After failing to make Gordon Brown appear sufficiently palatable to British voters, Lord Mandelson has decamped to his friend Nat Rothschild's Alpine chalet. "Peter took the result hard and personally," a friend of the peer tells Mandrake. "He needs time to lick his wounds." The former business secretary's sojourns at the Klosters bolt-hole of Lord Rothschild's 38-year-old son and heir are always lavish affairs. On one occasion, Nat put his fleet of expensive cars, including a Porsche and a Ferrari, at his house guests' disposal. Happily, before Mandelson, pictured, kept his date with Nat, he found a window in his diary to bid farewell to the Queen, whom he served as Lord President of the Council. During the election, I disclosed how he had failed to attend two audiences with the monarch as he was preoccupied with trying to save Brown. Doubtless the stay afforded Mandelson, 56, a chance to discuss the documentary that Nat's sister, Hannah Rothschild, made about him in the run-up to the election. Certainly, it will take all of the spin doctor's skill to make the story look as if it had an even half-way happy ending.Nat Rothschild helps Lord Mandelson
lick his wounds
Lord Mandelson has been staying at the Alpine chalet of his friend
Nat Rothschild after Labour's election defeat.
Friday, 21 May 2010
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