India Rose and her Kooky beau have split up
SHE moves in her own way... It is with regret that the Londoner hears that Soho heiress India Rose James and Kooks bandmember Hugh Harris have ended their rock ’n’ roll love story.
Over the weekend James, granddaughter of Soho property tycoon Paul Raymond, was at the Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire with two of her female friends and Sapphire, her young daughter with Harris. One of the images was captioned “Three single girls and a baby,” confirming the rumour doing the rounds in Soho that the pair have split. A friend close to India verified this, saying that the separation was “amicable” and took place earlier this year.
The pair, who had Sapphire last summer, met at Brown’s Hotel in 2015 and became an item after James ended her relationship with Will Pelham, the Earl of Yarborough’s son and heir to a £70 million
CULTURE Secretary Karen Bradley made a whistle-stop tour last night of Rachel Whiteread’s retrospective at Tate Britain. She spent about 20 minutes admiring the show, which officially opened today, guided by Tate director fortune. Harris proposed, with an emerald ring, on the roof of Hotel Café Royal in Piccadilly, and they celebrated their engagement at The Groucho Club in October last year but didn’t get round to walking down the aisle. They remain friends, however: they were together at Sapphire’s first birthday party in July.
James, the co-founder of new Soho boutique Arty Farty Fashion Party, has an Instagram feed full of party pictures but parenting is still her main priority. “I love socialising but sometimes I’m out and miss Saffi and want to go back and snuggle,” she said earlier this year. Motherhood is, we assume, made slightly easier by the £454 million fortune she shares with her sister Fawn. Perhaps Hugh should have bought a few more roses?
Maria Balshaw. Then Bradley apologised as she had to return to the House of Commons for the Brexit bill vote. “Well, at least she came,” said one Tate curator. “Even if she went back to vote on a bill few in the arts world want.”