Flashpoint for William Cash as he is publicly berated by his wife

William Cash’s private life has in the past been tumultuous, so friends were delighted when he finally settled down with his third wife, the society milliner Lady Laura Cathcart.

The 40-year-old daughter of the 7th Earl Cathcart appears, however, to find life with publisher Cash, 57, something of a challenge. So much so that she took to social media to berate her husband publicly for gallivanting around Europe with pals while she is left running the family home, Upton Cressett Hall in Shropshire.

When Cash, who has two children with Laura, posted a photo of him enjoying a beer and strudel while hiking in the mountains in Austria, his wife responded with a very un-ladylike comment. Calling him a ‘p****’, Laura wrote: ‘Missing his children’s sports day and forgot his daughter’s birthday.’ She added: ‘Have a great time with your ego.’

The trip was the latest of Cash’s foreign jaunts. He visited the World Film Festival in Cannes last month to promote Can You Hear Me?, which was shot at Upton Cressett Hall. He posted a series of gushing messages about the film, which stars Charlotte Radford, with whom he spent time at the festival in the South of France.

Radford tells me: ‘Laura was invited, too, but she had to stay at home to look after the children.’

Let’s hope that William manages to placate Laura, whom he married in 2014. His first wife was jewellery heiress Ilaria Bulgari. Their marriage ended four years after their 2003 wedding, following his admission he had engaged in a ‘Boris Becker moment’.

His second marriage to Mick Jagger’s old flame, Venezuelan-born Vanessa Neumann, ended after just 17 months.

William’s 2019 memoirs chronicled a bizarre love triangle between himself, art dealer Helen Macintyre and Boris Johnson.

A friend insists Laura’s comment was ‘jokey banter’.

Fancy having the whiff of royalty? King Charles has started selling aftershave — at £135 a bottle. Highgrove Splash, named after his Gloucestershire retreat, says it ’embodies elegance, bringing a touch of luxury to every shaving experience with its sophisticated aroma’.

Part of a range created with Truefitt & Hill, the barber’s shop in St James’s, London, it’s claimed that it ‘instantly evokes the charm of Highgrove Gardens, with notes of the essence of cedar at its very heart’.

Princess Beatrice parties with the Kings 

Prince William may have been teased about his ‘dad-dancing’ at Taylor Swift’s concert at Wembley but his cousin, Princess Beatrice, was an even more enthusiastic member of the audience at Kings Of Leon’s performance at BST Hyde Park in London on Sunday.

The 35-year-old daughter of Prince Andrew and Fergie was seen singing along loudly to the American band’s hits, which include Sex On Fire. At one point, she was seen resting her head on the shoulder of her husband, property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 40.

She could be forgiven for being weary: she had only just returned from Glastonbury, where she was seen spending time at Hideaway, a VIP area of the festival provided by Soho House, the private members’ club chain.

She inherited Renishaw Hall, the castellated family seat, plus 5,000 Derbyshire acres, on the death of her father, Sir Reresby Sitwell, 7th baronet, in 2009, since when Alexandra Hayward has done her utmost to bolster and beautify the estate.

So I hope that she finds time to read the campaign leaflet of the Green Party candidate for nearby Bolsover. Explaining that he’s ‘passionate about changing the political agenda’ which lines ‘the pockets of the rich and greedy’, he decries the failings of a system ‘designed to reward the wealthy whilst punishing the poor’.

It might almost sound as though he has Alexandra in his sights, as well as her husband, Richard, whose late father, Sir Jack Hayward, was one of the country’s richest men, having amassed a fortune in the Bahamas.

The candidate, incidentally, is David Kesteven – head gardener at Renishaw for nearly 30 years . . .

Comedian and children’s author David Walliams claims to have helped Adele beat her writer’s block. He used to live near the singer in Hove, East Sussex, ‘so I’d see quite a lot of her’, he says in an interview.

‘She came over for dinner and was saying how difficult it was to write her new album. I said to her, ‘The problem you’ve got is that you are against yourself, because you are trying to write Someone Like You every time you write a new song.’ To be creative, you’ve got to feel free.’

Gold leaves £19m in will 

Her creations were tiny, but they made a fortune for lingerie tycoon Jacqueline Gold.

Newly published probate documents disclose that the Ann Summers boss, who died after a long battle with breast cancer last year aged 62, left almost £20 million in her will.

Gold, who took the business from just four stores to a multi- million-pound empire selling lingerie and sex toys, left a gross estate of £19 million, but this was reduced to £17.6 million after her debts were paid.

She left her diamond heart-drop pendant and matching earrings to her sister, Vanessa, and the rest of her jewellery to her daughter, Scarlett.

She left the rest of her estate to her husband, Daniel Cunningham, Scarlett and her family.

The Sunday Times Rich List claimed in 2019 that Gold was worth £470 million.