The doorways of Prince Charles's Ayrshire mansion are nonetheless open for his buddies from Spanish tile firm Porcelanosa, regardless of an embarrassing 'cash-for-access' row within the run-up to the Royal Marriage ceremony.
Eyebrows had been raised when it emerged that Porcelanosa had lined a 'important proportion' of the prices of a lavish 2011 dinner at Buckingham Palace, after being awarded a Royal Warrant in 2005 for supplying Charles with tiles. 'The Prince must be extra cautious about blurring the strains between his good causes and massive enterprise,' Labour MP Paul Flynn stated on the time.
Regardless of the controversy, it appears the face of Porcelanosa, former mannequin Isabel Preysler, maintains a detailed relationship with the Prince of Wales.
Beneficiant: Actor Antonio Banderas poses with Santa at Prince Charles's Dumfries Home
On Tuesday, Preysler, her daughter Tamara Falco and Preysler's companion, the Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa, attended a dinner for 50 friends at Charles's Dumfries Home close to Cumnock, the place they may admire the 'sanitary and kitchen furnishings' Porcelanosa donated to the stately house's multi-million-pound refurb.
Charles hosted the intimate event to thank among the most beneficiant supporters of his charities for his or her donations.
The glamorous occasion — lined by Spain's Hola! journal — was additionally attended by actor-turned-fashion designer Antonio Banderas and his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel, who're based mostly in a £2.four million house in Surrey whereas Banderas research menswear at Central Saint Martins school. The Dumfries Home web site posted a festive picture of the Masks Of Zorro and Shrek star with Santa.
'Antonio kindly dropped by to thank Santa for visiting Dumfries Home this 12 months,' reads the caption.
Additional Iberian star energy got here from Spanish fashions Nieves Alvarez and Paloma Cuevas, with Cuevas's bullfighter husband Enrique Ponce.
Santa isn't the one one shelling out beneficiant items at Dumfries Home, in fact.
Billionaire artwork collector Jurgen Pierburg, Eva Rausing, the late spouse of the Tetra Pak inheritor, and Kansas philanthropist Julia Irene Kauffman all chipped in to Charles's multi-million-pound whip-round to avoid wasting the crumbling pile for the nation in 2007, and had been thanked by the Prince for his or her 'beneficiant assist'.
Charles rewarded Porcelanosa's beneficiant cheques to his charities with an invite to Prince William and Kate Middleton's marriage ceremony for the ceramics firm's boss, Manuel Colonques, and his spouse Delfina — the one Spanish friends apart from the nation's royal household and the Spanish ambassador to Britain.
Kelly Osbourne has been reasonably indiscreet about Princess Beatrice in her new guide, There Is No F***ing Secret: Letters From A Badass Bitch, which is due out in April. The 32-year-old daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne writes in her Pricey London chapter: 'I bear in mind as soon as speaking to Princess Beatrice within the powder room at one in all Elton John's events, and he or she'd instructed me how she'd gotten grounded for taking the Tube. 'Everybody who has to take the Tube in London hates it, however that's all she wished to do: purchase a ticket and take a experience like everybody else on the market.'
Paris Hilton places herself in a trend blindspot
When lodge heiress Paris Hilton boarded a aircraft to Mauritius this week, it seems she additionally took flight of her trend sense.
The 35-year-old mannequin — whose youthful sister Nicky wed British banking inheritor James Rothschild final 12 months — resides proof that cash doesn't at all times assure good style.
The selfie-loving millionairess posed on the seashore carrying an eclectic mixture of equipment that included £210 Linda Farrow gold star sun shades and banana-shaped earrings.
By no means one to overlook a chance for self-promotion, she captioned the image 'Stars Are Blind' in a nod to the pop tune she launched in 2006.
The 35-year-old mannequin — whose youthful sister Nicky wed British banking inheritor James Rothschild final 12 months — resides proof that cash doesn't at all times assure good style
As we're serenaded by Christmas carols, is it potential that subsequent week's New Yr Honours would possibly embody composer John Rutter, whose work consists of so many fashionable seasonal classics? Rutter, 71, thus far has solely a CBE to his title, regardless of being extensively thought to be Britain's hottest author of latest church music. He's additionally a favorite of the royals, having composed anthems for the 2011 Royal Marriage ceremony and the Queen's Golden Jubilee. Would a knighthood for this modest, however proficient, musician not be a even handed and completely happy resolution?
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