Tatler meets Alex Hassell, the new Rupert Campbell-Black, as he transforms into the most handsome man in all of England in Rivals

With Dame Jilly Cooper’s blessing, Alex Hassell was cast as her all-time favourite character: Rupert Campbell-Black, a fictional formulation of real life aristocrats Andrew Parker Bowles, Rupert Lycett-Green and the Earl of Suffolk. Tatler’s Annabel Sampson went to meet the man who made husbands jealous ahead of this riotous remake of Rivals