Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk (born 22 February 1965), also styled Earl of Burford by courtesy, is a British aristocrat and heir to the peerage title of Duke of St Albans.
[citation needed] Subsequently, as Charles Beauclerk he stood as the first-ever candidate for the Democratic Party at the 1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election.
Beauclerk's campaign manager John Gouriet, head of the group Freedom in Action, said that "Lord Burford feels very strongly as a true patriot that the Conservative Party has failed completely to stop the revolutionary march of socialism in the last few months.
He also claims that Oxford was the real author of works attributed to other Elizabethan writers, including John Lyly, George Gascoigne and Thomas Watson.
[8] Beauclerk has also written a biography of his ancestor Nell Gwyn (Macmillan, 2005), which was the inspiration for the 2016 West End hit of the same name starring Gemma Arterton.
From that marriage he has one son: Beauclerk married Sarah Davenport, who is an artist and designer, at Bestwood Lodge, Nottingham (a former seat of the Dukes of St Albans) in June 2017.