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Tom Hollander makes a dazzling Truman Capote – but it's the fantasy that's truly seductive
Tom Hollander makes a dazzling Truman Capote – but it's the fantasy that's truly seductive

Telegraph

time12-07-2025

  • General
  • Telegraph

Tom Hollander makes a dazzling Truman Capote – but it's the fantasy that's truly seductive

Single-sex education was not for me. I've published a 150,000-word memoir on the subject of how and why I became a poker champion, but I can sum that book up in two sentences: 'I wanted to meet boys. Then I met some.' Spending 13 years in an all-girls' school, I moved towards boys like a plant looking for light. And, like a plant, I was prepared to grow up twisted. (Plus, I'm riddled with greenfly.) I didn't yearn for romance, especially, just male energy. Or male lack of energy; both are great. Boys want to run around, playing games and laughing and throwing things. As they get older, they'll do almost anything for a quiet life. The combination is hugely appealing. If you find it in a woman, that's the absolute bingo. But it's annoyingly rare; men tend to be like that by default. Women have too pronounced a guilt mechanism either for mindless game-playing or a quiet life. It kicks in early. I remember the era when I was still playing hide-and-seek or looking up rude words in the dictionary, and eyes started to roll around me. 'Oh, Victoria,' they began to imply. 'Can't you grow up? Cecilia's got an idea for a new diet we could all go on. Jemima might have depression. Nobody's counting to 20 and looking for you behind a cupboard.' Did boys think like that? I always reckoned not. As for a quiet life, the evidence was that girls moved towards emotional confrontation and stress. It can't have been an accident every day. That lessens with age – older women feel more anger, while having fewer rows – but the guilt mechanism increases. There is no peace. Women might think they want a bit of calm and quiet, but the second their bum hits the sofa cushion, they leap up shouting 'Ooh I totally forgot to send that email / buy that present / defrost that stew / learn Japanese. Back in a minute.' Released from school, I hurried to an overwhelmingly male-dominated college, then became a stand-up comic, then started playing poker. Thus, I barely met another woman for about ten years. These days, I have some close female friends, but no 'gang' of girls at all. And that's a pity, because middle-aged women are terrific. Guilt-ridden, over-burdened and struggling to relax, but still more fun at 45 than they were at 15. I need a gang but don't know how to come by it – especially because I, too, am preoccupied with the endless to-do list of life. I can't join a book group, the bathroom needs grouting! I was thinking about this while watching Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, which was released last year on Disney+. It's the trueish story of a group of wealthy New York socialites who befriended the writer Truman Capote and then fell out with him. This is the long-awaited sequel to Feud: Bette and Joan, a great treat of 2017 with Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as her rival Joan Crawford. That delicious series won many awards, but the makers didn't come back with a new story until 2024. Why not? Nobody really knows. There was Covid, of course. And there was an attempt at Feud: Charles and Diana but that was abandoned, perhaps because the material had been so comprehensively mined by other shows. The tale of Truman Capote and his haute couture frenemies seems a much better idea. Nobody needs to see a Lady Di lookalike finding that Fred and Gladys bracelet for the millionth time – and the ongoing generational trauma makes that all, still, too sad. This story feels fresher and spicier. Two episodes in, I'm enjoying it tremendously. There's a typically dazzling central performance from Tom Hollander as Capote (rarely has an actor combined so much charisma with so little vanity), Naomi Watts is magnificent as Babe Paley, and the glittery, beautiful roster of star cameos (Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart, Molly Ringwald) is as tempting as a box of New Berry Fruits. But an incalculable part of the appeal, for me, is the fantasy of 'ladies who lunch'. There they are, day after day in the same sumptuous restaurant: impeccably dressed, sipping white Burgundy and swapping vicious gossip. It looks idyllic. Can it be real? I bet it isn't. The fantasy is to be so rich, and so well staffed, that there's nothing to do but eat poached salmon and get your nails done. I expect nobody lives like that really. They'd just feel constantly busy and stressed with the whole project of employing other people to do the stuff – to clean the pools and drive the cars and walk the dogs and tailor the clothes and train the children; there'd be endless hiring and firing and worrying and lawyers. Lauren Bezos's wedding looked like an absolute admin nightmare. And yet, this show offers the traditional vision of rich married women with endless time for opulent lunches with gossipy friends. They walk their glossy horses down dappled avenues, hand the reins to obedient stable boys and snip a few flowers from the garden. The programme shows us bastard husbands, terminal illness and social shame, but I find it hard to sympathise because I'm so damn jealous of the free time.

