Sophia Money-Coutts

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

There stands the bride. Perfect hair, perfect nails, perfect fake tan. She may not have slept the previous night or eaten for six months but, still, she’s beaming. And there behind her stand the bridesmaids. All 95 of them. When Kathryn McGowan got married in County Down this month, she couldn’t decide which of her pals should have the honour of holding her train and checking she didn’t have lipstick on her teeth.

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

There's been a spot of bother in my neck of the woods: it's been announced that a closed-down café on the high street in Crystal Palace will shortly re-open as a Gail's. From the fuss on the local Facebook group, you'd think Putin has just announced that he quite fancies a chunk of south-east London, too. Hundreds of comments, fury and condemnation.

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

It’s a gloriously sunny day in the Cotswolds. Cow parsley bursts from every hedgerow, bunches of wisteria hang from Rich Tea-coloured manor houses, horses flick their tails in the fields and Range Rovers roar along the narrow roads. It’s very much the sort of day Jilly Cooper would describe in her books. As I pull up to a particularly beautiful 14th-century manor house, discreetly tucked at the end of a lane, I half expect to see a naked man hitting balls on a tennis court. No naked man.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Sophia Money-Coutts

4 weeks ago | finance.yahoo.com | Sophia Money-Coutts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has spooked parents into handing down inheritance sooner rather than later - Kirsty O'Connor There was a big, shouty and not altogether surprising headline in the paper earlier this week. “Bank of Mum and Dad pours £9.6bn into property ahead of tax changes”, it said.