• Lady Annabel Goldsmith, socialite and author, dies aged 91 During the 1960s and 1970s she gained notoriety in the gossip columns for her long affair with the dynamic tycoon Sir James Goldsmith, who later became her second husband, prompting his remark that “when you marry your mistress you create a vacancy”. The quip duly proved prophetic, adding to the heartbreak that Lady Annabel experienced all too often in the course of her gilded and eventful life. She was born Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart in 1934 at 101 Park Street, Mayfair, the second daughter of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh — who had...