Lieutenant Colonel Jonny Thompson joins the King in Scotland for a surprise appearance â but will the âhot equerryâ marry this year?
King Charlesâ?? right-hand man, who is engaged to PR executive Olivia Lewis, arrived alongside the monarch in Aberdeen
Thompson, oft known as the âhot equerryâ, has a connection to the ancient heritage of the former infantry regiment, which was part of the British Army from 1881 to 1994, before it merged with the Queen's Own Highlanders. In 2006, it was merged into the Royal Regiment of Scotland â the 5th Battalion of which Thompson is a member. Both he and Charles wore kilts for their visit to the museum, which seeks to preserve the heritage of the Gordon Highlanders, and were welcomed by Jim Glennie, a 99-year-old D-Day veteran, who shook the King's hand warmly.
Thompson, pictured at the 2024 Braemar Gathering, is engaged to PR executive Olivia Lewis
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesCharles is said to have been very invested in the visit, according to Colonel Charlie Sloan, chairman of the museum. âHe thoroughly enjoyed it and encouraged us to do more,â he told The Times. âIf you go by how nervous his equerry was looking about being late to leave, youâll know he was enjoying himself.â This trip marks the first time the King and Thompson have been seen together in 2025 â and will have prompted many fans of the royals to wonder if the nuptials of the so-called âhot equerryâ are imminent.
In October last year, those hoping to snag the gorgeous envoy were disappointed when Thompson confirmed his engagement to his girlfriend of a year and a half, Olivia Lewis. As per upper class tradition, Thompson shared the news in The Times, with an announcement that read: âThe engagement is announced between Lieutenant Colonel Jonny Thompson, son of Mr and Mrs Alan Thompson of Morpeth, Northumberland, and Olivia Rose, daughter of Mr and Mrs Simon Lewis OBE of Primrose Hill, London.â
Once included on Tatler's Social Power Index, Jonny Thompson joined the army aged 22 in 2006, and rose through the ranks to become the late Queen's most senior bodyguard. Following her passing in 2022, he was promoted to Super Equerry to the King, with major roles in the late Queen's funeral and King Charlesâ coronation. Thompson quickly attracted attention at the latter, looking just as dashing standing at Charles' side in his regimental kilt as he did at other royal events (lovelorn sighs could be heard across the country when he was pictured in morning dress, hanging out with Zara Tindall at Ascot).
No wonder, then, that when rumours circulated of a split between Thompson and his wife, Caroline, he became Britain's most eligible bachelor practically overnight. Soon, however, he was linked to Olivia Lewis, a PR executive who has worked for the King and Queen herself. She follows in the footsteps of her father, Simon Lewis â once the Queen's communications maestro and the man credited with managing her reputation in the period following the death of Princess Diana. He later switched from the Palace to politics, becoming former prime minister Gordon Brown's spin doctor.
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The X Games will experiment judging halfpipe runs this week in Aspen using artificial intelligence, the cutting-edge technology that could someday play a role in the way subjectively judged sports are scored.
Long a trendsetter in action sports, the X Games and its new CEO, freestyle skiing great Jeremy Bloom, teamed with Google founder Sergey Brin to build the technology.
Using Google Cloud tools including Vertex AI, Bloom thinks this experiment has potential to change the game on halfpipes, then maybe on slopestyle courses, skating rinks and anywhere a judge is used to score a contest.
“Part of subjective sports, we see it all over the place, is that even at their best, humans can get it wrong,” said Bloom, who was a freestyle skier at two Olympics while also playing college football at Colorado. “Sometimes getting it wrong has huge implications. What if we could give judges superpowers and they could see things they couldn't see with the human eye, and this technology could help inform them?”
The specter of a judging mistake lingers over every high-stakes contest, and even with its more laid-back vibe, snowboarding, which is now a fixture in the Olympic program, is no exception.
At the last Winter Games in Beijing, the sport narrowly avoided a potential scandal in the men's halfpipe final. Japan's Ayumu Hirano landed the most difficult trick in the sport — a triple cork — as part of a strong, top-to-bottom run, but was ranked behind another rider who didn't do the trick after two rounds.
Snowboarding experts were aghast on social media. Had Hirano not pulled off the trick again on his third round, his score from Round 2 wouldn't have been enough for the gold medal he eventually won.
In another episode, Canadian slopestyler Max Parrot acknowledged not grabbing his board on a run that earned him a gold medal, a key element that judges missed but that could be picked up on close review of the video.
The AI at the X Games this week won't have any impact on the official scoring, but will be a gauge of what's possible in the future. Bloom said thousands of hours of halfpipe footage, along with the judging criteria, have been loaded into a system that will be shown on the TV telecast and be made available to the live judges.
The AI will be programmed to watch haflpipe practice and predict the top three finishers. Then its powers will be used to judge and commentate on three different riders as they go down the halfpipe.
“It's early days, but the technology sort of blows your mind,” Bloom said. “It's the power of what it can do when you give it clear direction. It's pretty amazing what this thing can do.”
In snowboarding, judges look at elements like the height of the jumps, the difficulty of the tricks and how well they're executed. They ultimately deliver scores on a 100-point scale based on how runs stack up against each other.
It's a nuance unlike figure skating or gymnastics, where individual tricks have specific point values. Bloom says all that is being taken into account as they work through the experiment.
He does not envision a future with no human judges.
“I don't think this replaces the judges, Bloom said, but I think it gives them power to ensure objectivity.”
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