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Gemma Owen saddles up for social stardom, page 118 Mason Mount pushes the Boateng out, page 92 Clapham function, page 32 Tatler contents Turn up, check in, chill out, page 138 BYSTANDER 42 Couture club royal scandal – Martin Bashir’s FASHION 32 Harry’s married The moneyed and à la mode let loose at the dazzling Dolce infamous Diana dupe 68 Trends Lord and Lady Dalmeny’s big & Gabbana Alta Moda show day on the Rosebery Estate 61 Oscar winner Fall for autumn’s most 34 Champing at the bit 46 All the right moves The social set gather at Annabel Sampson meets the Fay Maschler visits a West End glamorous looks Goodwood for their racing fix Royal Ballet’s star couple who 37 The kids are all Wight fell in love for real on stage restaurant with a Wilde history 102 Anarchy in Paris A very Gen Z It crowd dresses up for the Salamander Ball 53 Track star 63 Un-Baguette-able Check into the Hôtel 40 Divot and conquer A marquess dresses down on Horseplay in St Tropez: British Savile Row. By Archie Lorne Handbags at dawn: the tiny Plaza Athénée as a royal – Polo Day is back in the diary 57 TV Di-namite It bag that invented the giant check out as a rebel The Crown takes on another waiting list is back 66 As one Dior opens… FEATURES Votre attention, Christian fans! 73 U. Free. Single Head to Harrods to celebrate It’s Tatler’s Tinder – the 70 years of French chic Little Black Book is back 20 TATLER



A punk in Paris, page 102 Ballet lovers, page 46 Escape to the Cape, page 140 Inside the court of King Charles III, page 114 Contents PHOTOGRAPHS: AHMED HASSAN; CHRIS ALLERTON; LUC BRAQUET; OLI KEARON; TIM GRAHAM PHOTO LIBRARY VIA GETTY IMAGES. GEMMA OWEN 92 Pitch perfect HEALTH & BEAUTY 142 Ice, ice, baby WEARS JACKET, £1,209, ETRO AT YOOX.COM. SKIRT, £345, PINKO. BOOTS, £1,388, Rinkside at Paris’s GIAMBATTISTA VALLI. RINGS, £299 EACH, AND BRACELET, £599, WILDE ONES Football royalty Mason Mount 131 Snow queen smartest address meets fashion aristocracy Emilia Prep your mountain face Boateng. Score! By Harriet Kean 134 Altitude chicness 114 It’s reigning men Annika Purdey joins the ski REGULARS 28 Contributors He’s waited a lifetime, but is elite at an Austrian super-spa Tatler’s who’s who Charles III ready to rule? this issue 143 Address Book 118 Hidden Gem TRAVEL Where to buy it ON THE COVER 160 Throwback Why Tatler’s new It girl Gemma 138 On with the snow Tara Palmer-Tomkinson MASON MOUNT & EMILIA BOATENG feels Blue, December 2003 Photograph by AHMED HASSAN Owen is no one-trick pony Where the social set chill Styling by SOPHIE PERA 124 In Liz we Truss? 140 Table setting Mason wears jacket, £2,500, trousers, £940, and bow tie, £95, by Giorgio Armani. Shirt, stylist’s own. Emilia wears dress, POA, by Giorgio The inside scoop on the new Cape Town’s most decadent Armani Privé. Ring, £60, Anayah Jewellery. Hair: Dionne Smith at The Only Agency. Make-up: Esther Edeme. Nails: Tinu Bello at One prime minister, by Katy Balls and desirable places to stay Represents. Tailor: Barbara Pellumbi. On-set producer: Nick Virk. Bookings editor: Camilla Fitz-Patrick 22 TATLER



