Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven

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The Marchioness of Milford Haven
The Marchioness in 2003
BornClare Husted Steel
(1960-09-02) 2 September 1960 (age 64)
Spouse(s)
Nicholas Wentworth-Stanley
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(m. 1985; div. 1997)​
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(m. 1997)​
Issue3
OccupationJournalist

Clare Husted Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (née Steel; born 2 September 1960), is a British aristocrat, journalist, polo player and brand ambassador. In 2018 the Marchioness co-founded the charity James' Place.

Biography

Lady Milford Haven is the daughter of Anthony Nigel Steel of Rock House Farm, Lower Froyle, Hampshire, and his wife, Anne Husted. She has one brother and one sister.

Her sister, Louise Helen Steel (born 1956), married Count Don Ludovico del Balzo, dei Duchi di Presenzano, son of Count Don Giulio del Balzo, dei Duchi di Presenzano and Donna Maria Elisabetta, dei Marchese Cavalletti dell'Oliveto Sabino, on 30 April 1983; they have three children.[1]

The Marchioness enjoys playing polo. Until 2020, she was an ambassador of the watch company Jaeger-LeCoultre for over 15, and she was made a brand ambassador for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in 2019. She has also worked as a journalist and was a special editor for the Tatler magazine between October 1998 – 2006, and has also written for magazines such as GQ, The Times, Homes & Gardens.[2][3]

James' place

After the family tragedy of losing her son James to suicide in 2006, she later co-founded the charity James' Place in England during 2018. The original location in Liverpool operated as the first non-clinic suicide crisis centre in the UK,[2][4] several locations were added to the Marchioness' charity in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, and through fundraising, the charity plans to raise £10 million more to open new locations in Birmingham and Bristol in the future (c. 2023). She was also made a co-chair for the British Alliance of Suicide Prevention Charities (TASC) in 2010.[2][3]

Marriages and children

Mountbatten (left) with daughter Louisa Wentworth Stanley (right), and Archie Standing at British Polo Day Morocco 2014

She married Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley (born 1954), a Lloyd's List's underwriter, in 1985; they later divorced in 1997. With her first husband, she had three children:

  • James Nicholas (Nick) Wentworth-Stanley (1985–2006), a former pupil at Harrow School and a student at Newcastle University and, like his mother, an accomplished polo player[5]
  • Harry David Wentworth-Stanley (born 1989), married Cressida Bonas[6]
  • Louisa Clare Wentworth-Stanley (born 1993), engaged to Ludovic de Ferranti[7]

She married George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1997, without issue.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Del Balzo: Duchi di Presenzano" [Dukes Of Presenzano]. genmarenostrum.com. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Clare Milford Haven". themarque. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Suicide-prevention charity founder Clare Milford Haven on helping men in crisis". harpersbazaar.com. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Safe Haven: In Conversation with Clare Milford Haven". countryantownhouse.com. 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  5. ^ Savill, Richard; Berry, Alex (18 December 2006). "Son of marchioness found shot dead". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 27 January 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  6. ^ Sykes, Tom (18 March 2015). "Post-Prince Harry, Cressida Bonas' Career Takes Off". The Daily Beast.
  7. ^ Bridger-Linning, Stephanie (23 January 2023). "Wedding bells as Louisa Wentworth-Stanley, Cressida Bonas' sister-in-law and daughter of the Marchioness of Milford Haven, announces engagement". Tatler. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  8. ^ Clare Milford Haven (3 September 2024). "Forget the Hamptons". tatler.com. Tatler.