Sheherazade Goldsmith - The Green Goddess | London Evening Standard

She believes consumer power, rather than regulation, will save the planet. The best way to get the message across to supermarkets is by voting with your feet and buying organic.' And that includes organic tobacco. Six months ago she started smoking again, after 12 years of missing it every day', but only organic American Spirit and never in front of the children. She finds the fiddly rolling process very therapeutic' and laughs as she relates how she was recently asked for ID when she tried to buy tobacco. I said, "I love you but I'm 36 and I have three children".'

Her youngest, aged four, is James (after his grandfather, Sir James Goldsmith, the financier and Referendum Party founder, who died in 1997); before him come Thyra, seven, and Uma Romaine, 10, whose middle name is inspired by her mother-in-law (it was Annabel Goldsmith's mother's name') rather than the lettuce.