From Camilla's Bridesmaid to the Mutoid Waste Company... ; How the Daughter of the 17th Earl of Pembroke Gave Up Her Privileged Background and Ran Off to Join the Circus by Lady Emma Herbert

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To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how swinging through the air became my life. It's an odd choice of career, especially considering my childhood at Wilton House, the stately home near Salisbury built by my family more than 400 years ago. Perhaps my love of heights came from hours of lying in treetops in the gardens watching the summer tourists picnicking below.

I first discovered the irresistible allure of the circus from our family friend Mary Chipperfield, of Chipperfield's Circus, as we would visit her elephants and pet jaguar in the Seventies.

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From Camilla's Bridesmaid to the Mutoid Waste Company... ; How the Daughter of the 17th Earl of Pembroke Gave Up Her Privileged Background and Ran Off to Join the Circus by Lady Emma Herbert

Boarding school was an endurance test for me and I got nothing out of it.

The only things I excelled at were writing stories and cross country running.

Instead I got hooked on the subversive lyrics of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, had posters of punks on my wall and wrote teen-angst poetry. I was eventually expelled from Cranbourne where they filmed the ballet school sc...

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