl Peel announced he would retire last year, with his replacement, Andrew Parker, a former MI5 chief, taking over just a week before Prince Philip died. The Earl Peel had overseen arrangements for the duke's funeral - known as Operation Forth Bridge - which takes place on Saturday. The pandemic means it’ll be a much more low-key event but Buckingham Palace says the plans reflect Prince Philip's wishes.

A top civil servant joined financial firm Greensill Capital as an adviser while still working for the government, a lobbying watchdog has revealed. Bill Crothers's part-time position with the now-collapsed firm had been “agreed" to by the Cabinet Office, according to the Office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments. Mr Crothers - who had been the government's chief procurement officer prior to being taken on by Greensill - said he’d been taken on in a "transparent" way.

But the chairman of the Office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, Lord Pickles complained of a "lack of transparency" over the situation and Labour called Mr Crothers's dual employment "extraordinary and shocking". Boris Johnson has set up an inquiry into lobbying and government sources said it would also now look at the situation surrounding Mr Crothers.

David Cameron’s lobbying for collapsed finance firm Greensill Capital is headlining in a number a papers this morning. The latest development about a top civil servant having a dual role in the government and working under the former prime minister is being reported widely.

“Cameron mandarin snared by lobbying scandal“ is the Daily Mail’s headline. The Guardian says Downing Street and Cabinet Office sources are "deeply concerned" the role at the “scandal-hit” firm was given official approval. The Metro takes a different angle on the story, focussing on Chancellor Rishi Sunak. It reports “it looks a bit fishy, Rishi" after he avoided facing questions in the House of Commons. 

A few papers focus on the pandemic with the Sun reporting on the “booze stampede” and the Daily Telegraph saying a quarter of virus deaths are “not caused by Covid”. You can read more here.

When archaeologist Marie Woods went out to collect shellfish for dinner on the Yorkshire coast she wasn’t expecting to find a three-toed dinosaur footprint. She says she was “completely distracted” by the find and didn’t collect much to eat after that. You can take a look at the extinct Jurassic giant’s print here.

A conservation project to save one-horned rhinos from extinction reaches a positive milestone in Nepal’s wildlife sanctuaries. The Himalayan nation's rhino population has risen by more than 100 to 752, from 645 in 2015, which Haribhadra Acharya, a senior official at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, tells us they are “very excited” about.

Finally, for Bridgerton fans who may fear the period drama might not live on after the second series (which isn’t even out yet), Netflix has announced there’ll be a third and fourth.

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