Revealed: The impeccably posh 'turnip toff' (whose godmother was Diana's mum) rumoured to be Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's new girlfriend

Published: 16:43 EDT, 7 November 2026 | Updated: 17:51 EDT, 7 November 2026 For many in the rarefied social circles in which he used to move, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has become a pariah. Yet despite his dramatic fall from grace, rumours have been spreading that the former prince has acquired a new girlfriend while exiled to a farmhouse on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The Mail on Sunday can now name the woman at the centre of that gossip as Aliba Bellingham, sister of local Tory grandee Lord Bellingham, and a member of the posh north Norfolk social group known as the Turnip Toffs. A keen horsewoman and hunting enthusiast – she was formerly joint master of the Westmeath hunt in Ireland – Ms Bellingham, who is in her 60s, now divides her time between London and Norfolk, where she keeps a caravan to be close to her horses.She grew up in Norfolk, and already has a royal link as her godmother was the late Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Lady Diana Spencer, who also grew up nearby. Ms Bellingham is understood to have known Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, since childhood.She has been seen visiting his new home, Marsh Farm, but on Saturday night denied she and Andrew were romantically involved. Aliba Bellingham (pictured) is rumoured to be Prince Andrew's new girlfriend Despite Andrew's dramatic fall from grace, rumours have been spreading that the former prince has acquired a new girlfriend while exiled to a farmhouse on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk The pair live near one another, with Ms Bellingham confirming that she has gotten to know the former prince as a friend and neighbour after he was forced to swap his Windsor mansion for Norfolk However, she confirmed she has got to know the former prince as a friend and neighbour since he was forced to swap his Windsor mansion for Norfolk earlier this year.‘We hang out from time to time and talk about horses and dogs – that’s what we have in common,’ she said. ‘We get on well. He loves his horses.‘I’m not the sort of person to dwell on things in another person’s past. I think Andrew has found Norfolk to be a very welcoming area and that he’ll enjoy living here.‘But there’s no question of me being a “girlfriend”, we’re just acquaintances. I think the rumours began when an American journalist got to hear I’d been to tea with him, and then made two plus two equal five.’Ms Bellingham, a mother-of-two, is divorced from businessman Sir Richard Rowley. Her brother Henry was Conservative MP for North West Norfolk and a minister at the Foreign Office until he was made a life peer in 2020.Baron Bellingham told the MoS that because his family seat is close to Sandringham, he and Aliba had once been regular playmates of Princes Andrew and Edward, and Princess Anne. Ms Bellingham, who is in her 60s, now divides her time between London and Norfolk, where she keeps a caravan to be close to her horses Ms Bellingham, a mother-of-two, is divorced from businessman Sir Richard Rowley‘Andrew was a friend of my family during our childhood days,’ he said. ‘So, in a way my sister has known him all her life.’Last month, The Mail on Sunday revealed how Andrew was being cautiously welcomed back into the social fold by the Turnip Toffs, with one suggesting his ostracism had ‘gone too far’.Although the Bellinghams can’t claim the lineage of the Windsors, they are said to have one infamous ancestor: John Bellingham, a merchant who shot and killed prime minister Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the House of Commons in 1812, making him the only British PM ever to be assassinated.Andrew was stripped of his titles following this newspaper’s disclosure of emails showing that he had lied about the true depth of his links to the millionaire sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.He has consistently denied all wrongdoing and no charges have been brought against him.