Ben Goldsmith weds ex-lingerie model Jemima Jones

Among the 30-strong wedding party were Ben’s mother Lady Annabel Goldsmith, sister Jemima, brother Zac and half-brother Robin Birley, as well as Ben’s three children by Kate: Iris, ten, Frankie, nine, and Isaac, six.

Other guests included his aunt Lady Jane Rayne and her partner Robert Lacey, Kate’s cousin Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Lady Carina Frost, widow of broadcaster Sir David Frost, and her three sons, Miles, Wilfred and George.

Elegant: Ben Goldsmith’s sister Jemima Khan (left) was joined by Prince and Princess Michael of Kent (right)

Family: Tory MP Zac Goldsmith (left) poses for a photo with Ben Elliot, nephew of the Duchess of Cornwall

Guests: James Tollemache and his wife Princess Florence von Preussen (L) and James Blunt (R)

But of Kate, who divorced Goldsmith in April last year, there was no sign. Goldsmith had branded her ‘appalling’ for her infidelity with the exotically monikered rapper, whose real name is Timothy Elpadaro Thedford, telling her to focus on their children. Miss Rothschild responded by accusing him of cheating on her during their ten-year marriage and of being ‘irrational’.

Kate said: ‘Deep down he’s shallow.’ Electronica later warned Goldsmith that he would ‘come see’ him. Accusing him of giving untrue stories to the newspapers, the rapper said: ‘You wanna go public, I’ll go public and you ain’t gonna like it. Stop acting like a bitch.’

Despite saying the New Orleans rapper had ‘saved my life in many ways’, Kate’s relationship with Electronica hit the rocks this summer and he has returned to America. She is living in a cottage next to the Georgian mansion of her former mother-in-law, Lady Annabel.

Star-studded: Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger (left) was pictured enjoying himself on the night

Among the 30-strong wedding party were Ben’s three children by Kate: Iris, ten, Frankie, nine, and Isaac, six

A-list guests: Stephen Fry (left) and Hugh Grant were among those who attended the high-end reception

Stunning: Bride Jemima Jones looked regal in her Valentino gown as she arrived at her wedding reception

Sabrina Guniness and her husband Sir Tom Stoppard, left, and Viscountess Gormanston with her husband The Earl Gormanston

Her relations have clearly improved with Ben, as her address would testify, and in October the newly contrite Kate took to Twitter to send her ex-husband a gushing birthday greeting: ‘I’d be lost without you, thank you for being a wonderful father and an even better friend. Lots of love xx.’

Just last month the pair were spotted skating together with their children at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park.

When Kate married Ben in 2003, it was a union of two of Britain’s wealthiest families.

She inherited £18million on the death of her banker father Amschel Rothschild, who hanged himself in a room at the Hotel Bristol in Paris in 1996. Goldsmith, the son of financier Sir Jimmy, inherited as much as £300million.

Tender moment: Model Edie Campbell and her boyfriend Otis Ferry were pictured embracing

Sophisticated: Fritz von Westenholz with his wife Caroline Sieber (left) and, right, Lady Victoria Getty

Reception: Rose Hanbury and her husband David Rocksavage, The Marquess of Cholmondeley

Arrivals: The groom’s sister-in-law Alice Goldsmith (left) wore a purple dress. Right: David de Rothschild

Their wedding, held at St Mary’s Church in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was billed as the society event of the year.

The 600 guests in attendance included Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.

In a curious twist, just as Ben was granted a divorce from Kate last year, his older brother Zac married Kate’s younger sister, Alice Rothschild, joining the two wealthy dynasties again.

The Goldsmiths have plenty of experience of marriage breakdowns.

As well as the late Sir Jimmy’s legendary infidelities (‘When you marry your mistress you create a job vacancy,’ he famously said), Ben’s sister Jemima divorced cricketer Imran Khan in 2004 and later had high-profile relationships with Hugh Grant and Russell Brand. 

Dynasties: When Kate married Ben in 2003, it was a union of two of Britain’s wealthiest families

Model wife: Jemima Jones, now a caterer to the stars, photographed in a lingerie shoot

So who is the new Jemima Goldsmith? Miss Jones, 27, is the daughter of respected architect Edward Jones CBE, a former visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and she and her sister Quentin, a film-maker, grew up in Primrose Hill.

Miss Jones was signed to the Select model agency at 15, and studied media and film at Oxford Brookes University.

After graduating she moved to New York and became personal assistant to an actress.

She moved back to London around three years ago, saying: ‘I missed healthy living – there was a lot of partying in New York – it gets exhausting.’

Last year Miss Jones joined Tart London, a catering company for high-end photographic shoots and commercials set up by a friend.

Their clients include Stella McCartney, Kate Moss, Lady Gaga, Penelope Cruz and Robbie Williams.

Miss Jones met Ben on a ‘very romantic’ Greek getaway and he proposed this August with a single solitaire diamond bought from an antiques dealer. Unlike her new sister-in-law and namesake, she has no designs to change the world but has ambitions to open a restaurant.

Jemima Khan admitted in October: ‘I don’t fancy being “the other”, “the big” or “the older” Jemima Goldsmith.’

It seems she’d better get used to it.

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