Prince’s fare- dodging old flame avoids court
When Prince William split from Kate Middleton in 2007, he was consoled by rumoured former flame Rosie Ruck Keene. now the leggy society girl, whose 2013 wedding to the Prince’s friend, William van Cutsem, was attended by both the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, has managed to rescue herself from a potentially embarrassing situation after being caught at a London Underground station without a ticket.
Former headhunter Rosie, the daughter of an investment banker, was charged after she failed to hand over a ticket when stopped by a Transport for London inspector at King’s Cross station in April.
Van Cutsem, who gave as her address a home in West London, ‘failed to hand over your ticket for inspection and verification of validity when asked to do so by an authorised person’ on April 8, according to the summons.
Yesterday, however, she settled the matter out of court with a payment of an unknown amount.
The 32-year-old, who founded a social network for horse riders and now runs a clothing label with her sister, Lucia, was due to stand before magistrates on August 14, but the case was adjourned until yesterday, when the charge was formally withdrawn after she resolved the issue ‘administratively’.
The news will no doubt come as a relief to her husband, William, who is a godfather to Prince George.
His father, landowner and conservationist hugh van Cutsem, was at one time a sandringham neighbour of the Royal Family and a close friend to Prince Charles ever since the pair met at Cambridge University during the sixties.
he left an estate worth £9.7 million to be shared among his family when he died aged 72 in 2013.
‘i simply left my wallet behind on that day,’ Rosie tells me. ‘no fine was issued. i just paid the fare at a later date.’ such insouciance!