The English courts have shown why London is titled the “divorce capital of the world”, according to a solicitor at Coffin Mew, commenting on the story of an aristocrat accusing his wife of ‘divorce tourism’ after she left their Scottish estate to file for maintenance in England.

Charles Alastair Hyde Villiers, a distant relative of the Duchess of Cornwall as well as a publisher and racehorse owner, claimed his wife of 17 years, Emma Villiers, should fight her case in Scotland where inherited wealth is not taken into account when dividing assets duri...