ANNIKA Purdey is poised by the grand fireplace in the Long Room at Audley House, the headquarters of James Purdey & Sons in Mayfair, having her photograph taken and looking very much at home. As well she might, for on the walls around her are the portraits of her father, grandfather and great-grandfather – in fact, all her direct male ancestors going back to James Purdey the Younger, who took over running the firm in 1858 and built Audley House in the 1880s.
She’s equally comfortable having her picture taken. The half-Swedish scion of Britain’s foremost gunmaking family and journalist is a