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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Aristocratic novelist Sophia Money-Coutts blasts US bestseller who took her name in vain

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Aristocratic novelist Sophia Money-Coutts is hopping mad the author of Crazy Rich Asians named a character in his new book after her without permission.

Aristocratic novelist Sophia Money-Coutts is hopping mad after the best-selling author of Crazy Rich Asians apparently named a character in his new book after her without permission. She adds: 'There's the usual legal disclaimer in the front of the novel, 'This is work of fiction...Any resemblance to actual persons is entirely coincidental', but forgive me, Kevin, for saying that seems a tiny bit laughable in this context.' At a Buckingham Palace ceremony recognising volunteers he joked: 'Most of the time we spent hoping that some enormous aircraft carrier would run aground so that we could rescue the entire crew with what was then a very complicated set of breeches buoys.'

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