- India Jane Birley
India Jane Birley (born
14 January 1961 ) is a Britishartist and businessperson. She was a co-owner/manager of her father'sLondon nightclub,Annabel's , as well as some of her father's other establishments. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20041004/ai_n12100840]Biography
Born in
London , [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040509/ai_n12754688 HOW WE MET: `I was a bit turned on by that' - INDIA-JANE BIRLEY & | Independent on Sunday, The | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] India Jane Birley is the daughter of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart from her marriage to nightclub mogulMark Birley . She has two brothers, Rupert (presumed deceased) and Robin; and three half-siblings, Zac, Jemima, andBen Goldsmith from her mother's second marriage.In 1980 while training at an art school in
Madrid , she met and married Jonty Colchester, an interior designer. In 1985 they were divorced. The granddaughter of society portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley, Birley's own work as a painter (the 1999 portrait,"Conrad Moffat Black (Baron Black of Crossharbour) and Barbara Amiel", appears at the National Portrait gallery. She illustrated her mother's book, 'Copper: A Dog's Life'. Birley also organized an exhibition on the origins of sex and has a noted collection of antique erotica.Fact|date=August 2007In 1993 she met Francis Pike, a historian, and they were married.They lived in
Bombay andLondon before Pike relocated toGermany andMorocco . Though they lived separately for many years they remained married and presented themselves publicly as a married couple. In October 2004, when asked by "The Evening Standard " why she had no children Birley answered, "I'm not able to". [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20041004/ai_n12100840/pg_2] She has since had a son, Eben, and while the father was initially described as her husband, he was later revealed to be Robert Macdonald, herAlexander Technique teacher of the time. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20061013/ai_n16786339]Since 2003 she has been the co-director of Annabel's with her brother Robin Birley. He was
dismissed in 2006 after India Jane (who says she added the moniker "India" to her given name Jane because she liked India so much Fact|date=August 2007) told her father she was livid with Robin for having the father of her son investigated. Robin claims to have done it with her best interests in mind; they are reportedly estrangedFact|date=August 2007, and she stayed on to run the club with her father until his death.References
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* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20041004/ai_n12100840 Queen of Clubs] by Emine Saner, Evening Standard, Oct 4, 2004.
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p24635.htm#i246345 Entry at www.thepeerage.com]
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