Why Millen has no designs on marriage

Millen has revealed she will never wed her long-term boyfriend, Ben Charnaud.

‘We’ve been together ten years but we won’t get married,’ she tells me at a Mayfair party. ‘I commit to someone and that’s it — I don’t have to prove it. Besides, most people I know who got married are now divorced.’

Millen, 60, who sold her eponymous HighStreet brand in 2004, now runs interior design company Homemonger, with the help of Australianborn Ben (pictured).

‘He did want to marry me, but he’s resigned himself to the fact that I’m not the marrying type,’ adds Karen, who has three children with ex-business partner, Kevin Stanford.

‘I’ve never put a ring on it, and I don’t intend to now.’