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Tatler contributors Katy Balls Eliz Akdeniz Esther Edeme ‘I’ve seen three Tory leadership This month, features associate Eliz Akdeniz worked Make-up artist Esther Edeme has contests and two elections. It keeps on Tatler’s highly anticipated Little Black Book – a buffed and primed the faces of a you on your toes,’ The Spectator’s bible of the most eligible dates in Britain. ‘The Little host of models and actors, including deputy political editor Katy Balls Black Book is several months in the making,’ Eliz says. Naomi Campbell, Michèle Lamy says of her time as a journalist, ‘It’s always a fun task to dive into the lives of the most and Gabrielle Union. ‘Being able to which has kept her busy writing for exciting faces in society – and then dance the night work with such amazing talent so the Telegraph, i and The New York away with them all at the Little Black Book party to early on in my career for Fashion Times, as well as running her own celebrate the issue.’ It is the list every young socialite Week, shoots and various covers political podcast, Women with Balls. worth their salt yearns to join – so how do you make goes beyond my childhood dreams,’ In this month’s Tatler, Katy reports it on there? ‘It’s quite simple. You need to be all the Esther says. For this month’s cover on the ascent of Prime Minister Liz Ss: sassy, savvy and seriously social,’ says Eliz. story, she worked with Mason Truss. ‘I think she was always Mount and Emilia Boateng. ‘My underpriced. You don’t get to be the Ahmed Hassan first impression of Emilia was, longest-serving cabinet minister by “Wow! What a goddess.”’ accident,’ she says. ‘But she is also For this issue’s cover story, London-based photographer Ahmed Hassan a risk-taker and was nicknamed went to Surrey to shoot football star Mason Mount with supermodel-in- Robert Hardman “the human hand grenade” early on the-making Emilia Boateng. ‘The mood was very jovial all round,’ Hassan for blowing things up.’ says, casting his mind back to Mason posing while performing headers In this issue, author and royal and keepy-uppies. ‘It was so fast-paced, but we all built a rapport.’ In fact, authority Robert Hardman looks at Hassan and Mount got on so well, they’ve made it official on social media: how King Charles III will cement PHOTOGRAPHS: DAVID LEVENSON/GETTY IMAGES; SINAH BRUCKNER ‘Mason and I are now friends on BeReal,’ Hassan adds. his legacy. It will be an eclectic one: ‘He is the first British monarch to write his name in Arabic, to own a garden gnome and to stay upright on a windsurfer,’ says Hardman. A favourite memory is of an interview at His Majesty’s summer residence, Birkhall: ‘He took me into a hall with an open garden door, rattled some nuts and in dashed a couple of red squirrels. His reign is great news for the red – not the grey.’ 28 TATLER

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The Hon Celeste Primrose, the Hon Delphi Primrose & the Hon Marina Primrose The Hon Ptolemy Primrose & the Hon Caspian Primrose Mark Cecil & the Countess of Derby WILD ABOUT HARRY Jonathan Djanogly & Elizabeth Djanogly Bella Buchanan & Nicholas Kirkwood Photographs by CHRIS ALLERTON Who would have thought that a chance encounter between auctioneer Harry Dalmeny and Harriet Clapham in the Sotheby’s cloakroom would lead to the society wedding of the year? The bride wore an Annina Pfuel gown with the Rosebery family tiara for the ceremony at the Rosebery chapel, before leading the 300-strong procession into Barnbougle Castle. DJ Guido flew in from St Moritz, and the Dracula Club was recreated for the raucous party, which saw the bride and groom crowd-surfing to Coldplay. Britain’s most eligible bachelor is officially off the market. Going, going, gone! Dasha Tinkova & Tom Buchanan Imogen Hervey-Bathurst & Sean Conlon Alexandra Bowes-Lyon Anika Valentina Mari & Barrie Clapham 32 Marić & Monica Irani TATLER

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Laurent Feniou Stephanie Easterby, Bernard Hogarth & Sarah Kate Byrne Honor Palmer-Tomkinson Khadijah Mellah & the Duke of Richmond RACING AHEAD Photographs by HUBERT CECIL Anyone who was anyone flocked to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond’s box at the annual Glorious Goodwood, for a day of fizz-fuelled racing at the bucolic West Sussex estate. The duchess was the best turned out, in an elegant shade of green, and Eléonore Decaux and Eleanor Lambert, separated by more than (a)cute accent, giggled about how hard it was to greet people in their flamboyant hats. Guy Sangster, Thea Gosden-Hood and Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville gave a huge cheer when jockey Ashleigh Wicheard was awarded the Magnolia Cup. ‘It was a fun, exciting, exhilarating and exhausting week,’ the duke said. Eléonore Decaux & the Earl of March and Kinrara Rachel Hood Jodie Kidd & Lord William Gordon-Lennox Susanna Warren 34 Joseph Bates TATLER

