Socialites living the Good Life! Tatler reveals the well-heeled urbanites who've ditched city living for fields and tending to flocks - from Xanthe Gladstone to Anaïs Gallagher's Insta-famous beau
- British magazine Tatler has revealed high-society's glamorous budding farmers
- Socialites who swapped city life for the countryside includes Xanthe Gladstone
- Manhattan fashionista Amanda Cutter and hair stylist James Brown also feature With the pandemic forcing everyone to slow down, several of us have considered whether busy city life is all it's cracked up to be.
And some high society celebrities have been brave enough to make the swap, with magazine Tatler revealing its top picks of budding farmers swapping their party lifestyle for the British countryside.
Among those featured are Xanthe Gladstone, a descendent of Victorian liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone, Manhattan fashionista Amanda Cutter and Insta-famous chef Julius Roberts .
Meanwhile, socialites and celebs such as actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost, Alice Naylor-Leyland and Lady Violet Manners are also choosing the idyllic countryside over busy city life.
Here FEMAIL reveals It Girls and Boys who have ditched their fashionable lives to become budding farmers...
Xanthe Gladstone
Xanthe Gladstone (pictured) is a descendent of Victorian liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone and splits her time between the family's Glen Dye estate in Scotland and Hawarden in north Wales
Xanthe, 25, who graduated from Edinburgh University three years ago and moved to London to make her mark in marketing, before returning to the family home
Xanthe studied at the prestigious Ballymole cookery school in Ireland where she slaughtered chickens, learnt about sustainability and foraged vegetables
Xanthe Gladstone is a descendent of Victorian liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone and splits her time between the family's Glen Dye estate in Scotland and Hawarden in north Wales.
The 26-year-old is the child of Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, who live in Hawarden Castle and run several business including two farm shops in Wales. She has accumulated a loyal social media following, boasting nearly 10,000 on her Instagram, where she shares snaps foraging for vegetables and spending time with her animals.
The chef and food sustainability advocate works as a director of food sustainability for various companies, where she works to curate and develop menus and oversea product sourcing.
Amanda Cutter Brooks
Manhattan fashionista Amanda Cutter Brooks (pictured) swapped her glamorous life in the Big Apple for a family farm in the Cotswolds
Amanda looks delighted as she holds up two lambs born on the farm earlier this year
Manhattan fashionista Amanda Cutter Brooks swapped her glamorous life in the Big Apple for a family farm in the Cotswolds.
The mother-of-two lived in New York City for twenty years where she forged an impressive career in fashion, wrote her book I Love Your Style and founded her very own label titled Cutter Brooks.
In 2012, Amanda and her family decided to take a sabbatical and move to the farm where her husband Chris grew up in Oxfordshire.
They quickly fell in love with their 1820’s stone cottage and have been enjoying county life for the last seven years.
She has since written another book titled Farm From Home and often shares a snapshot of her country life on Instagram, posting pictures posing with her lambs and horses.
Julius Roberts
Instagram chef Julius Roberts packed up his London home and moved to Suffolk in 2017 after his hectic city life began taking a toll on him
Anaïs shared a sweet video of her cuddling kids (left). Right, a selfie of Anaïs and Julius
Instagram chef Julius Roberts packed up his London home and moved to Suffolk in 2017 after his hectic city life began taking a toll on him.
He grew up in the capital and went to Marlborough College before moving to Brighton to study sculpture, but would often visit his grandparents in Suffolk.
After leaving university he waited tables at a local café in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, before bagging a coveted role at the newly opened Noble Rot in Soho.
The young farmer later moved to a cottage near his grandparents' home, and began documenting his life on Instagram, where he now boasts over 100,000 followers.
The 28-year-old is dating Anaïs Gallagher, the daughter of Britpop legend Noel, and over lockdown swapped her Peckham flat, nearby where the 20-year-old studies at Camberwell College of Arts, for the Dorset countryside.
James Brown
While James Brown lives the glamorous life of a celebrity hairdresser, when he's not working you can find him on his farm in Ireland
While James Brown lives the glamorous life of a celebrity hairdresser, when he's not working you can find him on his farm in Ireland.
The hairdresser is best known for his work with modelling legend Kate Moss, who he first encountered as a schoolgirl while he worked in Croydon at the age of 15.
