Susannah Constantine won the heart of David Linley, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, with that most pragmatic of seduction techniques – the pesto pasta bake. Having appeared one night for dinner at her South Kensington home, the son of Princess Margaret , and brother of Lady Sarah Chatto, was wined and dined by the Tatler favourite, and soon news of their romance had spread far from Cottesmore Gardens.

It was 1983, the era of the high Sloane, and Susannah Constantine was the most regal of rangers. Daughter of a shipping tycoon, she spent her childhood living on the estate of Belvoir Castle, enjoying an early friendship with Theresa Manners, and studying at St Mary’s School in Wantage. By the time she moved to West London , Susannah was 21, and, as she wrote in her 2022 memoir, Ready For

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