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Saturday 22nd<\/sup> August 2009<\/p>\n \u00a0So much to tell you, I don\u2019t know where to begin.<\/p>\n \u00a0There\u2019s more to these rich gays than money. But we must remember that the path of being rich is the one we have taken – at different levels of course, including that of Val who has at times bordered destitution.<\/p>\n \u00a0On Thursday an Italian friend of Prince Dmitri Hersov\u2019s, Carolina, came down from Florence for the day.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t told you much about Prince Dmitri. When he laments the decay of the modern world, you sense the Russian Steppe rolling grandly away. I\u2019ve no idea what the Russian Steppe looks like but there we are. \u00a0He has soul and is good. Carolina could have been pre-ordered for the villa. She said that, were she ever to leave her present job which is running 30 shops of a well-known designer, she would like to be a personal shopper for a princess. Apparently such people instruct as follows: this year, I will have two winter weddings, four summer weddings, two Spring funerals, three summers funerals etc. We thought the funerals diarised a year in advance priceless.<\/p>\n \u00a0I dashed up to Radda in Chianti to join Carolina, Prince Dmitri and the Multis for lunch. When I arrived the Multis were re-arranging the furniture on the terrace. On their last visit, they declared, they had re-arranged the entire terrace. \u00a0But the lunch was not liked, despite the re-arranging. Little else was spoken of, save its failings. I feared that one of the multis was on the verge of offering, to the waiter, a list of suggestions for improvement. This would have been done with superb, lethal neutrality.<\/p>\n \u00a0But in the evening joy broke out. Laura Malcolm and Matt Driver arrived from London. \u2018It\u2019s a het attack,\u2019 Matt said. You remember him. He\u2019s the advertising mogul solely responsible for the way deodorants are advertised to adolescent boys all over the world. He said his mission was to steal a Tuscan roof tile. I assumed this was some kind of challenge made by his het friends back home but it turned out he wanted to make a garden light.<\/p>\n \u00a0Well, I don\u2019t know I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n \u00a0The Multis were divine, flitting in their pale suits, in the twilight, offering drinks. One of them arranged the table with candles.\u00a0 It couldn\u2019t have been more perfect. Angus Willis cooked some astonishing beef on the barbeque. It was a feast. Carolina returned from fetching her boyfriend from a motorway service station. She brought ice-cream. We seemed to be getting well-known in the neighbourhood. \u00a0There was also a tiramisu, made by Angus, utterly on a higher plane to any other ever tasted.<\/p>\n \u00a0What was said? Who was brilliant? I don\u2019t really recall. At our end of the table there were inept attempts to speak in Italian with Carolina\u2019s boyfriend. But there it is \u2013 at lunch the tide was out and we were on the mud flats, in the evening\u00a0– magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 Saturday 22nd August 2009 \u00a0So much to tell you, I don\u2019t know where to begin. \u00a0There\u2019s more to these rich gays than money. 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