Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.

I have worked and earned all my life and have found that divorce is an expensive process. Whichever way you look at it, you are going to halve your wealth. If you can avoid it, do. It is an awful process.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.