The Earl of Devon separated from his wife, a former Baywatch actress, after she voiced her shock at how her ‘hippy, feminist husband’ had turned into a ‘patriarchal’ aristocrat.
Now, the earl, Charles Courtenay, 50, has found love with the ex-wife of one of Britain’s top racehorse trainers.
He’s become engaged to Jemima Hannon, 43, whose former husband, Richard Hannon, trained horses for owners including Manchester United legend Sir .
‘We are pleased to announce that Charlie, Earl of Devon, and his wonderful girlfriend, Jemima Hannon, are engaged,’ confirms his spokesman. ‘Along with their four children, they are delighted to unite their families and look forward to the many joys ahead.’
Bristol University graduate Jemima, a former three-day eventer, met her previous husband through her love of horses. She later became an estate agent and co-founded a business that buys country houses for clients.
Charles Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, has announced his engagement to Jemima Hannon
The earl, 50, and Ms Hannon, 43, will live at Powderham Castle, near Exeter. It has its own deer park on the banks of the River Exe
The earl separated from the countess, Allison Joy Langer, in 2023. Known as AJ, the American Baywatch actress married him in 2005 after they met in Las Vegas
None of those properties will, however, be as impressive as Powderham Castle, near Exeter, where she will live with the earl. It has its own deer park on the banks of the River Exe.
The earl separated from the countess, Allison Joy Langer, in 2023. Known as AJ, the American actress married him in 2005 after they met in Las Vegas, where he was on a rugby tour.
They set up home in California but moved into Powderham when his father, the 18th Earl of Devon, died in 2015. The countess, who appeared in the second series of Baywatch and also starred in US drama My So-Called Life, spoke publicly of her struggle to adjust to life in Britain.
‘I may have underestimated the realities for myself,’ she admitted. ‘It was the same for my husband, who had been my hippy, feminist husband in California for ten years.
‘I was, like, “Where did my hippy, feminist husband go?” And all of a sudden these patriarchal things start coming out of his mouth. I’m, like, “Who are you? Where’s my Charlie?” So it’s a lot of recalibrating.’
The couple moved to Britain with their two children, Lady Joscelyn Courtenay, now aged 19, and Jack, Lord Courtenay, 16, and opened Powderham’s grounds for pop and rock concerts. But they announced their separation in 2023.
Breathe in! Adwoa on her corset torture for Oscars bash
Model Adwoa Aboah went to extreme and painful lengths to squeeze herself into her long-sleeved black Margiela dress for the Vanity Fair Oscars Party
She posted this picture on Instagram, revealing that the restrictive corset she was wearing left her 'short of breath'
Model Adwoa Aboah once slammed the fashion business for glorifying unhealthy body standards.
Yet the extreme and painful lengths she went to squeeze herself into a long-sleeved black Margiela dress for the Vanity Fair Oscars party in LA are likely to spark fresh debate.
London-born Adwoa, 33, who gave birth to her first child, a girl, with her U.S. skater boyfriend Daniel Wheatley in 2024, posed topless online, wearing the restrictive corset that helped her achieve an hour-glass figure.
She admitted that the undergarment left her ‘short of breath.’
- The Duchess of Sussex will be saddened to learn that the owner of her favourite London nightclub has died at the age of 87. Armin Loetscher ran St Moritz in Soho, which he founded in 1974. Meghan named it as her favourite haunt on her lifestyle website The Tig. The actress described St Moritz as the ‘oldest club in London’ and said it was ‘sweaty and grungy’ and that you should ‘ditch your heels’.
Did King overpay by £1m?
Didn't he do well? Bruce Forsyth’s vintage Generation Game catch-phrase could have been coined with the seller of The Old Mill, Reybridge – the closest house to Queen Camilla’s Wiltshire retreat, Rey Mill House – in mind.
As I disclosed yesterday, King Charles has paid £3.75 million for The Old Mill – a stupefying mark-up on the £675,000 the previous owner shelled out in 2018.
Just how stupefying is illustrated by another period four-bedroom house a mile away. Boasting a swimming pool and a tennis court – both of which The Old Mill lacks – it sold for £1.4million in 2019 and £2.1million in October 2024…
- Vogue Williams has revealed that she’s shared a bed with a former US First Lady. The Irish TV presenter – who’s married to Spencer Matthews, Pippa Middleton’s brother-in-law – says of Jackie Kennedy: ‘We used to live in this big house and when the Hunts [antique dealers Jack and Gertrude] used to live there, Jackie Onassis came to stay. And she stayed in my room – in the bed my mum still owns.’
Granny lends Karen vintage Chanel chic
She travelled through time as Matt Smith’s companion on Doctor Who, and now Karen Gillan has turned back the clock in style, unearthing a gem from the wardrobe of her husband’s granny.
The 5ft 11in actress, from Inverness, who is married to American comedian Nick Kocher, stole the spotlight at the premiere of his comedy, Pizza Movie, in Austin, Texas, sporting a pleated yellow satin dress featuring a thigh-high split. ‘Wearing Nick’s grandmother’s vintage Chanel dress to celebrate my new favourite silly, clever and bonkers comedy film,’ she wrote alongside the picture she shared online.
Karen, 38, secretly married the Atlanta-born Kocher in May 2022 at Castle Toward in Dunoon, Scotland, where guests included Julia Roberts and Robert Downey Jr.
