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High life

What Barbara Black’s choice of friends says about her

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

Gstaad

 
I’m not usually nonplussed, but this is very strange: the memoir of Barbara Black, the wife of my good friend Lord Black, simply doesn’t make sense where certain people she writes about are concerned — persons I happen to know well.

The list is not long, and I’ll start with David Graham, her third and extremely rich husband who was the biggest bore I have ever met — and believe you me, I’ve met a few in my long life.

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