Eton educated Gilkes is a club-trepreneur who has made waves in Chelsea and Battersea. He also appeared in The Iron Lady and launched an Italian pizzeria and karaoke bar named Bunga Bunga with a performance by the X Factor star Wagner.

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Charlie Siem
The same people in the Steeple archive

Charlie Siem

Violinist Charlie Siem was educated at Eton and Cambridge and has been described by Town & Country as “sleekly posh”.

Rosemary Conley
From the same Steeple territory

Rosemary Conley

“Slimming guru” Rosemary Conley’s luck changed in 2014 when her empire went into administration. Though her low-fat “Hip & Thigh Diet” regime was all the rage in the 1990s, newer “blockbuster” alternatives stole her mantle and her business, Quorn House Publishing – worth an estimated £13 million in 2006 – went down with losses of […]