SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Christian Candy stamps his feet over £2million tax on London mansion 

Christian Candy is pictured above with Emily Compton. The luxury property developer has, I can disclose, just got the better of the taxman in the latest round of a protracted battle over almost £2 million stamp duty Among his greatest triumphs was selling a single Knightsbridge apartment for £100 million. But Christian Candy is now … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: London celebration of novelist V.S. Naipaul’s life postponed over coronavirus

He was the greatest writer of our age and it was billed as his final farewell. But next week’s memorial for novelist Sir Vidia Naipaul at the National Portrait Gallery has been postponed due to the spread of coronavirus. Publishers from all over the world were invited to gather on Friday, March 13th to pay … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Is Sarah Ferguson treading a fine line with pen ‘advert’ aimed at fans? 

Forbidden from exploiting the ‘Sussex Royal’ trademark around the world, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex should take a leaf out of Fergie’s book. For I can disclose that the irrepressible Sarah, Duchess of York, has alighted on a new way to bring home the bacon — by forging a commercial partnership with one of … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Why Charles is the Prince of Sales

Never mind the ‘Kate effect’. Prince Charles is proving just as influential in the world of fashion as the Duchess of Cambridge, as top tailor Emma Willis reveals business has been booming since he started wearing her designs — which include the royal boxer shorts. ‘I’ve been making shirts for him for five-and-a-half years, after … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Alexander Lebedev takes the biscuit as he launches his own bakery

He enlisted in the KGB in his 20s, acquired a bank in his 30s and a British newspaper in his 40s. Now Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev’s career has taken another astonishing twist. Alongside his partner, former model Elena Perminova, he has, I can disclose, become a baker and biscuit-maker — and the couple are launching their … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Christina Oxenberg tells all about Ghislaine Maxwell to the FBI

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Christina Oxenberg tells all about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to the FBI as she says she is ‘disgusted’ by the ‘creepy’ pair and calls a hotline to help By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 20 February 2020 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 20 February 2020 There was a time … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lady to landlady as Bianca Eliot is set to start pulling pints

She was widowed at 29, then became chatelaine of Port Eliot in Cornwall, the spectacular family seat of her late husband’s family, the Earls of St Germans, 18 months ago. But the extraordinary life of Bianca, Lady Eliot, is about to take yet another improbable twist. She is, I can disclose, going to try her … Read more