A woman has admitted embezzling more than £22,000 from an aristocrat and his former model wife.
Naomi Tamzin Barret took the cash while working for Viscount Petersham, William Stanhope and ex-face of Chanel Candida Bond.
She was employed by the couple’s north-east-based CMG Events and had access to a company credit card.
She stole the money – a total of £22,873 – between February 2015 and April last year.
Fifty-three-year-old Barret, of Branscombe in Devon, went on spending sprees with the firm’s credit card and bought goods and services for herself.
She had originally denied the embezzlement but admitted it when she appeared at Peterhead Sheriff Court yesterday.
Sheriff Iona McDonald deferred sentence for background reports.
Barret’s agent, solicitor Stuart Flowerdew, said it was “clear” that reports were necessary.
The charges Barret faced state that between February 4, 2015, and April 5 last year, she used CMG Events’ credit card to withdraw money and purchase goods at premises across Aberdeenshire.
CMG Events opens up the A-listed Stanhope family home – Crimonmogate at Lonmay, near Fraserburgh – for weddings, garden parties and corporate events.
The estate once formed part of the lands of the High Constables of Scotland, and can be traced back to the 14th century.
Renowned architect Archibald Simpson designed the house, prior to his death in 1820, for Patrick Milne, who also died before it was completed.
Viscount Petersham purchased the property in 2001.
His wife Candida is a respected sculptress – although she is probably best known as a former Chanel model, having been discovered by the design house after featuring in an issue of Vogue.