As the glamorous Maud O’Hara in Disney+ smash hit Rivals, she leads an enviable life – Cotswolds mansion, handsome husband and the kind of eccentricity that allows her to enter a New Year’s party on a camel.
But, barring the camel, Victoria Smurfit’s real life is not so far removed from the setting of Jilly Cooper’s 1980s romp-fest.
The Irish actress’s family is said to be among the wealthiest on the Emerald Isle – the family fortune was made by her father Dermot and uncle Michael, who ran the packaging company Smurfit WestRock, now said to be worth about £16billion.
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