The daring takeover of Manchester City was masterminded by a financier who once turned down a marriage proposal from Prince Andrew. (Read link below for full story.)
Once touted as a future wife for the Duke of York, Amanda Staveley, who helped bring huge investments in Barclays and Manchester City from Gulf sheikhs, seems a shade desperate to make up the numbers at her wedding to Mehrdad Ghodoussi at West Wycombe Park in Bucks on Oct 29. (Fact or fiction? Sounds like author of below link is a hater.)
