She’s only just moved back into her £16 million Los Angeles mansion after relocating to Monaco for a few months, but Petra Ecclestone, youngest daughter of F1 billionaire Bernie, is already having a dig at fellow California residents, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
‘I always tried to stand up for her,’ says the heiress, 32, of former actress Meghan Markle.
‘Harry and Meghan did have the freedom to leave [the Royal Family] if they really didn’t want that life.
‘But, on the other hand, they said they wanted privacy and they didn’t want to be famous and they didn’t want to do interviews — but all they’ve done since is basically do interviews.’

She’s only just moved back into her £16 million Los Angeles mansion after relocating to Monaco for a few months, but Petra Ecclestone, youngest daughter of F1 billionaire Bernie, is already having a dig at fellow California residents, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Petra said that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said they wanted privacy ‘but all they’ve done since is basically do interviews’
Two years after losing his wife, Francesca, City fund manager Justin Urquhart Stewart has become engaged.
The fund manager, 66, he of the trademark red braces, is to wed journalist Virginia Blackburn, 59, after they met through Zoom. They eventually met in person last summer.
‘We had a socially distanced get-together in Virginia’s garden in Kensington, West London, over some potted shrimps and salmon,’ Urquhart Stewart tells me.