Baby No 4 for Ben and Jem

MANY congratulations to environmentalist Ben Goldsmith and his restaurateur wife Jemima, right, who are expecting their fourth child

in September.

The couple already have two daughters and a son.

‘I’m very excited,’ Ben told me last week when I bumped into him at lifestyle firm Love Brand & Co’s Planet Protector talk series in London.

Just three years ago, Ben lost Iris, the eldest of his three children with his ex-wife, banking heiress Kate Rothschild, after a tragic accident at the family farm in Somerset.

HE IS said to have received thousands of pounds in return for attempting to secure a knighthood and British citizenship for Saudi tycoon Mahfouz Bin Mahfouz in the Prince Charles ‘cash for honours’ scandal, but society ‘fixer’ William Bortrick has just shed a title of his own – stepping down as a vice president of the Society of Genealogists.

Bortrick, publisher of Burke’s

Peerage, declines to comment but his departure comes weeks after the Charity Commission launched a statutory inquiry – the most serious form of investigation it undertakes – into the Burke’s Peerage Foundation, a charity which Bortrick chairs, over its dealings with the Mahfouz Foundation.

Mahfouz is a major donor to Prince Charles’s charities.