Michael Rhodes
2006-01-09 14:15:19 UTC
Daniel Chatto, husband of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, was born at
London, 22 Apr 1957, officially the son of Tom Chatto (see below) by
his wife Ros, but it has been claimed he is the illegitimate son of the
theatrical agent Robin Fox (see below) and Ros Chatto. Most websites
incorrectly state that Daniel Chatto was born "Daniel Sproule" and that
he uses his mother's maiden name. Clearly, this is not the case. His
father was the actor known as Tom Chatto.
His father's Times obituary:-
MR TOM CHATTO
Stage and television actor
Tom Chatto, who died suddenly at a London hospital on August 8 in his
early sixties, was an actor perhaps most familiar from his frequent
portrayals of genial authority figures, notably bank managers and City
executives, in innumerable television plays, serials and commercials.
But the range of his work over forty years in the business stretched
from Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop (where he was the shameless
bent sergeant in the original cast of "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be")
to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where he spent several years as
Colonel Pickering in "My Fair Lady". He was an actor who specialised in
long runs (for a number of years he was also the "Rocky Horror Show's"
most urbane London stage narrator) and long regional tours, most
recently last winter as the judge in "Whose LIfe Is It Anyway?" But he
also had a considerable following among children, built up over many
Christmases as Emperors or Grand Viziers in Palladium pantomimes and
then on television as the theatre manager forever under attack from Rod
Hull's Emu. Though his face was often more familiar than his name, Tom
Chatto was an actor who brought dignity and charm to a vast range of
supporting roles on stage and in British war films of the 1950s and
1960s, few of which were complete without he resassuringly uniformed
presence in central operations rooms. He was, above all, the kind of
actor people mean when they talk about the backbone of the profession.
He leaves a widow, the theatrical agent Rosalind Chatto, and two sons,
the writer James and the actor Daniel Chatto.
father was the late actor and impresario Robin Fox - which would mean
that the actors Edward and James Fox are his half-brothers. But Lord
Snowdon was quoted by the Dail Mail in 1990 as saying that Daniel was
the legitimate son of Ros and her late husband, the actor Tom Chatto.
He said that Mrs Angela Fox wrote to him in 1988 'saying there was no
truth in the malicious gossip and that she was a great friend of
Daniel's mother and father.' Lord Snowdon said at the time: 'I'm sad
that someone can be so utterly wicked. Daniel is an extremely nice
young man and I will not tolerate seeing him treated like this.'
However, Angela Fox is quoted in a tabloid newpaper (interviewed by one
Don Slater, May 1994): The full story of Daniel's scandal from his
birth and father Robin Fox's death is told here for the first time by
Robin Fox's widow, socialite and author, Angela. She says she kept
vigil each day at her dying husband's bed, while his mistress, Daniel's
mother Rosalind Chatto, kept watch by night. "I knew what was going on
between Ros and my husband", says Angela. "She worked for him and she
was always around. But I knew he'd never leave me."
Angela and Robin were married for 37 years.For 10 years Robin had been
having an affair with Rosalind who worked for him when he was a London
impresario and agent. " I used Ros disgracefully," says Angela. "I sent
her on errands - treated her like a secretary with whom my husband was
having an affair." The two women shared some of the most intimate
moments of their lives. "I shared my husband Robin's death with
Daniel's mother as I shared in Daniel's birth," says Angela."Ros was at
our London flat when she went into labour. I got her to the hospital
just in time. Tom - Rosalind's husband - was not presetn at Daniel's
birth. At the first baby yell I said to Ros 'Whose bloody baby is this?
It it Tom's, Dick's or...?' I did not actually say Robin's. We both
roared with laughter.' Robin Fox and Angela had three sons, old
Harrovian actors Edward and James, and Robert, an impresario. 'Daniel
was always around with my boyswhen they were growing up', says Angela.
