At home with… Lady Annabel Goldsmith at Ormeley Lodge, Richmond

No doubt it caused Mr Birley some upset when Annabel embarked on an affair with a man she met at Annabel’s, her second husband, Jimmy Goldsmith, a close friend of Mark’s. But, to their credit, she and Mark remained close. ‘I adored him, and we never fell out. Okay, we did for a bit,’ she smiles. ‘Then we were great friends.’

In his last years, she chided Mark to take care of himself: ‘Mostly it was his…