Helena Rees-Mogg
Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Lady Rees-Mogg, is a British heiress and television personality. She is married to Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, former Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Somerset and Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
Early life and family
Rees-Mogg is the only daughter of Conservative MP Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the only child and sole heiress of the very wealthy 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, who died in a small aircraft crash when she was aged 13. Also killed was his intended second wife, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, a daughter-in-law of the 10th Duke of Devonshire and a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The de Chair family, settled in England since the end of the seventeenth century, was of Huguenot descent and could trace their ancestry to Rene de la Chaire, whose grandson, Jean de la Chaire, was ennobled as a marquis in 1600 by Henry IV of France. They rose to gentry status through generations of clergy. Her half-brother was Lord Nicholas Hervey. She is the aunt of former Olympic athlete Lawrence Clarke and former Conservative MP Theo Clarke.She grew up at her family's estate of Bourne Park near Canterbury, Kent.
Education
Rees-Mogg studied chemistry at the University of Bristol. After her studies, she began working for Argus Media as a journalist.Family
In 2006, she became engaged to the Hon. Jacob Rees-Mogg, future Conservative politician and son of former Times editor Lord Rees-Mogg. She had first met Rees-Mogg when they were children, and they began dating the year before their engagement, after gaining the blessing of her mother. The couple were married at Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, in 2007, in a ceremony at which the post-Vatican II Mass was celebrated in Latin.File:Gournay Court.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Since 2010, the Rees-Mogg family has lived at Gournay Court in Somerset.
In 2010, the couple purchased the Grade II* listed Gournay Court in West Harptree in Somerset, where they live with their six children: Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred, and Sixtus.