He may only be 50th in line to the throne but Britain’s ‘coolest royal’, Cassius Taylor, has just taken the number one spot in a list of the country’s most eligible bachelors.
The part-time DJ, who is the grandson of Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin the Duke of Kent, was named after Cassius Clay (later to become Muhammad Ali) because he was born on Boxing Day.
He recently performed at top London nightclub Fabric, but only a few months ago he attended a rather different social event: the Royal Family’s annual Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace.
Back in 2001, aged four, he was escorted by the Queen Mother, his great-great aunt, on to the Buckingham Palace balcony to practise his royal wave for Trooping the Colour.
Now the younger son of Lady Helen Taylor and her husband Timothy Taylor, an art dealer with galleries in Mayfair and New York, has been named Britain’s most dashing bachelor by Hello!
In an interview from his family’s London mews house, Cassius says his name is ‘my greatest gift from my parents’ and that it serves as ‘the ultimate ice-breaker’.
Cassius is not a working royal but has carved out a career as a music event ‘curator’. His ambitions are simple: ‘Meet great people, throw great parties, stay healthy,’ he tells Hello!.
His passion for music began aged 12 when Lady Helen took him to see Oasis at Wembley, where he recalls his mother embarrassing him.
He says: ‘I still remember being in the seats and getting awkward because my mother wouldn’t stop dancing.’
The Taylors attend Glastonbury together, with Cassius making the pilgrimage for the past seven years.
It is his dream to play at Worthy Farm but he has already ticked off one goal, performing at Fabric last year for Rave To Save, a fundraiser supporting the men’s suicide charity James’ Place.
He says: ‘I’ve had my struggles. And if I can help give back, then I will.’
He stopped short of agreeing to be the wedding DJ for his royal cousins Lady Marina Windsor and Lady Amelia Windsor, both of whom are getting married next year.
Lila makes shorts work of Coachella
Lila Moss and her minuscule shorts made it to Coachella, despite her recently telling Vogue that her dream day included nothing but shopping, an early night and lots of matcha.
The recently single, willowy daughter of Kate Moss, shook off her ‘clean girl’ image to attend the California festival – which featured Madonna duetting with Sabrina Carpenter – with Stella Jones, daughter of The Clash frontman Mick Jones.
Stella is dating Sir Paul McCartney’s grandson Elliot Donald, and the nepo tribe appeared en masse to live up to their blue-blooded rock’n’roll ancestry. Or try to…
King Charles has been flogging all sorts through the Highgrove gift shop, including bee hotels. Now news reaches me that he’s even selling wallpaper featuring images of his own garden at Highgrove for £266 a roll. Socialite and former Vogue journalist Plum Sykes isn’t impressed, saying: ‘If Meghan was doing that there would be a media storm but somehow, because it’s the King, it’s all very chic.’
Supermodel Cara Delevingne is finding it hard to settle down. In the two years since her LA pad burnt down in the wildfires that engulfed the city, she’s bought and sold two houses, both in the region of £8million and the second of which was previously owned by actress Jennifer Lawrence.
Now Cara has bought another £8million pad in Beverly Hills from interior designer Austin Harrelson. The question is: how long will she stay?
Is Victoria Beckham on the warpath? I only ask because when Kim Turnbull, the girlfriend of Lady B’s son Romeo, took to TikTok to detail her six‑step skincare routine, there wasn’t a VB Beauty product in sight. Instead, Kim told her followers that her faves come from Allies Of Skin.
Spotted
◆ Amanda Holden drinking a can of Monster and tucking into some pork crackling in Hammersmith.
◆ Oscar-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan asking a member of the public to tie her laces.
◆ Traitors star Celia Imrie – incognito in a black cap – sauntering past the Burlington Arcade in Mayfair.
◆ Actors Paul Mescal and Emilia Clarke dining (separately) at Goodbye Horses in trendy Hackney.
