TALK OF THE TOWN: The 'upstairs downstairs' tale of love between Lady Delphi and a young beater By Harriet Kean For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:22, 3 November 2024 | Updated: 00:22, 3 November 2024 e-mail View comments It sounds like an upstairs-downstairs love story that could have come from the pages of a DH Lawrence novel. Lady Delphi Primrose, below, the Tatler cover girl and 21-year-old daughter of the Earl of Rosebery – is dating Dominic Inglis-Jones, a former ‘beater’ at Belvoir Castle, I can reveal. For a season, he was employed on shoots at the Duke of Rutland’s estate in Leicestershire, raising game birds by striking at the ground cover.
I also hear he sometimes played the piano for guests and served wine at candlelit dinners in Belvoir’s grand dining rooms. My source tells me he ‘very much enjoyed the glamour’ of working at the estate and struck up a ‘sweet’ friendship with Emma Manners, the Duchess of Rutland. ‘She was charmed by him,’ says my source.
Now Inglis-Jones has charmed Lady Delphi too, with some suggesting fanciful parallels with DH Lawrence’s controversial 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, in which a titled woman embarks on an affair with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. Hon Delphi Primrose attends the Paul Costelloe show during London Fashion Week September 2024 Dominic Inglis-Jones is a former ‘beater’ at Belvoir Castle and he is now Lady Delphi's boyfriend As Lady Delphi’s boyfriend, the mullet-sporting Inglis-Jones .