00:00 Who is Lady Rose Hanbury? While the Marchioness of Cholmondeley is one of Kate Middleton's best
00:04 known associates, they couldn't be less alike. As royal expert Ingrid Seward once put it,
00:09 "They were not childhood friends. They are from very different backgrounds. Rose is an aristocrat
00:14 in her own right and something of a free spirit." So who really is Kate's lookalike friend?
00:19 Sarah Rose Hanbury was born into a creative family. Both of her parents were designers
00:23 and she was the middle child. The family had links to the royals long before Lady Rose Hanbury met
00:27 William and Kate. Rose's maternal grandmother, Lady Elizabeth Lambert, was one of Queen Elizabeth's
00:32 bridesmaids. Lady Rose boarded at the prestigious Stowe School for a whopping £38,000 a year
00:38 and got into modelling after graduating. She was reportedly signed to the cult modelling agency
00:43 Storm when she was 23. She made headlines in 2005 after she and her sister Marina were
00:47 pictured wearing bikinis and standing next to the then Prime Minister Tony Blair at Villa
00:52 Sentinale in Tuscany. Rose Hanbury and her husband David Chumley, who is 23 years her senior,
00:58 hastily married in June 2009 after only getting engaged a couple of days before the ceremony.
01:03 The couple had two twins the following year and welcomed one more child, their daughter,
01:07 in March 2016. The Hanbury's struck up a friendship with William and Kate after living in Houghton Hall
01:12 in Norfolk, just 15 minutes down the road from Sandringham. While there were rumours of a rift
01:16 in 2019, these were later lambasted by friends as false and mad. If their spicy margarita-fuelled
01:23 party sessions at Houghton Hall's annual festival last year was anything to go by,
01:28 Kate and Rose are clearly just as close as ever.
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