Richard Eden’s Diary: Kate Moss’s Neighbor Dispute, Nepo Baby’s Admission, and Marchioness’s Quip to Meghan

She has, for years, been splendidly indifferent to bien pensant opinion whether taking a drag on a cigarette while sauntering down the catwalk on No Smoking Day in 2011, posing naked for Playboy in celebration of her 40th birthday or pointing out that her then husband, Jamie Hince, ‘would go mental’ if she dressed ‘like a wife’.

But now, at 51, comes definitive proof Kate Moss is embracing maturity in a manner unthinkable in her glory days.

For I can reveal Kate, who sold her North London mansion for £11.5million in 2022, has leapt to the defence of her Cotswolds sanctuary with the zeal of one to the manor born.

It’s all in a bid to thwart a new neighbour who’s intent on cracking on with some building work, including the creation of what’s described as a ‘garden room’.

Refraining from putting pen to paper herself, Kate’s hired planning consultant Andrew Murphy to intervene on her behalf – and he does so at length, in a submission to the local council. Pointing out that the proposed building would be on farmland, he notes that this would constitute ‘a change of use… from agriculture to residential, which is contrary to planning policy’.

He adds that there are ‘no permitted development rights to erect any domestic building on the land’ in question and the proposed garden room would be nearly 40 yards from the neighbour’s house.

He also relays Kate’s distaste for the ‘scale and design’ of the addition, alleging that they would be ‘harmful to the rural character of the area’ and, given ‘close proximity to boundary trees and hedging’, likely to ‘harm the root structure of existing landscaping’.

He rounds off by observing that the ‘proposed building’ has a bathroom and that ‘the means of foul drainage is unclear’.

Kate Moss has leapt to the defence of her Cotswolds sanctuary with the zeal of one to the manor born

Happily, Kate, who keeps chickens, opting for Blue Marans – super-layers, if the phrase can be used without fear of misinterpretation, capable of producing 300 brown eggs a year – suffers no such difficulties herself.

‘My bathroom in the country is my favourite bathroom in the world,’ she has reflected, flush with pride.

‘It’s my haven.’

There’s more to me than being a nepo baby, says Nico 

Nico Parker at the premiere of the film How to Train Your Dragon in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Nico Parker is often labelled a ‘nepo baby’ due to being the daughter of Bafta award-winning actress Thandiwe Newton and film director Ol Parker.

Yet the actress, 20, who stars in the forthcoming live-action version of animated film How to Train Your Dragon, appears determined to make her own mark. Nico, who posed in a Stella McCartney dress in Brazil this week, has admitted that her family has helped open doors for her.

‘To not be aware of it would be silly,’ she said. ‘I’m really conscious it gets you in the room. What you do in the room is up to you, but there are so many people who would kill to be in that room.’

White Lotus star wed in sickness… and health

Jason Isaacs had an unusual reason for getting married – to secure medical cover for his wife, Emma, in the United States.

‘She was pregnant, she’d been sick [and] had lung problems, and we wanted to fly home,’ The White Lotus star explains.

‘I phoned my brother, who’s a doctor, and he put us on to a lung specialist. The guy said, “you need to go to a hospital and have a check for pulmonary embolism right now, because you shouldn’t get on a plane, because she’s had two courses of antibiotics.”’

He adds on the podcast Table Manners: ‘I didn’t have medical insurance for her, but I get Screen Actors Guild insurance.

‘So, we went to a register office in Los Angeles, and then we went straight to the hospital. Then she got medical insurance.’

The Duchess of Sussex plans to ‘take a step back’ from her lifestyle brand As Ever, according to a website that interviewed her this week. The Marchioness of Bath’s brand, Emma’s Kitchen, is, meanwhile, going from strength-to-strength.

‘I’m launching new products,’ she tells me. Some viewers of Netflix series With Love, Meghan, highlighted its similarities to Lady Bath’s YouTube show, Emma’s Kitchen. ‘Netflix can give me a call if they want to,’ she quips.

Hare’s ‘war’ with Winslet

Sir David Hare’s relationship with Kate Winslet seems to have been punchy as well as ‘hard’. He wrote the screenplay for Holocaust drama The Reader, for which she won an Oscar.

‘It’s not selfish for an actor to come to you and tell you they need more,’ the playwright says.

‘It’s the same working with Kate Winslet. If you did a cartoon of me going into [her] caravan at eight every morning, you’d just have a picture of a caravan with BIFF, WHAM and BOING coming out of it while we argue the text inside.’

He adds: ‘She’s fighting to make the film as good as it can possibly be. It’s very hard, but both of us found those conversations incredibly fruitful.’

A Monaco meeting for Prince Albert’s children

Jazmin, 33, and Alexandre, 21, met in Monaco this weekend

Prince Albert of Monaco had a rare chance this week to catch up with his two children who are not in the line of succession.

Jazmin, 33, lives in California while Alexandre, 21, is a student in London.

The half-siblings enjoyed a warm get-together in Monaco, where they watched the Grand Prix at the weekend. They are thought to have seen Prince Albert, 67, during their stay.

Actress and singer Jazmin is the eldest of the monarch’s four children and is the daughter of Tamara Rotolo, who was a waitress when she met him.

Alexandre’s mother is Nicole Coste, a Togo-born Air France flight attendant Albert met before marrying Charlene Wittstock, with whom he has twins, Jacques and Gabriella.

Alexandre has spoken of his annoyance at being referred to as Albert’s illegitimate son. ‘When I was born, neither of my parents were in another marriage, and they did not commit adultery,’ he said.