SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lady Victoria Hervey risks the wrath of the Vatican over 'putting her eggs on ice’, says family priest

Lady Victoria Hervey has never been one to shy away from publicity, and in January the socialite announced that she was ‘putting her eggs on ice’.

But now one of her family’s favourite priests, Father Rupert McHardy, who officiates at the Brompton Oratory in Knightsbridge where Lady V’s brother the Marquess of Bristol recently got married, has issued a stern warning to the blonde socialite that this is against Catholic teaching. ‘I hope she gets married,’ Father Rupert told me.

‘It’s not a great thing to do, freezing her eggs. The Vatican doesn’t agree with it.’

Forty-one-year-old Lady V’s decision came after her romantic relationships fizzled out and suddenly she found herself all alone.

Father Rupert McHardy said Lady Victoria Hervey risks the wrath of the Vatican for 'putting her eggs on ice'

Father Rupert McHardy said Lady Victoria Hervey risks the wrath of the Vatican for 'putting her eggs on ice'

When she was told to face up to the fact she was getting too old to produce babies, she paid a Californian clinic £15,000 to freeze her eggs and store them after realising that time was running out for her. ‘Like many women, I’ve realised — nearly too late — that I am desperate to have a child,’ she said.

‘In fact, I want two. Which is why I’m hoping science might be able to stop the clock until I can find the right man to be a father to my babies.’

But Father Rupert tells me that women shouldn’t set out to be a lone parent.

‘You can’t have them anyway on your own,’ he says, acknowledging the obvious fact that the egg needs to be fertilised by a sperm donor. But Lady V thinks she has the answer: ‘I’ve got friends who’ve said they’d be prepared to father my child, and I’m considering that option very seriously’.

The Charter of the Rights of the Family published by the Holy See affirms: ‘The practice of keeping alive human embryos in vivo or in vitro for experimental or commercial purposes is totally opposed to human dignity.’

 

Dapper Borg and third wife join Lily for a Mamma Mia! knees up...

Wimbledon is over but there was never any chance that five-times champion Bjorn Borg would leave London without attending the premiere of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the summer’s feel-good film inspired by Seventies Swedish super-group Abba.

Now 62 and sporting a teak tan, Borg cut a dapper figure in jeans, blue jacket and green suede shoes. Accompanying him was his third wife, blonde Patricia Ostfeldt, whose blue dress she adventurously teamed with turquoise sandals.

Before meeting Patricia, whom he married in 2002 and with whom he has a son, Leo, Borg was married first to tennis player Mariana Simionescu. He then fathered a child with Jannike Bjorling, whom he reputedly encountered while judging a wet T-shirt competition, before marrying Loredana Berte, an Italian glamour model.

Meanwhile, Mamma Mia! star Lily James arrived for the after-party in ebullient spirits, pausing to adjust her shimmering velvet Markarian dress.

Bjorn Borg arrives at the premier of Mamma Mia after watching the Wimbledon final on Sunday

Bjorn Borg arrives at the premier of Mamma Mia after watching the Wimbledon final on Sunday

 

Britain's highest-paid male model, David Gandy, who is worth £12 million, admits even he has struggled to measure up to today’s exacting standards of beauty. ‘I was once chucked out of a Hugo Boss show. I was literally taken off the runway because I couldn’t fit any of the clothing,’ says the 38-year-old who, at 6ft 3in, weighs 15st. I kind of laughed it off, but that would affect a younger person a lot more.’

 

Clooney's ex Lisa tones up with 200 pins in her face

George Clooney’s old flame Lisa Snowdon is going to extreme lengths to maintain her looks.

Returning from a boozy holiday in the States this week, the 46-year-old model reveals she stuck 200 needles in her face after drinking her ‘body weight in tequila, vodka and rosé’.

The acupuncture-loving brunette, who dated Clooney for five years until 2005, shared this painful-looking snap online. ‘This is a much needed MOT for my body, mind and soul,’ she says. ‘This treatment helps to lift and tone the muscles in the face.

‘For those who ask if it hurts, it really doesn’t — I honestly wouldn’t keep going back and paying for a treatment that hurts.’

Lisa Snowdon was pictured with 200 needles in her face as part of the acupuncture treatment

Lisa Snowdon was pictured with 200 needles in her face as part of the acupuncture treatment

 

Former Weakest Link presenter Anne Robinson, 73, was perusing the aisles of her local Waitrose in Kensington when a lady asked her: ‘Do you work here?’

It was all very perplexing for the caustic broadcaster who writes of the encounter in the latest Oldie magazine. ‘Should I be insulted to be taken for a supermarket assistant?’ she asks.

‘Or should I just be flattered that I look young enough to have a proper job? I decided on the latter.’

 

Actress Keira Knightley, who has a three-year-old daughter with musician husband James Righton, admits she’s had to make a few compromises since becoming a mum.

‘With a small child there’s never any time to relax, except maybe with a glass of wine when she has gone to bed. That is bliss,’ she says.

‘And maybe a nice, relaxing bath — if I manage to have one where she doesn’t get in with me and we end up playing with dinosaurs.’

 

Does Chloe's new sparkler reveal she's got engaged?

Topshop boss Sir Philip Green could soon have an ex-convict for a son-in-law.

His daughter Chloe, 27, sparked engagement rumours by flashing a giant diamond ring on her wedding finger on a shopping trip to Antibes in the South of France with her ‘hot felon’ boyfriend Jeremy Meeks.

The outing comes just six weeks after the birth of their son, Jayden, and one month after Jeremy, 34, finalised his divorce from his wife of eight years, Melissa.

Chloe has not commented on the rumoured engagement, but her smile spoke volumes when she flashed the sparkler in a pink maxi-dress.

Chloe Green was pictured wearing an enormous diamond ring on her wedding finger

Chloe Green was pictured wearing an enormous diamond ring on her wedding finger

 

Acerbic historian David Starkey’s comments, which I published yesterday, that ‘only old ugly women’ can get on TV these days have failed to rile presenter Mary Beard, whom he said had ‘tombstone teeth and rather funny hair’. She tells me: ‘I’m sorry that David Starkey feels he isn’t getting enough airtime. Didn’t actually realise it was a beauty competition.’ Fellow broadcaster Alice Roberts adds sarcastically: ‘It’s really very sad, isn’t it, that women having careers has ruined it for the hegemony of men.’

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