Madonna has won her fight to keep a public footpath from being opened near her country mansion near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
It was proposed that land adjoining her £9m house would be classified as open countryside on new maps drawn up under the Right to Roam legislation. The move would have opened up a footpath 100 yards from her Grade II listed 18th Century mansion near Tollard Royal. But not now.
The Ritchie's wrote to Tony Blair expressing concern over the legislation, worried that more access would mean more curious sightseers and paparazzi on the doorstep of their eight-bedroomed Ashcombe House.
A Countryside Agency spokesman said: "Like hundreds of other people, she filled out a comment sheet about the access in her area, and those comments have now been taken on board. There was no 'right royal battle', and she was not treated any differently to anybody else. This is why we have the consultation".