A few weeks ago, we were at her home to meet a group of visitors from one of North America’s leading museums, along with Bapji Jodhpur in support of his Head Injury Foundation’s newest initiative.

The evening, with its elegant dinner speeches, its low key glamour and public-minded thrust could have taken place anywhere in the world: at an elegant black tie fundraiser at Central Park, at a townhouse on Regent Street or at the garden of a minimalist Beijing terrace office.u00a0