TDN Weekend

One sporting event, away from racing, that you would choose above all oth- ers? I love golf and the Ryder Cup is fantastic. Yes, you're right – with my dual nationality, I can't lose! But I probably have to say that I carry a European flag for that one… Top of your musical playlist? Very hard, I like all kinds of things. I'll take one from a couple of genres, if I may. I was lucky enough to meet the great French cellist, Paul Tortelier, when he came to my mother's fantastic Newbury music festival. He gave us a private mini-concert and that absolutely captured the imagination. But I'd also love something like The Cars, with Drive. And how about the top of your bucket list? Recently I went to see my second daugh- ter Francesca in a play for charity – Noel Coward's Nude With Violin – and it was the weirdest thing to see her in one of the lead roles, with a couple of old friends I used to act with, very good actors. It was really quite spooky, quite blubby stuff. I was very impressed, she's got a lot of ability. Anyway she has said to me: "Why don't we do something to- gether, at Edinburgh?" And my first thought was: "How ridiculous, York's during Ed- inburgh!" But it's something I have been thinking about it, quite seriously. Something like The Brown- ing Version maybe. [Northern Irish actor] Jimmy Nesbitt has been a shareholder of ours and he saw me making some after-din- ner speech and said: "It's never too late!" If we could transport you back to one moment in history, what would you choose? I'm afraid I'm going back to the West again. It might sound a bit gory but I'd really love to have seen Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The more you read about this man the more you want to know about him. And there isn't even a photo of him. There are portraits of all the other Indian braves but with him there are only ones where people say this could be him, or that could be him, nothing definitive. Crazy Horse was at every major battle and was never hit, never touched. I'd love to have seen him ride. And if we transported you back in your own history, to your first day at Eton, what would you tell yourself? Just to have more confidence. That first day was about the scariest thing I can re- member. Eton wasn't for me, I was hope- less academically and prep school had been bad enough. And for some reason I was a year too young, only 12 when I went there, and the house I went into was basi- cally in anarchy. On my first day, as a "slave" to the top boys of the house, I burnt their toast. And they hung me by my ankles out of a top-floor window. I think it's fair to say I can count on the fingers of one hand the 73

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