'He was a plain child. His mother adored him and he has turned into a
nice-looking boy whom people like very much. LadySarah is a nice
democratic sort, but Daniel is nonetheless marrying a privileged girl.
The Smiths and the Joneses and the Foxes - we are different people from
the Royal Family. I have dinner with the Queen and often with Princess
Margaret. I don't belong to their circle but I amuse them. Ros comes
from a humble background. Her mother was a postmistress in Devon. Ros
didn't belong in our circle. She was very intelligent with a great
sense of humour, but she didn't belong. Tom (Chatto) knew what was
going on but there was never any drama. It was surprise to me that Ros
fell for my husband. He was elegant, from a rich background and women
threw themselves at him. It annoyed me at first. But as he never
suggesed leaving me, I realised things were better left as they were.
But I took great care to be discreet - for my children's, her husband's
and her child's sake. Now there is njo reasn why people should not
know. Why should it worry me whose son Daniel is? I myself am the child
an illegitimate relationship." Angela admits to lovers of her own while
her husbabd was at war. "I always sent them back to their wives," she
says. She would not, she says, be amazed to discover that Daniel and
her sons have more half-brothers or sisters.
"After the war he took me to some of the places where he'd been in
Italy," says Angela."He introduced me to a very attractive Italian
woman, and her daughter. He admitted he'd had affairs with both. I
wondered if he had heard of my affairs. I had been discreet but some of
them had been well-known men. It was never discussed. His affair with
Ros was never discussed either. Towards the end he used to say: 'Get me
out of this ridiculous situation.'He never used her name. 'You've got
me out of all the other things' Angela, who revealed that one of
Robin's affairs was with Princess Marina, mother of Princess Alexandra
and a relative of Lady Sarah, adds: 'I always knew when he wanted me to
finish an affair for him. He'd leave their letters in a wastepape
rbasket. If he was ever going to leave me it would have been for
Princess Marina, the then Duchess of Kent. But the Royal Family would
never have accepted a divorced man. He wouldn't have married Ros - he
was a crashing snob. When Robin was dying I had Ros in my house all the
time because I felt sorry for her. When he was first illI left her to
spend every weekend with him. He made his will out while he was in
hospital. He left everything to me - witnessed by the night nurse and
Ros. I thought that was rather cruel - but she was after him, not his
possessions. I took him to a clinic in Germany. He had a brain tumour
and was in and out of consciousness. He said her name, and I asked her
to come. She came imemdiately. Ros was there when Robin died at our
home in Sussex. We knew he had gone - though she is very tough - she
walked outside into the courtyard in tears. I went out and hugged her.
I liked her - I still do. She doesn't like me but I expect that is
because Robin didn't leave me. I saw her last at a crowded theatrical
party. I went forward to Ros and at once kissed her on both cheeks. She
was perfectly pleasant. We didn't refer to the so-called skeleton. I
regret she doesn't choose to be friends with me. We could have a nice
time. I'd be quite a help at a time like this because I know the
score."END
Robin Fox, actor & theatrical agent (died in 1972 from cancer) married
Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, who illegitimate daughter of the
playwright Frederick Lonsdale (who d. London, in Apr 1954, aged 73:
Source: The Times 6 Apr 1954), and has issue: -
(i) Edward Fox, actor, b. 13 Apr 1937, married 1958 (div 1961), the
actress Tracy Reed (whose real name was Clare Pelissier), daughter of
Harry Anthony Compton Pelissier (the actor Tony Pelissier), by whom he
has one daughter, Lucy Arabella Fox who married (1) David Grenfell, &
(2) 1997, as his second wife, the 17th Viscount Gormanston (b. 19 Nov
1939), Premier Viscount in the Peerage of Ireland; and has 1 son,
Frederick Fox, b. 1989 and 1 daughter, the actress Emilia Fox, with the
actress Joanna David (b. Lancaster, 17 Jan 1947, as Joanna Hacking, dau
of John Hacking). (Fox's 1st wife was a granddaughter of H.G. Pelissier
(d. 1913), who married, as her first husband, Fay Compton, CBE (who d.
