Summary
Robin Birley's life has careered from one drama to another: ravaged by a tiger at 11, he lost a brother in his twenties, and is currently estranged from his father and sister. With a new marriage and an eco mission in Africa, will he finally find peace, asks Lydia Slater
There is a volley of barks and a rattle of claws. Two elegant grey whippets in electricblue jackets explode into the sitting room and hurl themselves at Robin Birley as though they hadn't-seen him for weeks. 'Hello darlings!', he cries, equally delighted, flinging his long arms around their satiny bodies and letting them lick his face.See the full content of this document
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Annabel's to Africa
Until the interruption of Arnie and Chester, our meeting has been rather melancholy. Birley, 48, eldest living son of Lady Annabel Goldsmith from her first marriage to nightclub owner Mark Birley, has had an emotionally draining time of late, dealing with the fallout from one of last year's most spectacular society scandals.
Worried that his sister India-Jane, who had fallen for Robert Macdonald, her Alexander Technique teacher, was in the hands of an exploitative philanderer, he hired a detective to investigate, who conned Birley out of Pounds 200,000 with a series of false reports feeding his suspicions. When India-Jane found out, she was furious and, ...See the full content of this document
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