Barbara, Lady Judge, the spouse of former ENRC director Sir Paul Judge, urged City tycoons to “raid the safe” for last Monday’s Royal Academy Summer Ball, for which she chairs the committee.
Should the Bank of England do a quick count of its gold reserves? Deep-pocketed guests at the triennial fundraiser included BoE governor Mark Carney, who was joined by his Canadian countrywoman Moya Greene, the chief of Royal Mail.
No doubt the postal boss put her stamp on the summer ball’s tradition of dancing between dinner courses.
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Dashwood dusted down its hat for the party of the summer: the marriage of Phoebe Vela, a partner at Lord Bell’s PR empire Bell Pottinger, and property entrepreneur John Hitchcox.
Supermodels Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss grabbed the column inches, but City grandees had a look-in too, in the forms of Icap chief Michael Spencer and Carphone Warehouse founder Sir Charles Dunstone.
The honeymoon will be on Sir Richard Branson’s private Caribbean island of Necker. It’s where the groom proposed.
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It was meant to be a test question to check the bank’s new voting keypads, but it proved the most divisive issue of the entire RBS annual meeting last Wednesday.
A vocal 60pc of investors who made the trip to Edinburgh voted against the resolution that the city’s trams are “running well”, while only 0.34pc opposed the bank’s executive pay.
RBS chief Ross McEwan arrived by car: a Ford Escort, say my moles.
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