David Cameron's joy at friends" engaging news Eight months after Christopher Shale, a close ally of David Cameron, was found dead at Glastonbury, his widow, Nikki, has received some cheering news. Her daughter, Natalia, has become engaged to Tod Yeomans, 28, who helped the primary schoolteacher cope with her loss. "It means a lot to me that I met Christopher a few times," says Yeomans, who works in the City for Deloitte. I am told he approved. Tod's father, Michael, says: "We're thrilled." The Prime Minister is "very happy" at the news. Andrew Mitchell, the International Development Secretary, tells Mandrake: "It's lovely. The family's many friends are absolutely delighted for the happy couple. Mitchell attended Shale's funeral in Oxfordshire, at which the Prime Minister, the Duke and Duchess of York, and Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were among the 700 mourners. Shale, who was 56, was discovered dead in a portable lavatory cubicle at the music festival. Shortly before he went missing, he had received a message from Downing Street warning him that a memo he had written in which he criticised the Conservative Party was about to be made public. An inquest found that he died of undiagnosed heart disease. Natalia, 30, was Shale's stepdaughter. Her father, Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, was Mrs Shale's first husband. Cameron said he was "devastated" by the loss of Shale, whom he described his "his rock of stability." The businessman had recently become chairman of the West Oxfordshire Conservative Association. In his will, he bequeathed £5,000 to Natalia "to buy an item of jewellery to be engraved with, 'To my darling Natalia, with love from Daddy." "