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Gloria Summers Day
Famed for her uncanny resemblance to the late Duchess of Windsor, the once ravishingly beautiful grand dame of British art letters is regarded by many as the most powerful woman in the British cultural pantheon.
Cultured, clever, determined, but unapologetically sycophantic when in the presence of politicians and royalty, Summers-Day has as many admirers as enemies.
Although already sitting on numerous committees, boards and quangos, Summers-Day is said to be most passionately committed to her role as chairperson of the ICRBB - the International Committee to Rebuild the Buddhas of Bamiyan, vandalised by the philistine Taliban.
After going undercover in Afghanistan with the invading forces, the intrepid Summers-Day single-handedly rescued countless smuggled Afghan treasures from a cave in the Tora Bora complex, clad only in a burka and a pair of boxer shorts.
"The orginal vagina dentatis" was how one art world insider described her prickly personality. "Skin like porcelain, balls of bronze," said another.
Summers-Day continues as Editor at Large of the international arts newspaper, The Revealer, some seeing the title as a self-reflexive pun on her tendency to get pissed at parties and reveal her underwear to the great and good.
She and her husband, the publishing magnate Giovanni 'Fluffy' d'Este, have homes in Knightsbridge, Bologna, New York, Beverley Hills, Beirut and Huddersfield.
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