See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy MATT DAVIS Published: 23:00 BST, 29 August 2026 | Updated: 23:04 BST, 29 August 2026
Hell hath no fury, particularly when she’s a baronet’s ex-wife who had a triple-barrelled surname, and her subsequent four-year relationship goes sour. Infuriated at subsidising what she saw as her lover’s penchant for the high life, the one-time Anna, Lady Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe sued her former live-in boyfriend Stephen Constable-Maxwell when their relationship foundered.She wanted him to repay £427,000 for rent, luxury holidays, cosmetic dental work, kite-surfing gear, shooting lessons and even £24 windscreen-wiper blades.Now known as plain Ms Calthorpe, the 51-year-old mother of four got together with ex-City financier Mr Constable-Maxwell, 62, in 2016, after the breakdown of her marriage to Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, the 3rd Baronet. They had married in 2002.After a four-day trial at Southampton County Court, Judge Glen dismissed her claim against Mr Constable-Maxwell in full and ordered her to pay 80 per cent of his costs. The judge also threw out Mr Constable-Maxwell’s counterclaim. He alleged she had pulled a knife on him, punched him repeatedly in the face and twice broke his nose. He also said he had an operation after she kneed him in the testicles.The order, made on August 14 at the end of the hearing, requires Ms Calthorpe to pay £75,000 on account of his costs by 4pm by next Friday.It makes no mention of Mr Constable-Maxwell, despite the failure of his counterclaim. He moved into Ms Calthorpe’s farmhouse at Hartley Wintney in November 2016, staying until their relationship collapsed in August 2020. Infuriated at subsidising what she saw as her lover’s penchant for the high life, the one-time Anna, Lady Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe sued her former live-in boyfriend Stephen Constable-Maxwell (pictured) when their relationship foundered Now known as plain Ms Calthorpe (left), the 51-year-old mother of four got together with ex-City financier Mr Constable-Maxwell, 62, in 2016, after the breakdown of her marriage to Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, the 3rd BaronetHer claim rested on a short loan agreement the pair signed in December 2016, capped at £50,000 and carrying interest of 5 per cent a year. She argued the agreement had been varied to cover everything she spent on him over the next four years, and that he had acknowledged the debt in WhatsApp messages. Her schedule of debts included £160,177.96 in rent for his time at the farmhouse, while luxury holidays to locations such as Cuba, Corsica and the British Virgin Islands came to £57,753.Other costs included dental work, physiotherapy and the windscreen wiper blades. She claimed £215,000 put on her credit card for him and a further £343,595 transferred to his account, less £273,500 he passed to her builder.Mr Constable-Maxwell denied owing a penny and said the only binding deal was the £50,000, cleared in full when he handed her £76,000 in 2019. His counterclaim included £26,460 for counselling and £148,500 for three days a week of farm work over 198 weeksNeither side won a penny from the other, leaving the costs order as the only money changing hands after a dispute that has run since her first demand in March 2021.
