Camilla al-fayed

One of his first solo projects was Biotecture, a company that creates sustainable living green walls in places such as Covent Garden, Edgware Road Tube station, and his own office, an oasis on Southampton Row in Holborn.

He also took a professional interest in the use of psychedelic drugs for medical purposes, acting as an executive producer on The Sunshine Makers, a documentary about LSD, and becoming a trustee of the Beckley Foundation, the Countess of Wemyss’s well-regarded research institute dedicated to psychedelic research in the UK. And he has co-founded a CBD company in Switzerland, BotaniQual, with some of his ESTEE colleagues. As you’d expect from such an eco-zealot, it runs off waste material.

But, he laughs, ‘I’m not a complete eco-warrior’ – despite his family thinking he had ‘seriously lost it one year when I wrapped their Christmas presents in newspaper’. He smiles: ‘It was a joke! I still like cars and motorbikes, I’m still a bit of a lad. And I don’t think electric cars are the answer. Lithium, which is used to make the batteries, is a rare metal and it’s found

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