Julie Hastings, known affectionately as 'Lady Duck', retiring after 35 years in the family Hastings Hotel business
The first thing one notices about Julie Hastings is her uncanny resemblance to her late father, Sir William Hastings, the affable, larger-than-life hotelier who, from the 1960s, established a prestigious chain of hotels across Northern Ireland, including the Europa, the Everglades, the Culloden, the Slieve Donard Resort and Spa, the Stormont Hotel and Ballygally Castle Hotel.
Source: newsletter.co.uk