13 things about Dorset native Constance Marten

Constance Dorothea Marten was born in 1987 in the palatial settings of Crichel House, a 5,000-acre estate in Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom to Napier Anthony Sturt Marten and Virginie Charlotte Camu. Constance has two brothers namely Maximilian Marten and Tobias Marten.

Maximilian inherited the Crichel House and sold it in 2013 to American hedge fund billionaire Richard Chilton for a reported £34 ($40.71) million. Constance is 1 year older than Maximilian and 4 years older than Tobias.

Napier was a page to Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, 2022 at age 96. He is the son of Toby Marten, a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, and Mary Anna Marten, the goddaughter of the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who died on March 30, 2002 at age 101.

BIOGRAPHY

Constance attended St. Mary’s School in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is 13 years younger than Mark Gordon, who served 20 years in prison in Florida, United States after breaking into a woman’s home and raping the woman in 1988.
2. In 1996, her father went to Australia where he claimed to have had an epiphany that made him give up his aristocratic life.
3. In 2008, she entered the University of Leeds in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England to study Arabic and Middle Eastern studies and she was featured in Tatler.
4. In 2010, her grandmother Mary Anna passed away and in the same year, Gordon was deported back to the U.K.
5. In 2011, she lived in Cairo, Egypt.
6. In 2012, she graduated from the University of Leeds.
7. From 2012 to 2013, she worked at Al Jazeera’s office in London.
8. In 2013, she was an employee of Rich Mix Theatre in London.
9. She took an acting course at East 15 drama school in Essex, England but dropped out of the drama school in 2016 when she started living with Gordon in Ilford, London. 
10. In 2021, she did not attend the wedding of Maximilian and jewelry designer Ruth Aymer.
11. In 2022, she gave birth to a daughter.
12. In 2023, she and Gordon were arrested.
13. In 2025, she was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.

TIMELINE

Constance was nicknamed Toots. Born into an aristocratic family, she grew up in the Crichel House with Maximilian and Tobias.

2010s

• In August 2012, she joined Al Jazeera in London as a senior researcher.
• In June 2013, she left Al Jazeera.
• From August 2013 to October 2013, she worked at Rich Mix Theatre in London as a project manager.

2020s

• In August 2020, she and Gordon were living on the Coldharbour Estate in Greenwich, London. They later moved to Eltham, London.
• In August 2022, she and Gordon were evicted from their apartment in Eltham for not paying rent and leaving thousands of pounds worth of damage to the property.
• In September 2022, she and Gordon started living nomadically and she started to show signs of pregnancy.
• On or around December 18, 2022, she gave birth to Victoria Marten.
• On January 5, 2023, she, Gordon and Victoria disappeared and their car was left on fire on the M61 in Bolton, North West, England.
• On January 7, 2023, she and Gordon were seen leaving a taxi with an orange carrier bag and a pram in London. They went from Bolton to Liverpool, England to Harwich, Essex to London.
• On January 8, 2023, she and Gordon were spotted near the ferry port in Newhaven, East Sussex, England.
• On February 27, 2023, she and Gordon were arrested in Stanmer Villas, Brighton. They were each charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice by concealing a body, concealing the birth of a child, child cruelty and allowing the death of a child.
• On March 1, 2023, her daughter Victoria was found dead.
• On January 26, 2024, she and Gordon appeared before Mark Lucraft in the Old Bailey dock where their trial started.
• On June 19, 2024, the jury in her and Gordon’s trial failed to reach a verdict.
• On March 10, 2025, her and Gordon’s retrial started and it was revealed that they had four previous children who had been put into care.
• On July 14, 2025, she and Gordon were found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.
• On September 15, 2025, Lucraft sentenced her and Gordon to 14 years in prison.