Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster
Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, Dowager Duchess of Westminster (née Phillips; born 8 May 1959) is the widow of 6th Duke of Westminster.
The Dowager Duchess of Westminster | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Natalia Ayesha Phillips 8 May 1959 |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Children | Lady Tamara Grosvenor Lady Edwina Grosvenor Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster Lady Viola Grosvenor |
| Parents | Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips Georgina Wernher |
Marriage and children
On 7 October 1978, Natalia Phillips married Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
They had four children:
- Lady Tamara Katharine Grosvenor (born 20 December 1979)
- Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor (born 4 November 1981)
- Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster (born 29 January 1991)
- Lady Viola Georgina Grosvenor (born 12 October 1992)
Duchess of Westminster
As Duchess of Westminster, Natalia has presided over the remodelling of the traditional family seat, Eaton Hall, and has been closely involved in the redesign of its formal gardens and park. She also takes an interest in the family's fine art collection.[1]
The Duchess is a director of Alex Moulton Bicycles.
She is patron of a number of charities based in the north west, near the family home in Cheshire, including:
From October 1997 to October 2007, she was Patron of the Chester Childbirth Appeal.[4]
Royal kinship
She is the youngest of five children of Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips (1909–1980) and his wife, Georgina Wernher (1919–2011).[5][6] Her eldest sister is Her Grace Sacha, Duchess of Abercorn, and another sister is Marita Crawley, who wrote the libretto for the opera The Poet and the Tsar about their great-great-great-grandfathers, Alexander Pushkin and Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Natalia is one of three godmothers to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.[7] Her family have long been close to the British Royal Family, being distantly related to both Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[8] They are also descendants, through non-Catholic marriages, of Sophia, Electress of Hanover,[6] in whose Protestant descendants is vested the right of succession to the British throne according to the Act of Settlement 1701.
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- "London tribute to Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum Rabbani honors her contributions to conservation and the arts". bahai.org. Retrieved 17 September 2015.