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Victoria Smurfit's real life Rivals lifestyle: Irish actress grew up in a £14million castle... but was driven to school in a beaten-up VW

Victoria Smurfit's real life is not so far removed from the setting of Jilly Cooper's 1980s romp-fest.

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