In brief: Lily Allen’s chart double

Pop queen Lily Allen has achieved a double triumph: her new album, It's Not Me, It's You, tops the UK charts today, while her single, The Fear, is also number one............ M.I.A., who performed at the Grammy Awards last Sunday despite experiencing labour contractions, gave birth to a baby boy on Saturday........... Madonna wants to make a film in which she will star as Wallis Simpson, the divorcee whose relationship with King Edward VIII led him to abdicate the throne........... Sir Paul McCartney has unveiled a new exercise video which features a practice known as "eye yoga"............ Lindsay Duncan, who plays Lady Thatcher in a forthcoming BBC play about the Tory Leader, has spoken about the Iron Lady. "I suppose if I'm honest, I hated her," she said…………. Spandau Ballet, the 1980s pop band that featured the brothers Martin and Gary Kemp, is reforming. The band's manager, Steve Dagger, insisted it was not "a nostalgic re-run of the old, but a fresh slant on what Spandau Ballet are all about"............ Lord Frederick Windsor, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent's son, is to marry the actress Sophie Winkelman, half-sister of the TV presenter Claudia Winkleman, and a regular on the C4 sitcom Peep Show ………….Edward Upward, the novelist and friend of W H Auden and Christopher Isherwood, has died aged 105…………. Kenneth Branagh won the best actor award in the Whatsonstage.com awards last night for his performance in the Donmar Warehouse production of Chekhov's Ivanov. David Tennant took the prize for 'theatre event of the year' for the RSC’s Hamlet………… ·