Helena (de Chair) Rees-Mogg (b.1977)

Lady Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam (de Chair) Rees-Mogg

She was educated at Benenden in Kent and read chemistry at Bristol University. Up until having her third child, she worked as a journalist for Argus Media reporting on the oil industry. Her mother is the only daughter and sole heir of the late 8th Earl Fitzwilliam who was killed in an aeroplane plane crash with his mistress, Kick Kennedy, sister of JFK. Aside from property and investments valued at £45-million, her mother inherited an art collection recently given an approximate value of £80-million to which Helena is also the sole heir. According to her husband's unauthorised biographer (Michael Ashcroft), Helena was introduced to Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2005 through his sister, Annunziata, who was concerned about her brother's status as a, "seemingly eternal bachelor". He proposed to her in April, 2006, in the picture gallery at her mother's home (Bourne Park), under the Van Dyck paintings. They were married in 2007 in front of 650-guests at Canterbury Cathedral - the home of the Anglican Church - and are the parents of six children. They live between 7 Cowley Street, London, and Gournay Court, Somerset.

Parents (2)

Somerset Struben de Chair

M.P., Author & Historian, of St Osyth's Priory, Essex & Bourne Park, Kent

1911-1995

Lady Juliet Tadgell

Lady Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud (Wentworth-Fitzwilliam) Hervey, de Chair, Tadgell

b.1935

Spouse (1)

Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg

M.P., Investment Banker, and ex-Minister for Brexit Opportunities

b.1969

Associated Houses (1)

Gournay Court

West Harptree

Categories

Jacob's Ladder: The Unauthorised Biography of Jacob Rees-Mogg (2019) by Michael Ashcroft.