Viscount’s £500k big day

SHE was born into Soviet communism, until her family left for a fresh start in New Zealand, but Eliza Liepina completed her transformation into lady of the manor at the weekend when she married the Earl of Bradford’s son and heir, Viscount Newport.

Latvian-born property consultant Eliza, 31, wore a Phillipa Lepley gown as she exchanged vows with Alexander, 42, in front of the Bishop of Lichfield before attending a lavish reception at Weston Park, the former family seat in Shropshire.

The four-day extravaganza is said to have cost about £500,000. ‘No expense was spared,’ one of the guests tells me.