(Very) modern manners

WHAT do you do if your wife can’t keep up with you? Energetic magazine chief Nicholas Coleridge tells me he simply lets his better half walk behind him.

‘I walk incredibly fast and Georgia walks incredibly slowly,’ says the Old Etonian, 61, chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum and godfather to model Cara Delevingne.

‘I walk like it’s a route march — I will cover five miles and enjoy the speed of walking and talking at the same time, whereas Georgia walks like an invalid. So we are very ill-matched.’

Keeping their distance must be an advantage: the couple have notched up 29 years together and have four children.

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