The scandalous past of Sydney’s most discrete socialite: today she is a charity that Maven married in a minefortuin. You would never guess why she was suspended from her chic private school …

If we talk about the ‘Swans of High Society’there are few more enigmatic and elusive than Francesca Duncan.

The 37-year-old charity Maven is married Campbell DuncanThe son of coal extraction magnate and rich Lister Travers Duncan.

Her generosity as a philanthropist is only matched by her extraordinary beauty, as shown on Olivia Bond‘s birthday party on Neptune’s cave on Sunday evening.

But the most important difference between Francesca and the Scions of the Symond and O’Neil families is that we hardly know anything about her history.

Perhaps that is how she prefers it, because there is a certain detail about her past that she may want to remain hidden.

When we rub pictures of Francesca with a WHO’s who of the eastern suburbs of Sydney, including designer Kate BondOur inbox was flooded with e -mails that all asked the same seductive question …

“Do you know who she is, right?”

Nowadays Francesca and her husband may be on the honors list at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation as ‘champion’ donors – a title that was only distributed to people who donated more than $ 1 million – but she was not always so squeaking clean.

Years before she married eye -falling wealth and a benefactor became high -profile charities, the striking brunette was best known for a youthful indiscretion during her school days.

In 2004, a 17-year-old Francesca made the headlines when she was involved in a small scandal at the most exclusive co-education school in Sydney, Barker College.

When an emerging model, she had posed for two selfies in a common room of a year 12 while she was wearing her distinctive school uniform.

In those more innocent times, the images were described as ‘suggestive’ and it was said that Francesca was in a ‘compromising position’ because she had shown her bra in her uniform.

The photos, which were not explicit, have long been scrubbed from the internet, but we have been reliably informed that they were standard MySpace rate from the mid-2000s.

Yet a private school furore always provides a good story and six months later – after the photos were spread among students and rival schools, even ending as far away as London – journalists from the Sydney Morning Herald came to beat.

When asked about the images, Barker College confirmed that a student had been suspended, but refused to comment on what it was on it “An internal issue.”

Francesca, then an HSC student who is known under her maiden name Francesca Willis, was more emerging, Her website under the alias ‘Tahitian Temptress’ to tackle the photos and her suspension.

“I was suspended from school on Thursday – not so smart, but hey if you have f *** up you have to deal with the consequences, not,” she wrote on June 20, 2004.

‘Too bad that this kind of S *** only seems to be happening with me.

‘Anyway, I only did a photo of myself in my school uniform in what the school called’ a compromising position ‘. Big deal I showed my bra, had a little fun. ‘

Francesca continued to say that she was more surprised that it took so long before the photos appear again, write: ‘It is also not as if I even took the photo recently.

“I took it six months ago, but for some reason it seemed to have just come up in the past two weeks.”

The Francesca website was immediately closed later that night and all its content was removed, according to a Report at the time.

For a 17-year-old in the middle of an international private school scandal, Francesca was about as not as you could be.

Although she may have learned a lesson from the Kerfuffle, because the once rebellious teenager flourished in an extremely discrete woman who shuns away from the spotlights, unlike many of her highly educated peers.

After modeling and filming in her younger years in her younger years, Francesca tied close to making the knot with husband Campbell.

Her husband is the son of mining magnate Travers Duncan and his wife Mary-Anne Buchananand his sister is a lawyer and manager Andromeda Neale.

Travers, who was director of ASX-Gente Witte Energie, died in May 2022 at the age of 89 and left his children a fortune of $ 748 million.

Francesca and Campbell have kept a large part of their marriage from the headlines and only made a splash when they bought a house of $ 15.8 million in Mosman in 2018.

She has stayed so steadfast under the radar that nowadays she is only depicted when she attends elite Charity events such as the Golden Dinner, for which she served as a committee member for a year.

The fact that we spied her in the wild during the 40th anniversary of Olivia Bond during the weekend was a fairly rare performance. You can read all gossip about that event here.