INVITING US TO HER FAMOUS FAMILY’S SURREY ESTATE IRENE FORTE ON LOVE, LIFE AND LEARNING FROM HER HOTEL TYCOON FATHER SIR ROCCO
‘My father is so resilient and positive, and he’s no spring chicken so I’m always pretty impressed’
For someone whose father is one of the most famous hotel magnates in the world, fellow entrepreneur Irene Forte isn’t very good at kicking back and relaxing.
“I take what I call workations’, when I work from nice places,” says Sir Rocco’s 32-year-old daughter with wife Aliai, welcoming HELLO! to the Forte family’s 1,800-acre Surrey estate – where the charming five-bedroom Ripley Cottage, in the grounds of the main house, is the place Irene calls home when not in London.
It was here the founder of beauty brand Irene Forte Skincare and her then fiancé, technical entrepreneur Felix Winckler – they have since married – decamped when the first lockdown hit, along with her sister Lydia, brother-in-law Dimitri Chandris and their young son Johnny, as well as her brother Charles
