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The celebrated dame who's the talk of high society for her naughty snorting habit... and it's not even cocaine. Plus a secret Royal romance and the maddest celebrity skincare secret yet: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY

The celebrated dame who's the talk of high society for her naughty snorting habit... and it's not even cocaine. Plus a secret Royal romance and the maddest celebrity skincare secret yet: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY

Daily Mail​19-07-2025
The trial of aristocrat Constance Marten – convicted this week alongside her lover, rapist Mark Gordon, of killing their baby daughter, Victoria – has inevitably inspired painstaking investigation into how a woman born to such privilege could choose to act in such a morally bankrupt manner.
A possible clue to her character has been hiding – if not quite in plain sight – in the pages of Lady In Waiting, the bestselling memoir by Anne Glenconner.
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