The smart set’s talking about... Lady Camilla’s grand designs

HER father, Henry, the 9th Marquess of Waterford, contents himself with running the family’s 2,500- acre Curraghmore Estate — the largest estate in private hands in Ireland.

But Lady Camilla Beresford’s tastes are more metropolitan: she celebrated her 24th birthday party last night at Mark’s Club in London’s Mayfair. And it’s from London that Camilla is set on making commercial conquests.

‘I’m launching my own clothing label,’ she tells me. ‘It will be sold online and then I hope to get it into department stores like Selfridges. I’ve been helped by Karen Millen [right, with Camilla] who mentors me. We were introduced through a family friend.’

An alumna of Millfield School in Somerset, Camilla has the Beresford appetite for life in the fast lane. She numbers Kate Moss’s model sister, Lottie, among her friends and exhibits the same panache on the polo field as her late grandfather, a star of the Duke of Edinburgh’s team, and great-uncle, the indefatigable Lord Patrick, 85.