EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Is Sky News’s Sir Trevor Phillips in line for a windfall from reparations to the heirs of slaves forced to work on William Gladstone’s plantation?

The eminent broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips, who is taking over Sky News’ Sunday political show this weekend, has taken a keen interest in the visit to Guyana of William Gladstone’s descendants.

For the Phillips clan, I hear, could be lining up for a windfall of stepping out to pay reparations to the heirs of thousands of slaves forced to work on the Gladstone plantation.

“My own ancestors almost certainly belonged to the Gladstones,” says Sir Trevor, whose parents emigrated from what was then British Guiana in 1950.

The Gladstone family seeks to atone for the actions of the Victorian Prime Minister’s father, John, who was one of the largest slave owners in the West Indies.

The Demerara Rebellion of August 1823, against the brutal conditions on Gladstone’s sugar plantations, was seen as a pivotal event in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Last week the 200th anniversary of the uprising was celebrated.

“It is very symbolic and important that the Gladstone family have acknowledged what happened in Demerara,” said Sir Trevor.

The former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, however, rejects the fashionable leftist view that the British Empire was evil: ‘There is no point in pointing the finger or talking about Britain’s debt in the slave trade. It’s true that the sugar my family produced ended up on tables in Manchester and the visit of the Gladstone family reminds us of our intertwined history.’

Nor does he expect any reparations to be life-changing. “I wouldn’t overestimate the significance of the money. Guyana is on the verge of becoming the richest small country in the world anyway, because it has discovered oil deposits that are larger than those in the North Sea.’

Some of Gladstone’s descendants traveled to the Caribbean last week to apologize for their family’s historic role in the slave trade. Six members of the family will offer financial reparations, saying they felt “definitely sick” when they learned they had benefited from enslaved Africans.

You would think that leftist historian Simon Schama and the World Economic Forum (WEF) would be ideal bedfellows.

Not so. The TV star has shared his disbelief at being “misgendered” when WEF bosses invited him to an event next month.

Sharing an image of the invitation to “Ms. Schama,” he writes, “Very offended they didn’t call me Ms. Schama.” That’s the spirit.

Claudia Schiffer is determined to prove she would still look good in her birthday suit.

The model celebrated her 53rd birthday by sharing a video online of herself posing in a checkered bikini while on vacation in Greece.

“Partying in Greek paradise,” says the German, who has three children with her 21-year-old husband, British film director Matthew Vaughn.

She also gave fans a glimpse of her birthday cake, decorated with just ten candles.

Schiffer has previously mused, “I think age should be celebrated and honored. There’s a reason we have cakes and parties on our birthdays, and I think the same thing every year as I get older.”

Can you rest easy with a pair of lions by your side?

Freya Aspinall, 19, shared this photo of lion cubs Zemo and Zala curled up on her bed at her father Damian’s wildlife park in Kent.

Freya, the daughter of actress Donna Air, says the animals are not being domesticated, but are being “re-wilded” in Africa.

“I had to hand-raise them after their mother died,” she says. At night they sleep with me as they would with their mother since I am their primary caretaker.”

She adds: “There is no humanizing or domesticating at all. If anything, they reward me.’

Known as one of Hollywood’s biggest lotharios, Warren Beatty was a nasty sex bully, according to Sarah Miles, who appeared opposite him in the 1961 film The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone.

“What a nightmare,” exclaims the star. “You either like someone or you don’t, right? Coincidentally, I didn’t like Warren Beatty.

But no matter where I went in the world, there was always a call from Warren Beatty, talking dirty on the phone. Can’t he get a life? I would have just been an extra notch on his belt.”

New students at Oxford are told that outdated laws banning homosexuality in dozens of other countries are the fault of the British.

The university’s Student Union has a package for LBGTQ+ officers at Oxford colleges to conduct workshops on gay and transgender rights for freshmen. And the union believes its inclusion talks should be mandatory for new students.

The booklet shows that 70 countries still criminalize ‘same-sex relationships’. . . often a legacy of colonial-era laws. And student officers are told, “Point out the brief history of British settlers introducing anti-sodomy and buggery laws against LGBTQ+ people.

“In more than half of the countries where it is illegal to be gay, these laws were enacted when they were British colonies.

“British settlers saw indigenous cultures as sexually corrupt and that homosexuality was part of this corruption.”