EXCLUSIVE The married Tory peer, a glamorous Saudi academic...
and the daughter she angrily says he refuses to see - after his identity was revealed in the baby's birth certificate By Ian Gallagher Published: 22:03, 24 August 2024 | Updated: 22:13, 24 August 2024 e-mail View comments Sipping green tea outside a café in Notting Hill, Dr Najah Al-Otaibi is scrolling through pictures of her 19-month-old daughter Victoria. She alights upon one strikingly cute image and holds up her phone. 'She looks so much like him,' she says.
'It's the lips, they're the same.' The 'him' in question is former Arts Minister Lord Vaizey of Didcot, a favoured son in former Prime Minister David Cameron 's government. The Mail on Sunday can reveal today that the married Conservative peer is Victoria's father – a subject on which he kept his counsel in April when approached by this newspaper after it had emerged that his name was on the child's birth certificate.
Rather mischievously, or so it seemed at the time, Dr Al-Otaibi, 42, a Middle East expert and author, included the 56-year-old politician's name on the document but not in the section marked father. That was left blank. Instead, she listed her daughter's name as Victoria Vaizey Edward Al-Otaibi – containing a reversal of Edward Vaizey.
Najah Alosaimi who is raising her daughter as a single parent, the father being Lord Ed Vaizey, formerly MP for Wantage Najah Al-Otaibi and her 19-month-old daughter Victoria It was something of a comprom.