Clare Husted Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (''née'' Steel; born 2 September 1960), is a British aristocrat, journalist, polo player and brand ambassador. In 2018, the Marchioness co-founded the charity James' Place.

Biography

Lady Milford Haven is the daughter of Anthony Nigel Steel of Rock House Farm,

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, Hampshire, and his wife, Anne Husted. She has one brother and one sister. Her sister, Louise Helen Steel (born 1956), married

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'' Cavalletti dell'Oliveto Sabino, on 30 April 1983; they have three children. The Marchioness enjoys playing

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. Until 2020, she was an ambassador of the watch company

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for over 15, and she was made a

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for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in 2019. She has also worked as a journalist and was a special editor for the

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magazine between October 19982006, and has also written for magazines such as GQ,

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James' place

After the family tragedy of losing her son James to suicide in 2006, she later co-founded the charity in England during 2018. The original location in Liverpool operated as the first non-clinic suicide crisis centre in the UK, several locations were added to the Marchioness' charity in

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and London, and through fundraising, the charity plans to raise £10 million more to open new locations in Birmingham and Bristol in the future (). She was also made a co-chair for the British Alliance of Suicide Prevention Charities (TASC) in 2010.

Marriages and children

She married Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley (born 1954), a

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's underwriter and great-grandson of Major Sir Charles Wentworth-Stanley, in 1985; they later divorced in 1997. With her first husband, she had three children: * James Nicholas (Nick) Wentworth-Stanley (1985–2006), a former pupil at

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and a student at

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and, like his mother, an accomplished polo player * Harry David Wentworth-Stanley (born 1989), married

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* Louisa Clare Wentworth-Stanley (born 1993), engaged to Ludovic de

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She married

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, Massachusetts, on 20 August 1997, without issue.

References

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Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven Clare Husted Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (''née'' Steel; born 2 September 1960), is a British aristocrat, journalist, polo player and brand ambassador. In 2018, the Marchioness co-founded the charity James' Place. Biography Lady M ...

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