Christopher Michael Henry Shale (23 August 1954[1] – 25 June 2011) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.
[2] [4] Shale was also a director of the Centre for Policy Studies between 2001 and 2005 and a sponsor of the eurosceptic thinktank Open Europe.
In June 2011 he was critical of the British Conservative Party in a strategy document that was leaked to the Mail on Sunday newspaper, saying that they came across as "graceless, voracious, crass, always on the take".
[5] Shale lived in Over Worton, a village near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire with his wife, Nicola "Nikki" (née Burrows).
The couple had a son, Alby Shale, and he was stepfather to Nicola's two children from her first marriage to Alex Mapelli-Mozzi, Natalia Yeomans and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi,[6] who in 2020 married Princess Beatrice.