And after 11 years in the royal kitchens, Darren McGrady spent four years as Princess Diana's chef at Kensington Palace. Birthday girl: Maya Schoenburg Multi-millionaire banker and philanthropist Lord Rothschild is throwing open his fabulous Corfu hacienda tonight for a party to mark the 50th birthday of his close friend Maya Schoenburg.

Lady Lynn Forrester de Rothschild, the wife of the British banking scion Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, close friend of the Blairs and a member of Hillary Clinton's inner circle is throwing her weight behind the McCain-Palin ticket. Obama is just arrogant, she explained and he cannot connect with average Americans. When the bluestocking, isn't adding her tuppenceworth on US politics...