EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS
Tamara Beckwith Veroni’s six-storey house in London’s Belgravia is filled with photos. From a smiling wedding portrait on the mantelpiece to the framed snaps of her three children on the glass coffee table – and a shot of Elizabeth II beaming from the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia – each one tells a story.
“I love photographs; they speak to me,” Tamara says, inviting hello! into her eclectically furnished home for this exclusive interview and photoshoot. “I find them very interesting to look at and I enjoy having them around me. It’s like collecting people.”
CROWNING GLORY
An ardent royalist, Tamara’s sitting room has a distinctly regal theme, with oversized cushions decorated with crown motifs plumped up on the comfy red velvet sofa and a monochrome rug bearing Elizabeth II’s profile.
Downstairs, a replica of St Edward’s Crown, which she acquired while on Channel 4’s Four Rooms,, takes pride of place in a cabinet.
ROYAL SUPPORT
But Tamara has her royal supporters, too. Her friend Sarah, Duchess of York and her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, all champion the Lady Garden Foundation, the charity she co-founded ten years ago with the aim of saving women’s lives, following the death from endometrial cancer of her mother Paula at the age of 68 in 2011. In fact, she tells us, Sarah credits the charity with her own early breast cancer diagnosis last year.
“Sarah told me that her breast cancer was diagnosed because she went for a check-up after coming to one of our events.
