India Jane Birley

In 2011 she bought Charleston Manor, the Sussex estate of her paternal grandfather, the portrait artist Oswald Birley.

[4] As a child she witnessed a tiger attack her brother Robin at the private zoo of John Aspinall.

[4] George was established by Robin and India Jane, who ran their father's clubs during his ill health.

[6] Mark Birley suffered a decline in his health and mobility in the late 1990s and early 2000s and invited India Jane and Robin to help him run his clubs for the first time.

Robin Birley said in email to Maureen Orth that "My sister and I got on very well and worked well together ... Basically, I ran the company, and she attended to the look of the clubs".

[7] Birley became pregnant in 2004 and her brother Robin paid former London police officers who claimed to be private detectives more than £400,000 from the accounts of Annabel's in exchange for false information about her then partner, and the father of her child, Robert Macdonald.

[4] Robin subsequently said that he felt he was "acting in the best interest of my sister ... My father was too ill at the time to have any additional worries".

Macdonald later received an official apology from Robin and had all his legal bills paid with an additional cash settlement.

[8] Mark Birley sold his clubs to the entrepreneur Richard Caring for £95 million shortly before his death in 2007.

[3][1] Upon his death in 2007, Mark Birley left the majority of his estate — valued at £120 million — and his possessions to India Jane to be kept in trust for her son, Eben, in his will.

Birley said that the auction was a difficult decision but that she "[would] like to think [my father] approves of the sale, for being an artist he understands my need to carve out my own space".

[1] Birley only became wealthy after her father died, he had believed that they would be lazy had they inherited money at a young age.

[9] Birley owns a large estate near Marrakech that her father had planned to develop shortly before his death.

[4] She hosted an exhibition of her paintings, "Canines and Companions" at her father's club George shortly before its opening in 2001.

[16] Freud's biographer William Feaver described Two Women as an "intriguing classical two hander" with "the two Janes lying there, playing indolent, arms and legs lolling and extending beyond the confines of the bed".

[16] In 1980, while training at an art school in Madrid, she met and married Jonty Colchester, an interior designer.

[4] Birley divorced Francis Pike in 2006 and married the antiquarian horologist Sebastian Whitestone in 2008 at Thurloe Lodge, the home of her late father.