Helena Rees–Mogg

The Honourable Lady Rees-Mogg
Born	Helena Anne Beatrice Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair
Alma mater	University of Bristol
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	6
Parents	Somerset de Chair Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
Relatives	Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (maternal grandfather) Dudley de Chair (paternal grandfather) Lord Nicholas Hervey (half-brother) Lawrence Clarke (half-nephew) Theo Clarke (half-niece)

Helena Anne Beatrice Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, Lady Rees-Mogg (born 1977) is a British heiress and television personality. She is married to Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Early life and family

De Chair is the only daughter of Conservative MP Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the only child and sole heiress of the very wealthy 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (d.1948), who died in a small aircraft crash when she was aged 13. Also killed was his intended second wife, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, a daughter-in-law of the Duke of Devonshire and a sister of US President John F. Kennedy. The De Chair family, settled in England since the end of the seventeenth century, was of Huguenot descent and could trace their ancestry to Rene de la Chaire, whose grandson, Jean de la Chaire, was ennobled as a marquis in 1600 by Henry IV of France. They rose to gentry status through generations of clergymen. Her half-brother was Lord Nicholas Hervey. She is the aunt of Olympic athlete Lawrence Clarke and former Conservative MP Theo Clarke.

She grew up at her family's estate of Bourne Park, near Canterbury, Kent.

Education

She studied chemistry at the University of Bristol. After her studies, de Chair began working for Argus Media as a journalist.

Family

In 2006, de Chair became engaged to the Rt Hon Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, future Conservative politician and son of former Times editor Lord Rees-Mogg. De Chair had first met Rees-Mogg, when they were children, and they began dating the year before their engagement, after Rees-Mogg had gained the blessing of her mother. The couple were married at Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, in 2007, in a ceremony at which the post-Vatican II Mass was celebrated in Latin.

Since 2010, The Rees-Mogg family has lived at Gournay Court.

In 2010, the couple purchased the Grade II* listed Gournay Court in West Harptree, where they live with their six children.

Wealth and inheritance

Her mother inherited her grandfather's estates, with a £45million estimated net worth, which have since passed into a trust for her benefit, and include his vast art collection, including four paintings by George Stubbs and six by Anthony van Dyck and properties in England, Ireland and the United States, to which de Chair is also the sole heir.