He says ‘It was a bad start, but I just thought I needed to put an end to that and make it all good. It wouldn’t have felt right otherwise,’ he says. ‘Now Scarlett is fully integrated into the family, she comes on holiday with us the whole time and we all get together when we can.’ It’s hard not to speculate that these emotional dramas during his childhood may have been a factor in creating Rufus’s unhappy state of mind — but it’s a suggestion his father robustly refutes. ‘It is a convenient supposition, but it’s pretty well established by those who know him best that his problems are nothing to do with Kate and I splitting up,’ he insists. Certainly, while largely resident with his mother, Rufus saw — and continues to see — his father regularly, and though his parents are divorced, they remain great friends, So much so that Kathryn is godmother to Jacobi.
‘For Kate’s 50th birthday I threw her a surprise party and bought her a villa in the South of France — this was long after the financial settlement had been signed and sealed. So I’d say that’s quite a good relationship,’ says John. It is a model he intends to follow with ex-partner Claire, who will move from the Staffordshire mansion into a new home in coming months.
‘We have told Jacobi we will still be a team, even if we are living apart. We have to be, because it would be a disaster if we weren’t,’ says Caudwell.
When it comes to all his children, meanwhile, he insists he has taken the same approach — one of making them realise how privileged they are. Click here to read Billionaire's Marriage Life With First Love
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