Heiress to the Onassis shipping fortune Athina Roussel (above), began a holiday in Greece at the weekend "to search for her roots", her family said.
Athina (14) was to spend a week with her father, Thierry Roussel, stepmother and their three children cruising in Greek waters. Her mother, Christina Onassis, died in 1988.
The pretender to the French throne, Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis-Philippe of Orleans, Count of Paris, yesterday hosted his 90th birthday party at Amboise castle, which overlooks the Loire river, surrounded by 300 guests.
Celebrities at the chateau, which once saw Leonardo da Vinci as its more illustrious guest, included Prince Rainier and his son Albert of Monaco, ex-king Michael I of Romania and Otto von Habsburg of Austria.
British scriptwriter Johnny Speight, who created the TV series Till Death Us Do Part, has died from cancer after a short illness, his family announced yesterday. He was 78.