Alice Eve has been having a passionate lockdown romance with a multi-millionaire aristocrat who is married and 16 years her senior, I can finally reveal.
The Star Trek actress has been secretly hunkering down for months with Pete Czernin, heir to the Howard de Walden barony, whose family owns 92 acres of Marylebone including Harley Street.
Since 2013 he's lived in the sprawling Avington Manor, near Hungerford, which he inherited from his Derby-winning grandfather Lord Howard de Walden.
No wonder Pete caught Alice's eye. But there's a snag: last time I checked he was still married to his wife of 26 years, Lucinda Czernin, an art consultant with whom he has two grown-up children.
Alice Eve has been secretly hunkering down for months with Pete Czernin (pictured), heir to the Howard de Walden barony, whose family owns 92 acres of Marylebone
Alice pictured at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards at London's Royal Albert Hall in February last year
Oxford-educated Alice, daughter of Shoestring actor Trevor Eve and his wife Sharon Maughan, has been desperately keeping the romance under wraps – to protect the feelings of Lucinda, no doubt.
But last week she posted a photo of herself with Pete, and pals were quick to tell me the pair had at last gone 'Instagram-official'. Alice, who has for months declined the opportunity to offer me a comment on the romance, quickly deleted the post.
When Pete, 55, and Alice, 39, eventually do go public the pair will make quite the society couple. Pete is an Eton chum of David Cameron and is part of the Chipping Norton set.
He is also a big cheese in Alice's film world, as the Oscar-winning producer of hit film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Riot Club, a film about Cameron's old Oxford club, The Bullingdon.
Their paths are said to have crossed many times since Alice's split in 2017 from her husband of three years, Alex Cowper-Smith.
But towards the end of last
