MARTEN, a child b Jan 2023

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Jan 20, 2023, 7:00:48 AM1/20/23

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Constance Dorothea b 1987 reg Q2 Humberside is the d of Napier Anthony Sturt b 1959 (s of Lt-Cdr George Gosselin MARTEN 1918-98 scion of that gentry family f/o Marshals Wick and Hon Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth STURT 1929-2010 d of 3rd Baron ALINGTON 1896-1940 and Lady Mary Sibell ASHLEY-COOPER 1902-36 d of 9th Earl of SHAFTESBURY 1869-1961 and gt gd of 1st Duke of WESTMINSTER 1825-99 etc) and Vriginie Charlotte b 1959 d of Alain R E CAMU and (Virginia Charlotte) Theresa 1936-2005 d of Anthony Crommelin CROSSLEY 1903-39 (s of Sir Kenneth Irwin CROSSLEY 2nd Bt 1877-1957) and Clare Frances Fortescue 1907-2002 d of Brig Alan Fortescue THOMSON DSO 1880-1957 by his 1905 m reg Q4 London to Edythe Mary c1878-1978 d of John Owen UNWIN d 28 April 1928 and Fanny _ c1857-1937.

From the Times of 20 Jan 2023:

E X T R A C T

Father begs runaway Constance Marten to go to police to ‘protect baby’

The father of an aristocrat who disappeared with her boyfriend and their newborn baby has “beseeched” her to turn herself in.
Napier Marten, a film and music producer, urged his daughter Constance, 35, known as Toots, to contact the police as soon as possible. She has been missing with Mark Gordon, 48, a convicted sex offender, since the beginning of the month.
He said her family were deeply concerned for her welfare and that of her baby. Police believe the infant may have been born in a car only two days before the couple abandoned the vehicle in flames on the M61
… Napier Marten, a former page to the late Queen, told The Independent that he had known about Gordon’s criminal convictions for some time and said the estrangement with his daughter had been “beyond painful”…
…[Constance] Marten grew up at Crichel House, the family seat in Dorset where the 1996 film Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, was filmed.
She set up home with Gordon in 2016 and, although the relationship created a rift with her family, she continued to have access to a multimillion-pound trust fund…https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/father-begs-runaway-constance-marten-to-go-to-police-to-protect-baby-t8692mvnx