Profile: since leaving Kensington and Chelsea, Feilding-Mellen has become the director of ‘psychedelic venture studio’
Rock Feilding-Mellen was treated to dinners and entertainment by property lobbyists while in charge of housing at Kensington and Chelsea council. Photograph: Richard Gardner/Rex/Shutterstock
Rock Feilding-Mellen was treated to dinners and entertainment by property lobbyists while in charge of housing at Kensington and Chelsea council. Photograph: Richard Gardner/Rex/Shutterstock
Mon 17 May 2021 14.38 EDT
Last modified on Mon 17 May 2021 16.34 EDT
Rock Feilding-Mellen has run a property development company since 2009, and in 2011, at the age of 32, was promoted to a cabinet position at the Conservative stronghold of Kensington and Chelsea council.
The portrait taken with her pigeon Birdie just after the procedure
In 1970, Amanda Feilding caused a furore after drilling a hole into her own skull (yes, really!). After decades of being dismissed as an oddball, her belief in the benefits of psychedelic drugs is suddenly being taken seriously I am not really in love with ketamine,’ states Amanda Feilding, the Countess of Wemyss and March. It’s a rather startling revelation for a 78-year-old woman of impeccable manners who looks as though her field of expertise may be some finer point of social etiquette. But Amanda has never been a traditional type.
Champion trotter Tornado Valley on target to break $1m barrier
Champion trotter Tornado Valley on target to break $1m barrier by Adam Hamilton Kate Gath and Tornado Valley Image: Ashlea Brennan
Champion trotter Tornado Valley s first trip down the highway to Geelong could be a historic one.
The 10-time Group 1 winner and former Inter Dominion champion is poised to smash through the $1 million stakemoney barrier if he wins the Group 3 Sundons Gift Trotters’ free-for-all at Geelong’s Beckley Park on Saturday night.
It would make Tornado Valley just the third Aussie-trained trotter to top $1 million in earnings. Sundons Gift ($1,275,264) and Keystone Del ($1,063,560) are the other two. Australasia’s highest earner is the great Lyell Creek, but much of his thumping $2,256,724 was earned during a stint in North America.