Who is Jemima Goldsmith and why is she fiercely defending jailed former Pakistan PM Imran Khan? What about Sulaiman and Kasim who...
Who is Jemima Goldsmith and why is she fiercely defending jailed former Pakistan PM Imran Khan? What about Sulaiman and Kasim who...

India.com

time11-07-2025

  • Politics
  • India.com

Who is Jemima Goldsmith and why is she fiercely defending jailed former Pakistan PM Imran Khan? What about Sulaiman and Kasim who...

New Delhi: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been a highly successful cricketer who led his country to numerous high-profile victories on the cricket. He retired from international cricket at the end of the 1987 Cricket World Cup but was asked by none other than the country's President, General Zia-ul-Haq to come back and lead the team. Five years later in 1992, he led his team to their first and only world cup triumph. During his playing days he had been subjected to severe scrutiny concerning his Western lifestyle and huge popularity among women from across the continents. In an orthodox Pakistan it was not seen very kindly and the chorus for him to get married and settle down got momentum. Who is Jemima Goldsmith? Imran Khan finally got married to British national Jemima Goldsmith on 16 May 1995, in a Nikah ceremony in Paris. A few months before the wedding, Jemima converted to Islam and changed her name to Haiqa and after her marriage, relocated to his hometown, Lahore, Pakistan, where she learned to speak Urdu and also wore traditional Pakistani clothes. It was very difficult for Jemima/Haiqa to adjust to the ultra-conservative Pakistani society especially when her husband Imran Khan entered politics as he founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). When Jemima moved back to England The couple have two sons, Sulaiman Isa (born 18 November 1996) and Kasim (born 10 April 1999). During the marriage Jemima actively participated in the charity drive for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre and also supported her Khan in starting his initial political career. But it was not to be a happy union as she could not withstand the restrictions and cultural boundaries. They got divorced in 2004. Still the two are in touch and ever since Imran Khan was toppled from the post of the prime minister and jailed, Jemima has voiced her concern without any inhibition. Jemima has not remarried! What is the threat to Sulaiman and Kasim, their sons? Jemima is very much worried about her ex-husband and has made no bones about it. The former wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan, has strongly condemned the Pakistani government after a top official threatened to arrest their sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, if they visit their father in prison. 'My children are not allowed to speak on the phone to their father Imran Khan. He has been in solitary confinement in prison for nearly two years. Pakistan's government has now said if they go there to try to see him, they too will be arrested and put behind bars. This doesn't happen in a democracy or a functioning state. This isn't politics. It's a personal vendetta,' Jemima posted on X. What did Pakistan govt say about Imran Khan's sons? 'If Imran Khan's sons come to Pakistan and join the movement, they will be arrested,' said Rana Sanaullah, the Prime Minister's Advisor on Political Affairs during a private TV interview. Outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Imran Khan's sister Aleema revealed that Kasim and Suleiman, both based in the United Kingdom, plan to visit the United States to raise awareness about their father's condition before traveling to Pakistan to support PTI's political campaign. Imran Khan has been imprisoned since August 2023 and faces multiple charges, including corruption and terrorism, after being ousted from power through a no-confidence vote in April 2022.

The women joining high-end gyms for a month – to find a rich husband
The women joining high-end gyms for a month – to find a rich husband

