She was also addicted to Coca-Cola and Mars Bars. A year after his divorce from Tina, Sunny middle-aisled it with Rosita Douglas, a painter and onetime fashion designer, with whom he has two children, Lord Edward and Lady Alexandra. While Rosita is said to have been a fine mother, her stepson must have been a handful, to put it mildly. By the mids, Jamie was addicted to heroin and other drugs, and was regularly seen collapsed at the most fashionable parties, or combing the streets of Brixton in search of crack.
Over the next decades he was in and out of rehab clinics and jails, on charges including theft, road rage, and drug possession. Inevitably, around this time, father-son relations hit bottom, and the two did not speak for several years.
Meanwhile, Edward seemed to be doing everything right, such as rowing crew at Eton and studying economics at Cambridge. He currently is a partner at Sun Capital, a private-equity firm, which he co-founded. The family had kept it as their summer home, to escape the high-season tourist crush at Blenheim. While it has frequently been reported in the British press that Sunny and Lily first met in Palm Beach, the romance actually began, they reveal today, off Sardinia, on the Virginian, the foot yacht of industrialist Sir Anthony Bamford and his wife, Carole.
She gets along with everyone so well and has got great joie de vivre. As Lily tells it, it was music that moved them. So we danced all night. When it was time to go he asked for my number and I quickly scribbled it down. But as I got off the boat, I said to myself, This man is never going to remember my number.
But call he did, with an invitation to dinner. That comes out. Also contrary to most press accounts, Lily was born not in India but in Iran. Her father, she says, built railroads and other public-works projects for the Iranian government with the Hinduja Group, which began doing business in Iran in It was ridiculous.
When the revolution occurred, she had already enrolled at the London School of Economics, where the atmosphere could not have been more different. A little shocking, but very liberating.
The couple, who did not have children, divided their time between London and Lagos. When she was in London, however, she was moving in ever loftier circles, sometimes dining with members of the royal family, including the Queen Mother, who was said to have been charmed with her. She sometimes mixed money and friendship. There was a less happy ending after she provided Sarah Ferguson, then still H. While Lily thought of it as a loan, Fergie apparently considered it a gift.
If I run into her, great. After she resettled in London following her divorce, life as a single woman was fairly solitary, she says. I always wanted to be in control of my money. He lives in another world. We make our own breakfast; we drive ourselves in a rental car, and go to the supermarket. Becoming chatelaine of Blenheim Palace took a bit of adjustment, she admits. I found myself sitting next to people I had nothing in common with. Home Period Stuart 10 things you might not know about Blenheim Palace.
Blenheim Palace was built in the early 18th century to celebrate the victory over the French in the War of the Spanish Succession —14 , a conflict between European powers — including a divided Spain — over who had the right to succeed Charles II as king of the country.
The palace was a gift to John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, the military commander who led the Allied forces in the battle of Blenheim on 13 August Blenheim Palace is the only non-royal, non-episcopal [not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system] country house in England to hold the title of palace.
Image source, Blenheim palace. Image source, PA. Blenheim Palace was built in the early 18th Century. The duke pictured with his fourth wife dedicated his life to the preservation of the palace. The duke married his fourth wife Lily Sahni in Related Topics.
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