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RICHARD EDEN: Jeweller Fennell's most unusual snub to his late mother


Emerald Fennell's cult film Saltburn is a disturbing satire of upper-class life. Now, the Oscar-winning director's father, Theo Fennell, has revealed the extent of his own family's dysfunction.

The society jeweller, whose quirky creations have been worn by everyone from Victoria Beckham to Dame Joan Collins and Sir Elton John, says his relationship with his mother, Beryl, was so troubled that he spent the inheritance she left him on trips to destinations he knew she would loathe. Her brother Zac was a Conservative minister, elevated to the peerage by Boris Johnson, but Jemima Goldsmith appeared to make clear which way she voted on Thursday by posing with a cardboard cut-out of Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey. Her brother Zac was a Conservative minister, elevated to the peerage by Boris Johnson, but Jemima Goldsmith appeared to make clear which way she voted on Thursday by posing with a cardboard cut-out of Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey

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