RICHARD EDEN: Sting’s non-binary child Eliot splits with model Frankie Herbert
RICHARD EDEN: So lonely… Sting’s non-binary child Eliot breaks up with model Frankie Herbert and unfollows her on Instagram as she shares a photo of her kissing a woman at London’s Pride parade
Royal boyfriend Harry Herbert was so taken with the romance between his daughter, 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 with Frankie, 27, one of the few who acted as a runway model for the late Queen Elizabeth.
In that quintessentially modern confirmation of a relationship’s demise, Eliot, who played a security guard in the James Bond movie No Time To Die, “unfollowed” Frankie on the photo-sharing app Instagram.
Frankie – a granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, the late Queen’s race manager and confidant – already seems to have found a new love interest.
She shared a photo of her kissing American Kate Balison at London’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade last weekend.
Frankie (right) – a granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, the racing manager and close confidant of the late Queen – seems to have already found a new love interest. She shared a photo of her kissing an American named Kate Balison (left) at London’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade last weekend
Royal boyfriend Harry Herbert was so taken with the romance between his daughter, model Frankie Herbert, and Eliot Sumner (pictured together in 2021, Eliot on the left and Frankie on the right) that he even invited the couple to join him and his wife, Irish TV cook, to add. Clodagh McKenna, on their honeymoon to Ibiza
“I feel so privileged that life is so much more wonderful since I started accepting myself and letting love just be love with no labels or definition,” she says.
“Being openly queer has made me love myself to the fullest.” Frankie declared last December that she was “pansexual,” saying, “Pansexual and proud, honey.”
Pansexual means someone who is “attracted to all people, regardless of gender identity or gender.”
She explains about her pansexuality, “It’s valid and has given me a deeper understanding of myself.”
And she adds, “I don’t find a particular sex or gender more or less attractive, but the person behind it.”
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.