An aristocrat has been charged with sending racially aggravated messages directed at Brexit court campaigner Gina Miller.

Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50, from Knightsbridge, was charged on Tuesday with sending malicious communications with racially aggravated factors, the Metropolitan Police said.

Philipps, the 4th Viscount St Davids, is known as a keen polo player. He also holds the titles Lord Strange of Knockin, Lord Hungerford, and Lord de Moleyns.

He once owned a sprawling property in West Sussex known as Strange Place. He is part of one of the oldest aristocratic families in Wales, whose ancestors can be dated back to the Normans. Members of his family have served as MPs and have sat in the Lords.