The Price of Safety
Clair Wills: Constance Marten’s Defiance, 14 August 2025
“... Marten’s paternal grandmother, Mary Anna Sturt Marten, was a goddaughter of the Queen Mother; George VI attended her wedding. Marten’s father had been a page to Queen Elizabeth II. The papers ran stories about the once carefree aristocrat who had grown up on the £34 million Crichel Estate in Dorset but had suddenly cut off all contact with her family ... ”