in Dec 1978, aged 84 source Daily Telegraph 13 Dec 1978)actress. Fay
Compton married (ii) Laurie de Freece (he d. 1921), married 3rdly, Leon
Quatermaine (divorced 1942), married 4thly, Ralph Champion Shotter (aka
the actor Ralph Michael ) from whom she was div in 1946. Fay Compton
(real name Virginia Lilian Eumeline Mackenzie) was a daughter of the
actor whose stage name was Edward Compton, by his American wife
Virginia Bateman, daughter of Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman; and Fay was a
sister of the author Sir Compton Mackenzie, OBE (b. West Hartlepool, 17
Jan 1883; d. at Edinburgh, 30 Nov 1972) who married (i) 1905, Faith,
dau of the Rev E.D. Stone, of Eton, and sister of Christopher Stone;
she d. 1960, His second wife, Christina, whom he married in 1962, was
the daughter of Malcolm MacSween, of Tarbet, Harris. She d. 1963, and
in 1965 he wed her sister Lilian. (Source: The Times obituary, 1 Dec
1972). The paternal grandfather of Fay Compton & Sir Compton Mackenzie
was Charles Mackenzie, also an actor, whose stage name was Henry
Compton. NOTE: Edward Fox's 1st wife was a granddaughter of Freda
Dudley Ward, sometime mistress of King Edward VIII; Tracy was also a
step-daughter of Sir Carol Reed, Knt (b. London 30 Dec 1906; d. at
Chelsea 25 Apr 1976; source The Times 27 Apr 1976), film director;
knighted 1952; who married 1stly, at Caxton Hall Register Office,
London, 3 Feb 1943, as her 1st husband, the actress Diana Wynyard, CBE
(1953) (div 1947, real name Dorothy Isobel Cox, b. London 16 Jan 1906,
daughter of Edward and Margaret Cox; changed her name from Cox to
Wynyard in 1936; married 2ndly, at Marylebone Register Office, Nov
1951, Hungarian born Dr. Tibor Csato (div 1958); Diana Wynyard died at
St Paul's Hospital, London, 13 May 1964, aged 58, Source: The Times 15
May, 1964); Carol Reed married 2ndly, 1947, Mrs Penelope Ann Rachel
Pelissier, stage and film actress, who made her screen debut in 1935 in
"Escape Me Never" (she d. in Jan 1982, aged 67: Source Daily Telegraph
23 Jan 1982) , former wife of Anthony Pelissier (whom she married in
1939, div. 1944, see above), and elder daughter of the Rt Hon William
Dudley Ward, MP (1877-1946), scion of the Earls of Dudley, by his wife,
the former Winifred Mary Birkin, scion of the Birkin Baronets. NOTE:
The abovementioned Tracy Reed, married 2ndly, the actor Neil Hallett
(from whom she obtained a decree nisi, 2 Dec 1973; and married 3rdly,
17 Apr 1974, as his 2nd wife, the actor Bill Simpson (real name William
Nicholson Simpson), star of TVs "Dr Finlay's Casebook" (b.Dunure,
Ayrshire, 11 Sept, 1931; d. 21 Dec, 1986, aged 54, source: The Times 23
Dec 1986), and had 2 daughters, Kelly Simpson (b. 1973) and Katy
Simpson (b. 1975). Bill Simpson's first wife was Mary Elizabeth Miller,
actress, founder member of the National Theatre, known as Mary Miller ,
they wed at Port of Menteith, 24 July, 1965; and she obtained a divorce
from Simpson, March 1969.
(ii) James Fox, actor, b. 19 May 1939 (changed his christian name from
William to James, 1962; married 1973, Mary Elizabeth Piper; and has 4
sons and 1 daughter.
