Magician Drummond Money-Coutts Dazzles London?s Esoteric Party Set

Magician is probably not most fathers? dream career choice for their offspring. But Lord Latymer has only himself to blame. In 1992 he took his six-year-old son, Drummond, to Davenports, Britain?s oldest family-run magic shop, nestled beneath Coutts?the bank that looks after Her Majesty the Queen?s money and was Lord Latymer?s place of work. The young boy was knocked sideways. ?It was like walking into the Harry Potter Ollivanders Wand Shop,? he says. ?Dimly lit, with glass cabinets filled with ropes, silks, props, tricks?as a young boy my head exploded.?

It?s fair to say that, growing up, Drummond Money-Coutts wasn?t your regular lad. (Yup, that?s his real name. He?s a direct descendant of Thomas Coutts, after whom the bank was named.) ?From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal,? he explains. Combine Drummond?s ripe curiosity with his parents? divorce (his mother is novelist Lucy Deedes, daughter of the late Bill Deedes, former editor of The Daily Telegraph and Tory M.P.) and being sent to boarding school at age eight, and it?s no surprise that he took refuge in magic: ?I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.?

Drummond went to school at Eton, where he performed free gigs for 18th-birthday parties in the foyer at the school theater, and in 2002 was chosen by Provost Sir Eric Anderson to perform for the Queen. ?It was, and still is, one of my proudest moments,? says Money-Coutts.

Now 26, D.M.C. (as he likes to be known) has heftier ambitions than purely entertaining at parties. Having devoured everything produced by David Blaine, he is planning his own physically challenging stunt in London this autumn. He has already created a portfolio of short films, and with his easy charm and astonishing looks he?s an ideal host for a much-talked-about TV show??about magic with meaning??in development. But in the meantime Drummond continues to hone his craft. ?Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.?

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/09/magician-drummond-money-coutts

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