A chain-smoking, tattoo-covered 25-year-old socialite who says she lives “paycheck to paycheck” hopes to be the new “unfeminine” face of the aristocracy.
Lady Venetia Baring wants to show people that they don’t have to be “a stuffy, old-fashioned and possibly ignorant existence.”
He has appeared in campaigns for Nike and Dr Martens, and even landed a small cameo in Disney’s 2023 superhero film, The Marvels.
However, despite being related to two opulent families, the Barings and the Rothermers, Venetia says her life is that of a normal person.
Speaking to Tatler, Lady Venetia Baring, the daughter of the 4th Earl of Cromer, spoke about forging her own identity despite her strict and stately upbringing.
‘Some people automatically think I have a manor house and a butler. And that’s not my life,” he told the outlet.
The social media expert model, who has 19,500 followers on instagramHe insisted that none of his friends even know he has a degree.
Venetia, who recently spent her time enjoying the company of some of society’s best and brightest, including Princess Vittoria of Savoy, Freddie Knatchbull and Tara DuRoss, at Tatler’s Little Black Book party explained how her aesthetic has served her well. as a form of rebellion.
The aristocrat’s public display of brightly colored hair, piercings and “tomboyish” fashion are a way to “celebrate her body” and “feel empowered.”
Her childhood saw Venetia growing up between houses in Sloane Square, Somerset (in a former rectory listed as Garde II now sold) and Thailand.
Ten-year-old Venetia was sent to boarding school, St Mary’s Calne in Wiltshire, where she enjoyed seven years of fond memories and made lifelong friends.
But her rebellious nature shone through even then: she was caught smoking, sneaking out of school and even making clandestine trips to London for “squat raves”.
After graduating, he enrolled at the University of Manchester to study art history, but found it surprisingly difficult to associate with people who had a similar educational background to his own.
Venetia said: ‘Everyone was in my course. I mean, only boarding schools make art history. But they just didn’t welcome me. It was a little confusing. So I went out and made my own friends.’
The aristocrat’s public display of her brightly colored hair, piercings and ‘tomboy’ style are a way of ‘celebrating her body’ and ‘feeling empowered’.
Venetia, who is also close to her brother Alexander, has also reconnected with her mother Shelley, who also lives in London and runs a jewelery business, admitting she wants the couple to take a trip together to China.
With college came her parents’ divorce, which sent Venetia into depression and affected her studies, as her mother and father “dragged her a lot.”
He returned to the capital in 2018, where his mental health improved after starting work as a bartender at Brixton’s Canova Hall. There he met his boyfriend Sasha, who worked as a chef. The couple recently celebrated their fourth anniversary.
Venetia, who is also close to her brother Alexander, has also reconnected with her mother Shelley, who also lives in London and runs a jewelery business, admitting she wants the couple to take a trip together to China.
However, he has become estranged from his father, Evelyn, 77.
“He remarried a very beautiful young Thai woman… that’s a bit complicated,” he admitted. ‘As I got older, I realized that she (Shelley) was really hurt and he (Evelyn) was panicking. And, since they are human, they will always make mistakes, just like we do. So he shouldn’t wait too long.”
In her online portfolio, Venetia says she runs a workshop called Divurgent for creatives, “where models, photographers and creatives can come together to learn and improve their skills and build a community here in London.”
He returned to the capital in 2018, where his mental health improved after starting work as a bartender at Brixton’s Canova Hall. There he met his boyfriend Sasha (both pictured), who worked as a chef.
In her online portfolio, Venetia says she runs a workshop called Divurgente for creatives. In the photo with his guinea pig
A chain-smoking, tattoo-covered 25-year-old socialite who says she lives “paycheck to paycheck” hopes to be the new “unfeminine” face of the artistocracy and wants to show people that they don’t have to be “something suffocating, outdated and possibly ignorant existence’
It comes as, in a withering letter to The Times, Lord Cromer hit back at his daughter’s Tatler interview claims that her mother was not a fan of the late Princess Diana.
“Lady Venetia Baring alleges that my late mother, the Dowager Countess of Cromer, said: ‘She didn’t really like Diana’ and that ‘Diana should control herself,'” he said.
The former Etonian peer made it clear that in his opinion it is inconceivable that his mother would ever have uttered such words, noting that she “served the late Queen for 17 years and was rewarded for her loyalty, work and affection by a CVO ‘.
“Throughout her long service, my mother was the soul of discretion,” he added, noting that his mother “no doubt” would have learned the need for such discretion while married to his father, who was successively Governor of the Bank of England and later British ambassador to Washington.
“It would be totally foreign to my mother to make a comment about a member of the Royal Family to anyone, let alone one of her grandchildren,” concludes Lord Cromer, “and especially to Lady Venetia Baring, my daughter, who was born after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Evelyn is now divorced from Venetia’s mother, Shelley, and lives in Thailand with his third wife, Jiraporn Buengman.
See the full article in the February issue of tatler Available via digital download and on newsstands starting Thursday, February 1.