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22 November 2025
The smart set’s talking about… Daredevil relights old flame after parting from polo star
Once hailed as ‘the most bad-ass Old Etonian ever’, daredevil author Alexander Fiske-Harrison has taken fright at matrimony.
I hear that the Belgravia-born former bullfighter has ended his engagement to top Austrian polo player Klarina Pichler and rekindled collaboration that began in the quads of Oxford University.
‘I can confirm that Klarina and I parted ways at the beginning of this year, with great sadness and mutual respect,’ Xander tells me. ‘I have finally washed the blood from my hands and pivoted back to my original role, from my time at Oxford.’
He is now with a girlfriend from his university days, the French film actress Camille Natta.
‘Next week, we set off, reunited like Odysseus and Penelope,’ says Xander, who’s writing a book with Camille [as photographer, The Children Of Wolves: How Dogs and Humans Were Forged In The Land Of Ice.]
He previously went out with Lord Brocket’s model daughter, Antalya Nall-Cain…

Note: A more accurate description would if Penelope had been defined not by loyalty but appetite and opportunism. She united soon after Odysseus first left for Troy with Antinous, the grand and aggressive lead suitor – in our tale a French film director of note – and then, when Odysseus had still not returned after six years, moved on from Antinous to marry the smooth-tongued suitor Eurymachus – in this story a peripheral American screenwriter whose best known work is the suitably titled Fool’s Gold – before a midlife crisis led her to leave that dull Ithaca, rejoin with Odysseus, only to betray once again and return to her husband, proving that in the case of Penelope, all that glitters is not gold. Meanwhile, Odysseus had already set sail once again. 

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NEW YORK MAGAZINE: VULTURE – “I excuse myself to use the restroom. When I return, Winters is deep in conversation with the man sitting next to us: a British writer named Alexander Fiske-Harrison, who is working on a book about wolves. On the walk up, we had started talking about relationships. There were a couple of times that Winters had come close to settling down, but it had never happened. It was no one’s fault, he said. He supposed it was never too late to have children, but he didn’t really want to be a 70-year-old dude with a little kid.
Now, a fuller story emerges. One of Winters’s exes had remained in his life, but they’d had a falling-out. He despaired of ever seeing her again. Outside the bar, Alexander presses him: “Did you do the full back-down? There are two ways to apologize. One way is, ‘I’m really sorry if what I did offended you.’ And the other way is, ‘I’m very sorry.’” Among the men around him, opinions vary on what Winters should do. Alexander shares his own tale of romantic turmoil. Then for the next 15 minutes or so, Winters and I go silent as he entertains us with accounts of interviewing bullfighters in Spain.”

Alexander Fiske-Harrison for ¡Hola! magazine

 

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NEW YORK MAGAZINE: VULTURE – “I excuse myself to use the restroom. When I return, Winters is deep in conversation with the man sitting next to us: a British writer named Alexander Fiske-Harrison, who is working on a book about wolves. On the walk up, we had started talking about relationships. There were a couple of times that Winters had come close to settling down, but it had never happened. It was no one’s fault, he said. He supposed it was never too late to have children, but he didn’t really want to be a 70-year-old dude with a little kid.
Now, a fuller story emerges. One of Winters’s exes had remained in his life, but they’d had a falling-out. He despaired of ever seeing her again. Outside the bar, Alexander presses him: “Did you do the full back-down? There are two ways to apologize. One way is, ‘I’m really sorry if what I did offended you.’ And the other way is, ‘I’m very sorry.’” Among the men around him, opinions vary on what Winters should do. Alexander shares his own tale of romantic turmoil [see above – Ed.]. Then for the next 15 minutes or so, Winters and I go silent as he entertains us with accounts of interviewing bullfighters in Spain.”