As she sits in prison awaiting sentencing for her part in the death of her newborn baby daughter, Constance Marten will have plenty of time to dwell on some history.
Her grandmother, Mary Marten, was a goddaughter of the Queen Mother, and her father, Napier, was a page to Queen Elizabeth II.
But you do not need to go much further back to lurch from royal favour to some truly scandalous behaviour.
Marten's great-grandfather, the 3rd Lord Alington, was said to be the most dissolute man ever to enter the House of Lords.
Also called Napier, he indulged in wild same-sex orgies while keeping a mistress old enough to be his mother.
