Lady Rose Hanbury: Kate Princess of Wales' party-loving close friend, who had a Saltburn-esque upbringing

Behind every good royal, there is a party-loving aristocrat with personal connections as sprawling as their country estate. For the Princess of Wales, that aristocrat has long been known to be Lady Rose Hanbury, former model and Marchioness of Cholmondeley.

Just last summer, some five months before the Princess's planned abdominal surgery, Lady Rose and Kate were reported to be partying it up at Houghton Festival in Norfolk — a 24-hour rave weekend hosted on the country estate owned by Hanbury and her husband, David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley (pronounced “Chumley”, by the way). The Princess of Wales and her group of friends, known colloquially as the “Norfolk set” or “Turnip toffs”, sipped on spicy margs and AIX rosé as part of a private dining experience in the festival grounds.

It might all sound very unlike Kate, but she and Hanbury have never been that similar. As royal expert Ingrid Seward once put it