Tony and Cherie coo over little heir to Blair
TONY and Cherie Blair have another role to add to their booming portfolio careers — that of grandparents. I can reveal the multi-millionaire couple are celebrating the arrival of an heir to Blair — or an heiress, more accurately — after the couple’s second son Nicky and his wife Alexandra Bevir had a baby daughter on Thursday.
The Blairs’ granddaughter was born at London’s University College Hospital, just over a year after football agent Nicky married divorce lawyer Alexandra last summer.
The baby’s name is under wraps at the moment, but a friend of the family says Tony, 63, and Cherie, 62, who have four children — Euan, 32, Nicky, 30, Kathryn, 28, and Leo, 16 — are delighted at presiding over the next generation of Blairs.
The source tells me: ‘Tony loves kids and was particularly good with daughter Kathryn when she was little. And underneath it all, Cherie is a bit of a mother hen, so she can’t wait to coo over the baby.’
Despite Nicky’s socialist principles, forged while chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club, the Blairs’ first grandchild will enjoy a privileged upbringing. Nicky and Alexandra, 29, live in a Georgian town house in central London bought by Cherie for £1.35 million in 2012, and Nicky’s football agency Magnitude, which is based in Cherie’s London office, has been busily trading on the Blair name to score seven-figure transfer deals.
Despite becoming a grandparent, Tony Blair doesn’t seem ready to settle for his pipe and slippers just yet. After amassing an estimated £75 million fortune through globetrotting deals since departing Downing Street, there is speculation the permatanned former PM is eyeing a return to politics.
‘I don’t know if there’s a role for me,’ he hinted to Esquire magazine.
If the Labour Party doesn’t require his services, I’m sure Nicky and Alexandra could use dad’s babysitting skills — though probably not on Mr Moneybags’ usual hourly rate.