(iii) Robert Michael John Fox, theatre, film and TV producer; Managing
Director, Robert Fox Ltd, from 1980; b. 25 March, 1952; married 1st
1975, Celestria Spoborg (div 1990), 1 son and 2 daughters; married
2ndly, 1990 (div 1994), Natasha Jane Richardson, actress, b. 11 May,
1963, daughter of Tony Richardson (b. Bradford, Yorks, 5 June, 1928; d.
Los Angeles, 14 Nov 1991, source The Times 16 Nov 1991), film director,
by his wife Vanessa Redgrave CBE ((married at Hammersmith Register
Office, 28 Apr 1962), (Vanessa was b. 30 Jan 1937, daughter of Sir
Michael Redgrave, actor and Rachel Kempson, actress) ; married 3rdly,
1996, Fiona Golfar, contributing editor to Vogue, by whom he has one
son and one daughter. NOTE: the above mentioned Natasha Richardson
married 2ndly, at New York, 4 July 1994, William John (Liam) Neeson,
OBE (b. Ballymena, N. Ireland, 7 June 1952, actor, son of Barney Neeson
and Katherine Neeson, by whom she has 2 daughters. (Source Daily
Telegraph 5 July 1994). Neeson was appointed OBE in 2000. NOTE: The
above Tony Richardson (1928-1991) also has a daughter Joely Richardson,
actress, with wife Vanessa Redgrave, and has a daughter, Katharine, by
a long-time companion, the Hon Grizelda Jane Grimond (b. 1942),
daughter of the late life peer Baron Grimond, TD, PC (b. 29 July 1913;
d. 24 Oct 1993), by his wife the Hon Laura Miranda Bonham Carter, dau
of Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury. NOTE: then abovementioned Joely
Richardson married Tim Bevan, film producer, Co-Founder and C0-Chairman
of Working Title Films since 1984, and is mother of a daughter, Daisy
(b. circa 1992)
London, 22 Apr 1957, officially the son of Tom Chatto (see below) by
his wife Ros, but it has been claimed he is the illegitimate son of the
theatrical agent Robin Fox (see below) and Ros Chatto. Most websites
incorrectly state that Daniel Chatto was born "Daniel Sproule" and that
he uses his mother's maiden name. Clearly, this is not the case. His
father was the actor known as Tom Chatto.
His father's Times obituary:-
From The Times, 10 August 1982
ObituaryMR TOM CHATTO
Stage and television actor
Tom Chatto, who died suddenly at a London hospital on August 8 in his
early sixties, was an actor perhaps most familiar from his frequent
portrayals of genial authority figures, notably bank managers and City
executives, in innumerable television plays, serials and commercials.
But the range of his work over forty years in the business stretched
from Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop (where he was the shameless
bent sergeant in the original cast of "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be")
to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where he spent several years as
Colonel Pickering in "My Fair Lady". He was an actor who specialised in
long runs (for a number of years he was also the "Rocky Horror Show's"
most urbane London stage narrator) and long regional tours, most
recently last winter as the judge in "Whose LIfe Is It Anyway?" But he
also had a considerable following among children, built up over many
Christmases as Emperors or Grand Viziers in Palladium pantomimes and
then on television as the theatre manager forever under attack from Rod
Hull's Emu. Though his face was often more familiar than his name, Tom
Chatto was an actor who brought dignity and charm to a vast range of
supporting roles on stage and in British war films of the 1950s and
1960s, few of which were complete without he resassuringly uniformed
presence in central operations rooms. He was, above all, the kind of
actor people mean when they talk about the backbone of the profession.
He leaves a widow, the theatrical agent Rosalind Chatto, and two sons,
the writer James and the actor Daniel Chatto.
