‘Castaway’ Kirsty and her luxury island item

WELCOME to the newest outpost of Soho House, in the Caribbean, which is due to open later this year in Canouan, an island in the Grenadines. Overseeing the finishing touches to the club last week was Soho House founder Nick Jones and his wife Kirsty Young (pictured), former presenter of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. As host of the show, Kirsty would ask her ‘castaway’ guests what luxury items they’d take to a desert island, while discussing the reasons for their choices — all useful ideas for how to furnish her dream Soho House with more than the bare necessities. ‘It’s the island billionaires go to get away from millionaires,’ I’m told. Broadcaster Kirsty last year joined the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s charitable foundation as a director: perhaps Meghan and Harry will get preferential rates at the island hideaway!