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Martha's move to Marylebone

Monday, June 29, 2009

Source: Catherine Deshayes

Can we soon expect wedding bells from Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane Fox and Chris Gorell Barnes, her beau for the past five years?..

She has just spent an estimated £9 million on a six-bedroom Grade II-listed Georgian family home in Montagu Square, Marylebone.

Previously, following her near-fatal car crash five years ago while on holiday in Essaouira, Morocco, the dynamic daughter of an Oxford history don lived in a specially adapted Mayfair flat, described by one visitor as "huge, modern and elegantly understated".

"Martha has bought a cracking property, which has every mod-con imaginable," reports an friend.

Lane Fox, whose grandfather Jimmy Lane Fox founded the eponymous estate agents, earned £13 million from the £577 million sale of Lastminute.com in 2005.

She recently founded Lucky Voice, a chain of Tokyo-inspired karaoke clubs, and Antigone, her own charitable foundation.

Source: www.homesandproperty.co.uk