From the Yorkshire Post, May 5, 1994: (of Daniel Chatto) "His mother is
Ros Chatto the theatrical agent and it has long been rumoured that hisfather was the late actor and impresario Robin Fox - which would mean
that the actors Edward and James Fox are his half-brothers. But Lord
Snowdon was quoted by the Dail Mail in 1990 as saying that Daniel was
the legitimate son of Ros and her late husband, the actor Tom Chatto.
He said that Mrs Angela Fox wrote to him in 1988 'saying there was no
truth in the malicious gossip and that she was a great friend of
Daniel's mother and father.' Lord Snowdon said at the time: 'I'm sad
that someone can be so utterly wicked. Daniel is an extremely nice
young man and I will not tolerate seeing him treated like this.'
However, Angela Fox is quoted in a tabloid newpaper (interviewed by one
Don Slater, May 1994): The full story of Daniel's scandal from his
birth and father Robin Fox's death is told here for the first time by
Robin Fox's widow, socialite and author, Angela. She says she kept
vigil each day at her dying husband's bed, while his mistress, Daniel's
mother Rosalind Chatto, kept watch by night. "I knew what was going on
between Ros and my husband", says Angela. "She worked for him and she
was always around. But I knew he'd never leave me."
Angela and Robin were married for 37 years.For 10 years Robin had been
having an affair with Rosalind who worked for him when he was a London
impresario and agent. " I used Ros disgracefully," says Angela. "I sent
her on errands - treated her like a secretary with whom my husband was
having an affair." The two women shared some of the most intimate
moments of their lives. "I shared my husband Robin's death with
Daniel's mother as I shared in Daniel's birth," says Angela."Ros was at
our London flat when she went into labour. I got her to the hospital
just in time. Tom - Rosalind's husband - was not presetn at Daniel's
birth. At the first baby yell I said to Ros 'Whose bloody baby is this?
It it Tom's, Dick's or...?' I did not actually say Robin's. We both
roared with laughter.' Robin Fox and Angela had three sons, old
Harrovian actors Edward and James, and Robert, an impresario. 'Daniel
was always around with my boyswhen they were growing up', says Angela.
'He was a plain child. His mother adored him and he has turned into a
nice-looking boy whom people like very much. LadySarah is a nice
democratic sort, but Daniel is nonetheless marrying a privileged girl.
The Smiths and the Joneses and the Foxes - we are different people from
the Royal Family. I have dinner with the Queen and often with Princess
Margaret. I don't belong to their circle but I amuse them. Ros comes
from a humble background. Her mother was a postmistress in Devon. Ros
didn't belong in our circle. She was very intelligent with a great
sense of humour, but she didn't belong. Tom (Chatto) knew what was
going on but there was never any drama. It was surprise to me that Ros
fell for my husband. He was elegant, from a rich background and women
threw themselves at him. It annoyed me at first. But as he never
suggesed leaving me, I realised things were better left as they were.
But I took great care to be discreet - for my children's, her husband's
and her child's sake. Now there is njo reasn why people should not
know. Why should it worry me whose son Daniel is? I myself am the child
an illegitimate relationship." Angela admits to lovers of her own while
her husbabd was at war. "I always sent them back to their wives," she
says. She would not, she says, be amazed to discover that Daniel and
her sons have more half-brothers or sisters.
"After the war he took me to some of the places where he'd been in
Italy," says Angela."He introduced me to a very attractive Italian
woman, and her daughter. He admitted he'd had affairs with both. I
wondered if he had heard of my affairs. I had been discreet but some of
them had been well-known men. It was never discussed. His affair with
Ros was never discussed either. Towards the end he used to say: 'Get me
out of this ridiculous situation.'He never used her name. 'You've got
me out of all the other things' Angela, who revealed that one of
Robin's affairs was with Princess Marina, mother of Princess Alexandra
and a relative of Lady Sarah, adds: 'I always knew when he wanted me to
finish an affair for him. He'd leave their letters in a wastepape
rbasket. If he was ever going to leave me it would have been for
Princess Marina, the then Duchess of Kent. But the Royal Family would
never have accepted a divorced man. He wouldn't have married Ros - he
was a crashing snob. When Robin was dying I had Ros in my house all the
time because I felt sorry for her. When he was first illI left her to
spend every weekend with him. He made his will out while he was in
hospital. He left everything to me - witnessed by the night nurse and
Ros. I thought that was rather cruel - but she was after him, not his
possessions. I took him to a clinic in Germany. He had a brain tumour
and was in and out of consciousness. He said her name, and I asked her
to come. She came imemdiately. Ros was there when Robin died at our
home in Sussex. We knew he had gone - though she is very tough - she
walked outside into the courtyard in tears. I went out and hugged her.