Yahoo

time08-07-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

The women joining high-end gyms for a month – to find a rich husband

If Becky Sharp were to step out of the pages of Vanity Fair and into present-day London, she wouldn't be plotting from a chaise longue in the parlour – she'd be on the treadmill at a luxury gym, watching a finance executive do push-ups in expensive trainers and a luxury watch. 'It's kind of a running joke between me and my girlfriends,' says Amelia, 24, who works in media. 'If you're on the lookout for a rich husband then you 'could' get a month's membership at [the exclusive health club] Third Space, meet someone, and once you've bagged your man, stop the subscription, or, better yet, get him to pay for it.' Welcome to 2025, where feminism has given young women unprecedented freedom – and yet, thanks to extortionate house prices, sluggish salaries and a cost of living crisis, some are being forced to revisit a centuries-old economic model: marry rich and live well. 'The truth is I can't afford not to meet someone who earns more than I do,' says Jemima, 31, who works in art and lives in a rented flat share in Archway, north London. 'My parents don't have enough money to give me a good deposit and my own salary will never breach the six-figure mark. I love my job but I also want a kitchen island and a garden and the occasional holiday. Is that really so much to ask?' Apparently not, according to TikTok, anyway. Last year, a song went viral on the social media app with the lyrics, 'I'm looking for a man in finance: trust fund, 6'5', blue eyes,' went viral – not as satire but as something closer to a lifestyle manifesto. The song's creator later said that it was meant to be a parody of the 'soft life' influencers: women who encourage their peers to find themselves a 'provider' to take care of them, and then spend their days procreating, shopping and travelling without any financial responsibilities. As one commenter under the original post rather bluntly put it, 'I'll marry for money so my kids can marry for love'. Jemima, like Becky Sharpe, is attractive and intelligent, but with a freedom that Thackeray's most famous character could only dream of. She has a good degree from a Russell Group university, a high-status job and – after spending her early twenties living in Paris and Madrid – can switch to French or Spanish mid-sentence if she feels like it. With no children and healthy parents, she can reinvent herself or relocate at will. Her sights, however, are firmly set on becoming Mrs Hedge Fund Manager. Stephanie Alice Baker, a sociology professor at City St George's, believes this is a logical – if somewhat depressing – response to the economic upheaval of our time. 'Despite the rise of feminism, many young women who have ticked all the boxes they were told to are still struggling financially,' she says, 'so there is something very tempting in this idea being promoted on social media about living a kept life. These accounts tell women to meet a rich man by going here or wearing this, but what they are really offering is a remedy to the difficulties an entire generation feels.' As Baker notes: the advice isn't vague. It's practical and strategic. Influencers – mostly American for now – share curated guides on how to bag high net-worth boyfriends: join country clubs, frequent expensive supermarkets, gatecrash glossy parties and go to church in the most exclusive parts of the city (to prove their qualifications, these videos are usually followed by clips of the influencers at Louis Vuitton or Hermes with the rich husband in question, picking out an expensive trinket while he gazes on adoringly). TikTok's Mina Rich, who apparently married a 'seven-figure entrepreneur', recommends golf tournaments, philanthropic galas and 'accidental' encounters at high-end art galleries. Britain, of course, is a little different – but that doesn't mean the same impulse doesn't exist. Anna Bey, who is based in London, advises her followers to profit from the summer and travel to islands like Mykonos or Ibiza, where rich young men tend to congregate. Her other banker-meeting spots include art openings, Chelsea pubs and the business class lounge at Heathrow Terminal Five. A former personal trainer at Third Space agrees that the luxury health clubs popping up around London are the 2025 version of the Nineties singles bars. 