Royal ex Autumn finds love with super rich new boyfriend

SHE’s no longer married to the Queen’s eldest grandchild, and now it seems Autumn Phillips has swapped royalty for riches.

I hear the ex-wife of Peter Phillips is enjoying a passionate romance with super-wealthy Irish property tycoon Donal Mulryan.

Their relationship is, however, complicated by the inconvenient fact that Donal, 52, is still married to his socialite wife, Louise Mulryan (pictured with him, below).

‘Donal wants to divorce Louise but he knows that it would cost him a fortune after 27 years together,’ one of her friends tells me. ‘He and Autumn have made no secret of their relationship and are very much in love.’

Autumn, 43, whose divorce from Princess Anne’s 43-year-old son was finalised last month, is said to have known Donal for years.

Her new partner, who boasts that he’s led the creation of property schemes with a combined development value of £4 billion, lives in Monaco, as does his wife.

A close friend of Autumn confirms the relationship, telling me: ‘Autumn and Donal have been friends for more than 15 years. They are both single people.

‘Donal has been separated from his wife for two years and is in the process of divorce.’

The romance will mean Autumn can still rub shoulders with royalty as Donal, a founding director of property giant Ballymore, is a close friend of Prince Albert of Monaco.

‘Donal can certainly treat her like a princess,’ says the friend.

Montreal-born Autumn Kelly was a management consultant when she met Phillips at the 2003 Canadian Grand Prix.

At the time, he was working for the Williams Formula 1 team. she is said not to have known until six weeks later, when she saw him on television, that he was the Queen’s grandson.

she then moved to Britain and married Phillips in 2008 in a ceremony at

st George’s Chapel, Windsor, that caused controversy because the couple sold the photographic rights to Hello! magazine for a reported £500,000.

The couple lived on Anne’s Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire with their two daughters, savannah, ten, who was the Queen’s first greatgrandchild, and Isla, nine. However, they began living apart after their estrangement in 2019.

When they announced their decision to divorce, a statement said: ‘Both Peter and Autumn will remain in Gloucestershire to bring up their two children where they have been settled for a number of years.’

No doubt, Mulryan will soon be investing in a holiday home in the Cotswolds . . .