Daily Mail, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Page 35Aspinall’s
wife hugs
her big cat
goodbye!
A POIGNANT moment for the wife of
millionaire conservationist Damian
Aspinall. Burberry executive Victo-
ria, 32, has spoken of her ‘heart-
break’ as she prepares to say
goodbye to their beloved cheetah,
Saba, whom they hand-reared and
shared their bed with.
‘Our beautiful little boy has
turned two. Fully grown up,
healthy, and ready to head back to
the wild,’ says Victoria.
‘I have never felt such a bond
and saying goodbye is going to
be heartbreaking. But if we canBrexit Party MeP
Annunziata rees-Mogg, sister of
Jacob, couldn’t disguise her
irritation with a self-
congratulatory announcement
from tory MP tom tugendhat,
who boasted that he had
survived ‘24 hours alone with
two children’, even feeding them
and putting them to bed.
‘is it just me, or do most mums
and dads just get on with normal
parenting without expecting■ applause?’ asks Annunziata,
herself a mother-of-two.
‘i thought basic nurturing of
your own children was part of
the deal being a parent. For most
of us it’s just life — with work
and everything else on top.’
try telling that to brother Jacob,
who makes a virtue of his
non-parenting skills and
proudly boasts he has six
children but has yet to
change a nappy.A TREASURE chest of fond
memories for Boris Johnson as he
attends his first official engagement
in Scotland this week.
When he visited the Scottish capi-
tal in 2006, the then MP for Henley
was making an unsuccessful bid to
be rector of Edinburgh University,
where he was swamped by protes-
■ tors and doused in beer by students
from the Scottish socialist party.
He later enjoyed a raucous night
on the town downing tequilas at
Opal Lounge — a favourite haunt of
Pippa Middleton who was then a
student at the University — before
dutifully signing his name on a
young woman’s bare chest.
Queen’s Brian May
is under pressure.
He lost the sound knob
of his guitar while on
tour and has asked the
public to find it.
‘Help!’ he cries. ‘i lost a
knob! not just any old
knob but, sadly, one i
made myself more
than 40 years ago for
the guitar that i built
with my Dad.
‘so, please, if you know
anyone who might know
someone who might have
picked it up...
‘it’s not that it can’t be
replaced, but the original
has great sentimental
value for me.’■It’s only chivalry to let
Catherine be a knight
SHE might be the wife of The Affair
star Dominic West, but Catherine
FitzGerald has her mind set on a
much more elevated role.
The daughter of the last Knight of
Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, Catherine
claims that changes could be made
to the law dictating she cannot
inherit her late father’s title owing to
her gender.
‘I wasn’t angry that it didn’t pass to
me, but it’s a romantic title so it’s
sad that it dies,’ says Catherine, 48,
who has four children with Dominic
and runs her ancestral home, Glin
Castle, in Ireland.
‘It adds a lot of colour to our family.
It could change, and a lot of people
are keen for things to change when
something dies off and there’s no
male to inherit. Let’s see, I could be
a knight yet!’
Would that make Dominic a Lady?give Saba the life he deserves,
to run free, then that’s all
that matters.’
Victoria and Damian, 59, who
raised Saba at their home in
Howletts Park, near Canterbury,
Kent, refer to themselves as his
‘mummy and daddy’.Picture: DAVE BENETTCall of the wild: Victoria Aspinall
with cheetah saba, and, inset,
the tiny cub sharing her bed