Kate Moss's extraordinary row with neighbour revealed, a nepo baby admits what everyone's thinking... and a Marchioness's quip to Meghan: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY
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.
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