Ant & Dec take on God in battle to join golf club Mandrake hears that the eccentric Tory MP, 39, is living in London with Shoshana Clark, 31, an American, who promised her parents in 2006 that she would go to Afghanistan for only nine months to volunteer at the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. "They are a couple," claims one of the Old Etonian's chums. Within months, Clark was asked to be the organisation's chief executive. She later became its managing director. It is understood that the astrophysics graduate is studying for an MBA at the London School of Business. She is said to be running the foundation on a part-time basis from London. Demurely, the MP, who tutored Princes William and Harry and was once imprisoned by the Taliban, declines to comment. Duke's joy at baby marquess When Alexander Douglas-Hamilton became the Duke of Hamilton on the death of his father in 2010, his brother, Lord John, described him as "intensely private." Scotland's premier peer, who is Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, now has some news which he is happy to make public: his wife, Sophie, 32, has given birth to their first child, Douglas, who will be his heir. Alexander, 34, whose father spent 11 years in the RAF, took up aerobatic stunt flying and broke 47 land speed records, is said to be "thrilled" by the birth of Douglas, who will be styled the Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale. Ban on Brits Sasha Volkova, whose engagement to Viscount Macmillan was called off last year, seems to have been scared off his compatriots. "I won't be dating a British man again," says the Marks & Spencer lingerie model. I tried that and it was too complicated, so I need someone completely new next. I'm auditioning for a new man. FURTHER to my column of July 1, I would like to make clear that Pat O'Driscoll, who was listed in Companies House documents as having resigned from the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women on June 9, had, in fact, died that day.