Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill
English interior designer and writer
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| Intro | English interior designer and writer | ||||||||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain England | ||||||||
| is | Designer Interior designer Writer Businessperson | ||||||||
| Work field | Arts Business Creativity Literature | ||||||||
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| Birth | 7 October 1958 | ||||||||
| Age | 66 years | ||||||||
| Star sign | Libra | ||||||||
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Lady Henrietta Mary Spencer-Churchill (born 7 October 1958) is an English interior decorator and founder of Woodstock Designs. Her name has been more than once included in a list of 100 Leading Interior Designers by House & Garden magazine. She is the author of several books on the subject, as well as Blenheim and the Churchill Family: A Personal Portrait (2005), an historical and anecdotal account of her family home, Blenheim Palace.
Lady Henrietta is the youngest child and only daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough by his first wife Susan Mary, daughter of Michael Hornby. She is the great-granddaughter of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the step-sister of Christina Onassis through her father's second marriage to Tina Onassis, former wife of Aristotle Onassis.
She was married to German banker Nathan Gelber from 1980 to 1989, with whom she has sons David Aba Gelber (born 1981) and Maximilian Henry Gelber (born 1985).