I liked her - I still do. She doesn't like me but I expect that is
because Robin didn't leave me. I saw her last at a crowded theatrical
party. I went forward to Ros and at once kissed her on both cheeks. She
was perfectly pleasant. We didn't refer to the so-called skeleton. I
regret she doesn't choose to be friends with me. We could have a nice
time. I'd be quite a help at a time like this because I know the
score."END
Robin Fox, actor & theatrical agent (died in 1972 from cancer) married
Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, who illegitimate daughter of the
playwright Frederick Lonsdale (who d. London, in Apr 1954, aged 73:
Source: The Times 6 Apr 1954), and has issue: -
(i) Edward Fox, actor, b. 13 Apr 1937, married 1958 (div 1961), the
actress Tracy Reed (whose real name was Clare Pelissier), daughter of
Harry Anthony Compton Pelissier (the actor Tony Pelissier), by whom he
has one daughter, Lucy Arabella Fox who married (1) David Grenfell, &
(2) 1997, as his second wife, the 17th Viscount Gormanston (b. 19 Nov
1939), Premier Viscount in the Peerage of Ireland; and has 1 son,
Frederick Fox, b. 1989 and 1 daughter, the actress Emilia Fox, with the
actress Joanna David (b. Lancaster, 17 Jan 1947, as Joanna Hacking, dau
of John Hacking). (Fox's 1st wife was a granddaughter of H.G. Pelissier
(d. 1913), who married, as her first husband, Fay Compton, CBE (who d.
in Dec 1978, aged 84 source Daily Telegraph 13 Dec 1978)actress. Fay
Compton married (ii) Laurie de Freece (he d. 1921), married 3rdly, Leon
Quatermaine (divorced 1942), married 4thly, Ralph Champion Shotter (aka
the actor Ralph Michael ) from whom she was div in 1946. Fay Compton
(real name Virginia Lilian Eumeline Mackenzie) was a daughter of the
actor whose stage name was Edward Compton, by his American wife
Virginia Bateman, daughter of Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman; and Fay was a
sister of the author Sir Compton Mackenzie, OBE (b. West Hartlepool, 17
Jan 1883; d. at Edinburgh, 30 Nov 1972) who married (i) 1905, Faith,
dau of the Rev E.D. Stone, of Eton, and sister of Christopher Stone;
she d. 1960, His second wife, Christina, whom he married in 1962, was
the daughter of Malcolm MacSween, of Tarbet, Harris. She d. 1963, and
in 1965 he wed her sister Lilian. (Source: The Times obituary, 1 Dec
1972). The paternal grandfather of Fay Compton & Sir Compton Mackenzie
was Charles Mackenzie, also an actor, whose stage name was Henry
Compton. NOTE: Edward Fox's 1st wife was a granddaughter of Freda
Dudley Ward, sometime mistress of King Edward VIII; Tracy was also a
step-daughter of Sir Carol Reed, Knt (b. London 30 Dec 1906; d. at
Chelsea 25 Apr 1976; source The Times 27 Apr 1976), film director;
knighted 1952; who married 1stly, at Caxton Hall Register Office,
London, 3 Feb 1943, as her 1st husband, the actress Diana Wynyard, CBE
(1953) (div 1947, real name Dorothy Isobel Cox, b. London 16 Jan 1906,
daughter of Edward and Margaret Cox; changed her name from Cox to
Wynyard in 1936; married 2ndly, at Marylebone Register Office, Nov
