So lonely... Sting’s Eliot splits with ‘royal’ model
ROYAL pal Harry Herbert was so welcoming of the romance between his daughter, society model Frankie Herbert, and Eliot Sumner that he even invited the couple to join him and his wife, Irish TV chef Clodagh McKenna, on their Ibiza honeymoon.
Sadly, I hear that Eliot, 32, whose father is rock superstar Sting, has now split up with Frankie, 27, one of the very few to have performed as a catwalk model in front of the late Queen Elizabeth.
In that quintessentially modern confirmation of a relationship’s demise, Eliot, who played a guard in James Bond film No Time To Die, has ‘unfollowed’ Frankie on picture-sharing app Instagram.
Frankie — a granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, the late Queen’s racing manager and confidant — appears to have already found a new love interest.
She has shared a photo of her kissing an American named Kate Balison during London’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade last weekend.
‘I feel so privileged that life has been so much more delicious since I started accepting myself and allowing love to just be love without labels or definition,’ she says. ‘Being openly queer has allowed me to be loved to my fullest.’ Frankie declared she was ‘pansexual’ last December, saying: ‘Pansexual and proud, baby.’
Pansexual means someone who ‘is attracted to all people regardless of gender identity or sex’.
She explains of her pansexuality: ‘It is valid and has provided me with a deeper understanding of myself.’ And she adds: ‘I don’t find a specific gender or sex more or less attractive, but rather the person beneath all of that.’
Eliot, whose mother is Sting’s wife, film producer Trudie Styler, took Frankie to the London premiere of No Time To Die at the Royal Albert Hall in 2021.
Eliot was born a girl, but now identifies as non-binary.