¶ Intro
That Prince Andrew , Virginia photo . There's literally over fifty things wrong with that photo .
Welcome to this show , Lady Victoria Harvey .
Thank you .
When I was a teenager , you were like the posh hot girl in the basement . Right .
This photographer got a side shot of me and it was like heart of a nickel and then suddenly it was like , oh my god . Lady V has flashed
when you were becoming the young girl in England , did you relish that attention ?
It just became an increasingly sort of a pressure that as soon as I walked out door that someone's taking a picture .
Talk to her about Prince Harry .
It's this whole sort of leftist victim . Oh my god . Look at me pull me like no Harry . He was never like that before he met Meghan .
You were like a quite famously dated Prince Andrew .
Prince Andrew was like he has been the scapegoat for this whole thing . I'm hoping , like , in the next few months , Grant Sanders can be exonerated from all of this .
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I know . I got lots of layers on right now . They definitely , it's quite hot in the air .
It's only just beginning . Mhmm . No . We strip out our guests so we can dig deep on the story . There is experiences on what we can learn from it . And I've got a great guest with us today . I've got a socialite , a broadcaster , a model , an aristocrat , Katz . I was to Katz , and I was to scratch .
Well , today's Yeah .
And a forward girl . Welcome to this show , Lady Victoria Harvey .
Thank you . And you said my name correct . Clearly . So that is very good .
I'm always very nervous . I'm always very nervous about name print on two . Yeah .
It gets it gets , you know , it gets confusing because it is its pronounce Harvey , but we're in a Harvey . So , you know , it's it takes a while for people to get it . But thank
¶ Posh Hot Girl in the Paper
you .
So before we get going , you have to tell me because I remember you from when I was a when I was a teenager , a late teenager . And at the time , you you were like the posh hot girl in the papers .
Right . Yeah . I I was in Why ? They kept putting me on , like , the front page of the sun , David Yellen , who was the editor at the time , I think , had a little bit of a crush .
And , you know , basically , it's it really started as , like , I went to a party and I had , like , a a low cart dress on and it was , like , you know , how the press in England , they're a little puffy . And it was like , this photographer got a side shot of me , and it was like , part of a nipple . And then suddenly , it was like , oh my god .
Lady V has flashed . And , you know , that made the news like worldwide . So , yeah , so it kinda started I suppose I kind of rose to my It Girl stardom at around about nineteen years old . I left school . I had a gap year . I was going to be going to uni for four years to do French and History of Art .
And , you know , I got some grade a levels , and I was gonna be going to Axita , St . Andrews . Or Bristol . And then the appeal of starting for four years , once I started owning money and I you know , I was modeling and I was modeling internationally for big brands , you know , like Chanel and Deere , the idea of being a student .
I I was a boarder as school for ten years from age of
which which boarding school ?
So I was at a prep school called Sipton Park in Limingling Kent and then from Sipton I went to Benadine , which is where Princess Anne was , you know , posh or girls or girls school . In the middle account , And , you know , after ten years boarding , I just saw UNIA sort of an extension of boarding school , which it is .
I think it's fun for people if I hadn't already been at boarding school for so long , like friends of mine that were at day school , you know , uni was like something new . But I yeah . I started working and earning money , and I was dating someone a lot older than me . So I sort of flung into this social scene of London , very young .
And and that is when I started being labeled big girl . Because I was out everywhere . And then from that , I had a column for The Sunday Times called Victoria Secrets . So then I had this added pressure that I had to go out all the time because I had to have fun things to put in my column .
And you know , those were the days that it wasn't like phones back then . You couldn't do emails on phones . Like , you know , we we kind of look back at , like , two thousand and one and two thousand and one was the first camera phone , but it wasn't a good camera phone . It was like a little nockier . You couldn't do an email from that .
So you remember sending dirty messages made up Yeah . Made up better .
When I had to
exclamation marks .
Oh , it was crazy . What I what I had to go through to get my column in , like just saying I would be like on a boat in the south of France in the middle of the ocean . You know , I would have to find a fax machine to , like , fax in my column on time . And if we didn't have a fax machine , and I have to find one really quick .
It was it was a lot more complicated
¶ Where did the Lady/Marquess title come from?
back then .
So just taking a pause and rewind for a second , Explain to me the lady bit because so you I can't even say the word , but I'm gonna say you so your father is the sixth Is it Marquis ? Six Marquis of Bristol . Yep . What does that mean ? How does that make your lady and what's the royal connection ?
You know , it is It's a long , long family history , and I'm still learning about my history every day . So my father was the sixth Marquis . My mother was the third wife . Or the six markers . So I actually had two half brothers , both deceased . Because
are the material old over there ?
They they were older . Yeah . They they were older , but they still died relatively young in comparison to what you should live to . I was born lady , so the children of the Markwiss are automatically lord or lady .
So so you so your your brother your half brother stayed So
my when I was younger , John Bristol , who was the eldace on his of my father . My father died when I was eight years old , and he became the markers at the time . And then it basically jumped from him to my brother because the other son in between died before John , about a year before Nicholas .
So , yeah , my brother now is the he was actually and I think at the time , the youngest actress , they he was known as .
This is this is your full brother .
Yeah . My full brother , he was it was a lot of pressure for him . You know ? He was just starting university . He was like eighteen years old . And he sort of had that responsibility , like , thrust on him .
And and when you say responsibility , I mean , like , what would
it's really similar . It's a responsibility of the name , you know . So , like , our family house , which was been in our family for generations . It is National Trust now . And But even though it's national trust , you know , he has some obligations . He also started a child charitable trust to get the chapel read on , which is where like all my family are buried .
And that was kind of falling apart . So we've had that completely renovated and It's it looks amazing .
And and it's been the mark question . I'm saying that right . Yeah . Yeah . It's been the mark was is that a job ? Like , is that how you get your money as well ? Or
No . No . It would have been back back in the old days . Right ? But , you know , it's a sort of it's a I suppose it's a responsibility that he has . Now he has two little children and so the eldest son of the Marcus of Bristol is called Old German , which my brother was never that because he was never the eldest son .
But his little boy is old German , named after German street . So my family back then built quite a lot of me for So that's how we got the name , German .
Okay . Yeah .
¶ Childhood Memories and Boarding School
So going back to your story then , well , what are you ? Well , look , So as so as a youngster , as in boarding school days
We , you know , we moved to Monaco when I was very young . And So I , you know , I I had a mixture of of living between the two , but I was , you know , I started traveling and and being pretty independent young .
You know , I was like the kid unaccompanied minor with the little thing around my neck , British Airways or Air France , and I was on planes on my own , you know . For half times , my grandmother used to take me for Xieux . She lived in Kent , So that was really good .
And in – I guess , in terms of your childhood , there's sort of friends or people popping around for a Sunday roast , Right . Are they but the kids of Mark Quisces , are they royal family members ? How do you fit into all of that ?
Yeah . Mixture . I mean , what I'm really enjoying is living back in England . I moved back last January . I was living in LA for eighteen years .
