Duchess of Cambridge turns to her uncle for advice on addiction Goldsmith, 46, the younger brother of Kate Middleton's mother, Carole, would not comment when I raised the issue with him, and a spokesman for the Duchess told me he did not wish to discuss her "private relations with her family." Nick Barton, the chief executive of Action on Addiction, says, however, that Prince William's wife, when she had invited him to St James's Palace in November to discuss addiction, seemed to have from the outset an intimate knowledge of the issues involved. Goldsmith, who sold his recruitment business Computer Futures for £275million in 2005, played host to Prince William and Kate Middleton at his villa in Ibiza for a week the following year. He was a guest at their wedding, arriving at Westminster Abbey in a £280,000 bright-blue Rolls Royce Phantom convertible. In a News of the World "sting," he was recorded saying he had access to Buckingham Palace. "I've got my own rooms, the Goldsmith Wing," he said. I'm going to be the Duke of Slough. It's the fast lane for Natalie's charity Natalie Pinkham's life is one of stark contrasts at the moment. She has been dividing her time between the glamour of the Formula 1 set, which she reports on for a satellite broadcaster, and Romania, where she is helping to set up an orphanage. "I've found the two worlds very difficult to reconcile," says Prince Harry's old friend. One day, I'm at the Grand Prix, the next I'm in the sewers of Bucharest where thousands of homeless children live among the rats - it's enough to make anyone go crazy. Pinkham, speaking to me at the Motor Sport magazine Hall of Fame, adds that her mother, Joy, showed her how she could use her contacts in the Formula 1 world to help ease the suffering in the other world. Soon after, Pinkham, who is to wed the Endemol TV executive Owain Walbyoff in Portugal in July, met Pirelli's Motorsport director Paul Hembery who told her that his company's main factory was based in the very Romanian town where she planned to build her children's home. "It was just a weird serendipity moment," she says.