On 3/7/2023 at 5:10 AM, Cat said:

Baroness Caroline Fleming of Ladies of London fame sold her magnificent Chelsea townhouse which featured on the show. She seems to be almost entirely based in Denmark now.

https://www.ashdownmarks.co.uk/property-for-sale-ovington-street-chelsea-london-pi-ashd274.htm

A bit late to this one but what a beautiful property - most unusual to have a townhouse that wide in prime South Kensington. 

At one point, Caroline Fleming's Dutch reality show was on YouTube. 

It was wild!.  The premise was that female heirs had only recently been given access to heredity rights to property, so Caroline was given her family's estate and began renovations.  The first few episodes were a mix between HGTV and Martha Stewart with a focus on renovations in the kitchen, and Caroline cooking with produce from her garden. 

Then, it takes a turn.

One imagines that there was a push to make it more entertaining, so Caroline is portrayed as more of an out of touch princess a la Paris Hilton.   She wears Chanel on the worksite and argues with her husband about the budget. 

Until, there's an episode where she invites a famous sports star to play with her kids.  I think he was a soccer player, but I'm not sure.  As it turns out, in real life, she began an affair with the sports guy, her husband found out and divorced her which was a quite a scandal, that was only briefly touched upon during her time on LOL.

A little wiki/google reveals that many of the ladies had much more interesting backstories that were barely discussed on the show.    Julie Montagu's husband, the Earl, had a tragic history of drug use that resulted in a stroke.  I often thought that her story about being confused as an American amongst the Brits was fake because they were married for more than a decade when she was on the show. Anabelle married a Rothchild, and one of the stipulations of her divorce was that she never mentioned their name in the press.  She also dated Lord Churchill.  Marissa Hormer's husband Matt was accused of fraud and drug smuggling within his nightclubs.  And, of course, S1 Nicole Reno's husband Scot died under very mysterious circumstances.

One tends to think that Bravo didn't know how to exploit those stories properly...

 

20 hours ago, DaytimeFan said:

A bit late to this one but what a beautiful property - most unusual to have a townhouse that wide in prime South Kensington. 

It's the most beautiful townhouse on its straight (with green leaves covering its brick facade), and I love love love how she decorated the interiors. Truly a dream property in London.

19 hours ago, j swift said:

At one point, Caroline Fleming's Dutch reality show was on YouTube. 

It was wild!.  The premise was that female heirs had only recently been given access to heredity rights to property, so Caroline was given her family's estate and began renovations.  The first few episodes were a mix between HGTV and Martha Stewart with a focus on renovations in the kitchen, and Caroline cooking with produce from her garden. 

Then, it takes a turn.

One imagines that there was a push to make it more entertaining, so Caroline is portrayed as more of an out of touch princess a la Paris Hilton.   She wears Chanel on the worksite and argues with her husband about the budget. 

Until, there's an episode where she invites a famous sports star to play with her kids.  I think he was a soccer player, but I'm not sure.  As it turns out, in real life, she began an affair with the sports guy, her husband found out and divorced her which was a quite a scandal, that was only briefly touched upon during her time on LOL.

A little wiki/google reveals that many of the ladies had much more interesting backstories that were barely discussed on the show.    Julie Montagu's husband, the Earl, had a tragic history of drug use that resulted in a stroke.  I often thought that her story about being confused as an American amongst the Brits was fake because they were married for more than a decade when she was on the show. Anabelle married a Rothchild, and one of the stipulations of her divorce was that she never mentioned their name in the press.  She also dated Lord Churchill.  Marissa Hormer's husband Matt was accused of fraud and drug smuggling within his nightclubs.  And, of course, S1 Nicole Reno's husband Scot died under very mysterious circumstances.

One tends to think that Bravo didn't know how to exploit those stories properly...

 

A lot of this history would have been great if eventually discussed on the show (obviously Annabelle couldn't mention the R word). I had heard the gossip about Marissa's husband's clubs. However, even without these stories, I thought Ladies of London was a great show, and could stand on its own when it came to these ladies' interactions with each other. Like Marissa and Juliet's eroding friendship, or Caroline and Sophie's. But yeah, the LOL were incredibly well-connected.