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Tirion Lewis Charlie Miller Clementine Lewis Islay Bowman & Henrietta Rowton Lee Thomas Wilson, Freddie Rusling, Ella Clegg, Jamie Hine & the Hon Tammy Clegg & Milla Rusling William Montagu SAILS FIGURES The Hon Nestor Montagu Dominic Jackson Paloma Crutchfield Photographs by MARCUS DAWES The Gen Z social set were all on the Isle of Wight for sailing week. Their highlight? The Hollywood-themed Salamander Ball, of course, held at Bembridge Sailing Club, a honeypot for high-society families. Viscount and Viscountess Hinchingbrooke’s boys, the Hons William and Nestor Montagu, were there (with Nestor doing a fine impression of a Top Gun hero), as was Olivia Fox-Pitt (of the horse racing dynasty). But Islay Bowman stole the show, cartwheeling and star-jumping in a flared jumpsuit and rainbow wig. Life-size cardboard cutouts of Leonardo DiCaprio and Scarlett Johansson flew across the dancefloor. ‘In fact,’ says one commit- tee mother, ‘Leo is still in the club.’ Olivia Fox-Pitt William Zlattinger Alice Clegg TATLER & Rose Simmonds Ella Clegg 37

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Chloe Vestey & Ross Elder Annabel Burt The Maharaja of Jaipur Matthew Rosenfeldt Nicholas Dellaportas & Thomas van Straubenzee PONY EXCESS Photographs by SAM CHURCHILL The triumphant return of British Polo Day after a two-year hiatus saw 200 guests jet in from all over the world to the sunny shores of St Tropez. ‘British Polo Day came back on the scene with a blast,’ said its dashing CEO and former Highgrove polo team player Ben Vestey, as invitees were greeted with rosé and spit- roast pork à la plage at Loulou on Pampelonne Beach. A heated game at the polo club followed the next day, where ‘lots of Panama hats were thrown in the air’. Ella Mountbatten, Thomas van Straubenzee and Lohralee Astor were up on their chairs for the traditional Royal Salute toast, before Pacho Jaipur led the procession to Les Caves, where dancing continued until 5am. Elizabeth Sieff Rafferty Felix Favor Parker Susie Ma Lohralee Astor Zinzi Wilkinson & Ella Mountbatten Chad Delaney & Ben Vestey TATLER 40

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BYSTANDER SPECIAL REPORT Welcome to the excess-all-areas world of Dolce & Gabbana’s annual couture extravaganza, where hedonists and billionaires buy, buy, buy By EILIDH HARGREAVES SYRACUSE, SICILY. KRIS There is a welcome party, three hooded dress that defies the heat Gui Siqueira & Jenner untangles her hand from days of shows presenting the bearing down so hard that four Dr Raj Kanodia Domenico Dolce’s and springs up Italian design duo’s made-to-order models faint, according to Heidi from a velvet pouffe to applaud the collections – Alta Moda (women’s Klum, whose daughter Leni was Mitch Mantella, operatic performers. Her partner, couture), Alta Sartoria (men’s cou- walking. Helen Mirren poses in a Sylvia Mantella Corey Gamble, hardly notices – ture) and Alta Gioielleria (jewel- full-length, multicoloured metallic (in Alta Moda) the gobstopper diamond necklace lery) – each followed by another gown. Sharon Stone is cool in a & Ray Mantella he is wearing dangles towards his party, and then a final send-off. It’s gold-and-turquoise corset and ruby slippers as he leans forward to as theatrical as it is extravagant. trousers with an embroidered train. tuck into a pot of pasta without The guests emerge from super- spilling any on his silk shorts. Past yachts in voluminous ruby gowns But even this crowd starts to Domenico, on Kris’s right, Stefano – and everywhere we go, crash cheer when Mariah Carey totters Gabbana, Sharon Stone and Helen barriers bracketing thousands of out using the hands of both Dolce Mirren join in the rapturous con- Sicilians yelling ‘Bellissima!’ sepa- and Gabbana as crutches, trussed gratulations. The stone steps of the rate the real world from fantasy. into a sparkling floor-sweeping Teatro Greco rise above us – this gown, skin glowing, tiara glittering glamorous crowd of celebrities and ‘It’s inspiring,’ says Maria atop a Disney-princess mane of billionaires. The sun rolled down Mihaletos, a South African entre- curled hair. She penguin-shuffles an untold number of hours earlier preneur and Dolce client, who is to her table where Mirren jumps as we entered the grottos of dressed like a matador in golden up to help her untangle her dress Siracusa through the towering Ear vintage and Alta Moda Dolce & before sitting down. And there she of Dionysius. It feels as if we are all Gabbana. ‘It’s such a close-knit perches, daintily drinking a glass in on a secret. family. The attention to detail is of white wine with her pinkie something I’ve never experienced extended, raising a fan to cover her But we aren’t quite. You’ll have in my life. Everything is awakened: mouth every time she speaks. seen them by now, snippets from sight, sound, touch, smell, emo- Dolce & Gabbana’s 2022 couture tion.’ Her five looks took six An hour-long show begins with extravaganza. Four days of parties months of planning in collabora- more opera. And then the models and shows so magnificent that life tion with the designers. walk in a swirl of lace and chiffon, will never truly return to normal. gilded corsets, huge bundles of There’s enough of it documented The crescendo is the Alta Moda satin and jewel-encrusted boots – a on social media by 500 top-billing show on Saturday night: this dramatic, sensual take on the clients (spend secures your invita- is its 10-year anniversary. Canadian Sicilian woman, and a nod to the tion) to inspire delicious envy. socialite Sylvia Mantella arrives in Greek, Roman and Arabic heritage the Piazza Duomo in a huge black of the island. ‘I loved the black ] 42 TATLER