And it was just it was time to move back , time to be closer to family , like , I had a great time , I had you know , I met some amazing people , but it gets , you know , it's quite a soulless place and the last few years , California literally has collapsed like like most of America actually . Like America has literally fallen . So yeah . So now I do .
I I've I've reconnected with a lot of old friends , but I've always been close to quite few of my school friends , you know , because those people you bond with so much , especially when you're living together , your dormitories and stuff , I'm actually friends with quite a few people from prep school .
I I went to a boarding prep from from eleven to thirteen . Oh , actually . I was supposed to go on to full board after that , but never did .
Did you enjoy it or not really ?
You know , I can't tell you how are you remembered at the time ? Yeah . As well , rather , I can't say how I felt at the time , but we're looking back at it now . It was like super fun times . Yeah . But because I guess , know , just hanging out with your mates every day .
You know , when you've got to do school anyway , but , you know , you you get to you get to sleep there , hang hang out with them and stuff for an hour . No . Forever in trouble , which is
Same .
That never made it to proper boarding school because after after getting kicked out of the the the the prep one , my parents said that it was time to keep me at home . But I've I've forgotten why and why I was mentioning that now . I don't know . I think that we're talking about childhood memories or or responding with people .
So so I left that , so I don't know , why I left there in ninety three .
Okay .
And and I didn't have any contact with anyone that's true . Because in those days , there's no mobile phones , there's no That's
it . You just have to get like , your friend's address . And , like , if they've moved address , then you're not you're gonna lose them , you know .
And then about two thousand and six about two thousand and six Facebook's out . Yeah . And somehow , you know , if someone friend requests me or someone because you remember the names , don't you remember when Facebook first came out , you were thinking , who do I know , you know , who didn't know before . Mhmm .
And , you know , I got put into , like , some kind of group where people talk about the the old the old reunion .
Yeah .
And I went back to this reunion down down at the school . So I'll have been twenty five , twenty six at the time Mhmm . As you were not seeing these people or had a word , said since you were thirteen . And when we all met up , because we met in the pub before into the school , it was as if we'd just seen each other yesterday . That's so bizarre .
That is what , like , real friendship is . Like , you know , and I have that is exactly that exact thing with a lot of old school friends . Like , I'll pick up and even the ones I do see regularly , but then just so I was back in LA , and then it was , like , COVID , I didn't see them for two or three years .
Literally , like , the conversation just goes straight back . I I was down at Benadine a couple of months ago . It was like a anniversary event . And one of my old friends . I literally because I I missed the official reunion because , you know , I'll be in LA , and it was it was always more complicated , like , doing those type of things and I didn't live here .
And one of my friends , I literally hadn't seen us in school . She looked the same . She was like the same . Like so amazing . And now she's teaching little kids actually , like , in Berlin and Village . So , like , her life has really kind of , like , stayed there . She sees me as like , oh my goodness .
You're doing all these wild crazy things and Hollywood and this , and I'm like it looks glamorous , but it's stressful . But prep school prep school for me was super fun because we were allowed pets . And yeah . So we had like
We would even like
We , like , we , like , meted our rabbits , like , my rabbit had babies and yeah . It was a fun time always was in trouble quite a lot , but we had like Ponies and we used to hide our sweet stash like in the horse jumps . We used to also hide them like in the loft , but like the mice would get to them .
So my grandmother would always send me back with these giant bottles of quality streets like those big tubs and it was quite strict at school because you only allowed a certain amount of talk . You know , it was very limited . And so , like , I would be the one with , like , all the sweets .
So , yeah , I have I have good I have pretty good memories about that , but I would be in trouble like I was I remember they would make me stand in the corridor at night just looking at a wall for like hours .
You're gonna stand in the clock .
Yeah . And having to write lines . Yeah . You know , I must do it at , like , a hundred times or we got caught one night sleeping in the cupboards as a dare . Someone's like watch beeped or something . So the nature and light heard us . And we were like sleeping on these shelves in the cupboard . We thought that was fun . So yeah .
It's funny listening to what you've just been saying because you've just used two words that I haven't probably heard either of them . Since literally , since nineteen ninety three , which is maxi at .
Yes .
Because , I mean , that's a word that is completely unique to boarding school kids and tuck . I I know people , you know , took shot , but , yeah , again , it was a boarding school thing . Always abbreviated . Oh , you got your tuck , but it was a
tuck . Yeah . The tuck box was the best thing ever . So , yeah , you would have your sort of limited amount . But you see at prep school , we didn't have the talk box . We had that at secondary school . We had that at Benadine . And but , yeah , I was always sneaking stuff in
¶ How old were you when living in Monaco?
.
What so how old are you living in Monocay ? What was that like ? I'm a massive
healthcare firm . As a child , it was the best . It was a really amazing place to live because it was a lot of we we spent a lot of our time outdoors . You know , I I learned to swim at the beach club in Monaco , which I think is still one of my favor all time swimming pools there .
Better than learning at the local swimming , investing .
I know . Well , when we would be then in England , it would be like the indoor pool of Victoria , the queen mothers , and I was like , I can't miss the other one . But no , it was it was an amazing life . Very , you know , safe .
The other thing , you've got cameras everywhere in Monaco , like , literally , like , I went out with my friends quite young , you know , and my mother was not worried about me because it just felt very safe . Compared to living somewhere else . And actually , like my friends from Monaco , like I'm still friends with them that I've known like my whole life as well .
We we we
Now to live there , it it is very small . Like , it is very like everyone is in each other's business . Like , you can't really do anything without the whole the monocoa knowing . And so I understand that was like one of the reasons why my mother wanted to move back here because it's sort of gets lonely . You know , there's not that much going on there .
I think it's a great place to visit though and spend some time , I mean .
Do you still go back to visit ?
Yeah . I do . I haven't been back since this summer , but I'll be there in May . So I usually go to kindergarten festival . But that is a very crazy busy time to be there . Like , I don't necessarily like Grand Prix . I mean , for you , you'd probably love it because it's like testosterone . No .
No . But because it's too busy . I used to – so I've been living in Dubai as I was saying for the last three or four years . We always leave for the summer . We leave mid May , and I have a boat well , I have the boat in Dubai , but the boat's that live in Kenya , and we'd do like four months of the summer there and then go back to Dubai .
But I'd always want to jump off it during during film festival time because it was just too busy to be around . Grand Prix .
Grand Prix , if you're gonna do Grand Prix , if I think staying on the boat is the only way to do it . Like , you cannot be staying on the land
happy to walk around here .
It's just these little things , you know . I actually I I always forget when I'm there . There's no Uber's in Monaco . Like , good luck trying to get back to can . I was last year , I was because I I rented a place in can for the whole festival . So when I went to Monaco , I just thought , oh , I'll just get the car in and out .
It's fine getting in , but getting back out . It's like a real
Well , it's not just that there's no Uber . It's a total monnot on the taxi that
you can't you can't
call any taxi but a monocoa taxi , which is about twelve of them aren't the same . No . No .
I had to literally get one of Prince Albert's drivers to get me back because I was like , there's no other way I'm gonna get back .
I'll have to try that next time . I'll be well zapping you .
I think if you have a boat , like yeah . If you have a boat , you can do Grand Prix , but it is like it's a shit show . Like , it is really hard getting around and it's really stressful . And it actually made can film festival feel like really chill . When I've been than can and can felt very like fell on .
And then I was like , oh my goodness , because you got the noise of the cars , and it's a whole
¶ Bit Naughty but High Grades
another beast .
So you were you were a Nordic kid ? A little a little bit cheeky . Yeah . But but you did well at school .
Mhmm .
You got three you were two eighty two eighty in a beach there .
And I did . I I was , like , one of those people that was a bit of fluke . Freaky flaky child . I did a lot of , like , cramming at at last minute . You know , we would take pro plus caffeine pills and be listening to Arrow Smith and revising . So Yeah . For all French was always a language . Right ? That was always a subject .
I knew I was gonna get an a in . You spoke it anyway . Did you ? So yeah . Was it French school ? So when I was younger , I
actually saw French school
better than English . So that was an advantage . I would always you know , if I had children , meet them speak languages really young , because we pick it up .
Absolutely . So so so I have a new baby who's eleven months and her mom is Finnish . Mhmm . And obviously , not that not that being able to speak , Finnish is probably a a great life skill . But she's speech in French , she's speech in English . Obviously , it's too early for it to be really making a difference . But I mean , absolutely .
As a I'm gonna I'm gonna run , you know , multiple languages down a throat from from a very early days because they're all these things with , you know , as kids , you don't wanna do anything . Mhmm . But then when you get to eighteen , you you regret that , you know , like , when you're you don't wanna play the yeah . You don't wanna learn in this for me .
You don't want
to learn anything . Yeah . But it's a eighteen
year big shift . I wish I could , you know , rock the guitar at the party and , you know , speak to that Spanish girl in Spanish or whatever . So , I mean , Absolutely . They're gonna ramp
some ideas . It up so easily , you know . And as you get older , like , I think of myself like I still ride a lot , but I'm not as gutsy as I was when I was twelve years old . I was just jumping over fences without a saddle . You know ? At that age , you you're just not you're invincible . You're not really thinking about , am I gonna get a broken bone ?
And if I do , I mean , I did break quite a lot of bones as a as a teen , broken arm leg wrist . One of them was jumping off top bunk at school in the middle of the night , we would play games , right , when the lights went off and flew off top bunk and the girl underneath stuck her head out .
So I had to suddenly jump missing her head and then landed in , like , on my arm . So but it's kind of fun when you break your bones at school . It's cool . Like , everyone's , like , really , waiting on your You do your resting bones
with the same nose . It's like a metal one they give What
was it ? It metal now ?
So it doesn't it doesn't say to you a very good semi weapon bastard . Hold on .
Not a long time . Back then , people are writing nice little messages and stuff .
Or not nice messages .
But the bro the broken leg was the worst , though , because we were living in Monaco , and I remember having to put a knitting needle down it to try and itch because it was the summer and it was so itchy . That was that was bad .
¶ Taking a Gap Year
So you didn't go to Uniti and didn't No .
I did not . Oh , yeah . So I I had so I had a gap year . And in my gap year , I decided that I wanted to travel to Asia . And I met this girl who well , she was at school with me who lived in Malaysia . She was based in Kuala Lumpur . And so I traveled around Thailand , Malaysia , Singapore for a couple of months . Visiting different friends .
And then I did a secretary at Queen's College for shorthand and you know , any other secretarial , like I mean , my shorthand , which I really need to , like , scrub up on it , but I was really , really good . And from doing that , you see , I could do like tamping jobs , which would pay quite a lot of money at the time . I mean , I'm sure they still do .
So that was that was like a kind of a bonus thing to do . And then I was studying in Florence . I was studying history of art in Florence for about six months . And that's where I also met some people that are still very , very good friends of mine .
And why actually ended up in LA was this Gawk and Swellow , my friend in Florence , and then moving to LA with her because she that's where she's from . So
And you say you're doing some of these jobs or some of these education , so you could earn some good money tempering ? Yes . I mean , what was your financial situation .
So my , you know , my mother was was good . You know , she was quite quite hot . You know , it's it's hard when you're you being given everything . Right ? Your whole life . And then suddenly , it's like you're on your own . You gotta earn your own money , and it's like
Was that the right to choose balance ?
Yeah , that was like what my mother was like . And it was like , what do you mean ? Like , I'm used to this really expensive lifestyle . And then suddenly , I've got it like pay my own bills ? Like , how do I do that ? So yeah . That that was hard . You know ?
It's almost easier if , like , you don't have you're not given too much when you're younger because suddenly , like , when that gets taken away and you have to , like , pay for that yourself . It's like , that's hard . Like so I was yeah . So I was I was doing some temping jobs this is like in my around like my gap year kind of time .
So had you become the hit girl and the basis of this point ?
This was before pre pre hit girl , you know , maybe the six months lead after the hit girl . I worked for this company , Morofaro , The Winters , which is a theatrical agency , Music Week magazine . These were the days where , like , it was a lot more chill . Like , people were , like , smoking at their desks and , you know , like , those old days .
But because I was the youngest , you know , I was always given like all the jobs where the all the people were like not really doing any It's like , oh , Victoria , can you do this and do this ? And yeah . Then I basically started modeling and earning a lot of money and then I was like , okay . Need to do that anymore
¶ Getting the Modelling work
.
How did you get the modeling work ? I mean , that's when you look to
do that . So that sort of came to me . Really kind of accidentally . I was very lucky to meet a very well known photographer who was role photographer called Patrick Litchfield . And he put me forward for this job for a a a a big drooling brown , jeweler called David Morris .
Mhmm .
And I got the job , and Patrick shot the campaign . And everything kind of took off from there , like , once you have Patrick Litchfielders , the first photographer taking pictures of you , you're kind of set . So I was really lucky . And then I think my the first shoe I did sort of on location . That was when I was a cowgirl in New Mexico for Tatla .
And that was super fun . Got to be a cowboy . I got to like lasso cows and , you know , ride western saddles . So yeah , it was it was it was good .
And was that your was that your full time worker that's why I know ?
At that point , yes , it was . I was traveling a lot . Some of it was quite tiring , you know , like you're sort of eighteen . You're you're traveling a lot . It's like it all looks quite glamorous and it is glamorous because , you know , you're wearing all these beautiful couture dresses and but it's hard that hours are long .
You know , when you see a runway show , you just see the end result . Like , you don't see the rehearsals and the gearing up to it . And it's kind of like that adrenaline rush , and then you just feel exhausted afterwards . You know . So I did enjoy that . The column was good . The shot was good . And then I basically move to LA .
I I had a kind of a lot of bit of a hard time with the press over here . And I was I was just very much , like , under the microscope . You know ?
Is this a is this gonna kind of a build them up , throw them down kind of way ?
Or is this it is , and it was very easy to do that do that to someone like me because I was so young at the time . And you know , I hadn't had that much experience to , like , how evil the media can be . And you know , when I was younger , I was very much like if a journalist tried to talk to me , I was very much like on the defense mode .
And , you know , as I grow older , I've learned , it's better to be friends with them and give them what they want . Then just don't give them anything and just be rude to them because being rude to them is not gonna really , like , resolve anything .
What was that ? What was your parents' attitude to your or your mother's attitude at this point to to your fame , if you wanna call that I would imagine they didn't have it . Did I It
was sort of hard for my mother , you know , and then it was like GQ magazine and it was like me in the back of a limo with this giant Afghan hound . It was a very cool shoot . But , you know , they would like to put me in kind of revealing style pits . And for me , like , I grew up in south of France .
So , like , I was never really wearing that many clothes anyway . So I think that is why , like , didn't see him any different , really . But , yeah , I think it was sort of hard for her when I started getting , like , attention
¶ Any particular stories with the press that were twisted?
.
I mean , are there any particular stories with the press that Spring to Mind where you know , you were caught doing something . You shouldn't have been doing or or they they spun a story that didn't really exist in any any real that negative moment .
There's so many .
They spun so many stories like I found out years later that I was hacked at the time by the mirror I'm sure , like , news of the world also hacked me , but and I didn't pursue it because I was living in Los Angeles , and I just kind of , like , shut down I remember when I first moved to LA , I didn't even come back to England for like at least a year
and a half . And , you know , pre social media , like , I could really go to LA and sort of disappear , you know , when David Beckham moved , it kind of everything changed , and then suddenly there was a lot of English paparazzi's that moved to LA . But pre pre them moving out there , it was very much that you could get lost in LA .
And is and is that what you want or you wanted to disappear ?
I did . You know , most people go to Hollywood to do the opposite . I actually went to Hollywood to , like , just get away from the media .
And but prior to that when you were becoming the young girl in England , and obviously it kinda happened back sort of , but when it did happen , did you relish that attention ? You know ?
I mean , look , it was yeah . Look , it was it was fun . You know , I just had brands every day , sending me gifts , and holidays and who who who doesn't want that . But it just became an increasingly sort of a pressure that as soon as I walked out the door , there's someone's taking a picture .
Now , things have changed a lot like since Instagram and since Twitter . There's not that kind of paparazzi attention like anywhere because everyone's updating everyone anyway . So the value of a photo from a paparazzi is really not worth much anymore .
Unless obviously , if that person is like having an affair with someone they shouldn't be or but like a regular picture of someone just going out their front door going shopping or whatever , like , I know this photographer , and he said and he said to me , God , I had a real issue selling pictures of it was like Rihanna in a park .
And normally , that would go for loads . Right ? Park in London . And , no , he got , like , hundred pounds for it , a hundred and fifty pounds for it . So it's , like , that kind of work isn't there . So we don't get hassled as much now . I feel like it was like time I could come back to England and not be hassle like I was back
¶ Opening the Clothes shop
then .
And just rewind your second is preLA . You you opened a closed shop , you started your own business in your early 20s . Just tell me a bit about that , why you wanted to do it ?
I did . I would been twenty four years old at the time , my first business . And why it works so well was And actually , like , we had an amazing location . It was on Mockums Street . Twenty one Mockums Street . I had Christian Amputa on one side . Which back then it was the first store .
This is just a Foxtrot Street .
No . No . No . Off Slone Street .
Okay .
Not Foxtrot Street . We don't do Foxtrot Street . Not so classy . So Motkum Street . So , like , Crystal and Butte , it was their first store they ever had an award I had them on one side of me and on the other side I had Jimmy Choo and they only had one store in the whole world . And so , like , Mockam Street , I mean , it still is .
It's it's an amazing street , but it was , like , super thriving at that point of , like , year two thousand two thousand one . And , yeah , it was a you know , why it worked so well originally was that I would find these designers , I would model for them and then say , okay , I have a store . Like , do you wanna stock with us ?
And obviously , like , harrows would want them , but I would say , okay , if you can be with us exclusively for the first or second two seasons and then you can go to the bigger stores , but I used to get the Al Fire children coming to me to buy my clothes all the time . Like Jasmine , Al Fire was one of my really good customers .
Victoria Beckham , Meg Matthews , that whole sort of that whole era of , like , Oasis . Yeah . They were all in my store all the time .
Any
We had we had a definitely , like , a good kind of thing going . Chris Evans the time he was married to Billy Piper , and they lived around the corner . And so they would be in Malcolm's wine bar . All the time , basically . And so it was , yeah , it was it was a fun fun time that Kartner would come by all the time and Yeah . It was a vibe .
And after two years , it shut down .
So it shut down or our boyfriends , me and my partner Jane , both our boyfriends were the investors , which , yeah , it was great getting it set up , but we sort of went through quite bad breakups . I'd been with my boyfriend about four or five years . And at that point . And when we broke up , we needed more money put in and they were like , nope .
We're not doing it . So Academy sort of that collapsed . We went into liquidation . What ?
Academy was the name of the store ?
Yeah . It was called Academy with a k and an I .
And why why did it need more ? Because obviously , it sounds very successful with the people visiting , which is just not
the pause . If you so when you have a buying season , you just need an influx of cash to buy the new collections , and it just wasn't well calculated at that point . We didn't even need that much put in , but , like , our boyfriends were , like , they just wanted us to fail at that point .
And you you you
So then I had this new woman that was gonna come in as a partner , change the name of the store , and she totally screwed me over . So at that point , I then went into , like , doing this new business in my location under a different name , trading name , and then I was like , I'm done . I'm going to LA .
I was I was spending a lot of time in LA at this point . I would usually go to LA for award season for Oscars , and then I would never wanna come back because be so cold here . So I would go there for the fun , like , beginning of March and then I would stay for , like , a month or two and they got the point where I was like , okay .
I just need to I just need to move to LA . But you because you're you're going
there for a fresh start , get away from England . Mhmm .
So I sold my flat and I just moved . I did it with my friend can swallow . So she was already based out there . She was
never gonna be a friend called Sarah
or something . I have some good friends called Sarah , actually .
¶ LA Plans, Modelling, Visas and Producer Work
So what so did you have a plan of what you were gonna do in LA ?
Not really . I you know , I've I had done some TV work I remember , like , though , the so I started to get my visa was was kind of , like , the the first hard bit . And so I started with an h one b , which was a modeling beazer . So I basically went on the modeling beazer . But the problem is when I first went out there .
I was booked for this film , and then we literally , like , on the set in Mexico . And then it's like , oh , shit . I don't have the right visa . To do it . So , yeah , it's but then I've , yeah , had an o one you know , it's it's become really strict . Apparently , it's a lot easier just walking over the border than like actually getting it the legal way .
I've got I had an issue with my Esther a few years ago . I used to live in I lived in Vegas for five years now . Oh , really ? Had an issue with my Esther a few years ago , and I basically don't qualify for one anymore , so I
have to I mean , did you overstay or something ?
It's it's a liz long long story for not long story not for a podcast . Okay . And I need to get around to doing a visa , but there's so many times I've missed out on trips . I always think , well , why don't I just fly to Mexico and pop over the border ? There's
no one gotcha . Everything else just doing it , parents . They walk over the border and then they get given money , an accommodation . And , like , US citizens are being kicked out of their homes for these people . I'm gonna freaking do it . I'm just gonna put a wig on and , like , a mask and pretend I'm somebody else . Why not ? Fake ID .
Actually , a lot of them don't even have a passport .
Where did we get to ? We got to your your visa when you got there . Mhmm . And and then
So yeah . So I started , you know , I was I was doing yeah . I I started , like , when I first moved , like , modeling work , bits of TV , then I got into producing . I think one of my , like , really fun producing credits I did was , like , this this this guy that I met through another mutual friend .
And he's like , he knew I was sort of connected and , you know , in America like the lady thing does help . And he goes right , Victoria , I need you . I know you go to Canfil and Fosterville . Every year . I know you you know people . I've got this job for you . I need seven celebrities booked in four weeks for this televised poker special in can .
And he's like , you know , who do you know ? And I'm like , Oh my god . Who do I know that plays poker ? That's like a big name . And I actually thought , okay . Dennis Hoffman . Right ? So we had a kind of a list of actors . And you know , I ended up getting everybody , which is so crazy .
I never even had a producer credit at this time , but obviously like I'd done done TV and , you know , the managers , you know , they responded , oh , yeah , lady Victoria Harvey . We've heard of her , like , And so , Dennis Hopper , like I happen to know , his wife and I'd been through an event at his house , because he's respected . Right ?
You always have to go for the eldest one who the other actor's respect because once you have that first signing , then the others will come . So I got him to agree . He happened to have three movies , two movies in CAN that year . And you know , so we ended up paying for his filler and , you know , it was it was a pretty cushy deal .
So once I had him , Then I got Summer Hayek . And Summer Hayek wanted to add Nordina X . And , like , it just kinda went from there and then I had Tim Robbins and Goldie Horn and , like , Asia and Brody , and they all said yes . And it was nuts . And I remember , like
This was a live camp for a workout episode . Yeah .
I got them all to can . And I remember , like , having to do , like , the the nitty gritty , you know , with their agents and managers . And the person representing Woody Harrison . So Woody Harrison , what a character he is . He actually ended up winning this poker festival .
His his agent goes to me , right , he's on a live set in Bucress right now , and he's gonna be coming straight from Bucress . So , like , if you want him in a tux like you need to fly it out with it . I'm gonna give it to you .
So they drop off this tuxedo from Duchy Gabbana and this pair of like vegan shoes because he's like super vegan and won't wear leather . And she's like , yeah , if you don't get this to him , he's gonna just show up in shorts . So I fly with the stuff .
Just before flying , I look in this box because it's like it's like I don't wanna you know , he's known to smoke weed and stuff . I'm like , I don't wanna deal with a situation , but I don't know what's in the box . So inside the shoes , there was all these notes And I can't remember the movie he was playing at the time .
I think he was like nominated for an Oscar for it . Anyway , it's all these notes like rolled into these shoes . It was so bizarre . But , anyway , I met him in the hotel locker .
No note . Sorry .
It , like , notes from his movie that he was doing . Notes . Yeah . Yeah . Written notes . Yeah . He was like and I meet him in the lobby of the hotel . And literally he shows up like a few hours for the event in flip flops and shorts . And I like hand him his doctor Gabbana suit , and I'm like , here you go . Go change .
It's like those kind of moments , you know , like , it's fun . It's like , wow . I can't believe I've actually pulled this off .
And and you you like that ? You like the business ? You like doing deals ?
Yeah . I like doing deals . You know ? For me , it's whatever comes really . I don't I don't kind of say that I'm in one specific industry . Like right now , I'm working in commodities and fashion . I have a fashion brand . I'm relaunching because I started this swimwear company just before year before COVID and it really like was going really well .
And then my the factory that I was using in Asia and China by Hong Kong , everything turned into mask factories during COVID . And everything fashioned , forget it . But I am yeah . I'm kind of being concentrating on that again now . Like , how
do you sell it ? It goes into stores
and loads of it online at actually . I'm just getting my online store done up at the moment . I'm gonna do kids as well because I think kids is a massive market .
My him once . I was just Yeah .
I actually did . I've got my nieces that are gonna be modeling for them . I was in the store that dosed
by some new shorts and Yes .
It's it's about doing it .
To get some matchy things .
Exactly . It's such a massive market and , like , kids grow out of stuff so quick . So It's big . Yeah . So I'm going into children as well . But , you know , like all of us , like during COVID and stuff , we had to kind of flip into different business . And for me , I started selling gold .
I mean , it was bizarre , but you know , I'm I'm having I kind of have a secret life as a broker .
And so
¶ The Lady Ship Swim Brand
we'll talk to models in a second . We just fish on the swimwear . What aspects of that do you get involved ? I mean , do you
I'm a designer . I'm a designer . I I design I every little detail . You know , it's like I choose . Okay . Which bit do I want ?
The crystal on the side of the bikini with you know , material and then I choose something that I'd like or have a design done and then it's amazing when you see that actually like come full circle and it's actually printed like the materials like how they make it . So yeah , so that will be that will be launch for this summer . What's it called ? Ladyship .
Ladyship .
So it's a kind of play on the lady that also can be Ladyship . So Yeah . I'm excited about it .
And what what kind of customer , what kind of price points ?
I'm doing it . It's like affordable luxury . So , you know , when I look at , like , other brands , just say , like , a friend of mine's done very well , Melissa AutoBash . But Mine actually less than hers , and I think more exciting .
We would try to go and put on the show up to you guys a day . You would Don't tell that .
No . But so , yeah , about , like , a hundred and eighty for bikini swim swimsuit . But , yeah , quality is good . Materials good . I'm very picky about that because it's like whatever I put my name to , but I'm also doing leisure wear and then going into like bags . And like I All under the I've designed . Yeah .
So so it's kind of so Lady Ship is like the holding brand and then I have Lady Ship Swim for the swimwear . I'm doing Lady Ship ski as well .
Of course .
Ski wears massive . Like , I was just skiing about a week ago and it's huge . It's like it's it's something that has become so big now , having like all these new brands are emerging . And people spend a lot of money , people that ski , it's expensive . They want nice stuff .
My my elder daughter just rinsed me for a couple of pairs of salad fans .
It's got me a
couple of sports chair .
Right . It's expensive . Yeah
¶ Going onto the Commodities and the Gold
.
And then going on to the commodities and the golds . I mean , what what exactly are you doing ? How does that come about ?
Yeah . That just I don't know . I get into too much , but that was just , you know , we all kind of had to flip into something new during COVID and it was like , oh , god . What am I gonna do ? Can't sell bikinis . That that factory has now become a mask factory .
So and gold is something , you know , when the economy is so uncertain , which has been for the last four or five years , everyone's wanting to buy gold .
So and you're you're selling And the physical the physical pieces for people say
stop off , not like No . Like the bus . I like trying
to physically taking it . Yeah .
Yeah . So gold and doing some other sort of other things .
That's very suspicious . Very
excited . Saphos , if you know , So , you know , some cholism . Yeah . So , yeah , friend of mine has some mines near Columbus Shalanca . So I'm gonna go visit sometime . It looks amazing just by looking at the pictures . It's like , looks super authentic , like the way they're actually going in and getting these sapphires . So yeah , for me , I'm an entrepreneur .
I see myself as an entrepreneur . Prener . I don't see myself class as just one thing . At the end of the day , it's like , wherever you got that connection . Right ? That's what it is . It's it is a lot of it , of course , what you know , but it is who you know , and a lot of this
¶ Networking - Is it a task or is it natural?
.
And I mean , will main things I talk about and not on some of those other podcasts , but in my my personal content , if you like , and what I attribute , you know , a vast part of my success too is if my network isn't is networking in general , you know , I'm I'm spending fifty percent of my life networking .
I mean , this podcast is is is a form of networking for me . How much of your , I guess , how , let's say proactive and thought out is networking for you . I mean , obviously , life you were born into , you you were you were pretty born knowing a lot a lot of , you know , very useful and influential people from childhood .
I mean , do you do you just naturally acquire people or do you actually think of networking as a as a as a task and activity that you do to grow your network ?
Yeah . It's a little bit of both , but , you know , like , when I moved to America , I sort of it was almost like I was rebelling it against store that , I was rebelling against my network . Right ?
I just wanted to go be like free and live in California and live in t shirts shorts and be in the sun all year round and really not have a responsibility because most people in Hollywood don't work . You know , you go to a supermarket in the daytime and LA , and it's like super crowded , whereas other places like people have an office job .
But I think the last few years changed all that , because more and more people work from home now . More and more people learn that actually they don't need to spend huge amount of rent getting an office when they can actually work from home . Forgot what I was saying . That was a question .
I was I was asking you if if growing your network
is a network of But yeah . I mean , I hose . It's it's a you know , my friends tell me that I'm just I do it naturally . I I you know , I am a quite sociable person . I'm a Libra . Apparently , my my sign is quite a sociable sign . So I do like being around people I do have nights at home quite regularly though .
People think I'm this , like , crazy party girl , but actually , you know , I like being home with my dog a lot of the time . But , yeah , the network thing . The thing is , like , my mother always said to me , she's like , you're not gonna meet anyone sitting at home . Right ? You're not gonna improve your life .
And the thing is what I've learned is is like one baby step leads to another one , leads to another one . So I could be at event , and I reconnect with someone I haven't seen for maybe ten years because this kind of situation happens all the time . And then they tell me about oh , you should be coming to this .
And so I would never even heard about this other thing if I hadn't gone to that first event . And then suddenly , you know , you can meet whoever , like , you might meet the person that is gonna help you with a business or anything . So I try and force myself to be social sometimes even when I'm not feeling it because once I'm out , I feel so
¶ Why did you come back to the UK from LA?
much better .
And what brought you back to England from LA ? What what what did you kind of Where ?
Joe Biden ? Joe Biden . Joe Biden and , yeah , America is not quite what it used to be . And I've literally watched it fall apart , especially California . California is quite it's having a huge problem with homelessness and crime .
And I think at the point of three years ago when I had to buy a gun because the police the head of the Beverly Hills police and LAPD actually went on the television and said , we cannot guarantee your safety . Like , they were telling people if they didn't need to come to LA to not please , not come . And actually encouraged us to buy guns , to arm ourselves .
That would at that point , I was like , you know what , I can't live like this . I I never even left and I lived in a good area . But the problem is like when I first moved to LA , it felt very safe . Like , when I was living in Beverly Hills , literally cut my door open , never felt unsafe . And now it's like it's it's it's bad .
I mean , I had I'm sure I was sort of had some kind of PTSD when I got back because I was so used to , like , having either teaser or like a pepper even a pepper spray . We couldn't even you're not even allowed that here . I don't think . But I was so used to automatically having that with me even when I walked the dog ?
Did you carry the gun as well ?
No . Didn't have the gun , like , kept that , like , in the house , but I never went outside with a teaser . You know . And the thing is , like , in LA , it's it's a lot of these homeless that I said , they're so high on drugs and they're so crazy .
Like , I had I had one , like , throwing glass at me , you know , telling how he wanted to kill my dog just because my dog barks at a squirrel , like , that's what dogs do . It just got very sketchy . I know someone else that someone came up behind them as they're walking down the street and , like , sorta strangling them .
Like , this was happening my best friend from yoga that the thing I actually miss about Ellie the most of my yoga classes . I did Cundellini and my schools amazing over there . But my friend Trish from yoga , she had a bullet shot through her engine . And , like , she was just driving along on the border of Beverly Hills and and Venice on Santa Monica Boulevard .
And she hears this noise , and she thinks it's her tire . She thinks she's like , run over something . So she stops . And her mechanic tells her , like , the next day , you know , you have a bullet through your engine . Like , You know how ? That that is like so scary and that is not the only story . Like , are the people I know have had other encounters ?
And so it just got to the point where I was like , you know what ? This is just like this could happen to me at any moment like I need to get out of here . And I miss my family , you know . I'm I my mother's not getting any younger . I mean , she's in great shape .
But still , like , I feel like I need to be around for my family at this point , my brother , my nephews and nieces , you know , and my sister , she lives in Portugal . Just being closer to family , LA is so far
¶ England vs LA vs Dubai for Safety
away .
Do you not find England a dangerous place ? I certainly
so that comes
back to where you're like
I know , but everyone says , oh , England is so dangerous . No . We got it good here . And I and I try and tell my friends at Libya that complain about anger , and I'm like go to LA , go see what's going on over there . Then you were all good in New York . And see the situation over that's way worse .
I mean , I know it's not like super fabulous in England all all the time . But it's nothing like over there . Like , I don't feel like I'm I don't feel like my life is in danger like it was over there .
I mean , no .
And the Brits love to complain , you know . We do that really well .
We do . But , I mean , obviously , I've , you know , spent the last few years in Dubai and , I mean , you're getting used to a real next level of of Yeah . Safety of safety there .
I have I have friends that move to Dubai as well . And they love it . They they you know , when I go and visit , it's like they're like , don't worry . You can leave your phone on the table and walk away and it'll I
repeat people . There's somebody's reaction
to the way that walks . You know , I mean , no England , you can't wear a watch either . So yeah , there it's like you can bring the watches out and you can just leave things on the tables like , you know , if you're in a restaurant sitting outside , you're not gonna get someone just swooping in and stealing it . No . It it does . It feels it feels safe .
Makes sense if you had lived in Vegas because I feel like Dubai is the sort of Arab version of
Vegas . Vegas with that gambling . Oh , let me just
go to No . It's Vegas with rules .
Yep .
Right . But what I like about Dubai is it has a mixture of like everything . It's got like every nice rest wrong that we can think of . It's in Dubai . Right ? They have everything there .
¶ Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein
So we can't have Lady V here without talking out about some royal gossip and some juicy things . But I guess to warm us up on that , quite famously dated Prince Andrew for a for a time a while back .
I would I really wanna go into that part so much . But he , you know , he is a friend , and I have been pretty much the only person defending him publicly . In the whole fake photo scandal , Virginia Jude Freight .
As in the photo that counts .
So I really want the person who recently went into detail about the Kate meddelson photo that they found , you know , was heavily edited . I mean , I didn't even for me , I didn't even see that as it was edited right away . That prince Andrew , Virginia photo . There's literally over fifty things wrong with that photo . And
And I've been a bit out of touch through all this for a while . So for for forgive me if this is all common noise now . So so is it is it a publicly ? State you think there's
a fake
answer ? Or was that
You know , Gilen has has said in her interview a year ago , she said there's actually over fifty things wrong with it . I've also found that amount . I have a witness that is coming forward soon and I have a whistleblower as well who is on a gag order until May . But once that comes off , like , the gloves are off .
Like , you know , the public will be able to learn a lot more about the truth behind it .
And what would the origin of that photograph be ?
So I'm actually in contact also with the real photographer . But he was scared to come out for a long time because obviously , like , it's criminal offense , really , what he's done . And because he does have a he was he was in prison for something really stupid that happened to him , but , you know , he has that on his record .
And so he's been very nervous , but we plan to get that out I have this guy , George Tonks , who's the whistleblower . So as soon as his story comes out , I will bring in the photographer .
It was a gag .
He is gagged because he's been silenced because the US courts are very corrupt . And he's literally the whistleblower in this FBI case that is happening at the moment .
And what what do you suggest the the agenda is , as in , you know , who's who's leading it , you know , who's
Well , it was Epstein at Epstein in Virginia , but you know , I mean , this was literally like an attack on the royal family that was premeditated . And Prince Andrew was like he has been the scapegoat for this whole thing .
Has he just re fallen out prior to this one ?
I don't think so . I think well , I mean , at the time , right , this is premeditated that this happened in back in two thousand and one . And they were still friends , you know , after that . But the girls that I have investigated complete colon artist's lawyer .
So , you know , it just kinda makes you think , well , like , obviously , Jeffrey Epstein , he definitely , like , he he definitely played the field and he , you know
Did you know , Jeffrey ?
I did . Yeah . I knew I knew him through Gilen Maxwell . But I think she has been treated completely unfairly as well . And
Did you I mean , when you say no , I was in , like , a little bit or you spent a lot of times ago .
I mean , I knew her like we had a lot of friends in common .
Not Joe . Sorry . Jeffrey .
Oh , Jeff Jeffrey ?
Yeah . So I said , yeah . Did you know Jeff ?
Oh , no . I yeah . I mean , I knew him through her .
Okay .
You know ?
But when did you ever did you I
never saw some
stuff like that .
I mean , the only thing that I thought was weird was when I stayed in one of the apartments . Like , can I have this , like , weird sensation ? Like , I felt like I was being filmed or something . But besides that , I went to dinners that would totally normal . I never saw girls that are under rage .
You know , he he was kind of like that guy that you see in Santa Fe at lunch . You know , in one of the popular places with a bunch of bike good looking people around them . Like , that was what it looked like .
But I think the timing of it all , it was it was cleverly timed , you know , by the lawyers that this story would come out during Jubilee , so they would just pay her off and be done with it . And , you know , that isn't how it turned out . Like it's been , you know , ongoing .
And , you know , I'm hoping , like , in the next few months , he can be completely prince Andrew , can be exonerated from all of this .
As as his low profile being purely purely on the back of this , is this ?
Well , he he just wants we've got , you know , get through the next few months , basically . But a lot will be revealed in May when my witness will be off a gag order .
And I mean , you used to work a lot more on my witness or I'm doing this . I mean , is this in the capacity of a friend of Andrew you've got some No .
No . No . No . No . It's it's a guy who's in based in Chicago , have never haven't actually met him in person . We've just been talking for about year and year and three months or so . He is the person that has the evidence on that Virginia lied , and Maria Pharma lied about a lot of it as well , and it will help Galen .
But but your your role and this is just as as friends of
these . Yeah . For me , it's just like , I just want this whole thing to go away because , like , you know , originally , I did some interviews for a couple of networks . I can't remember which ones I've done . I've done so many at this point . And I didn't wanna get too close to it because It's very hard , you know , with this me too movement .
It takes like a lot to stand up to it and go actually know they lied because you know you're gonna have everyone after you for saying that . And in twenty nineteen , on Piers Morgan's show at the time when he was doing the breakfast show , I said , I thought I think that photo looks fake .
And I said about the girls saying , they don't this is not girls out of traffic . Like , for me and my head , knowing stories of trafficking , like , traffic girls at a traffic that literally chained up and , like , beaten and put in a cage and , you know , rate all day long .
They're not girls like on a yacht drinking champagne , getting flown in and , like , you know , these girls were all like hookers , basically . They're all hookers . Sarah Ransom like I found her original agency that she was at with her agency pictures and everything . Like , they're cool girls . They're not sweet little innocent girls .
They knew exactly what they were doing . And actually , none of them were even living in Epstein's house in New York . They all had boyfriends , and they all had their own apartments . They could come and go as they wanted . So there was no , like , forced anything .
They were . I'll be interested to see how old plays . Yeah .
Yeah . Me too . Me too . Me too . Me too . I just I literally just want my life back because it's got to a point where it really did take over my life . And , you know , I'm living in this weird bubble with few of us knowing , like , the truth .
And it's like it gets hard for me sometimes to actually , like , talk to people in , like , real life because we're living in this , like , weird bubble . So yeah . I wanted to get back to normal
¶ Prince Harry
.
Talk to him about Prince Harry . You've you've first spoken out about that recently saying that you think you should be back here .
It's it's really hard . Right ? He's in love with woman who has taken him away from his family and his friends and
Do you know him personally , by the way ?
Mat him years ago , I haven't seen him recently . And he's someone that is like he was very well loved by Britain and pretty much everyone love Prince Harry . You know , he's like the rebel royal . He's kinda cool . Like , he's off in Vegas . Like , you know .
But he was seen as like the cool rebel who was like cut a kind heart and then he falls for this woman who is completely kind of taken over his mind . And no one seems to be able to get through to him . But it was like , I always said in the beginning , I have a feeling she's gonna take him to America .
You know , that's what a lot of these narcissistic type of people they do , especially like the covert narcissist . Like , they wanna take them away from their surroundings , from their friends , and keep them keep them away so they can control them . And that is like what has happened to him . I mean , he moved to Alay at the worst time in history .
Like , he moved to Alay during COVID . It was like , terrible there . So , literally , he moved as I was I I was getting ready to leave and couldn't wait to leave . But , yeah , do I see that lasting ? I really don't see it lasting , but the problem is those kids now , like , where are they gonna go ?
Like , she's not She's not gonna obviously move back here , and I don't think she will be welcomed here . But for Harry to make up William , you know , I don't see those two making up while Harry is still married . I think it'll take years to repair , but if he is on his own and he kind of apologizes for his behavior .
I mean , you you know , I also think , like , Kate's cancer is probably , you know , aided by a lot of the stress that they've caused them .
And you you say that , you know , you you believe they're playing the part of the victim to get to gain attention , etcetera ?
