Gates’ girl Phoebe checks into the capital
IT MAY feel as if most of London’s beau monde has upped sticks to Ibiza or Mykonos for the summer, but the capital has welcomed one glamorous young heiress.
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’s younger daughter, Phoebe, is staying in West London with her mother, Melinda French Gates, and her boyfriend.
Stanford University student Phoebe, 19, has been seen at luxury landmarks including Sketch restaurant in Mayfair and Peggy Porschen Cakes bakery in Belgravia.
Here, she’s pictured posing in the sunshine outside florist Bayley & Sage while wearing a £575 two-piece from Annie’s Ibiza, in Soho.
Phoebe’s sister, Jennifer, 26, married equestrian star Nayel Nassar last October in a wedding said to have cost £1.6million.
■ THIS is unlikely to improve relations with her new mother-in-law, Victoria Beckham. U.S. billionaire’s daughter Nicola Peltz has said she chose a wedding dress by Valentino because fashion designer Victoria was unable to create one herself. ‘I really wanted to, and then a few months down the line, she realised that her atelier couldn’t do it, so then I had to pick another dress,’ Brooklyn Beckham’s wife tells Variety. ‘She didn’t say you can’t wear it; I didn’t say I didn’t want to wear it. That’s where it [the rumours] started.’ The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
■ NERVY that tomorrow’s Sovereign’s Parade at Sandhurst might lead to officer cadets ‘Passing Out’ literally — as two, I’m told, have done in rehearsals during the heatwave — the Army’s top brass has decreed the parade will start 90 minutes early. The rescheduling means a brutally prompt start for friends and family. ‘Those attending will need to RV at the Yorktown Gate to the Academy no later than 07:30hrs,’ warns the invitation. The MoD declines to comment on the alleged incident during rehearsals.