Tory peer Michelle Mone has announced she wants to build a sailing boat and travel the world with her new partner, the Scots-born millionaire Douglas Barrowman, after the couple put their French Riviera mansion on the market.
In an interview with a Sunday newspaper property supplement, Lady Mone revealed that she and Mr Barrowman, who currently share six homes, would “probably” sell one of their two superyachts.
She and Mr Barrowman are selling a £13 million, seven-bedroom villa overlooking Cap Ferrat, one of the most exclusive stretches of France’s Cote d’Azur. Yet she told The Sunday Times: “I am probably happiest when gazing at the 180-degree views from our terraces over the Bay of Villefrance-sur-Mer.”
Lady Mone added: “My dream is to build a sailing boat with Douglas - to our own design - and sail around the world. We have two superyachts and I don’t want to sound spoilt but this would be a great way of seeing the world together. We plan to sell our villa in the south of France and probably one of the yachts.”
The Conservative was best known as the front woman for the Ultimo lingerie brand she set up with her ex-husband, which she sold after it began racking up losses. She has made numerous claims to have had a successful solo business career although this cannot be verified through public documents.
The Herald earlier this year revealed Mr Barrowman, with whom Lady Mone moved in last year, had marketed previously legal employment benefit trusts or EBT tax avoidance schemes through one of the companies in his offshore empire based out of the Isle of Man.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel