She’s the aristocratic former It Girl who was a prominent figure in the glamorous Nineties party scene – Lady Victoria Hervey enjoyed fame of sorts dabbling in modelling, acting and appearing on reality TV programmes.
She was perhaps best known for a brief fling with Prince Andrew before quitting the UK for Hollywood where she secured a small part in a Tom Hanks movie.
Now the socialite appears to be on a new mission in the world of politics – as a cheerleader for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement and a rare public defender of her now disgraced royal ex.
Swapping nightclubs for the Palm Beach ‘Trump scene’ – she told how she had been welcomed ‘with open arms’ on her regular visits to Mar-a-Lago.
Lady Victoria, 48, said she was having ‘the best time ever’ rubbing shoulders with the President and his inner circle.
Spending Trump’s inauguration celebrations in freezing cold Washington with the likes of Liz Truss and Nigel Farage was ‘better than any Oscar night I’ve had’, she insisted.
Lady Victoria said of her new life this week: ‘It’s exciting. It’s fun. And then of course you’ve got secret service and all the guys with the ear pieces. I feel I live on adrenaline when I’m over there. I just feel so energised.’
She’s now hoping to help bring some patriotism back to the UK saying: ‘I really want to get this MEGA MAGA movement going. Make England Great Again.’
Aristocratic former It Girl, Lady Victoria Hervey (left), appears to be on a new mission in the world of politics – as a cheerleader for Donald Trump (right) and the MAGA movement
Spending Trump’s inauguration celebrations in freezing cold Washington with the likes of Nigel Farage (right) was ‘better than any Oscar night I’ve had’, she insisted
From red carpets to Prince Andrew conspiracy theories, Lady Victoria Hervey has become a gun-toting MAGA influencer
Alongside her new-found interest in politics, Lady Victoria has taken on the role of citizen journalist or ‘truth warrior’ as she calls it.
She’s been called a conspiracy theorist after claiming Covid vaccines were part of a plot orchestrated by Bill Gates to ‘depopulate the world’.
Lady Victoria has other theories about 9/11, JFK’s assassination and the moon landings.
She has also undertaken a three-and-a-half year investigation to prove that her former Royal lover was the victim of a sinister conspiracy over his role in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Lady Victoria told how she had been carrying out ‘dangerous’ undercover work to gather evidence which had led to her suspecting that she was being followed.
Speaking of her findings this week she said: ‘I can’t go into the whole thing but basically, Prince Andrew is innocent. He was set up. It was a very organised attack on the Royal family.’
Alongside her new-found interest in politics, Lady Victoria has taken on the role of citizen journalist or ‘truth warrior’ as she calls it
Liz Truss (left) was also in attendance with Lady Victoria Hervey at Trump’s Washington inauguration
She’s been called a conspiracy theorist after claiming Covid vaccines were part of a plot orchestrated by Bill Gates to ‘depopulate the world’
She’s now became embroiled in fresh controversy after launching a social media attack on Virginia Giuffre who won a multi-million pound settlement from Prince Andrew following claims she had been forced to have sex with him three times at the age of 17 when she was trafficked by his friend Epstein.
Lady Victoria insisted Ms Giuffre’s credibility had been ‘destroyed’ after she was released from hospital following a dramatic claim that she had only ‘four days’ to live after a car crash in Australia.
Critics slammed the former socialite as ‘nasty’ and ‘vile’ after her brutal Instagram post in which she shared Ms Giuffre’s selfie of herself with a badly bruised face and claiming that she was about to die from kidney failure with the word ‘Karma’.
It was accompanied by the soundtrack of Europe’s 1986 hit The Final Countdown to mock her claims.
She later told MailOnline that Ms Giuffre was a ‘fantasist’ who was faking or exaggerating the seriousness of her condition in order to ’emotionally blackmail’ her children who appear to be with her estranged husband.
