The Livingstone brothers are to host a literary festival at their super luxury Berkshire hotel Cliveden House.
Taking place over Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September it will include a debate on “Cities in the Air: how should we live now”, which will include “starchitects” Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Amanda Levete, as well as Ian Livingstone.
The Cliveden Literary Festival also includes a presentation on “Beyond Satire” from Armando Iannucci, the creator of The Thick of It, Veep and The Death of Stalin.
The festival is being run by Natalie Livingstone, the wife of Ian Livingstone. She is a journalist and writer and the author of The Mistresses of Cliveden, a book about four women engulfed in scandals at Cliveden over the centuries.
They include Nancy Astor who was the chatelaine of Cliveden at the time of the 1961 Profumo affair that played out on the estate.
The Livingstones, who jointly own and run London & Regional, bought the historic 47-bedroom Cliveden in 2011 from Von Essen. It forms part of their Iconic Luxury Hotels business that also includes the Chewton Glen in Hampshire, 11 Cadogan Gardens, SW3, and the Lygon Arms in Worcestershire.
Cliveden was in the news this summer when it hosted Meghan Markle the night before her wedding to Prince Harry in May.
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