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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Celebrated author Hanif Kureishi, 70, marries Italian 20 years his junior after he was confined to a wheelchair


EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Finally, aged 70, Hanif Kureishi , whose first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, outraged his own sister, seems ready to embrace convention.

His talent and appetite for mocking bourgeois pieties have been evident since his debut screenplay in 1984, My Beautiful Launderette, which earned him an Oscar nomination and propelled its star, Daniel Day-Lewis, to international attention. Model-turned-make-up artist Jemma Kidd and Marquess of Douror Arthur Wellesley ended their 16-year marriage in 2021, but they had something to reunite them this week: Their youngest was a Page of Honour to King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Order of the Garter service in Windsor. Newly knighted Sir David Beckham, October’s guest editor of Country Life magazine, has won a row with his neighbours over plans for a barn at his £6 million Cotswolds estate.

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