Ten minders, five cars, for Stunt to buy a suit
DESCRIBED as a ‘ flash b******’ by his billionaire father-in-law Bernie Ecclestone, James Stunt is keen to keep up appearances.
The art dealer husband of Bernie’s youngest daughter Petra was spotted the other day visiting his Savile Row tailor, Huntsman, which has made clothes for the gentry for 200 years.
Stunt, 32 — who married Petra, 25, in a spectacularly over-the-top £12 million Italian celebration in 2011 — pulled up in a Lamborghini at Huntsman, where suits start at £3,500. He was accompanied by two Rolls-Royce Celestials and two Range Rovers. All five cars had blacked- out windows and personalised number plates.
Stunt (pictured with his wife) was protected by no fewer than ten mountainous bodyguards, who wore matching black suits with visible earpieces. ‘ Even the President of America wouldn’t have s o much muscle and protection,’ one nearby shopkeeper commented. ‘It’s a bit over the top, isn’t it, just to buy a suit?’
His spokesman tells me: ‘Mr Stunt is delighted to be compared to such an elevated person as the U.S. President.
‘However, I think you’ll find that the presidential motorcade comprises more than 20 cars as well as outriders, an electronic countermeasures vehicle and an ambulance.’
A curious bystander, incidentally, was BBC presenter Andrew Marr, who is still recovering from a stroke which af f ected movement down his left side. Marr almost dropped his walking stick in shock at the sight of such excess.