EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Jeremy Corbyn’s son and sex party ‘lord’ make unlikely pals 

As one teetotal Marxist said he eats cold baked beans straight from a can for dinner, Jeremy Corbyn is not known for being a party animal.

Yet his son Ben, I hear, has developed a close friendship with one of London’s most notoriously shady revelers.

His friend is ‘Lord’ Edward Davenport, the convicted fraudster known in the late 1980s for hosting lavish sex parties from his Portland Place mansion in Marylebone.

Corbyn, 32, who works as a football coach, declined to comment but “Fast Eddie,” as he is known, confirms they are friends.

“Ben is a very, very nice man, and I know him very well,” Davenport tells me. He denies that they have shared business interests. “I saw it when I was last in London, but it doesn’t work for me in any way,” said Davenport, who spends much of the year in Thailand.

Davenport, 56, who refers to himself as “Lord,” began his career in the 1980s, founding the infamous Gatecrasher Balls for privately educated teenagers at the age of 20.

His fall from favor began in 2001 when the government of Sierra Leone accused him of tricking it into selling its high commission in Portland Place, then valued at £5million, for £50,000. The property changed hands while the country was in the throes of civil war. It became the setting for his infamous parties and was used in the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech.

Davenport was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2011 after his financial firm was found to have defrauded customers of £4.5 million. But he was released from prison after three years as an “act of mercy” when he convinced judges that he was seriously ill with kidney problems.

A friend of Corbyn’s tells me, “Ben has never had any business involvement with Mr. Davenport.”

Suki digs for victory on the map

Suki Waterhouse’s single Brutally may not have made it to the top 200 songs on the UK download charts, but the model is determined to show that her music career isn’t dead and buried.

In the video for her upcoming song Nostalgia, the 30-year-old daughter of plastic surgeon, Suki, is seen with a shovel in a cemetery. She later lies in the grave, surrounded by flowers.

Suki, whose boyfriend is Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson, says the song is “about the romance of missing the idea of ​​something, someone.”

On his father’s advice to stick with his first wife, Victoria, through “thick and thin,” he memorably replied that Victoria was “thin — and certainly fat.”

Earl Spencer now has the chance to test his jokes on comrades – when he addresses a reunion dinner at Eton College this Friday. It is held for those who left 40 years ago. These include Darius Guppy, convicted in the 1990s of fraud, and Boris Johnson. The former prime minister spoke during the 30-year reunion dinner. Alluding to aviation noise heard over Eton, he noted, ‘That’s what happens when you put a D-Blocker in charge’ — a reference to David Cameron, who was two years his junior.

Bea beats the cold with a £695 coat

Sarah, Duchess of York, turns 63 next week and already seems to have a birthday present in the bag.

Her daughter Princess Beatrice, 34, was holding a colorfully wrapped gift when she was seen on the street for the first time since the period of royal mourning for the queen ended.

Bea – who has a one-year-old daughter, Sienna, with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi – replaced the black she’d been wearing since her grandmother’s death with a £695 brown wool felt coat designed by Ulla Johnson.

Pop’s Ellie Doesn’t Divide the Critics

Royal favorite Ellie Goulding, who won the President’s Award for her contributions to music and songwriting at the BMI London Awards, could have taken home the Outstanding Outfit Award.

The pop singer, 35, who is married to Old Etonian art dealer Caspar Jopling, wore a black polo-neck dress with a huge slit for the bash at the Savoy Hotel. She topped it off with a pair of sky-high heels.

That’s not how you treat The Lady! I hear Britain’s stateliest and oldest women’s magazine is looking for a new editor after parting ways with Maxine Frith, who has been at the helm since 2019. The following year, Ben Budworth, the owner of The Lady, who lives in Bylaugh Hall in Norfolk – was criticized for taking himself on leave during the pandemic, making nearly £2,500 a month in taxpayers’ money. He previously shocked his formidable mother, Julia, by selling the beautiful Covent Garden headquarters and moving The Lady to Boreham Wood, in Hertfordshire, earning him £12.4 million.

King will stick to his guns, says TV designer

When Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen designed floors for Buckingham Palace, Prince Philip made it very clear that he “hates” them.

And the dressing room star believes that King Charles will not stop expressing his opinion.

“People who know him very well say he won’t stop expressing his opinion, not if he really has a strong opinion,” Llewelyn-Bowen, 57, told the launch party of his new book – More, More, More .

“This is someone President Trump refused to stay in a room with because he knew Prince Charles would turn him down. He knew he’d be wagging his fingers all over Trump’s eco-references.”