Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington

The Right Horourable The Earl of Harrington
Born	Charles Henry Leicester Stanhope (1945-07-20) 20 July 1945
Title	Earl of Harrington
Tenure	12 April 2009 – present
Other titles	Viscount Petersham
Net worth	£250 million
Predecessor	William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington
Spouse(s)	Virginia Freeman-Jackson (m. 1966; div. 1983) Anita Fugelsang (m. 1984)
Issue	William Stanhope, Viscount Petersham Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon
Parents	William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington Eileen Foley Grey

Charles Henry Leicester Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington (born 20 July 1945), styled as Viscount Petersham from birth until his father's death in 2009, is the son of William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington, and his wife, Eileen Grey.

Early life

Charles Henry Leicester Stanhope was born 20 July 1945 to William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington (1922–2009), and Eileen Grey, daughter of Sir John Foley Grey, 8th Baronet. He had two older sisters, the elder of whom was Lady Jane Stanhope (1942–1974), who married Anthony Cameron and was killed in a motor accident in 1974. His second sister is Lady Avena Margaret Clare Stanhope (b. 1944), who married Adrian Maxwell.

Wealth

He was ranked 325th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 with an estimated wealth of £250 million. He is the owner of some prime land in London. Though the net assets of his two main companies, Elvaston Investments and Stanhope Gardens, came in at about £5 million in 2005, his total land holdings have been valued recently at about £250 million.

Personal life

He married, firstly, Virginia Freeman-Jackson, on 14 September 1966 and they were divorced in 1983. They had two children:

• William Henry Leicester Stanhope, Viscount Petersham (born 14 October 1967), who married the former model Candida Bond, and has issue, one son, the Hon. Augustus Stanhope, a Page of Honour,^[1] and one daughter. A supporter of the Save the Rhino campaign, he lives on the family's Scottish estate, Crimonmogate.
• Lady Serena Alleyne Stanhope (born 1 March 1970), now Countess of Snowdon, who married David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, nephew of Queen Elizabeth II, on 8 October 1993, and has two children.

He married, secondly, the photographer Anita Fuglesang, formerly the wife of Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk.

Titles and styles

• 20 July 1945 – 12 April 2009: Viscount Petersham
• 12 April 2009 – present: The Right Honourable The Earl of Harrington

Ancestry

References

• Burke's Peerage

External links

• genealogics.org
• thepeerage.com