Affliction
Sometime after Claridge’s, I was in the throes of travelling home to Harrogate when fate stepped in, as it so often does. It was Sir Leonard Miles who contacted me by telephone on my arrival at the Chester Square address. I was there alone.
By this time, Serena had chosen to live permanently in Portugal and carry on with her request for a divorce. It was, I guessed, an inevitability, but even so I was saddened by her decision. She was being extremely civil about the whole thing as there was to be no valuation placed on any property that was held in our individual names, nor were bank accounts and other assets to be halved or appraised with an equal division in mind.
All she asked for was to have a say in what happened to our London home, and whilst it was still our property,