'The men are mainly lawyers, finance bros, tech people and, depending on the branch, digital influencers,' she says. 'There's lots of cash going around. In my opinion, the best way to mingle with men is on the gym floor. It'll be rare for you to start conversation in the classes as the main goal is to sweat, but on the floor you can take your time and rest and potentially share the rack.' Slightly more manageable for anyone earning £30,000 a year are the bars and pubs around Monument and Cannon Street, where City boys tend to congregate for drinks after work. 'We all know which private members' clubs in the City are worth joining,' says one anonymous user on Reddit (The Walbrook Club, The City of London Club, and Ned's Club, apparently). 'If you're looking to meet someone rich, there's no point joining Soho House, the Groucho or Quo Vadis – they're just filled with arty types paying off a mortgage on a small house in Zone Three.' Brutal. As gendered as it feels, Baker says this isn't an issue confined to women. 'Young people of both sexes are struggling to make ends meet or buy a property or even a car. All the markers of adulthood their parents and grandparents attained relatively easily are no longer seen as feasible. As a result, they turn to people peddling fantasies on social media: men have Andrew Tate telling them how to get rich quick; women have influencers telling them to put on a dress and go to a City bar – but it is all part of the same phenomenon and it does make sense in late-stage capitalism.' Hence Jemima being so determined to meet her marriage goals that, in order to control any dangerous impulses to go out with a scruffy DJ or a badly-behaved artist, she has even set herself some rules: from now on she'll only date men who went to Oxbridge or one of the Ivy League universities, who already make over £150,000 and who, ideally, own their own home. 'I realise it sounds a bit much, as I don't tick any of those boxes myself, but men have different criteria, and if I want the sort of life that was normal a generation ago then I have to stick to them,' she reasons. Sadly the truth, as Becky Sharpe learnt all too quickly herself, is that money tends to end up with money. 'The number one way to marry rich is proximity,' says Vivian Tu, an author and TikTok influencer who teaches people how to make the big bucks. 'If you're born into a wealthy family, you are far more likely to marry someone rich; if you want to marry someone who went to an Ivy League college, good luck – unless you went to an Ivy League yourself, in which case it is pretty easy. If you want to meet someone in finance then work in finance yourself: it's much easier to find a rich and successful husband when you yourself are rich and successful – focus on the main plot-line and the rest of the story comes together.' In Britain, of course, this is also wrapped up in class. One friend – who married one of the country's more eligible aristocrats – laughs when I text to ask exactly how she met her husband. 'LOL', she replies. And then a few minutes later adds, 'At a shoot. I was invited at the last minute and he was there and we were put next to each other on the Saturday night. We then saw each other around and about in London a few times and ended up snogging outside a pub.' The sad truth is that, however motivated they are, most women do not move in the sort of circles where they are casually invited to shooting weekends with 48 hours' notice. And anyway, perhaps they should be careful of what they wish for. 'So much is lost in these broad brush strokes,' says Baker. 'It makes a lot of sense for people who are struggling to long for an easier life, but it is not necessarily a happier life if they are not fulfilled: they might have material wealth, but not the sense they have reached their own goals. Anyone who is aware of the history of marriage would know that we should pause before wishing to go back to a time when women were chattel and, yes, materially well off but with no freedom of their own.' 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The women joining high-end gyms for a month – to find a rich husband
The women joining high-end gyms for a month – to find a rich husband

