British aristocrat, writer, and socialite
Catherine Guinness
Born Catherine Ingrid Guinness
(1952-06-01 ) 1 June 1952 (age 72) Other names Catherine Charteris, Lady Neidpath Catherine Hesketh Occupation(s) writer, socialite Spouses
Robert Fleetwood Hesketh
(
m. 1990; died 2004)
Children 5 (including Lady Mary Charteris ) Parent(s) Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne Ingrid WyndhamRelatives Guinness family
Catherine Ingrid Guinness (born 1 June 1952), known as Catherine Charteris, Lady Neidpath from 1983 to 1990 and later as Catherine Hesketh , is a British aristocrat, writer, and socialite. The first child of Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne , she is a member of the prominent Guinness family and a granddaughter of Diana Mitford . Guinness was a close friend of Andy Warhol , for whom she worked as a personal assistant in New York, and was active in the New York social scene and The Factory .
Early life and family
The Honourable Catherine Ingrid Guinness was born on 1 June 1952 in Oxford to Jonathan Bryan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne , and Ingrid Georgia Olivia Wyndham. Her father was a member of the Guinness family , a wealthy and politically prominent Irish family that made a fortune from brewing and banking. Her mother was a member of the Wyndham family and a descendant of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield . Her paternal grandparents were the poet and novelist Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne , and the socialite Diana Mitford , who was one of the infamous Mitford sisters . Her maternal grandparents were Major Guy Richard Charles Wyndham MC , the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Wyndham , and Grethe Wulfsberg, a Norwegian woman. Guinness' parents divorced in 1963, after which her mother remarried to Lord Moyne's cousin, Henry Paul Guinness Channon, Baron Kelvedon .
She is the half-sister of Daphne Guinness , who lived with her in New York in the early 1980s.
Adult life
Guinness was photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe in 1976.[ 1] The Mapplethorpe photograph is now owned by the J. Paul Getty Museum .[ 1] Another photograph of Guinness, taken by Mapplethorpe, is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art .[ 2]
She married James Donald Charteris, Lord Neidpath , the son and heir of David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss , in July 1983. Guinness and her husband lived at Stanway House , the Charteris family's 17th-century manor in Gloucestershire .[ 3] They have two children: Francis Richard Charteris, Lord Elcho and Lady Mary Charteris [ 4] [ 5] Lord and Lady Neidpath divorced in 1988.
In 1990, Guinness married a second time, to Robert Fleetwood Hesketh, a relative of the Baron Hesketh . They had three children. Her husband died from a drug overdose in 2004.[ 6] Her husband's 1,600-acre estate in Churchtown was inherited by their son, Frank.[ 6]
Guinness worked as a personal assistant for her friend Andy Warhol .[ 7] As a close associate with Warhol, she was active in The Factory and New York's social scene.[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] She was also a close friend of Charles, Prince of Wales , and active in the London social scene.[ 11] In 1979, Guinness appeared alongside Warhol in the film Cocaine Cowboys .
In 1984 she co-wrote the book The House of Mitford with her father.
References
^ a b "Catherine Guinness (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)" . The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection .
^ "Catherine Guinness, London | LACMA Collections" . collections.lacma.org . Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 .
^ "LORD LADY NEIDPATH NEE CATHERINE Editorial Stock Photo - Stock Image" . Shutterstock . Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 .
^ "The psychedelic Countess on a mushroom mission to free your mind" . Evening Standard . April 15, 2013. Archived from the original on February 9, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2022 .
^ "Photos: Portraits of 'Fortune's Children' " . Vanity Fair . May 14, 2009. Archived from the original on May 11, 2021. Retrieved June 5, 2022 .
^ a b "The black curse strikes Guinness dynasty again" . independent . 11 June 2005. Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 .
^ "Andy Warhol, Catherine Guinness and Andy Warhol" . LOT-ART . Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 .
^ Newman, Kim (September 17, 2013). Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard . Titan Books (US, CA). ISBN 9780857685360 . Archived from the original on June 5, 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2022 – via Google Books.
^ "Catherine Guinness and Mick Jagger, ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) | Christie's" . onlineonly.christies.com . Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 .
^ "[London: Catherine Guinness in her home (?) with Victor Hugo and in the back garden; Black tie party with Bianca Jagger, Catherine Guinness, Steve Rubell, Andy Warhol, young men]" . Andy Warhol Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford . Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 .
^ "Annabels nightclub | Dafydd Jones" . www.dafjones.com .