Scott Fitzgerald had a theory about the very rich. “They are,” he wrote, “different from you and me.” Trudie Styler, thanks to her husband, a musician called Sting, is very rich indeed. The Sunday Times Rich List estimates his wealth at £180 million. But rich wives must think her different from them, too.
Although, no doubt, she programmes in leisure enough to soak up the privileges her marriage has brought — she has a choice of homes from Tuscany to Malibu in which to do so — she is not among the idle rich. She has kept such faith with her original profession, acting, that she is taking a play about Dr Johnson’s friend, Mrs Thrale, to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. She runs an