Telegraph

time08-07-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Telegraph

The women joining high-end gyms for a month – to find a rich husband

If Becky Sharp were to step out of the pages of Vanity Fair and into present-day London, she wouldn't be plotting from a chaise longue in the parlour – she'd be on the treadmill at a luxury gym, watching a finance executive do push-ups in expensive trainers and a luxury watch. 'It's kind of a running joke between me and my girlfriends,' says Amelia, 24, who works in media. ' If you're on the lookout for a rich husband then you 'could' get a month's membership at [the exclusive health club] Third Space, meet someone, and once you've bagged your man, stop the subscription, or, better yet, get him to pay for it.' Welcome to 2025, where feminism has given young women unprecedented freedom – and yet, thanks to extortionate house prices, sluggish salaries and a cost of living crisis, some are being forced to revisit a centuries-old economic model: marry rich and live well. 'The truth is I can't afford not to meet someone who earns more than I do,' says Jemima, 31, who works in art and lives in a rented flat share in Archway, north London. 'My parents don't have enough money to give me a good deposit and my own salary will never breach the six-figure mark. I love my job but I also want a kitchen island and a garden and the occasional holiday. Is that really so much to ask?' Apparently not, according to TikTok, anyway. Last year, a song went viral on the social media app with the lyrics, 'I'm looking for a man in finance: trust fund, 6'5', blue eyes,' went viral – not as satire but as something closer to a lifestyle manifesto. The song's creator later said that it was meant to be a parody of the 'soft life' influencers: women who encourage their peers to find themselves a 'provider' to take care of them, and then spend their days procreating, shopping and travelling without any financial responsibilities. As one commenter under the original post rather bluntly put it, 'I'll marry for money so my kids can marry for love'. Jemima, like Becky Sharpe, is attractive and intelligent, but with a freedom that Thackeray's most famous character could only dream of. She has a good degree from a Russell Group university, a high-status job and – after spending her early twenties living in Paris and Madrid – can switch to French or Spanish mid-sentence if she feels like it. With no children and healthy parents, she can reinvent herself or relocate at will. Her sights, however, are firmly set on becoming Mrs Hedge Fund Manager. Stephanie Alice Baker, a sociology professor at City St George's, believes this is a logical – if somewhat depressing – response to the economic upheaval of our time. 'Despite the rise of feminism, many young women who have ticked all the boxes they were told to are still struggling financially,' she says, 'so there is something very tempting in this idea being promoted on social media about living a kept life. These accounts tell women to meet a rich man by going here or wearing this, but what they are really offering is a remedy to the difficulties an entire generation feels.' As Baker notes: the advice isn't vague. It's practical and strategic. Influencers – mostly American for now – share curated guides on how to bag high net-worth boyfriends: join country clubs, frequent expensive supermarkets, gatecrash glossy parties and go to church in the most exclusive parts of the city (to prove their qualifications, these videos are usually followed by clips of the influencers at Louis Vuitton or Hermes with the rich husband in question, picking out an expensive trinket while he gazes on adoringly). TikTok's Mina Rich, who apparently married a 'seven-figure entrepreneur', recommends golf tournaments, philanthropic galas and 'accidental' encounters at high-end art galleries. Britain, of course, is a little different – but that doesn't mean the same impulse doesn't exist. Anna Bey, who is based in London, advises her followers to profit from the summer and travel to islands like Mykonos or Ibiza, where rich young men tend to congregate. Her other banker-meeting spots include art openings, Chelsea pubs and the business class lounge at Heathrow Terminal Five. A former personal trainer at Third Space agrees that the luxury health clubs popping up around London are the 2025 version of the Nineties singles bars. 'The men are mainly lawyers, finance bros, tech people and, depending on the branch, digital influencers,' she says. 'There's lots of cash going around. In my opinion, the best way to mingle with men is on the gym floor. It'll be rare for you to start conversation in the classes as the main goal is to sweat, but on the floor you can take your time and rest and potentially share the rack.' Slightly more manageable for anyone earning £30,000 a year are the bars and pubs around Monument and Cannon Street, where City boys tend to congregate for drinks after work. 'We all know which private members' clubs in the City are worth joining,' says one anonymous user on Reddit (The Walbrook Club, The City of London Club, and Ned's Club, apparently). 'If you're looking to meet someone rich, there's no point joining Soho House, the Groucho or Quo Vadis – they're just filled with arty types paying off a mortgage on a small house in Zone Three.' Brutal. As gendered as it feels, Baker says this isn't an issue confined to women. 'Young people of both sexes are struggling to make ends meet or buy a property or even a car. All the markers of adulthood their parents and grandparents attained relatively easily are no longer seen as feasible. As a result, they turn to people peddling fantasies on social media: men have Andrew Tate telling them how to get rich quick; women have influencers telling them to put on a dress and go to a City bar – but it is all part of the same phenomenon and it does make sense in late-stage capitalism.' Hence Jemima being so determined to meet her marriage goals that, in order to control any dangerous impulses to go out with a scruffy DJ or a badly-behaved artist, she has even set herself some rules: from now on she'll only date men who went to Oxbridge or one of the Ivy League universities, who already make over £150,000 and who, ideally, own their own home. 'I realise it sounds a bit much, as I don't tick any of those boxes myself, but men have different criteria, and if I want the sort of life that was normal a generation ago then I have to stick to them,' she reasons. Sadly the truth, as Becky Sharpe learnt all too quickly herself, is that money tends to end up with money. 'The number one way to marry rich is proximity,' says Vivian Tu, an author and TikTok influencer who teaches people how to make the big bucks. 'If you're born into a wealthy family, you are far more likely to marry someone rich; if you want to marry someone who went to an Ivy League college, good luck – unless you went to an Ivy League yourself, in which case it is pretty easy. If you want to meet someone in finance then work in finance yourself: it's much easier to find a rich and successful husband when you yourself are rich and successful – focus on the main plot-line and the rest of the story comes together.' In Britain, of course, this is also wrapped up in class. One friend – who married one of the country's more eligible aristocrats – laughs when I text to ask exactly how she met her husband. 'LOL', she replies. And then a few minutes later adds, 'At a shoot. I was invited at the last minute and he was there and we were put next to each other on the Saturday night. We then saw each other around and about in London a few times and ended up snogging outside a pub.' The sad truth is that, however motivated they are, most women do not move in the sort of circles where they are casually invited to shooting weekends with 48 hours' notice. And anyway, perhaps they should be careful of what they wish for. 'So much is lost in these broad brush strokes,' says Baker. 'It makes a lot of sense for people who are struggling to long for an easier life, but it is not necessarily a happier life if they are not fulfilled: they might have material wealth, but not the sense they have reached their own goals. Anyone who is aware of the history of marriage would know that we should pause before wishing to go back to a time when women were chattel and, yes, materially well off but with no freedom of their own.'

