Georgia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (née Powell, born 18 February 1969) is an English journalist who is married to

Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort Henry John FitzRoy Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort (born 22 May 1952), styled Marquess of Worcester between 1984 and 2017, also known as Harry Beaufort or Bunter Beaufort, previously as Bunter Worcester, is an English peer and landowner, with es ...

. Powell is the daughter of the director and producer

Tristram Powell Tristram Roger Dymoke Powell'Powell of The Chantry' pedigree, Burke's Peerage website (born 25 April 1940) is an English television and film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits include ''American Friends'', episodes of series Foyle's ...

and his wife, the former Virginia Lucas, and is thus a granddaughter of the novelist

Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell ( ; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work ''A Dance to the Music of Time'', published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English. Powell' ...

. She studied Classics at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, and is best known as a columnist and obituarist for the '' Daily Telegraph''. Her first marriage, in 1996, was to Tobias Coke; they had a son and a daughter. On 30 April 2018, she married the Duke of Beaufort at

St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton St Michael and All Angels is a Grade I listed church on the estate of the Duke of Beaufort in the village of Great Badminton, Gloucestershire, England. Attached to the Duke of Beaufort's residence, Badminton House, it is an active Anglican parish ...

. The Duke had previously divorced his first wife, actress Tracy Ward, after making a public announcement to guests at the Duke of Beaufort's annual hunt ball.

Publications

*''By Georgia Powell Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph'' (with Katharine Ramsay). John Murray, 2005.

References

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