Constance Marten, 35, is missing with newborn baby and partner Mark Gordon.
More details emerged on Sunday of the aristocrat being sought by police after she, her partner and their newborn baby abandoned their burning car on the M61 near Bolton 11 days ago.
The pair first spotted in Lancashire shortly after leaving car bought six days earlier.
Ms Marten was then caught on a CCTV camera 250 miles away, apparently carrying the swaddled baby under a large red scarf at the port of Harwich in Essex.
Police believe the couple may have been planning to leave the country on a ferry to Holland, but further sightings followed in Colchester and, most recently, in east London.
As officers pleaded for the couple to make themselves known to the authorities, further details about Constance Martens’ privileged background emerged.
Privately educated, the 35-year-old hails from an aristocratic family with links to the royals. When she was 21, she featured in society magazine Tatler as its ‘Babe of the Month’, per Daily Mail.
When she was 21, she featured in society magazine Tatler as its ‘Babe of the Month’.
Posing in 2009 for a Q&A-type feature, Ms Marten described her favourite place as being on top of the Matterhorn, which she had recently climbed.
Asked what her best party had been, she answered: ‘Viscount Cranbourne’s party in Dorset – the theme was the Feast of Bacchus.’
She added that her party trick was ‘crunching a Coke can between my shoulder blades’ like ‘a human recycling machine’ and that her future plans included getting a tattoo of a tortoise on the bottom of her foot.
Her family’s £100 million Dorset estate included a Grade I-listed mansion, four villages, a cricket club and a lake, while her brother’s wedding to a society jewellery designer last summer was featured on the website of fashion bible Vogue.
Police sources say they are treating the family’s disappearance as a missing persons investigation. They say the search is primarily to ensure the welfare of the child.
While Ms Marten is understood to have had some contact with her family since disappearing, the couple are said to have lived a ‘transient’ lifestyle, which police believe may make it harder to find them.
Given her background, there is also the possibility she may have access to funds.
The last confirmed sighting of Ms Marten, Mr Gordon and their baby was in east London on Saturday, January 7, between 11.45am and 12.30pm, according to Daily Mail.
The couple’s disappearance came to light on January 6 when police took the unusual step of issuing a direct plea for Ms Marten to contact the emergency services or go to the nearest hospital.
Having given birth ‘very recently’, neither she nor her child had been seen by a doctor.