She added: ‘I got a lot of abuse on social media for calling her out and saying that I never believed her. I have no regrets about what I said, and I have been proved right. Her credibility is destroyed.’
Lady Victoria Hervey launched a social media attack on Virginia Giuffre who won a multi-million pound settlement from Prince Andrew following claims she had been forced to have sex with him three times at the age of 17 when she was trafficked by his friend Epstein
Lady Victoria insisted Ms Giuffre’s credibility had been ‘destroyed’ after she was released from hospital following a dramatic claim that she had only ‘four days’ to live after a car crash in Australia
Critics slammed the former socialite as ‘nasty’ and ‘vile’ after her brutal Instagram post in which she shared Ms Giuffre’s selfie of herself with a badly bruised face and claiming that she was about to die from kidney failure with the word ‘Karma’ (above)
Lady Victoria branded Ms Giuffre, 41 ‘the Queen of the fake photo’.
She has long insisted that Ms Giuffre – who was a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago when she was first approached by Ghislaine Maxwell and introduced to Jeffrey Epstein – used an ‘Irish body double’ to fake the famous photo that appeared to show her as a teenager with Prince Andrew in Maxwell’s London home.
Lady Victoria once claimed that Maxwell had used her as ‘bait’ to attract women to Epstein’s parties but is now fighting to get her released from prison in the US after she was jailed for enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls.
She recently said: ‘I’ve been writing to Ghislaine in prison and am in touch with Prince Andrew, but I can’t discuss him, although the Palace is fully aware of what’s going on.
‘It is delicate, but I think there is hope for Ghislaine.’
Perhaps it is no surprise that Lady Victoria feels at home amid the glamour, and unconventionality, of Palm Beach life.
She has long insisted that Ms Giuffre used an ‘Irish body double’ to fake the famous photo (above) that appeared to show her as a teenager with Prince Andrew in Maxwell’s London home
Lady Victoria once claimed that Maxwell had used her as ‘bait’ to attract women to Epstein’s parties but is now fighting to get her released from prison in the US after she was jailed for enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls
Perhaps it is no surprise that Lady Victoria feels at home amid the glamour, and unconventionality, of Palm Beach life
Her father Victor, the 6th Marquess of Bristol, was a playboy known as The Reptile, who was married three times and whose love of the ‘luxurious things’ in life led to him becoming an arms dealer, a convicted jewel thief and a bankrupt.
Living at first at Ickworth House, the family seat in Suffolk, they moved to Monaco as tax exiles when Victoria was two.
Her father, who had six children, died when Lady Victoria was just eight.
She went on to attend Benenden, an exclusive boarding school in Kent, whose former pupils also included Princess Anne.
The 7th Marquess – Victoria’s much older half-brother John – managed to spend a fortune of around £35 million on ‘luxuries’ said to be chiefly cocaine, heroin and male prostitutes before losing Ickworth House which ended up in the hands of the National Trust.
He died aged just 44 while another of her half-brothers, Nicholas, hanged himself after a long battle with drugs the previous year in 1998.
She went on to attend Benenden, an exclusive boarding school in Kent, whose former pupils also included Princess Anne
Victoria’s much older half-brother John managed to spend a fortune of around £35 million on ‘luxuries’ said to be chiefly cocaine, heroin and male prostitutes before losing Ickworth House which ended up in the hands of the National Trust
Her father, who had six children, died when Lady Victoria was just eight
It was around this time Lady Victoria dated Prince Andrew as she began to make a name for herself on the catwalks of London and Paris.
The statuesque socialite also got her first insight into the world of Donald Trump, modelling alongside his future wife, Melania, who he had been dating for a year when they were booked for a photoshoot with Town and Country Magazine in 1999.
With her younger sister Isabella, now 43, Lady Victoria threw herself into the jet set party lifestyle of the so-called It Girls alongside Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Tamara Beckwith.
In April 2000, she opened a fashion boutique in Knightsbridge with a friend that was said to be frequented by Victoria Beckham, Meg Mathews and Martine McCutcheon but within a year it closed with debts estimated at £350,000.
Lady Victoria – who has been linked over the years with a number of well-known men including former racing driver David Coulthard and Shane Lynch from Boyzone – quit Britain and moved to Los Angeles in 2004.
By then she had appeared in her first TV reality show – Channel 5’s The Farm – and had made a cameo appearance in BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
The statuesque socialite also got her first insight into the world of Donald Trump, modelling alongside his future wife, Melania, who he had been dating for a year when they were booked for a photoshoot with Town and Country Magazine in 1999
Lady Victoria dated Prince Andrew as she began to make a name for herself on the catwalks of London and Paris
In April 2000, she opened a fashion boutique in Knightsbridge with a friend that was said to be frequented by Victoria Beckham, Meg Mathews and Martine McCutcheon but within a year it closed with debts estimated at £350,000
Lady Victoria was happy with her It Girl title enjoying ‘amazing non-stop parties’ in ‘booming’ London but insisted she quit at the right time and was happy for a period of ‘going off radar’.
After securing her role in Hanks’ little-remembered romantic thriller Rx, it was more reality show appearances that kept her in the public eye including Love Island in 2006 and Channel 4’s The Jump.
In time, Lady Victoria grew tired of the LA scene and she has told how she re-evaluated her life during the Covid lockdown.
She told how she underwent a ‘huge awakening’ during the pandemic, which led her to do a ‘full 360 on Trump’.
Lady Victoria said: ‘I was living in LA where everyone was pretty brainwashed to hate him. Covid happened, we had BLM [Black Lives Matter] riots where there were tanks at the bottom of my street, curfews.’
She told how she spent much of lockdown ‘researching’ saying: ‘I stopped getting main news on TV, and I got all my info from Telegram and people that had been censored.
Lady Victoria was happy with her It Girl title enjoying ‘amazing non-stop parties’ in ‘booming’ London but insisted she quit at the right time and was happy for a period of ‘going off radar’
She told how she underwent a ‘huge awakening’ during the pandemic, which led her to do a ‘full 360 on Trump’
‘I started travelling around America and I went to a lot of events in Texas, in Tennessee, with professors and doctors that had all been silenced because they were talking out. I became really passionate about it.’
Lady Victoria complained her California friends refused to listen to her ‘about the vaccine’ and after two decades in LA she came back to the UK.
Her return has not entirely been a happy one. She complained Knightsbridge had begun to look more like ‘a sort of Edgware Road’ – known for its Middle Eastern-style Shisha cafes and smoke shops while rising crime had started to remind her of America.
In February, she was robbed of her mobile phone which was snatched out of her hand when she went to retrieve a parcel from an InPost locker in Pimlico.
She told how she had considered using her ‘truth warrior’ skills to retrieve it after her Find MyiPhone app showed that it ended up in a high rise in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
But her mother – Yvonne, Dowager Marchioness of Bristol – was worried she might be putting herself in more danger.
Lady Victoria complained her California friends refused to listen to her ‘about the vaccine’ and after two decades in LA she came back to the UK
In February, she was robbed of her mobile phone which was snatched out of her hand when she went to retrieve a parcel from an InPost locker in Pimlico
Lady Harvey now increasingly splits her time between Chelsea and her new found friends in Palm Beach where she shares photos on social media wearing a range of MAGA baseball caps and a sparkly gold jacket hailing Trump’s ‘Golden Era’.
There are also selfie photos with Russell Brand and Trump’s former attorney general Rudy Giuliani among others.
Lady Victoria says Palm Beach is one of the few places in the world where she feels safe and ‘where you can wear jewellery these days’.
And, with one eye on the future, she said this week: ‘I’m connected now in both countries and I get the inside scoop on what’s going on. I mean politics, for me, it makes me feel alive.’
