{"id":2100517,"date":"2025-10-18T19:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2100517"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:38:17","slug":"my-friend-annabel-goldsmith-had-an-electric-aura-that-captivated-royals-and-rock-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/my-friend-annabel-goldsmith-had-an-electric-aura-that-captivated-royals-and-rock-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"My friend Annabel Goldsmith had an electric aura that captivated royals and rock stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was sitting next to my old friend Annabel Goldsmith last month at Hum Fleming and Zac Goldsmith\u2019s wedding<\/a>. I was suddenly very close to her, and I realised an extraordinary thing (when you\u2019re near to somebody, you see something in them that you don\u2019t see from a distance). Annabel looked like a painting, both in her colours and the shape of her features; from the line of her eyes, to her nose and her cheeks. It was a look not of beauty but of exquisiteness. There was something in her that radiated.<\/p>\n

After the wedding, I wrote to her about it and she said, \u201cThank you so much\u201d. Then I found a passage of Tennyson about how people who are close up have a much more interesting effect on one, which I told her about. She replied to me: \u201cHe\u2019s my favourite author, I read him every night in bed\u201d. And so her last words to me, after nearly seven decades of conversations about less lofty matters, were about Tennyson.<\/p>\n

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