Lady Juliet Tadgell

Lady Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Tadgell (née Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; born 24 January 1935), previously Marchioness of Bristol, is a British heiress, race horse breeder, and landowner. She consistently appears on the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated net worth of £45 million, based on family assets she inherited in 1948.

Lady Juliet Tadgell
Born	Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 24 January 1935
Education	University of Oxford (MFA)
Spouse(s)	Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1972)​ Somerset de Chair ​ ​ (m. 1974; died 1995)​ Dr. Christopher Tadgell ​ ​ (m. 1997)​
Children	Lord Nicholas Hervey Lady Ann Hervey Helena Rees-Mogg
Parent(s)	Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam Olive Dorothea Plunket

Early life and education

Lady Juliet was born to Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, the only son of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, and his wife, Olive Plunket. Through her mother, Juliet is a granddaughter of Benjamin Plunket, Bishop of Meath, and a great-granddaughter of Lord Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin.

In 1943, when she was eight, her father inherited the title of Earl Fitzwilliam, and she became Lady Juliet. By this time, her parents' marriage was strained, and there was talk of divorce. In 1948 Earl Fitzwilliam died in a plane crash in France with his lover, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, the widow of the heir to the Dukedom of Devonshire and a sister of the future U. S. President John F. Kennedy. As her father's only child, Lady Juliet, still aged only thirteen, inherited his whole unentailed estate and his huge art collection. The following year, she and her mother left Wentworth Woodhouse, and most of its contents were sold.[1]

Lady Juliet holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oxford.

Marriages and family life

In 1960, Lady Juliet married Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, twenty years her senior, eighteen days after he inherited his title upon his father's death. He had been divorced the previous year and, in his twenties, had been adjudicated a bankrupt, declared the "No.1 Playboy of Mayfair", and jailed for jewel robbery. The couple had two children:

• Lord Nicholas Hervey (26 November 1961 – 26 January 1998)
• Lady Ann Hervey (26 February 1965), stillborn

The couple separated in 1965 and divorced in 1972.

In 1974 she married Somerset de Chair, who was a former Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk and Paddington South. The couple had one child:

• Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair (b. October 1977), a writer on a trade magazine for the oil industry. She married the Hon. Jacob Rees-Mogg, son of former Times editor Lord Rees-Mogg (and future Conservative Party politician), on 13 January 2007 at Canterbury Cathedral.[2] They have six children:
  • Peter Theodore Alphege Rees-Mogg (b. 2007)
  • Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg (b. 2008)
  • Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan Rees-Mogg (b. 2010)
  • Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg (b. 2012)[3]
  • Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius Rees-Mogg (b. 22 February 2016)[4]
  • Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg (b. July 2017)[5]

After her second husband's death, in 1997, Lady Juliet married thirdly the architectural historian Christopher Tadgell and lives with him at her estate of Bourne Park, near Canterbury, Kent.[1]

Her daughter Helena attended the University of Bristol, and her son Nicholas was educated at Eton College, followed by Yale University.

On 26 January 1998, two days after her 63rd birthday, her son Nicholas committed suicide.

Wealth and inheritance

As the only child of the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, Lady Juliet inherited his estates, which have since passed into a trust for her benefit, and include his vast art collection, including seven paintings by George Stubbs and six by Anthony van Dyck and properties in England, Ireland and the United States. She consistently makes the Sunday Times Rich List, rising in 2009 to 1550th in the ranking with £35 million, although she suffered a £10 million drop that year because of the recession.[6] She ran a stud farm and continues to own some racehorses.[7]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lady Juliet Tadgell

8. William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton 4. William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam 9. Laura Beauclerk 2. Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam 10. Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland 5. Lady Maud Dundas 11. Lady Lilian Lumley 1. Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 12. William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket 6. Hon. Benjamin Plunket 13. Anne Guinness 3. Olive Plunket 14. Sir Thomas Butler, 10th Baronet, of Cloughgrenan 7. Dorothea Butler 15. Hester Bellingham

References

1. Lady Juliet also owned a large estate in Ireland, Coolattin Park, situated outside the village of Shillelagh in County Wicklow, which had been the seat of the Fitzwilliam family in Ireland since the 17th century. That was sold in 1977, and the famous "Tomnafinogue wood", one of the largest ancient oak woodlands in the British Isles and part of the former Coolattin Estate, is now under state ownership.The DiCamillo Companion Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Tory couple will live at West Harptree", Chew Valley Gazette, February 2007.
3. "Jacob Rees-Mogg: Maybe he's canvassing in the King of Spain's private loo", The Times, 11 April 2010.
4. , Daily Telegraph 24 February 2016
5. "Jacob Rees-Mogg". Instagram. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
6. Lady Juliet Tadgell, the Sunday Times Rich List 2009, 26 April 2009.
7. "Lady Juliet Tadgell – Record By Race Type – Racing Post". Racing Post.