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In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, the author recalls his 1970s conquest of London's ink-stained thickets, some disastrous "research" with Martin Amis at a New York bordello, and encounters with everyone from Ian McEwan to Thomas Pynchon to Margaret Thatcher ....
RICHARD EDEN: I can reveal the Prime Minister s wife and her boss, Damian Aspinall, have been slapped down again over their ambitious and controversial animal projects. ....
Lady Lucinda Lambton was so angry that her brother, Ned, inherited the family s £35 million estate as well as the Earl of Durham title that she and two of her sisters took him to court. Happily, there are no such problems with the will made by her husband, the former newspaper editor Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, who died last October aged 96. I can reveal that Worsthorne left more than £2.3 million in his will, with the vast bulk going to Lady Lucinda, 78 (with him, below). Newly published probate documents disclose that the former Sunday Telegraph editor, known to friends as Perry, left a gross estate of £2.3 million, the income from this going to Lady Lucinda, also a writer. ....
So it wasn t the Duchess of Cambridge who was reduced to tears by Meghan before the Sussexes wedding. No – it was the Duchess of Cambridge who made Meghan cry but did the right thing: “She owned it, and she apologised.” There were allegations of racism and the very sad revelation that the duchess had had suicidal thoughts: “I just didn t want to be alive any more.” But, again and again, the suggestion was that the only people in real pain were the Sussexes. There was barely a mention that the world is going through a pandemic that has killed more than 2.6 million people. ....