EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter Kiera, 42, goes public with new Swiss financier boyfriend after she was once voted world’s 17th most eligible bachelorette

She was once voted the 17th most eligible single woman in the world, but I hear Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter Kiera has a new leading man.

The 42-year-old model, actress and skincare ambassador has opened up about her Swiss businessman boyfriend Mauricio Safdie.

In this photo she shared online, they were seen kissing while on vacation with her family.

“He usually likes to keep to himself,” Kiera tells me. “We met through mutual friends in Switzerland.”

She has had her share of heartbreak. Her former fiancé, French financier and photographer Count Alexandre de Basseville, was sentenced to ten years in prison for money laundering and drug trafficking.

It’s understandable that Kiera wants this romance to last forever. “Hopefully he puts a ring on it,” she says.

Friend Creates Barbie’s Dream LA Office

Margot Robbie lived in the picture-perfect Dreamhouse while starring as Barbie. Now the Australian actress is having her world recreated by designer Dara Huang, mother of Princess Beatrice’s stepson Wolfie.

The two took a selfie together at a private gathering hosted by Margot, who turned 34 last week, at the private members’ club The Roof Gardens in London.

“It’s an honor to help Margot’s team design her dream home, or in this case, Barbie’s dream LA office,” writes Dara, 41, who calls Margot her “girl crush.”

Margot is believed to be expecting her first child with her 34-year-old husband Tom Ackerley.

When Bacon met his Waterloo

What would Francis Bacon have thought of life in 2024? More than a decade ago, one of his triptychs sold for £110 million, but the question is prompted not only by the astronomical sums his paintings now fetch, but also by an entry in a diary — as yet unpublished — made 50 years ago.

“FB and I became mesmerised by the horrors of the Eurovision Song Contest,” wrote Richard Chopping, illustrator of the James Bond book covers, who regularly visited Bacon in Wivenhoe, Essex.

‘[It was] eventually won by two horrible Swedish girls who sang a song called ‘Waterloo’.

Bacon, through his death in 1992, at least spared himself ABBA Voyage, the virtual tour in which Anni-Frid and Agnetha – and Benny and Bjorn – materialize via a hologram.

Cleo gets the cream in the countryside

Cleo Watson, 35, was appointed as an adviser by Boris Johnson’s policy guru Dominic Cummings in 2019. She has described her role at Downing Street as Boris’s “nanny” during lockdown, rather than a power broker.

And since leaving two years ago, she’s used her experience to write two steaming bonkbusters: Whips and Cleavage.

But now she’s moved from Westminster and is diving into cowpats, scouring the countryside in search of a romantic fling.

She is currently working on a novel about young farmers, inspired by a date with a dairy factory employee.

“Instead of bringing flowers or chocolates or anything, he would bring a jug of milk straight from the cow,” Cleo cheered. “It had about an inch of cream on it. It was absolutely delicious.”

A far cry from the wine, spirits, pizza and birthday cake you can get at No 10.

The Perfect Foyle

Murder and death are a daily occurrence for millionaire children’s book author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz.

But the Foyle’s War creator’s obsession with the gruesome side of crime meant he stopped seeing his psychiatrist.

“I went to a couple of sessions,” he told me last week at the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards. “And I only found it interesting insofar as I thought the guy who was giving me therapy would make a good character in a book and would probably be dead by chapter three — so that was the end of my therapy sessions,” he said.

Could be the perfect backdrop for a new book series…

A former housewife to fuchsia-haired fashion-conscious Dame Zandra Rhodes has revealed she used to send postcards to her plants instead of him when she went on holiday.

Fellow designer Jon Lys Turner, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, documents his time in the 1980s working for the now 83-year-old diva in his forthcoming memoir, St Stephen’s Gardens.

“My job was to see Zandra’s life operating without her having anything to do with it. Basically what a woman would do, except sleep with her.” Charming.

Rake who has really calmed down

He lived through his youth — and even part of his middle age — at such a rapid pace that he inspired one of Jilly Cooper’s most voluptuous characters, Rupert Campbell-Black, who races through her Rutshire Chronicles in irrepressible style.

But the recently published £2million will of the thrice-married Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire – ‘Mickey’ Suffolk to friends – suggests he was telling the truth when he said he was ‘eventually in a committed relationship’.

The first ‘discretionary beneficiary’ is simply called ‘Linda’: Linda Paravicini, the ex-wife of Viscount Bridport, who married Mickey in 1983 and with whom he was completely happy until his death, aged 87, in 2022.

The Mozart effect, the claim that playing his music to babies increases their brain power, has been largely debunked.

But Camilla Kerslake, the wife of former England rugby captain Chris Robshaw, says her classical singing has influenced their unborn son’s taste in music.

“When I sing on stage, he’s buzzing around in my belly,” the 35-year-old soprano tells me at the Royal Opera House’s Thurrock Trailblazer event, where she sang Der Holle Rache as the villainous Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflöte.

“But as soon as I start ‘Evil Queening’ he gets really small and quiet,” she adds. “I like to think he’s listening, but he might be hiding,” explains Camilla, who is 37 weeks pregnant.

Let’s Face It – Moore’s Law for Left-Handers

Charles Moore raised eyebrows when he said Olivia Colman, who played Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s The Crown, has a “left-wing face”. Colman called his comments “absurd”.

The former Daily Telegraph editor now feels vindicated by a new face in the city.

He writes: ‘I continue to cling to my theory that there is such a thing as a left-wing face. I ask you to look at photographs of the Green Party leader and new MP for Bristol Central, Carla Denyer.’

Moore said that being left-wing has “something to do with a little bit of resentment and irony at the idea that you have to play a public role that meets the demands of others.”

(Very) modern ways

Ticket holders in the Royal Box at Wimbledon could expect another treat on Tuesday, in addition to lunch in the clubhouse, tea and free drinks.

Stephen Fry was seen enjoying a large bucket of candy that was shared among the esteemed guests. Advantage Fry!