He is the godfather of her daughter, Lila-Grace - having styled her for her Miu Miu campaigns - and throughout the late 90s could be found hanging out with Moss and the rest of the notorious Primrose Hill set.
James has worked with the likes of Brazilian supermodel Gisele and Sienna Miller and has several TV projects under his belt.
A far cry away from his glamorous London life, the hair stylist now owns a farm in Ireland where he tends to his hens and takes rides on his horse Peggy.
Clodagh McKenna
Television chef Clodagh McKenna swapped her busy life jet setting across the US and UK to tend to her country home on the grounds of Highclere Castle
Clodagh got engaged to the Queen's godson Harry Herbert in October 2020 after meeting at a Fortnum & Mason lunch through mutual friends in 2017
Clodagh lives in Hampshire's Broadspear House, a 300-year-old cottage nestled on the grounds of Highclere Park
Highclere Castle (pictured) in Hampshire is best known as the location for British period drama Downton Abbey
Television chef Clodagh McKenna swapped her busy life jet setting across the US and UK to tend to her country home on the grounds of Highclere Castle.
The Irish-born cook lives in Hampshire's Broadspear House, a 300-year-old cottage nestled on the grounds of Highclere Park.
The property was gifted to her fiancé Harry Herbert by his father Lord Porchester, the 7th Earl of Carnarvon. He is the brother of George Herbert, the current Earl of Carnarvon.
Harry, 62, is the Queen's godson and was born in Highclere Castle, best known as the location for British period drama Downton Abbey.
Over the past three years she has worked with her fiancé to restore the one-acre, eighteenth-century walled vegetable and fruit garden, set up five working beehives, a fruit-tree orchard, wormeries, wildflower meadows and a cutting flower garden.
Sadie Frost
Actress Sadie Frost is saying goodbye to Primrose Hill after revealing her plans to purchase a small farm next year
Actress Sadie Frost is saying goodbye to Primrose Hill after revealing her plans to purchase a small farm next year.
The 55-year-old recently sold the £8million home in Belsize Park after purchasing it for £2million in 2002, with her then-husband Jude Law, 48, but the couple divorced a year later.
The property that Sadie shared with her ex-husband located in north London's celebrity enclave was the setting for a string of legendary parties enjoyed by members of the clique.
She is currently living with her boyfriend Darren Strowger in Regent’s Park but is 'looking to buy a place in the countryside'.
'I think I will be based out there by this time next year', she told The Times. 'I have always wanted to have a small farm. I was googling how to buy a flock of sheep an hour ago.'
Alice Naylor-Leyland
British socialite Alice Naylor-Leyland grew up splitting her time between London and New York before moving to Stibbington House in Cambridgeshire
British socialite Alice Naylor-Leyland grew up splitting her time between London and New York.
She attended the Garden House Day School before boarding at Heathfield School in Ascot and studying history at Edinburgh University and fashion at Istituto Marangoni in east London.
She met husband Thomas Philip Naylor-Leyland, the son of Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland, 4th Baronet, through mutual friends at a party in Gloucestershire when she was just 17.
The 34-year-old, who has children Billy, Nancy, and Felix, married Thomas at the age of 24 and moved to Stibbington House in Cambridgeshire.
Their vast estate includes horses, sheep and alpacas, and the socialite even celebrated her 30th birthday by parading dyed pink and blue sheep to her set of A-list friends including Poppy Delevingne and Olivia Buckingham.
Lady Violet Manners
Lady Violet is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, who live at Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire
Lady Violet and her brother Charles, Marquess of Granby, pose for a photo in a picturesque field
Lady Violet is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, who live at Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire.
The couple also share daughters Lady Alice and Lady Eliza, and sons Hugo and Charles, Marquess of Granby.
While the siblings were once dubbed the 'real-life crawly sisters' for their antics on the London social scene, since the first national lockdown Lady Violet has been spending vast amounts of her time on her family's 16,000 acre estate.
The society beauty has previously worked for a a creative agency in Soho as well as working as a model featured in Tatler and walking the runway for Dolce & Gabbana.
The 27-year-old often shares snaps on Instagram from her family's country home, including Lady Violet tending to her vegetable patch and taking early morning walks with her dogs.
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