Jagger Junior's ex-girlfriend model Natasha Gilbert set to wed film producer

By Richard Kay for the Daily Mail

Published: 21:08 EDT, 8 October 2012 | Updated: 02:47 EDT, 9 October 2012

Model fiancee: Natasha Gilbert, the face of Max Factor and Marks & Spencer's Autograph collection

She is the stunning underwear model who slipped through the fingers of Mick Jagger’s son James.

But if Jagger Jr was having second thoughts, he’s lost his chance now.

His former girlfriend Natasha Gilbert, the face of Max Factor and Marks & Spencer’s Autograph collection, is engaged to handsome young film producer Sam Parker.

Last month Sam, 30, took his girlfriend to Holland Park where he proposed at the Belvedere restaurant with a ring created by Samantha Cameron’s half-sister, jewellery designer Flora Astor.

‘I had no idea it was going to happen. I couldn’t believe it when he just got down on one knee.

‘It came out of the blue but I am so happy,’ says Natasha, 27, who has modelled for Agent Provocateur and is now pursuing a presenting career on television.

The couple have been dating for four years after former MTV presenter Natasha moved into a flat three doors down from her future fiancé.

They hope to marry next autumn at the house of Sam’s father, PR man Alan Parker, in Gloucestershire.

‘We’ll just put up some marquees and do it really funky and bohemian,’ says Natasha, who tells me she is still friends with former beau Jagger, whom she dated in 2007 when he whisked her away to Mick’s house in Mustique by private jet.

Fawcett's fiftieth fit for a king

As birthday parties go, it is certain to be among the more flamboyant.

Special transport is being laid on to convey guests arriving by air and a  pyrotechnical extravaganza will light up the night sky.

And as for the setting, there couldn’t be a more opulent backdrop than Dumfries House, the grand Palladian house saved for the nation by the Prince of Wales.

Party planner: Michael Fawcett stands behind Prince Charles in the garden doorway of Hollyrood House in 2002

Such an address requires a celebrated party planner, of course, and they don’t come much better connected than the Prince’s former valet Michael Fawcett.

So who is the bash for? Why, the very same Michael Fawcett.

The man who has done so much for the Prince is now having the gesture returned by being permitted to have his own party in the country house — the former home of the Marquess of Bute — which has become Charles’s most obsessive heritage project.

For the past year Fawcett has had a key role in the restoration of the Ayrshire mansion, drumming up business with weddings and corporate hospitality events.

Now he is working on his own party to be held amid the sumptuous interiors and magnificent furnishings of the house which Charles helped to rescue at the 11th hour.

Fittingly it is a notable anniversary for the former catering college student from Bexley, Kent — his 50th birthday.

For the past week guests have been receiving ‘stiffie’ invitation cards for the bash next month. ‘They are the stiffiest stiffies ever,’ I am told.

‘It is a two-day party. Guests are being told to make their way to Glasgow airport on the Friday night and everything will be taken care of from then on. It’s going to be lavish and there are fireworks too.’

I understand Michael is inviting between 50 and 80 friends. But Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will not be among them. The royal couple will be overseas on a tour of Papua New Guinea.

Of course even for someone as well-connected as Fawcett, such a party does not come cheap.

Asked if he was receiving any preferential treatment in renting the property, a Clarence House aide said such events at Dumfries House were a private matter.

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Boris Johnson took his fight against Heathrow’s third runway to his old school — and managed an acerbic dig at David Cameron.

Speaking at a reunion of his class of ’82, the London Mayor painted an apocalyptic view of the airport expanding across the playing fields of Eton, but vowed to oppose the plans so ‘scholars of this great institution can study in peace — and learn how to translate the words magna carta’.

Turning to the worthies of his year, there were guffaws as he reminisced about Darius Guppy — described by Johnson as‘international jewel  thief (reformed)’.

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Have years of chain-smoking caught up with Duke of Westminster?

For I can reveal he is out of action at the moment — having just undergone treatment at The London Clinic.

‘Following the results of recent tests, the Duke had a small tumour removed from his lung,’ I am told. ‘It was caught at an early stage and the operation was a success.’

Now discharged from hospital, a spokeswoman for the Grosvenor Estate tells me: ‘We are delighted to say he is making a good recovery.’

The Duke, 61 — Britain’s seventh richest man, worth £7.4 billion – is convalescing at his country estate, Eaton Hall, near Chester.

In the past couple of months the Old Harrovian father-of-four has stood down from prestigious posts running the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and also as head of the Territorial Army.

But I am reliably informed these resignations have nothing whatsoever to do with his current health problems.

Jade still looking for Mr Parfitt

Her boyfriend recently praised Chanel model Jade Parfitt for being one of the ‘sweetest and most considerate to have ever walked down a runway’.

But it seems that was not enough to save Jade’s love affair with Marlborough-educated Matt Field.

Fizzled out:l Jade Parfitt with Marlborough-educated Matt Field

‘It’s a shame — but we’ve split up. It started out quite promisingly and passionately, but sort of fizzled out.

He’s the nicest of men, but it just wasn’t going anywhere,’ Jade, 34, tells me at a champagne party for Lady Weinberg’s latest hotel design, La Suite West in Bayswater.

‘I have been on the catwalk as Jean Paul Gaultier’s “bride” four times, but it seems in real life I am destined to be single.’

Meanwhile, mother-of-one Jade is in the middle of moving house.

‘I’m doing the fashionable thing of going from West London to the trendy East,’ she says.

‘I have a good reason — it’s very difficult to get my son, Jackson, into the fee-paying school of my choice in Notting Hill.’

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The ballroom at the Park Lane Hotel will be packed tonight to mark both the 89th birthday of grand thespian Sir Donald Sinden, and his retirement, after 30 years, as president of the Royal Theatrical Fund, founded by Charles Dickens.

The star-studded event will be compered by Russ Abbott, with a charity auction conducted by Lord Archer.

Leading the tributes will be movie legend Jean Kent, 91, who co-starred with Sir Donald in Bernard Delfont’s 1951 stage production of Frou-Frou.

‘He is a most delightful person, and a very, very kind man. I’m extremely fond of him,’ Miss Kent tells me.

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PS...

She was the last Empress, with palaces, planes and the world’s largest diamonds at her disposal.

Yet it would appear the Queen Mother had to wait until a ripe old age before she achieved a lifelong ambition —  to own a fur coat.

The newly released collection of her letters, edited by William Shawcross, includes a thank-you letter to her daughter for her 80th birthday present. ‘My Darling Lilibet,’ she writes to the Queen.

‘How can I ever thank you sufficiently for all the wonderful arrangements that you made for my birthday. And now the FUR COAT![sic] Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would actually own one!’