Isabella Calthorpe

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Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 3 March 1980 at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester), who uses the stage name Isabella Calthorpe, is an English actress and model. Primarily a stage actress, she has also played a role in the 2004 film Stage Beauty. She was the first cover model of Country Life to appear with a belly button ring.^[1]

1 Parentage and family background
- 1.1 Baronets and titles
  - 1.1.1 Descent from 1st Baronet
2 Social prominence
3 Isabella Calthorpe and Prince William
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Parentage and family background

Isabella is the second daughter (of four daughters and one son) of property magnate John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 14 July 1947, himself of a family holding a baronetcy and son of Sir Richard Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baronet (1908–1985)), and his younger daughter by his first wife and third cousin, married at Kensington Register Office 27 May 1977 and later divorced in 1986, Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, born 21 February 1947 herself the third daughter of the 6th Earl Howe). Lady Mary-Gaye, a well-known debutante in her time, is reputedly a banking heiress^[2], and has been married four times, with issue from the first three marriages. (She is not closely related to George Curzon, once Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary, but the two share common patrilineal ancestry.)

Her father, a former chairman of the Watermark Group plc ^[3], has been married twice, and has issue one son and four daughters.[3] Isabella thus has several half-sisters (two from her mother's first and third marriages, and two via her father's second marriage), one full sister, and one brother Jacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, who is reputedly a close friend of Prince William).^{[citation needed]}

Through both her parents, Isabella is a descendant of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. Sir Fitzroy Hamilton Anstruther, 1st Baronet (her great-grandfather) was the son of Gertrude Louisa Georgina Fitzroy (9 Dec 1850-17 Jul 1923), herself of the family of the dukes of Grafton, descended from the illegitimate son of Charles II and Barbara Villiers.

She is also a fourth cousin once removed of Prince William of Wales, with common descent from the 1st Earl Howe.^[4]. The Prince is descended from the 1st Earl's daughter Lady Mary Anna who married James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn; their granddaughter Lady Cynthia Hamilton married the 8th Earl Spencer; their granddaughter Lady Diana Spencer was mother of the prince. Isabella's ancestry is via her maternal grandfather the 6th Earl Howe, who was himself maternal grandson of the Honourable Montagu Curzon (brother of Mary Anna, Duchess of Abercorn).

[edit] Baronets and titles

Her family, the Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpes, are an ancient Scottish family, but inherited their money along with their latter two surnames from the noble Gough-Calthorpe family, when the 6th Baron left his money to one of his two daughters, Rachel, who had married Fitzroy Hamilton Anstruther, of a family of Scottish baronets, the Anstruthers of Balcaskie [4] in 1898.

The first baronet in this particular line of Anstruthers was Sir Robert Anstruther, 1st Bart of Balcaskie (1658-1737) who was granted the baronetcy in 1694, the first baronetcy for this family. (A senior branch of the family was granted a second baronetcy in 1700; the most famous representative of that family was the writer Jan Struther, author of Mrs. Miniver). Fitzroy Hamilton Anstruther (1872–1957), husband of the Honourable Rachel Gough-Calthorpe, was created a baronet (the third baronetcy extant in this family) in 1929. Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe and her father are descendants of this couple.

[edit] Descent from 1st Baronet

Sir Fitzroy Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, Bt. (5 Jul 1872-29 Sep 1957); m.11 Oct 1898 Hon.Rachel Gough-Calthorpe (d.25 May 1951); issue including

1. Sir Richard Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 2d Baronet. (28 Mar 1908-1985); m.20 Jul 1939 Nancy Moireach Malcolmson (d.1976); issue 3 sons, of whom the youngest son was

1.3. John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, b.14 Jul 1947; m.1st 27 May 1977 (div 1986) Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, issue 1 son and 2 daughters; m.2d 1987 Vanessa Mary Theresa Hubbard, issue 2 daughters

1.3.3. Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, b. 3 March 1980

[edit] Social prominence

As the daughter of two wealthy and well-connected parents of prominent aristocratic families, and possessed of good looks, Isabella Calthorpe was chosen quite early by British society magazine Tatler for various yearly lists of most desirable guests or most attractive (society) women. (For example, she was number eight on the list of top female dates for the 21st century, as chosen by the fifth annual edition of the Little Black Book in Tatler.[5] She has appeared repeatedly in the society pages of Tatler, and its rival Harpers and Queen.^{[citation needed]} More recently, she was the first cover model of Country Life to appear with a belly button ring.^[5]

[edit] Isabella Calthorpe and Prince William

Calthorpe studied Classics at the University of Edinburgh.[6] She was romantically linked with Prince William ^[6]^[7], but denied the rumours, saying that she already had a boyfriend. Her father John took steps to protect his daughter's privacy; her friends also mentioned that her boyfriend John Lycett Green (grandson maternally of the late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman) was a good friend of Prince William. (Lycett Green's parents were also close friends of William's father Prince Charles and future stepmother Camilla Parker Bowles).^{[citation needed]}

Later stories suggest that she first met Prince William of Wales in 2004, but the two were acquainted earlier (attending the same society events where they sat together as early as 1999, and having friends in common). Recent media reports claim that Prince William was interested in Isabella as early as 2004, but that she rejected his advances to focus on her acting career.[7][8] Some media sources have alleged that she was a factor in the April 2007 break-up of William and Kate Middleton.^[8]^[9]^[10]