They wrote a contrite letter to their father, but banished they remain. Mark Birley, who owns Annabel's, Harry's Bar and Mark's Club, has for years created the most sought-after atmosphere in London. Johnny Pigozzi and Aldine Honey tunnelled out together, convulsed with laughter. ‘Robin has suffered more than you would ever know,’ says Louise Baring. As he turns 71 we revisit this 1992 piece that celebrated his pin-up status Whether he highlights the studied politeness of a charmer, the smile of a magnate, or the whims of an heiress, he captures his subject. Robin took one look, and piped: "When l grow up, we're never going on holidays like this".' 'I want to double the sandwich business in the next few years,' says Robin, 'expand outside the City and if that works, perhaps take it overseas or start up a new project, which I can't discuss.' To celebrate the 310th anniversary of Tatler, we look back to a 1990 interview with Robin Birley, son of the Private Members’ Club tycoon and sandwich king of the City, who arranged for a posse of professional cake throwers to ambush his birthday party Twenty years ago at John Aspinall’s wildlife sanctuary. He is the son of Lady Annabel Goldsmith and the night club owner Mark Birley.He had a brother, Rupert, who disappeared and is presumed deceased, and has a sister, India Jane Birley. 'It never occurred to me he wasn't dead,' she says. 'The first custard pie hit and I went down like a ninepin.

'It was a theme party, and the theme was cream,' said Janet Street­-Porter wearing the foam very fashionably on television the next morn­ing.

'lt started when he was eleven, on a family trip to Italy. You can To celebrate the 310th anniversary of Tatler, we look back to a 1990 interview with Robin Birley, son of the Private Members’ Club tycoon and sandwich king of the City, who arranged for a posse of professional cake throwers to ambush his 32nd birthday partyAt Birley's 32nd birthday party, he arranged for guests to be ambushed by a posse of professional cake throwers.
When I went home, I opened the fridge and a jug of ginger beer fell on my head-now this. However, they fell out in 2006, after Birley hired a private investigator to …

Welcome to Tatler. As for the party, he warned me not to go, but nobody deserves a light-hearted interlude more than he does.’ She married Sir James Goldsmith 12 years ago and he is far too powerful and political a figure to be embroiled in something that could be labelled a bun-fight. People dis­solved in a syrupy sea. I told them I wanted no complaints. Robin Birley here, with Al Muir'I loathe parties, all that standing around nursing a drink and feeling self-conscious,' states the rich commanding voice of Robin Birley, who has the awesome height and presence of his father, Mark. Robin and Damian threw the cake-party jointly, neither having given a party before. Jimmy stepped into an air­-conditioned conditioned Daimler bound for some palazzo, and the rest of us piled into a tiny Fiat Uno with no roof-rack. We landed at Rome airport in the boiling heat. She was taken rather than invited to the ball, but you could have just showed up, all gatecrashers were welcomed with a smile. A howl went up as guests, outnumbered 20 pies to one, were overwhelmed by the pendulous women pie-throwers. He didn't have his first real girlfriend – Louise Baring – until he was 24. Jemima Khan, Robin’s half-sister, said of his need for facial surgery, it was ‘much like Caring, judging by the pictures of him’. Sophia Pilkington wasn't keen on cream-clotted clothes ruining the upholstery, and drove home minus most of hers. Guests strolled down a glass walkway overhung with plants and trees, which opened into a bare room. Oh, and there's a mastiff called Louis.' ‘Think of the world food shortage,’ cried another. With that, the room began to fill with smoke, trum­pets sounded and the great curtains rose. As he hits the campaign trail, we look back at this 2000 interview with the then Spectator editor