1951, Hungarian born Dr. Tibor Csato (div 1958); Diana Wynyard died at
St Paul's Hospital, London, 13 May 1964, aged 58, Source: The Times 15
May, 1964); Carol Reed married 2ndly, 1947, Mrs Penelope Ann Rachel
Pelissier, stage and film actress, who made her screen debut in 1935 in
"Escape Me Never" (she d. in Jan 1982, aged 67: Source Daily Telegraph
23 Jan 1982) , former wife of Anthony Pelissier (whom she married in
1939, div. 1944, see above), and elder daughter of the Rt Hon William
Dudley Ward, MP (1877-1946), scion of the Earls of Dudley, by his wife,
the former Winifred Mary Birkin, scion of the Birkin Baronets. NOTE:
The abovementioned Tracy Reed, married 2ndly, the actor Neil Hallett
(from whom she obtained a decree nisi, 2 Dec 1973; and married 3rdly,
17 Apr 1974, as his 2nd wife, the actor Bill Simpson (real name William
Nicholson Simpson), star of TVs "Dr Finlay's Casebook" (b.Dunure,
Ayrshire, 11 Sept, 1931; d. 21 Dec, 1986, aged 54, source: The Times 23
Dec 1986), and had 2 daughters, Kelly Simpson (b. 1973) and Katy
Simpson (b. 1975). Bill Simpson's first wife was Mary Elizabeth Miller,
actress, founder member of the National Theatre, known as Mary Miller ,
they wed at Port of Menteith, 24 July, 1965; and she obtained a divorce
from Simpson, March 1969.
(ii) James Fox, actor, b. 19 May 1939 (changed his christian name from
William to James, 1962; married 1973, Mary Elizabeth Piper; and has 4
sons and 1 daughter.
(iii) Robert Michael John Fox, theatre, film and TV producer; Managing
Director, Robert Fox Ltd, from 1980; b. 25 March, 1952; married 1st
1975, Celestria Spoborg (div 1990), 1 son and 2 daughters; married
2ndly, 1990 (div 1994), Natasha Jane Richardson, actress, b. 11 May,
1963, daughter of Tony Richardson (b. Bradford, Yorks, 5 June, 1928; d.
Los Angeles, 14 Nov 1991, source The Times 16 Nov 1991), film director,
by his wife Vanessa Redgrave CBE ((married at Hammersmith Register
Office, 28 Apr 1962), (Vanessa was b. 30 Jan 1937, daughter of Sir
Michael Redgrave, actor and Rachel Kempson, actress) ; married 3rdly,
1996, Fiona Golfar, contributing editor to Vogue, by whom he has one
son and one daughter. NOTE: the above mentioned Natasha Richardson
married 2ndly, at New York, 4 July 1994, William John (Liam) Neeson,
OBE (b. Ballymena, N. Ireland, 7 June 1952, actor, son of Barney Neeson
and Katherine Neeson, by whom she has 2 daughters. (Source Daily
Telegraph 5 July 1994). Neeson was appointed OBE in 2000. NOTE: The
above Tony Richardson (1928-1991) also has a daughter Joely Richardson,
actress, with wife Vanessa Redgrave, and has a daughter, Katharine, by
a long-time companion, the Hon Grizelda Jane Grimond (b. 1942),
daughter of the late life peer Baron Grimond, TD, PC (b. 29 July 1913;
d. 24 Oct 1993), by his wife the Hon Laura Miranda Bonham Carter, dau
of Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury. NOTE: then abovementioned Joely
Richardson married Tim Bevan, film producer, Co-Founder and C0-Chairman
of Working Title Films since 1984, and is mother of a daughter, Daisy
(b. circa 1992)