Lady Juliet Tadgell

Lady Juliet was born Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Wentworth-Fitzwilliam to Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, the only son of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, and his wife Olive "Obby" Plunket. Through her mother, Juliet is a granddaughter of Benjamin Plunket, Bishop of Osborne, and a great-granddaughter of the 4th Baron Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin.

At age thirteen, her father inherited the title Earl Fitzwilliam; and she became Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam. By this time, her parents' marriage was strained and there was talk of divorce. Lord Fitzwilliam died in a plane crash in France in 1948 with his lover, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, the widow of the heir to the Dukedom of Devonshire and a sister of future U. S. President John F. Kennedy. As her parents' only child, Lady Juliet, at 13 years of age, inherited her father's estate and vast art collection. The following year, she and her mother left the house and sold much of its contents. Read Less

In 1992 he had been forced to declare bankruptcy as Lady Juliet refused to fund through his trust or otherwise the court judgment of legal fees he owed his father's third wife and prior personal secretary, Yvonne Sutton, for his suit seeking a share of his late father's estate; Lady Juliet had her son subsequently committed to an asylum for treatment of schizophrenia from 1992 to 1994. Her second husband also had a son who committed suicide.

Lady Juliet attended Oxford University for a Master of Fine Arts, her daughter Helena attended the University of Bristol and her son Nicholas attended Eton College and Yale University.

Lady Juliet and her first husband were distantly related, causing their son Nicholas to have a consanguinity index of .01 percent.

As the only child of the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, Lady Juliet inherited his estates, which have since passed into a trust for her benefit, and include his vast art collection, including seven paintings by George Stubbs and six by Anthony van Dyck and properties in England, Ireland and the United States. Read Less