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By Catherine Ostler

PUBLISHED: 16:51 EST, 25 May 2012 | UPDATED: 00:32 EST, 26 May 2012

Hector Christie is such a rebel, he even rebels against the rebels

There cant have been many protesters at last winters anti-capitalist encampment in the City of London who had chosen the tents on the steps of St Pauls Cathedral over their own roomy Queen Anne stately home, set among 6,000 picturesque acres of the West Country.

For that matter, there cant be many members of Take Back The Flour, the anti-GM foods protest group which is planning to invade and uproot GM crops at the Rothamsted Research centre in Hertfordshire tomorrow, who can claim aristocratic lineage, an Eton education and a trust fund.

But then Hector Christie is not your average eco-warrior.

In fact, hes such a rebel, he even rebels against the rebels: unwilling to wait for tomorrows protest, it is claimed he went ahead on his own last Sunday and broke into Rothamsted, where he allegedly lopped heads off GM plants, scattered some wheat seed of his own and made a general nuisance of himself, for which he was arrested, charged with criminal damage and released on bail.

He will appear in court in St Albans on July 13 and faces being sent to prison.

This is not the first time that Hector Christie, now 50, has been in trouble.

As the eldest son of Sir George and Lady (Mary) Christie, he is the man who could have been running Glyndebourne, the opera house that sits next to a Tudor home in the bucolic surroundings of the Sussex Downs.

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