Cristina Stuart Green, Lady Green, known as Tina Green, is an English businesswoman and interior designer.
24 Facts About Tina Green
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Tina Green has a close financial relationship with the businessman Richard Caring.
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Tina Green's father was a wine merchant; his business led to long periods living abroad and Green spent her childhood in Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand.
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Tina Green did not finish school and described herself as "trained in nothing" but has said that she loves to "work and to graft".
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Tina Green met Robert "Bobby" Palos, a South African jazz drummer in Hong Kong when she was 17 and he was 31.
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Tina Green initially worked in the diamond industry and subsequently moved to South Africa with Palos and the couple opened a fashion boutique in Johannesburg.
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Tina Green described herself as more driven to succeed in business than Palos, and after 20 years together the couple divorced.
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Tina Green designed clothing for her husband's clothing shops, including Lewis's and Owen Owen, and subsequently helped design the layout of the stores.
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Philip Tina Green has said that the move was for health reasons.
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Tina Green said in a 2005 interview that the couple moved from St John's Wood to Monaco after Philip was the victim of a mugging by three men with a sword.
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Tina Green has organised several large parties for her husband Philip's 50th, 55th and 60th birthday parties.
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Tina Green was appointed treasurer to the private charitable foundation of Charlene, Princess of Monaco, in 2017.
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Tina Green is the director of Taveta Ltd which is the majority owner of Taveta Investments Ltd.
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Tina Green notably paid no British income tax on the dividend due to her residency in the tax haven of Monaco.
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Philip Tina Green has jocularly referred to his wife's income as "housekeeping money".
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In 2016 Tina Green said that she or her family had controlling stakes in 11 companies, the majority of which were based in Jersey and the British Virgin Islands.
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Tina Green said that the locations were chosen as they had strong regulatory and professional corporate regimes.
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In 2016, Philip Tina Green agreed to appear before a work and pensions select committee of the British House of Commons on condition that his wife was not called before the committee.
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Philip Tina Green had been appointed by Cameron as an advisor to the government on efficiency.
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Tina Green has created interiors for private residences and yachts.
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Tina Green restored and designed the interior of a mews house in London's Belgravia district "almost entirely" in black and white.
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Tina Green extensively uses Lalique glass in her interior designs and helped create a homewear range for Lalique Maison in 2014.
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Tina Green herself described her Lalique work as "obviously high end, and obviously expensive".
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Tina Green has been linked financially to the British businessman Richard Caring, a close friend and business partner of her husband Philip Tina Green.