THE PEOPLE Romero Britto & pop star Anitta The Real Housewives’ BELLISSIMA! Natalia Sutton Stracke & Stefano Gabbana, Kapchuk her son Philip Mariah Carey & Domenico Dolce HOW TO SPOT STRIPE AN ALTA TEASE Keeping it MODA CLIENT Dame Helen tulle with Mirren blockchain THE SUPERYACHT pioneer Kris Jenner Kenji Sasaki Dock the vessel (bigger equals & Corey better) and invite your most Gamble famous friend. Kris Jenner posing on your deck is the MALE ORDER Lady Kitty Spencer Domenico Dolce ultimate ‘yoo-hoo!’ Sylvia Mantella & the Marchioness & Stella Aminova THE DOLCE TOASTER at the Alta of Bath Sartoria show That’s just the starting point, bambino. If your mansion/yacht/ TATLER hotel room isn’t completely Dolce’d out, you’re toast. THE SHOWING OFF You’ve never missed an Alta Moda show, which means you are best-in-class when it comes to la dolce vita – especially in Sicily, Venice, Capri and Positano. THE PROXIMITY If Stefano and Domenico aren’t on first-name terms with your family, friends and children, you haven’t done enough shopping. THE WARDROBE MALFUNCTIONS It’s chic to get stuck in a car door when the reason is your XdrXeXssXiXsX Just. Too. Big. The key? InXvxexsxtxxxx in a quick-thinking chauffexuxrx.xxxx 43

