EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Princess Margaret was spared the indignity of seeing a pair of her riding boots go under the hammer. That fate now befalls them.
She was, it was said, profoundly upset when, having given her son, David, the only house she'd ever owned - Les Jolies Eaux, on the Caribbean island of Mustique - he sold it to an American venture capitalist.
Just as intriguingly, Serena, whose daughter Margarita was a bridesmaid to Kate Middleton, is also offloading a charcoal drawing given to Princess Margaret by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium on their first visit to London in 1963.Princess Margaret riding her horse in 1956.
When sculptor Wilfrid Wood carved this image of Sir Paul McCartney for a charity exhibition, the former Beatle's associates were not prepared to Let It Be. Tracy, 65, who became a tireless campaigner against factory farming, is furious that 'Bunter', as the rock musician duke is known, hopes to add to his estimated £300million fortune by housing part of a vast new solar farm on his 52,000-acre Badminton estate in Gloucestershire.
Lime Down Solar Park claims it would 'contribute towards government targets to reach net zero by 2050' and could provide 'enough clean affordable electricity to power around 115,000 homes'. Coronets aloft! Viscount and Viscountess Newport are celebrating the birth of their first child, a boy who becomes the first cousin of Moon, River and Sunny Bridgeman — son and daughters of Alexander Newport's younger brother, Harry. Though widely acknowledged as the aristocracy's most innovative couple, Alexander and wife Eliza, who disrobed late in her pregnancy to have her portrait painted, have opted against anything too zany for the christening.
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