Sonia’s formula for success

Lorraine Wylie gets the royal treatment in Monaco and drops in on the Irish woman who hosts Europe’s most exclusive parties.

THE FRENCH call it ‘Métro, boulot, dodo’ (meaning ‘commute, work, sleep’). But it doesn’t matter how our continental cousins say it, when it comes to the humdrum of life, we all speak the same language.

Stepping off the treadmill and escaping the grind, not to mention the rain, is something many of us dream about. Sonia Irvine appears to have turned the fantasy into reality.