In fact, Max -- who spends only part of the year at Easton Neston -- has become so enamored with "all things English" that he's relocated part of his design studio to a former real tennis court in a wing designed by Sir Christopher Wren, famous for the construction of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
James Herbert was asked to leave his school - the private St Christopher School in Letchworth, Hertfordshire - after his GCSEs in 2001 following an incident with drugs.