Lady Victoria Hervey on Her Appearance in the Epstein Files

Though far-right politics have an upper-class history in the UK, Hervey thinks the Reform UK pitch is “getting voters from everywhere.” She adds, “It appeals to everybody. It doesn’t matter what your background is. Rich, poor background, it’s just—do you love your country? Are you patriotic?”

In February, her phone was stolen out of her hand in Pimlico. She partly blames immigration for certain changes in the UK. “It’s a little bit like America, you know? In England, we’re having the same problem. War veterans and people like that are being forgotten, and yet they’re giving people money that are coming over the border, and these people are getting housing, and they’re getting credit cards.” (Impoverished asylum seekers in the UK are often given debit cards loaded with about $60 for food, clothing and toiletries.)

And so, she found herself at the penthouse of the Hay-Adams Hotel just days before the inauguration in January, at the “Stars and Stripes and Union Jack Party,” where Farage toasted the deep ties between the Trump movement and his upstart political party. British Serbian opera singer Nevena Bridgen sang a mashup of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Save the King.” The night’s attendees included right-wing royalty Steve Bannon and Liz Truss, along with bicontinental political strategists Raheem Kassam (an investor in DC hotspot Butterworth’s), Michael Pack, Nile Gardiner, and former diplomat Andy Wigmore.

The MEGA plan to make her homeland look more like it used to is simple, according to Hervey. “Strong borders, low taxes, safe place,” she says. “Have a proper police.” Two days after the inauguration, she flew back to London to join Farage for a high-class Reform UK fundraiser at the private club Oswald’s, which was founded by second-generation nightlife impresario Robin Birley in 2018.

In a sequined black minidress and black fur coat, Hervey moved through a crowd that billionaire property developer Nick Candy, Candy’s then-wife, singer and actor Holly Valance, former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns, and Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough, a relative of Winston Churchill.

“Photos weren’t allowed. I had one of them on my Instagram, and I had gotten told off by Nick Candy—I had to get it off!” Hervey says. “People were having a good time. I think they really raised money that night and got some big donations.”