Yeah . It is . It's this whole victim herd . It's this whole sort of leftist victim . Oh my god . Look at me . Pull me . Like , no Harry . Like , look at you . You're in a living this amazing life , like , you know , everyone has trauma . Like , everyone has childhood trauma . Like , I lost my dad young . I lost two brothers young .
Like , we all have to get over it . I think the me me me thing , it just doesn't work . But he was never like that before he met Meghan . Like , this is a new thing . It's almost like he met her and he's she's sort of become his , like , therapist . And that book was just it's just terrible .
Like , how can you how can you write a book on your family like that ? You know , I just don't know what the other books it's supposed to be like a four or five book contracts . So I don't know what's going on with those ones . You know , we've got the Meghan autobiography , haven't we ?
And then there's a book that they're doing together on like a lifestyle sort of book apparently . So , yeah , who knows ? But I think you know , the UK , I did feel sorry for her in the beginning . I gotta say like , I know how evil the press can be here , but she didn't play the game .
You know , how could she think that she's gonna marry Prince Harry and everything's gonna be easy ? Like , she obviously went in thinking like this sort of Cinderella story and she likes to do , like , the kind of fancy events . Right ? She didn't wanna be going to hospitals every day , like , the kind of stuff that Kate does .
And then she's like , okay , I'm piecing out . I'm going back to Hollywood and but I think it'll get to a point where she'll just dump Harry . She'll , like , go off with some sort of you know , billionaire type and he'll be sort of thrown and thrown out . And Harry I don't see it ending well .
I think Harry is just too much of a nice guy and I think he's been completely , like , mind , his mind has been taken over . But you can't tell anyone . Right ? When they're in love , like , you can't tell them . And then afterwards , they're like , why didn't you tell me ? It's like Harry , the whole world has been
¶ Speaking Out About Her Sister Who's Been Subject to Domestic Violence
telling you ?
Well , it's in a slightly different vein speaking about victims . You spoke out recently as well about your sister Mhmm . Who who has been subject to domestic violence , but , you know , too weak to speak for herself .
Yeah , I mean , you know , she then actually did an interview . I thought it would be really important for her to do it because you know , this thing had been going on . She only told her family , like , a few years ago about it .
At what point did she split up withhusband ?
World about a year ago . He ran off with another woman . He ran off with the woman who is like the agent selling their house . And then , like , moved in with her within about three weeks and just left . And that was the best thing for her because if you sorry . You hadn't done that , then , you know , it would have been a lot harder for her to leave .
So she gave him the ultimatum and and and and he he laughed , but it's been it's been very hard for obviously like three small children . He laughed it were pretty much like not thing . I mean , she's living in this mansion . But , like , you know , when I went there in December , he cut the heat off . She had electricity , but there was no heat .
I was like , I opened the door and she's got like a pop a jacket on inside and I'm like , god , this really bad . He wouldn't put the heat back on , and it was in his name , and the company would not put it into her name . Can you imagine that ?
So luckily , we were , like , in the middle of changing lawyers and the new lawyer managed to do an agreement with his lawyer , and the heating came back on . But I said to her how long is the heat of being on ? And she lives in Portugal . So look , it's not it's not as cold as England . But it gets pretty chilly there in December , you know . Yeah .
He'd had the heating off , I suppose , like , the whole time . You know , because you don't need heating there in , like , October , but it probably starts like November , December . So , yeah , it's been really hard . I think the kids are the ones that are really suffering . Well , every time we
should be coming back to england .
When that happened with the house , the oldest one , Victor , he said to my sister , he's like , I know daddy is killing the house because he doesn't want us to spend time here anymore . So like the kids know that their father was making the house call so they didn't want to be in that house .
And then my sister's done really well with her cycling and she got into the , you know , in the team for representing Great Britain . And I was meeting her in Scotland in the summer . She caused me up crying at the airport the day before or the day she was flying . She's like , oh my goodness . He he basically got a court order done .
She was at the airport with her youngest order India India is very prone to getting , like , sick more because she was a twin when the twin died . And he got this thing when my sister , Sunny , was gonna be arrested at the airport because she was flying with India to Scotland . And I said , look , just go back to the house , we'll figure it out .
I ended up booking her a new flight to go the following morning . She made it to the , you know , the the championship . And , you know , I said , you have to , like , prove him wrong because he's just trying to break it right now . And for him , it was like , oh , yeah . Watch she's good at . I'm gonna stop her going .
Like , this is a massive thing that she was representing great Britain in this . So , yeah , it's been hard for her , but the cycling is really helped her a lot .
And now getting the voice out , and he sort of got to a point where I was like , isabella , like , I need your permission to stop putting out those photos on in diagram and , like , let's see what reaction we get . And , of course , like , journalists , friends of mine messaged me quite , you know , quite quickly and we're like , wow , I can't believe this .
And I was like , yeah , it's time , but it that took a lot for her to be brave because the retaliation was crazy . And every time she does something , you know , he fights back with something else . So it's been it's been hard , but I was a witness and caught fire about ten days ago . So
you've got a full you've got a full time job taking taking care of friends and family .
I know . It is . So that's another thing . It's just like better that I live in England now when I'm dealing with stuff like with my sister and I can fly to Portugal , like easily , you know , and LA was it was getting to be , like , too far away to do things last minute
¶ What Projects are on the Horizon?
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Well , it's been a whirlwind of a life over the last thirty ish years . What have we got to look forward to ? What big projects are on the horizon ?
We shall see . Right now , yeah , I'm concentrating on lady shit , my brand . So that's sort of like number one right now .
Any other particular passions or interests ?
Passions and interests . You know , just like my hobbies . I I just yeah . I love sport . What sport did you ? Well , horse riding or sports skiing . Those type of things . I love traveling . Like for me travel . It just kinda keeps me like it gives me that boost of energy when I'm away . My mother wishes to me . I understand you . Love traveling .
She's like , but your grandfather was a diplomat . My grandfather was a dip amount of South America . And she's like , you must get it from him because I feel I feel alive . Like , I love being home . But as soon as I'm in , like , a new place and a new surroundings , like , I feel like alive , you know , that feeling .
A lot of the destinations I just hate the travel .
Yeah . I don't like the airports .
¶ Conclusion
Listen , Lady Victoria .
Good to meet you .
Thank you very much for being here . Thank you for being pottest and Pottest . And most socialized to a royalist guest than we've ever had . But , yeah , no . It's been a pleasure having you here . And I guess , along with the Swinger Air brands , just for anyone watching or listening who wants to maybe buy that or catch up with you .
Where where can we find you online ?
So my website is ladyship swim dot com , which is being made right now , but I have an Instagram as well , which is Leadership Swim . So that will tell you more up dates . And , yeah , I'm hoping to kind of , you know , stop my own show at some point soon as well .
You can help me as a guest .
So yeah .
Isn't it ?
I get asked to delete doing a podcast , and I'm like , I know it's just like it's just starting it , isn't it ? It's like that little first bit of getting the setup and your mic and all of the kit .
Was your only top tips ?
Yes . I do . You only need tips . Thank you .
Thank you very much again . Alright .
Alright . Bye .
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