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TALK OF THE TOWN: The 'upstairs downstairs' tale of love between Lady Delphi and a young beater By Harriet Kean For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:22, 3 November 2024 | Updated: 00:22, 3 November 2024 e-mail View comments It sounds like an upstairs-downstairs love story that could have come from the pages of a DH Lawrence novel. Lady Delphi Primrose, below, the Tatler cover girl and 21-year-old daughter of the Earl of Rosebery – is dating Dominic Inglis-Jones, a former ‘beater’ at Belvoir Castle, I can reveal. For a season, he was employed on shoots at the Duke of Rutland’s estate in Leicestershire, raising game birds by striking at the ground cover.
I also hear he sometimes played the piano for guests and served wine at candlelit dinners in Belvoir’s grand dining rooms. My source tells me he ‘very much enjoyed the glamour’ of working at the estate and struck up a ‘sweet’ friendship with Emma Manners, the Duchess of Rutland. ‘She was charmed by him,’ says my source.
Now Inglis-Jones has charmed Lady Delphi too, with some suggesting fanciful parallels with DH Lawrence’s controversial 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, in which a titled woman embarks on an affair with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. Hon Delphi Primrose attends the Paul Costelloe show during London Fashion Week September 2024 Dominic Inglis-Jones is a former ‘beater’ at Belvoir Castle and he is now Lady Delphi's boyfriend As Lady Delphi’s boyfriend, the mullet-sporting Inglis-Jones can expect to visit Dalmeny House, the Earl and Countess of Rosebery’s Gothic Revival family seat in north-west Edinburgh. Or their small 13th Century castle, Barnbougle, which is on the Dalmeny estate.
Or perhaps he will join the traditional family sojourn in St Moritz in the Alps this winter. I hope he’s brave: the clan – including the Earl of Rosebery, the chairman of Sotheby’s auction house – love tobogganing down the Cresta Run, a death-defying three-quarter-mile-long ice chute. It’s still early days though for Lady Delphi and Inglis-Jones.
The couple are said to have kissed a year ago at a party but only started dating officially recently. Hopefully their love story will run smoother than that depicted in DH Lawrence’s novel. Heir’s hoping.
.. George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford and Camilla Blanford attend the Blenheim Ball in aid of Starlight Children's Foundation at Blenheim Palace on March 4, 2022 in Woodstock Are the Marquess and Marchioness of Blandford going to have a male heir to the family seat, Blenheim Palace? I can reveal the couple are expecting their second child, a sibling for four-year-old Lady Olympia Arabella Kitty Spencer-Churchill.
The Marquess is the son of the Duke of Marlborough and may be hoping for a son to inherit the title, as dukedoms only pass down the male line. My spies tell me the Marchioness was displaying her bump at a party recently. .
..Also pregnant is Willa Keswick, a scion of the Jardine Matheson dynasty, which owns the Mandarin Oriental hotel group.
The heiress is expecting a baby with husband Jake Morant. The former nightclub owner, 40, displayed her bare baby bump, right, at Poppy Delevingne’s party celebrating her fashion tie-in with Veronica Beard. Also pregnant is Willa Keswick, a scion of the Jardine Matheson dynasty, which owns the Mandarin Oriental hotel group.
The heiress is expecting a baby with husband Jake Morant Willa, shares a daughter with Jake, and has another daughter, Freida, with musician Alex Robbins. Is Lola’s next outfit to be a bridal gown? Talk about the Lady in Red! For a Halloween party last week, Lady Lola Bute donned latex gloves, a crimson sequined dress and vivid red wig to dress up as cartoon sex symbol Jessica Rabbit. But could this glamorous socialite be playing another part soon? Perhaps, say, a bride? For I hear that the 25-year-old caught the bouquet at the wedding of Misha Metcalfe, heir of the Pret A Manger and Itsu chains, this summer.
For a Halloween party last week, Lady Lola Bute donned latex gloves, a crimson sequined dress and vivid red wig to dress up as cartoon sex symbol Jessica Rabbit Whether or not an engagement is on the cards, my spies tell me that Lady Bute – the daughter of the late John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute and fashion designer Serena Bute – is smitten with her Dutch model boyfriend, Parker Van Noord. Better latte than never Can someone get Jodie Comer a matcha latte? The star allegedly demanded the beverage while on set recently – despite being in the middle of the countryside. Assistants were at a loss as the nearest bijou coffee shop was a two-hour round trip away.
I hope Killing Eve’s Villanelle wouldn’t kill for a coffee! Sir Ian McKellen, 85, has a secret passion – for trendy trainers. ‘He has a big Nike Air Max collection,’ one guest at a party at the actor’s London home tells me. Not only that, the Lord Of The Rings star has the prop sword he used as Gandalf hanging on a wall, and a drawer-full of designer Hermes scarves.
Sir Ian McKellen, 85, has a secret passion – for trendy trainers. ‘He has a big Nike Air Max collection’ Such disHonor for Tilda’s girl! How are the mighty fallen! After playing Princess Beatrice in A Very Royal Scandal, the TV drama about Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, I can reveal Honor Swinton Byrne’s latest role is as a Ukrainian sex worker. The 27-year-old daughter of Tilda Swinton and playwright John Byrne admits times in the acting world are tough.
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