Tessa Keswick provides joyous insights into her life with husband Sir Henry, longtime boss of Jardine Matheson, the hotels-to-supermarkets colossus that bestrides the Far East, in a book that chronicles her 40-year love affair with China. In The Colour of the Sky after Rain, which is published on Thursday, Tessa, 77, reveals that Zhu Rongji, a Chinese economic reformer and later prime minister, was put up in the Jardines-owned Mandarin Oriental next to Hyde Park during a visit in 1997. At a meeting at the Bank of England, Zhu complained that he had not slept a wink because of noisy guests on the floor above. The mortified taipan Keswick, now 81, had the floor above the Chinese delegation cleared. Two days later, he asked Zhu…

Source: The Times January 05, 2020 00:00 UTC