Lambing time is shear joy, says Clementine

LOOKING after the five young bridesmaids at Princess Diana’s wedding was a daunting challenge, but now one of them is shepherding her own flock.

Clementine Hambro, 46, a great-granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, is having to cope with the birth of 20 lambs at her Gloucestershire estate.

And, to help her, she was joined by another of Diana’s bridesmaids, India Hicks, 54, granddaughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

‘I’ve been farming sheep for five years and this is my first year of rearing the valley blacknose,’ Clemmie (above right) tells me.

She has four children with her husband, Orlando Fraser, 54, son of historian Lady Antonia Fraser and the late Tory MP Sir Hugh Fraser. ‘It’s back to late nights and early mornings — it’s like having babies,’ she says. ‘I’m going to breed them to sell them.’

Clemmie found one of the tote bags designed by India handy for carrying lambs, telling me: ‘It seemed happy to be carried around as they love attention.’

India jokes: ‘Not many of us think of becoming a shepherdess.’