Late Queen's secret nickname revealed by her close confidante (and it's not Lilibet!)
Late Queen's secret nickname revealed by her close confidante (and it's not Lilibet!)

Daily Mail​

time17-06-2025

  • General
  • Daily Mail​

Late Queen's secret nickname revealed by her close confidante (and it's not Lilibet!)

Queen Elizabeth's secret nickname used by her close family members has been revealed for the first time in the writings of a royal author. Lady Elizabeth Anson, born at Windsor Castle, was not only Elizabeth's cousin but also one of her closest friends, having supported the monarch through the deaths of her mother, the Queen Mother, and sister, Princess Margaret. Now, nearly four years on from Lady Elizabeth's death aged 79, a royal journalist has revealed the special nickname she used for the late monarch - separate from the known moniker Lilibet, after which Harry and Meghan's four-year-old daughter was named. Writing on Substack, Sally Bedell Smith, the American author behind four royal books, revealed that Lady Elizabeth often referred to the monarch as 'Jemima'.' 'In the Queen's later years, Lady Elizabeth (herself nicknamed Liza) affectionately referred to her as 'Jemima' (for reasons she never explained) and 'The Number One Lady',' she wrote on the newsletter platform. A far stretch from her Christian name, Elizabeth, the nickname Jemima is just one of a handful of monikers used to refer to the late monarch, perhaps the most well known being Lilibet. At the time of her death in 2022, aged 96, her official title was: Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. In other official realms, she was known as 'Mother of all People' by the Salish nation in Canada, 'Paramount Chief' to many in Fiji, and 'The White Heron' by the Maori people of New Zealand. Beyond her role as Head of State, she carried a range of sweeter, more personal monikers coined by her family members, including Gan Gan, Cabbage, and Lilibet. A young Prince William even added Gary to the list after one incident in which he shouted for Gary, rather than Granny, caught on. Lady Elizabeth, known as Liza to her friends, died in November 2020 at the age of 79, just shy of two years before Queen Elizabeth passed away in September 2022. Though separated by 15 years in age, the pair were known for their close relationship, their bond having strengthened following the deaths of two of the Queen's closest relatives, her mother and sister. They would speak on the phone on a weekly basis, and the Queen would hold monthly quiet dinners for just the two of them, the author wrote. Lady Elizabeth Anson was born at Windsor Castle during World War II and with King George VI as a godfather, she grew up surrounded by, and on first name terms with, the royals. Lady Elizabeth was also royally connected (her mother, a Bowes-Lyon, was a niece of the Queen Mother) but she was also one of the Queen's closest friends. When she married, the then 20-year-old Princess Anne was a bridesmaid, and her society cameraman brother Patrick (the Earl of) Lichfield, who gave her away, was — along with the Earl of Snowdon — the royals' go-to photographer. For almost 60 years she presided over London's party scene with a ruthless efficiency. From royalty to celebrity her business, Party Planners, organised the capital's best and most lavish celebrations. She first decided to be a party planner when she was 17. She was working as a receptionist at the Hyde Park Hotel in London, but she fell down a flight of stairs and injured herself. The fall meant she needed to find a job that would enable her to work from home, and was inspired at having to organise her own debutante party when she realised she could make a living from planning celebrations. Her first event was for the late Queen Mother. 'She was hosting a party for one of her godchildren,' Lady Elizabeth previously told Mail on Sunday. 'I remember charging very little and receiving a letter from the Queen Mother telling me to double the invoice.' She hosted bashes for everyone from Baroness Thatcher and Sir Mick Jagger, to Tom Cruise and Bill Clinton. Weddings were a speciality: there was pop star Sting's to Trudie Styler to the slightly more reserved nuptials for Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece (to heiress Chantal Miller). When Prince William married Kate Middleton in 2011, the Queen asked her to organise a party for all the visiting royal guests. By then she was a veteran of royal party planning. No palace event, it seemed, was complete without input from Lady Elizabeth. She arranged the Queen's 80th birthday party and that to mark the 50th anniversary of her coronation. In April 2021, the Queen made Lady Elizabeth a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order as a sign of her personal esteem.

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