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Frid 10 Febr 2017 35 operation to remove a tumour in her liver, which she recover from. Stuart stayed with her in hospital and says: she was so ill I found it much easier to tell her I loved her than I normally would, I know Tessa grew up in Rutland, where her father was the Lord Lieutenant. When she was 17, her sister was killed in a riding accident, aged 21. Her father died just weeks later. Stuart speaks about how traumatic that time was for her.

When Stuart was Tessa she took him to her house in Tangier for Christmas. It was a hard sell: a typical English public schoolboy so I particularly like Tangier but house was lovely. It was supposed to be this wonderful climate but it rained solidly. We had a nice time though. She adored it there they had these totally informal parties with all the Back in the UK, Tessa was to leave But she took to Kent, setting up a successful equestrian centre.

Stuart was when Tessa agreed to move to Chilham, seemed a nice threw herself into it and as a wonderful host not much point having a big place like that and not putting some people in Stuart considered staging a ghost to come to the castle it was prohibitively Tessa, of matched his manouevring. She played a joke on her husband by sending a stripagram nun to his office with a fake writ claiming that his spread-betting firm was inducing a priest to gamble away church funds. took me ages to see what was he remembers with a twinkle. another occasion, Tessa brought page-three girls to my birthday lunch. She was good They were proud of model ling, provided she did her GCSEs too.

was one of the top models in the world, a Gucci laughs Stuart. old, 35, past Stuart is in touch with Farage, who he describes as tremendous extreme in having strong good qualities and pretty bad bad qualities. a brilliant speaker, highly intelligent, highly articulate, bags of energy, well- informed. On the other hand, he can behave unbelievably Stuart made a number of thousand pounds betting on a Leave vote but nothing compared to what I gave the He was taken aback to see his friends downheartened by the result. friend, a highly intelligent barrister, told me he see any silver lining.

Fascinating. I realised how strongly people Is Ukip more fun than the Tories? could say that. You could say its work is done now that had the referendum but Labour is in such disarray and Paul Nuttall would be perfect at getting votes in the North so Ukip has a chance of taking over from Stuart is that Jeremy Corbyn is the favourite to be the next Prime Minister, because there are so many potential Conservative candidates, but only Corbyn for I thought Corbyn was going to be PM, I know what do. Before he took all my money, try to get it abroad. Not that I have much left the biggest mistake of my life was selling my companies when I did.

They went up 15 times in value after I sold He think much of and is on Theresa May. Spectator got it right calling her Mrs. Maybe. She seems nervous, a bad sign in Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan told Stuart to write to the Prime Minister asking to discuss his concerns three months ago. yet to receive a reply.

probably intercepted it or Theresa May said I got time to see Stuart, but David Davis, keep him happy because he might be a Stuart is quickly learning about running Chilham, which Tessa took care of, and wants to continue her charity work. His new flat in St Square needs decorating too. was going to do it because I have no taste at was a very likeable character, my wife. We were both undemonstrative so we tell each other how we felt but I was certainly proud of her. We were independent but I think that stopped us loving each other very News in Focus I donated a quarter of a million pounds to the Conservatives, Tessa said gone completely Susannah Butter how they turned a castle into a home where life felt like an endless riot of parties ess.