In light of yesterday's news...I figured it was okay to bump this up. And probably do a rewatch.  

If The Real Housewives of Dubai is on hiatus/pause (a.k.a. done), then we need a way for Caroline Stanbury to come back to Ladies of London.

Not them playing Season 3 live right now!!! 

 

Oh, Bravo!

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2 minutes ago, Cheap21 said:

Ohhh the New Reign - that's exciting!

Bravo had better deliver! The original series was fantastic and Real Housewives of London is better than most of the US franchises right now. They better hope they got it right.

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And so it begins...

 

 

@Cat @DaytimeFan

Dorinda Deadly on X: "Meet the *alleged* cast of ‘Ladies of London: The New Reign’ 🇬🇧 Misse Beqiri 🇬🇧 Lottie Kane 🇬🇧 Myka Meier 🇬🇧 Martha Sitwell 🇬🇧 Kimi Murdoch 🇬🇧 Margo Stilley 🇬🇧 Lady Emma Thynn 🇬🇧 Mark-Francis Vandelli Season 1 premieres at some point this year! #LadiesofLondon https://t.co/qWqXDiksyd" / X

7 hours ago, Taoboi said:

@Cat @DaytimeFan

Dorinda Deadly on X: "Meet the *alleged* cast of ‘Ladies of London: The New Reign’ 🇬🇧 Misse Beqiri 🇬🇧 Lottie Kane 🇬🇧 Myka Meier 🇬🇧 Martha Sitwell 🇬🇧 Kimi Murdoch 🇬🇧 Margo Stilley 🇬🇧 Lady Emma Thynn 🇬🇧 Mark-Francis Vandelli Season 1 premieres at some point this year! #LadiesofLondon https://t.co/qWqXDiksyd" / X

I don't know any of these women -- but i DO know the erudite and elegant Mark-Francis Vandelli! Half-Russian, half-Italian, raised in the UK, he was a star on one of the UK's seminal scripted reality shows called Made in Chelsea. @DaytimeFan will know who he is also.

3 hours ago, Cat said:

I don't know any of these women -- but i DO know the erudite and elegant Mark-Francis Vandelli! Half-Russian, half-Italian, raised in the UK, he was a star on one of the UK's seminal scripted reality shows called Made in Chelsea. @DaytimeFan will know who he is also.

I certainly do. If he's in this show, Bravo fans are not ready. He is totally original.

10 hours ago, Taoboi said:

@Cat @DaytimeFan

Dorinda Deadly on X: "Meet the *alleged* cast of ‘Ladies of London: The New Reign’ 🇬🇧 Misse Beqiri 🇬🇧 Lottie Kane 🇬🇧 Myka Meier 🇬🇧 Martha Sitwell 🇬🇧 Kimi Murdoch 🇬🇧 Margo Stilley 🇬🇧 Lady Emma Thynn 🇬🇧 Mark-Francis Vandelli Season 1 premieres at some point this year! #LadiesofLondon https://t.co/qWqXDiksyd" / X

So is everyone British this go around? I aint mad at that

On 1/7/2026 at 8:03 AM, Cat said:

I don't know any of these women -- but i DO know the erudite and elegant Mark-Francis Vandelli! Half-Russian, half-Italian, raised in the UK, he was a star on one of the UK's seminal scripted reality shows called Made in Chelsea. @DaytimeFan will know who he is also.

On 1/7/2026 at 11:09 AM, DaytimeFan said:

I certainly do. If he's in this show, Bravo fans are not ready. He is totally original.

That just reminds me that I wanted to get around to watch that and the SUSSEX show, but they are all out of order here in the States. Hmmmm at half-Russian, but I'm bias.

I love the recommendation from both of you all the same. :)

On 1/7/2026 at 11:25 AM, Cheap21 said:

So is everyone British this go around? I aint mad at that

Intriguing if so. Though of course that does take away from the original hook. Then again, they got away from it on the original show, too.