WhenLady DianaSpencer walked down the aisle at St Paul’s Cathedral to meetPrince Charlesat the altar in 1981, the bridal gown David Emanuel created with his wife Elizabeth was admired by an estimated 750million people glued to their TVs around the world.

Sadly, the ivory silk taffeta and lace gown, with its 25ft train, has failed to bring David lasting success.

I can disclose that both of his companies have gone bust, owing a total of almost £300,000. Newly filed documents disclose £280,000 worth of debt at Licensed to Design, which he set up in 2002, and Renaissance Man, established in 2018.

The Welshman, 73, who last faced money troubles after the ending of his marriage to Elizabeth, has disclosed his business liabilities to liquidators across Statements of Affairs for both companies.

He reports assets worth £164,000 as ‘uncertain to realise’ and no money for creditors owed a total of £280,443.

Fixtures and fittings worth £96,000 are given an ‘uncertain to realise’ value and directors’ loans of £60,000 are also uncertain. Liabilities include £72,000 due toHMRCin corporation tax, £103,000 due to NatWest Bank and £33,000 to Ovo Energy.

David, who was runner-up in the 2013 series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, and his daughter Eloise are among the creditors at Licensed to Design, owed £44,438 and £5,000 respectively. Eloise is also owed £5,000 by Renaissance Man.

In 2024, David lost a High Court case against Elizabeth.

Lady Diana Spencer in the bridal gown created by David Emanuel with his wife Elizabeth at her 1981 wedding to Prince Charles

David Emanuel has seen both of his companies go bust, owing a total of almost £300,000

He claimed she infringed his copyright by reproducing drawings of designs they’d created together and sold them without his consent.

His spokesman said he could not be reached for comment.

Grace Beverley, 29, has described feeling 'excitement' and 'anxiety' while pregnant with her first child with husband Amar Daved

Entrepreneur Grace Beverley posts on her Instagram about her new pregnancy and invites questions from her fans

Grace Beverley was left ‘heartbroken’ after she suffered a miscarriage last autumn.

Now, the entrepreneur, 29, who founded popular activewear label Tala and fitness app Shreddy, has shared her joy after becoming pregnant again.

It will be the Oxford graduate’s first child with photographer Amar Daved, 39, whom she married in a spectacular three-day wedding in France last summer.

‘Both of us are more stressed than excited because we lost our last pregnancy,’ admits Grace, who was head chorister at Salisbury Cathedral. ‘The excitement mixed with the anxiety of knowing you can’t go through that pain again so soon.’

Strictly Come Dancing star Erin Boag has revealed that her 11-year-old son Ewan was rushed to hospital after a horrific accident in which his finger was sliced off.

‘When I say severed, I mean severed,’ says the ballroom dancing professional, 50.

Ewan’s ordeal began during a game with friends. Erin rushed him to their local hospital in Kingston, south-west London.

‘We were referred to St George’s [hospital], the special department where they do plastic surgery. They did an operation on Ewan and saved his finger.’

New Zealand-born Erin posted a video online thanking medical staff and saying: ‘Everything is now looking up for Ewan. He’ll be back to sport and playing the piano and that’s all because of the NHS.’

Tali Lennox celebrates her 33rd birthday while dressed in full-on Medieval attire as she holds a candle to accompany the look

Pop star Annie Lennox’s provocative sartorial style appears to have inspired her younger daughter. Model and artist Tali celebrated her 33rd birthday in full-on Medieval attire, including a brown pagan-style dress, a gothic circlet across her head and a vintage-style pendant.

Tali, whose father is film producer Uri Fruchtmann, completed her warrior-maiden look by styling her hair in two thick plaits. ‘I like to be eclectic,’ she has said previously of her wardrobe.

Pop star Paloma Faith suggests that metropolitan Lefties such as her should stop patronising Nigel Farage’s Reform UK fans. ‘I do think that the liberal Left, which I am sort of part of, have this habit of dismissing people who don’t agree with them, and I don’t think that’s how we’re going to win,’ she tells Green Party leader Zack Polanski on her podcast.

A tale of mishap and mystery reaches me from the Beefsteak Club, whose street door – just off Leicester Square, in London’s West End – ‘looks like the entrance to a brothel’, in the opinion of former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption, yet leads to ‘a time capsule of Edwardian England’, wherein all waiters are addressed as ‘Charles’.

This enchanted refuge, for gentlemen only, finds favour with Lords Soames and Swire and Boris Johnson and many who like to do justice to lunch, including one member who recently rather overdid things. Leaving in haste, he grabbed his briefcase – only, it wasn’t his briefcase…

‘He left it on the train,’ I’m told. ‘It then got handed into Lost Property.’ From there, it was eventually returned to its rightful owner. So all’s well that ends well? Alas not.

The accidental ‘thief’ has been expelled from the club, I’m told – proof, presumably, that the unnamed but eminent ‘victim’ was very sensitive indeed about what was tucked away in that briefcase…