The Rapid Rise Of Journalist Named As Spy
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. AS DOMINIC LAWSON celebrates his 42nd birthday today, he finds himself, yet again, the centre of attention. One of the youngest editors on Fleet Street, born into a family steeped in politics and journalism, his rise - both social and professional - has been swift and spectacular. The late Diana, Princess of Wales, was godmother to his second daughter, Domenica. Mr Lawson, like his father Nigel, made his name during a spell as Editor of The Spectator. But while his father used the weekly political magazine as a springboard for a successful political career, rising to become Conservative Chancellor of the Exechequer under Baroness Thatcher, and later Lord Lawson of Blaby, Dominic remained a journalist and became Editor of The Sunday Telegraph. A keen cricketer and chess player, Mr Lawson was educated at Westminster after a brief unhappy spell at Eton, and Oxford. He joined the BBC in the late 1970s as a researcher, moving to the Financial Times in 1981 on an annual salary of Pounds 9,000. By 1983 he was the paper's energy correspondent and three years later became the Lex columnist. Lawson always took his cricket seriously - sometimes too seriously. A row between Peter
Black Latex Matrix Leotard Long Sleeves Bodysuit Oborne, a political journalist on the Express, and Lawson, both of whom were playing for a journalists' XI against NatWest at the Oval, ended up with Mr Oborne head-butting Mr Lawson. The rift has never been made up. In 1987, at the age of 31, Mr Lawson was appointed deputy editor of the Spectator. Three years later he assumed the Editor's chair and a salary of about Pounds 90,000. Professionally, his ascent dates back to the infamous 1990 taped interview with Nicholas Ridley, then the Trade Secretary, who unleashed a tirade of anti-German remarks. Mr Lawson insisted that the taped conversation had been on the record; Mr Ridley appeared to think that it had been on lobby terms (unattributable). The article, which went round the world, cost Mr Ridley his job and established Mr Lawson's reputation. At the time he was married, apparently happily, to Jane Whytehead, an actress, with whom he lived in Camden Town with their cat Teabag. However, invitations began pouring in seeking his attendance at every political and society dinner in town, and within months gossip columns were linking him with the dynamic socialite The Honourable Rosa Monckton, managing director of the London jewellery store Zentai and a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales. Ms Monckton, who comes from one of Britain's most prominent Roman Catholic families, is the daughter of Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. Her grandfather, the first viscount, was Edward VIII's legal adviser during the abdication crisis and went on to become a Conservative minister and chairman of Midland Bank. Mr Lawson and Ms Monckton married in December 1991, while living in a top floor flat near Kensington
Black Latex Pocket Shirt Palace. A regular fixture in her own right in glossy lifestyle magazines, with her BMW, Valentino clothes and appearances at polo matches, Ms Monckton was renowned for making flamboyant gestures. She is said to have given Mr Lawson cufflinks costing Pounds 900 and to have paid for the deposit on her first flat by selling a diamond Cartier cross given to her by a godmother. Mrs Lawson introduced her husband to royal circles. The Princess went on holiday with the Lawsons in Greece ten days before her fatal accident. The first serious criticisms of his career have surfaced recently, with claims of mismanagement and dissension at The Sunday Telegraph after the rapid departure of four senior members of staff, one of whom he had hired six months before. Together, the couple's ascent through the London and Home Counties property market has matched their succesful careers. Their eldest daughter Savannah, was born in December 1992, while they lived in a 250,000 flat in Pimlico, London. The following year they moved to a large house in Sunderland Terrace, Bayswater, worth about Pounds 650,000. Mr Lawson remained in great demand as a journalist and wrote columns successively in the Sunday Correspondent, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. His career flourished and in in October 1995, at the age of 38, he was made editor of The Sunday Telegraph. Last year, after the birth of their second daughter Domenica, who has Down's Syndrome, the couple moved out of London to a magnificent farmhouse set amid sprawling acres of forest near the East Sussex village of Dallington. Mr Lawson insists that his new life in the country is well worth the train journey, but keeps a meticulous record of delays.
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