Mairead Ronan

The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends.

They both came out of nowhere.

He wanted it.

He wanted me.

And then he didn't.

And that's it.

They were engaged, I think, after three months, right?

Yeah, relationship, yeah.

I think she was on the way to becoming one.

You know, she was doing well, but she didn't particularly love the job either.

You know, I think she always wanted to be a writer.

Yeah.

But, you know, she decided they were both very, very busy and in an awful lot of relationships.

A lot of people listening to this podcast will know that when children come along and if both careers are very successful, it is generally the woman's career that takes the backseat.

And he went on to have a huge career earning millions and millions.

Yeah, they were like, you know, the name Vanderbilt was thrown around.

I'm not sure it was on her mum's side or her dad's side.

Step.

grandfather of hers was a founder of CBS and then grandmother was a style icon which you know would have been in all the society pages and if she wore something everyone else would start wearing it too so that's where she's from so she has this old money thing going on he was also privileged and went to private school boarding school but I think she was very attractive to him

for that.