Divorcees told they cannot buy happiness

 A High Court judge has told a Russian couple that money does not buy happiness as he bemoaned the £1million cost of their divorce.

Lord Justice Peter Jackson said the family had “every conceivable material advantage” but money had not bought happiness.

He said instead the “pursuit and accumulation of wealth” had created conditions which left everyone “spoilt for choice and thoroughly miserable”.

The judge has outlined his thoughts in a ruling published following a private hearing in the family division of the High Court in London.

He said the family could not be identified. The parents were Russian and their marriage had broken down more than a decade ago.