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Contents:

• MARY GAYE CURZON AND CHRISTOPHER SHAW'S WEDDG
• LADY MARY GAYE CURZON: IT GIRL MUM OF CRSIDA, PRCE HARRY'S GIRLIEND RIVALS MRS MIDDLETON
• LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON: BETIFUL BUTANTE WHOM CRSIDA BONAS LLS MUM
• LADY MARY GAYE CURZON
• CAROLE MIDDLETON VS LADY MARY GAYE CURZON AS WEDDG MOURS HOT UP
• 22 MARY GAYE CURZON STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• PRCE HARRY ROMANC DGHTER OF 60S VER GIRL LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON
• LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 27: LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON AND DAVID MCDONOUGH ATTEND THE LNCH OF 'THE DOGS TST HONOURS AWARDS' ON MARCH 27, 2012 LONDON, ENGLAND. (PHOTO BY NICK HARVEY/WIREIMAGE)

MARY GAYE CURZON AND CHRISTOPHER SHAW'S WEDDG

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For one is Carole Middleton, mother of the Duchs of Cambridge, and the other is Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, mother to Crsida Bonas — Prce Harry’s whether they were discsg their rpective dghter’s relatnships is open to bate, bee wasn’t until the followg month that Crsida was beg openly talked of as a royal flame.

LADY MARY GAYE CURZON: IT GIRL MUM OF CRSIDA, PRCE HARRY'S GIRLIEND RIVALS MRS MIDDLETON

Now, seems, Crsida has been ved to jo the Queen and other senr members of the Royal Fay at the christeng of Prce Gee on Wednday — an vatn that is the cleart signal yet of jt how ser the relatnship between Prce Harry and the pretty dance graduate has while Carole might be mother to a future queen, her apparently more ferential pose aboard The Elizabethan suggts ’s her pann who is more at ease such illtr Lady Mary Gaye’s pedigree, ’s perhaps no surprise. While, if her dghter’s relatnship ntu to blossom, Lady Mary Gaye uld be the next Carole Middleton, many rpects the two women uld hardly be more at the start of her life a uncil flat, Carole is a former air hosts whose anctors were workg-class labourers and mers.

Carole, 58, and hband Michael are now firmly and publicly ‘ tra’ (albe very succsfully) wh their mail-orr pany, Party ntrast, Lady Mary Gaye, 66, who tak her pet Pekge ‘Pocket’ wh her wherever she go, is jt about as blue-blood as n late father, Edward Curzon, was the 6th Earl Howe, godson of Kg Edward VII, a World War II naval officer and later a nservative polician. The fay seat, Penn Hoe, Buckghamshire, dat to the 16th century, when Henry VIII and his son, Edward VI, ma grants of land to a uple lled David and Sarah Penn — Lady Mary Gaye’s anctors — regnn of the latter’s role as nursemaid to the royal children durg the 1530s and 1540s. Today, Lady Mary Gaye is an archetypal Chelsea lady of a certa age, a keen chary fundraiser who is always elegantly turned out and wh the impecble manners, abundant charm and ner nfince that wh good breedg.

Society bety: Lady Mary Gaye at the Howe home Pts Head Mew, Mayfair If the Duchs of Cambridge and her sister Pippa Middleton have hered their dark hair and trim figur om their mother Carole, Crsida has certaly hered her goln bety om Lady Mary Gaye, known as MG by her social much as Carole Middleton is a very different woman today om the air hosts who dreamed of gog up the world, Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, too, has been on a journey. And the time that same year she partied the Mederranean on a yacht lled Hedonist that belonged to the dashg Michael Pearson, son of Lord fact, Lady Mary Gaye was one of the most glamoro butant of her day and so bedazzled London that a blue-loured cktail — to match her blue-blood crentials — lled The Curzon was vented at Claridge’s her ntrast wh Carole Middleton, who has been happily married to Michael for 33 years, what ma Lady Mary Gaye most notor of all were her marriag, all four of them, and her divorc, all four of married her first hband, Esmond Cooper-Key, grandson of the 2nd Visunt Rothermere, 1971.

LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON: BETIFUL BUTANTE WHOM CRSIDA BONAS LLS MUM

Lady Mary Gaye Curzon pictured at her fay's untry home, Penn Hoe They had three children: Geiana, now a 34-year-old sculptrs; Isabella, 33, now married to Sir Richard Branson’s son Sam; and Jabi, 29, a PR who is a good iend of the De of relatnship, however, broke down after ne years, and Lady Mary Gaye began an affair wh old Harrovian bsman, Jefey Bonas, Crsida’s father, while he was still married to his first wife, Mary Gaye and Jefey married 1988 and Crsida, named after the character Shakpeare’s Troil And Crsida, was born a year later.

LADY MARY GAYE CURZON

Lady Mary Gaye reportedly thought Jefey was ‘The One’.

CAROLE MIDDLETON VS LADY MARY GAYE CURZON AS WEDDG MOURS HOT UP

For her 51st birthday, Shaw threw a Veian-themed party at Claridge’s for 350 iends, plete wh flame-throwers and men on uple beme known for their extravagant parti, particularly those at Royal Ast, where Lady Mary Gaye’s was the biggt tent the No 1 r park, ntag a mobile kchen plete wh ok, butler and tabl laid wh silver went wrong is known only to the parti ncerned, but 2000 Shaw left Lady Mary Gaye for 40-year-old Eliza Dugdale, ex-wife of Warwickshire landowner Rob Smh-Ryland. Lady Mary Gaye retreated back to Chelsea, where she has remaed ever sce. Of urse, now that three of Lady Mary Gaye’s children have married, she is naturally keepg an eye on the two who are yet to wed — Crsida and year, Prce Harry turns 30 and, evably, there has been much speculatn that an engagement announcement is ‘imment’.

22 MARY GAYE CURZON STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

Speculatn that will doubtls be fuelled further if Crsida attends Wednday’s do Lady Mary Gaye feel about the prospect of her dghter marryg to the Royal Fay?

PRCE HARRY ROMANC DGHTER OF 60S VER GIRL LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON

While Carole embraced her dghter’s royal relatnship, Lady Mary Gaye is said to be more circumspect. ’Lady Mary Gaye’s iend believ ‘the timg isn’t que right’ for a weddg. ’Lady Mary Gaye, of urse, was 24, the same age as Crsida, when she married her first hband, Esmond.

A youthful Lady Mary Gaye chose a mure ock and heels, but Crsida favours a bare midriff and Doc Marten boots the pictur which show an unnny remblance between the mother and dghter.

For Crsida Bonas, the 24-year-old dance graduate whom Prce Harry is said to be planng to marry wh the year, is strikgly siar to another “It” girl, albe one 40 years her senr: her mother, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon. Mary-Gaye, known as “MG” to her iends, was the darlg of the London social scene durg the Sixti.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 27: LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON AND DAVID MCDONOUGH ATTEND THE LNCH OF 'THE DOGS TST HONOURS AWARDS' ON MARCH 27, 2012 LONDON, ENGLAND. (PHOTO BY NICK HARVEY/WIREIMAGE)

Yet Mary-Gaye beme better known for her chaotic love life, which saw her divorced four tim, wh five children by three hbands. As her youngt dghter, Crsida, gets closer to Prce Harry, Mary-Gaye’s boistero past is likely to weigh heavily on his fay’s imprsn of her – and may return to hnt her dghter’s prospects as a prcs.