[dress with the angel shoulders,’ her, though: Domenico takes Kris Veils, flowers says Klum. ‘As a foreigner, when to boogie to Crazy in Love and she and brocade you come, Dolce and Gabbana does not hold back. ‘We are hav- backstage at the show you a lot of their heritage… ing an amazing time. It feels like Alta Moda show It’s authentic and sexy.’ just yesterday that we were at Alta Moda Venice [in 2021],’ Kris tells THE FASHION The fleet of cars is back and the me, as she’s pulled off in yet 500 guests, including Lady Kitty another direction, a huge smile on METAL Spencer and Lupita Nyong’o, are her face, eyelids glittering emerald, HEADS whisked to Kukua Beach Club. an Alta Moda kaftan conferring Music wafts over the party and Elizabeth Taylor-style regality. (She Alta pasta chefs serve piles of penne to is staying on Stefano’s yacht, the Sartoria orderly queues of socialites. (Yes, Regina d’Italia, which is, according models billionaires queue, too.) Mirren to one insider, ‘quite fabulous’.) enthuses about the show over And her 90210 neighbours are Alta Moda PHOTOGRAPHS: XXXXXXXXXX dinner: ‘It is one of the most amaz- close by; Dr Raj Kanodia is a social works of art ing things I’ve ever seen in my life. butterfly, and Real Housewife of The drama, the theatricality of Beverly Hills Sutton Stracke is TATLER it. The storytelling of the seductive mesmerising in an embellished widow. It could have been an art pink dress as she proclaims: ‘I’m installation!’ Not long after, she there to shop, not to be seen.’ gently elbows her way to the front of a crowd newly gathered There is so much going on that to watch a cohort of super-hot, you can’t possibly spot everything. super-oiled-up men dance in Rumours are circulating that one trunks. Kris whoops herself hoarse Alta Sartoria jacket was sold for and Mariah – who has changed €300,000, and that Cher was into silk pyjamas – bops her head. supposed to play the afterparty but cancelled. Emma Weymouth glides off to bed in a dream state. ‘I’ve known That this is about famiglia is a [Dolce and Gabbana] for a long sentiment echoed by everyone. time and I always feel incredibly The pop star Ciara brought her grateful to be invited to these husband and children, all decked events,’ she says. ‘They are breath- out in matching gold. ‘It has been taking. I feel a lot of emotion being amazing,’ she tells me. ‘It’s my first here. It’s old friends, all coming time in Sicily, and it will forever be together. Such beautiful clothes memorable. It’s not your average and such wonderful intention. party and definitely not your I love them and I respect them.’ average fashion show. Stefano and Domenico are so sweet and put so Sunday brings with it a sort of much thought into everything.’ stupefaction after two days of The following night, at the after- die-hard glamour. But the Alta party, she launches her new song Sartoria presentation can’t wait. Jump and, afterwards, gets down Our fleet is driven to the Arabic with Nyong’o. port of Marzamemi, where a pink- purple sunset melts into the sea, It is a billionaire’s paradise, the and the collection refracts a thou- world’s most incredible network- sand even richer jewel tones. ing event. While some – like the traditional Parisian couture clients Just getting to dinner – a – are tight-lipped about their pur- 10-minute walk from the port into chases, for others, the afterparty the square – is a spectacle and my exists solely to show spending notes are becoming so frantic that power. An Asian client catches my they no longer make sense. ‘Stone eye: her kaleidoscopic beaded belt shoes off’ means ‘Good Lord, fractures from amethyst into blue, Sharon Stone has flung off her pink and silver as she moves. She heels and run onto the stage for a tells me she bought it straight from dance-off’. ‘Kris is FaceTiming the runway last night (which Jim’ is meant to say ‘Kim’ because, means she bought the whole look), yes, the blondest Kardashian has but I already know. ( buzzed in to say ‘hey’. No time for 44

The show took Eilidh goes place at the for full-on glamour at Piazza Duomo the Piazza in Syracuse Duomo Dolce & WEDDING WHAT THE Gabbana’s BELLE signature lace EDITOR WORE and ruffles A hooded bridal gown from the THE ALTA MODA SHOW collection Swathed in a Taller Marmo kaftan (above), I stepped gladiator-like into this elite fashion ring, hair slicked and Kiki McDonough jewels twinkling. An all-white look at the port of Marzamemi THE ALTA SARTORIA SHOW Vintage earrings, a white Mint Velvet suit and a Gucci bag from Cocoon Club made for opulent androgyny. PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF DOLCE & GABBANA; GETTY IMAGES STRIKE GOLD Sunset, Dramatic dresses and superyachts intricate headpieces and tulle TATLER THE AFTERPARTY The sunset behind Stefano’s yacht was a photo op for this Ashish gown, later seen on the dancefloor next to Ciara. 45

Francesca wears dress, £8,990, GIVENCHY. Shorts, £260, A-JANE. Shoes, her own. Gloves, stylist’s own Cesar wears coat, £2,750, trousers, £690, and boots, £790, ALEXANDER McQUEEN. Shirt, POA, ATELIER ELIZABETH EMANUEL CASE HISTORY Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales strike a pose on the staircase of the Royal Opera House, where, in 1734, the first ‘ballet d’action’ was staged – that is, a story told through dance TATLER