EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Princess Beatrice’s pal Alice Naylor-Leyland surprises friends as she has her fourth baby using a surrogate mother

Princess Beatrice’s friend Alice Naylor-Leyland has surprised friends by announcing that she and her husband have had a child via a surrogate mother.

She already has three children with Tom Naylor-Leyland, who is heir to a baronetcy and the Fitzwilliam landowning fortune worth £176 million.

“I am aware that it was greedy to have this burning desire to complete our family,” she says.

‘But due to too many complications, setbacks, miscarriages and when we were told that I could no longer carry, we decided to dive into the world of surrogacy.’

She shared a photo of the newborn’s foot online with a pink tag and thanked the unnamed surrogate mother.

“Without the kindness and courage of our precious surrogate and the brilliance of modern science using our own embryo, we would not be here.”

Although commercial surrogacy is common in the US, in Britain it is only legal if the mother is not paid, barring ‘reasonable’ costs.

Alice, 38, added: ‘It’s been a crazy journey but now that we’re here I can’t wait to enjoy every minute of it.’

Earlier this month, the Vatican declared that surrogacy was a “serious threat” to human dignity.

The decree placed it on a par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God’s plan for human life.

Naylor-Leyland has a company that sells themed dinnerware. Last month, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon was among the guests at the launch of her first pop-up store of her ‘Mrs Alice’ tablescapes spring collection in California.

Last year, Martha Stewart, the American cooking queen and business magnate, attended the launch party for Alice’s Alpine Tablescape range at Casa Cruz restaurant in New York.

“It was a huge honor to have the iconic Martha Stewart there,” she told me at the time. ‘She was so charming and friendly and it was a pleasure to chat about anything over tables.

‘It was so exciting to launch our Christmas collection with Nina Garcia in New York and her new table work is simply beautiful. She has kindly introduced the Mrs. brand. to promote Alice.’

Lord Byron will be moved from his traffic island in Park Lane, Mayfair.

Byron’s descendant, the Earl of Lytton, has persuaded the government to move the old boy to Hyde Park, where Byron’s lovers are in less danger of being mowed down by traffic.

The move was approved by Lord Parkinson, Secretary of State for Culture, who admitted that the current location was ‘far less attractive and accessible than the islands of the Peloponnese that Lord Byron visited’.

The measure will come just 66 years after it was first proposed by a minister – indecent haste by Whitehall standards.

Lord Lytton is a less raffish figure than his romantic ancestor. He is a surveyor who used to work for the tax authorities.

Meghan in trouble as launch boosts sales of King’s Conserve!

The Duchess of Sussex’s launch of her first product, a jar of strawberry jam, is doing great business – for King Charles.

Meghan’s publicity stunt, which saw her send jars of her American Riviera Orchard product to 50 friends and ‘influencers’, has prompted royalists to buy the King’s jam instead.

So many of them have done so that Highgrove Organic Strawberry Preserve was ‘sold out’ yesterday according to the retailer’s website, even though 340g jars cost £6.95 each.

Profits are donated to royal charities. Meghan’s profits go to herself.

Cleavage barbs shock Ashley

Former Made In Chelsea star Ashley James was a guest on ITV’s This Morning this week and was shocked by the comments she received online from some female viewers about her lilac cardigan, which they say exposed her ample cleavage.

‘I went on live television and spoke about the objectification of women in the media. I came off air because of complaints from women,” said Ashley, 37, who has two children. ‘These old breastfeeding breasts are still shamed, just like they were as children.

‘The problem is not my body or my clothes. The problem is the hypersexualization of breasts in society. Enough!’

He is a chef and former model who dated pop princess Dua Lipa before enjoying a romance with actress Nell Tiger Free, a star of the sex and dragon drama Game Of Thrones.

But Isaac Carew, 38,’s finances are proving less enviable than his love life.

I can tell you that his company, Isaac Carew Ltd, has gone bankrupt and owes more than £352,000.

Of this, £300,000 is owed to HMRC. Documents show a liquidator was appointed last month