Sophia Money-Coutts

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Sophia Money-Coutts

Sorry! There’s no point in grumbling about the ubiquity of voice notes, now. They’re here, everyone’s using them, get with the programme. That said, not so long ago, my friend Jess sent me a 29-minute voice note. ‘That wasn’t a voice note,’ I texted back, having listened to it while in the bath, ‘it was a podcast.’I tend to have a one-minute rule for voice notes — for the ones I send and receive. What can’t be said in a minute? Hardly anything.

2 weeks ago | thecritic.co.uk | Sophia Money-Coutts

This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Thirty-one years ago this summer, Four Weddings and A Funeral came out and the full horror of British marriages was revealed to the world. The peculiar dress code, the bumbling vicar, the interminable speeches, the enforced small talk, the grotesquery of the seating plan, the awful spectre of the dancefloor and the endless, endless drinking.

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Sophia Money-Coutts

Good question and advice that the King and Elton John could perhaps do with, since they have 33 and 10 godchildren respectively. Listen up, Your Majesties. To be clear, it is of course an immense honour to be asked to be a godparent to any child. This means a friend trusts you enough to shepherd their little darling through its early life. Me? Really? The person who’s still a bit nervy about handling babies and lets their head loll around like a water balloon?

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sophia Money-Coutts

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Sophia Money-Coutts

Ding dong, here we go again. Wedding season’s back. Jeff Bezos is getting hitched this month in Venice; Selena Gomez is rumoured to be doing it in California, and will Zendaya go full meringue when she walks down the aisle towards Tom Holland? What to wear! Hat or no hat? And do you really have to contribute to the happy couple’s honeymoon fund? Over the past decade or so, I’ve been to upwards of 60 weddings. Splendid, on the one hand. Church bells, big white dress, glass of fizz – don’t mind if I do.