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Elizabeth Constance Mackintosh, Baroness Astor of Hever (born 4 May 1950) is an English author and autism activist. She is the second wife of John Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever.
Her parents are John Mackintosh, 2nd Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax and Bronda Fibiger. She has one sister, Diana; and one half-brother, Charles, from Bronda's second marriage.
Liz Astor worked as a model and a head hunter before her marriage to Baron Astor. Astor has written two books, a memoir and a novel. Loving Olivia: Bringing Up My Autistic Daughter recounts her experience with younger daughter Olivia's autism. In Astor's novel, Since You Went Away, she fictionalized her mother's life story. [1] She has done extensive charity work, focusing on raising funds for the Parkinsons UK and The National Autistic Society.
She has been married three times: Timothy Cutting; Nicolas Chagrin; and finally to Baron Astor in 1990. She married her current husband when her daughter Natalya was nine and became a stepmother to Astor's three daughters.
She has one daughter from her second marriage: Natalya Isabel Chagrin (born 1981), an actress.
Her two children with Astor are Charles Gavin John Astor (born 10 November 1990) and Olivia Alexandra Elizabeth Astor (born 21 August 1992).
Hever Castle is located in the village of Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, 30 miles (48 km) south-east of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century. From 1462 to 1539, it was the seat of the Boleyn family.
Jane Asher is an English actress and author. She achieved early fame as a child actress, and then through her association with Paul McCartney, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.
The Astor family achieved prominence in business, society, and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries. With Italian German ancestral roots in the Italian and Swiss Alps, the Astors settled in Germany, first appearing in North America in the 18th century with John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest people in history.
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor was an American-English attorney, politician, businessman, and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City. He moved to England in 1891, became a British subject in 1899, and was made a peer as Baron Astor in 1916 and Viscount Astor in 1917 for his contributions to war charities. The census-designated place of Waldorf, Maryland is named after him.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor V, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, DL was an American-born English newspaper proprietor, politician, sportsman, military officer, and member of the Astor family.
John Jacob Astor VI was an American socialite, shipping businessman, and member of the Astor family. He was dubbed the "Titanic Baby" for his affiliation with the RMS Titanic; Astor was born four months after his father, Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, died in the sinking of the Titanic. His pregnant mother Madeleine Astor survived the sinking.
George John Charles Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, DL, was a British peer and Conservative politician.
Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever DL, was an English soldier, publisher, peer, and member of the Astor family. Lord Astor served as chairman of the Times Publishing Company and president of the family owned Times Newspapers Ltd.
Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever DStJ, was an English aristocrat.
Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever was an English philanthropist and member of the Astor family. Her philanthropic contributions included being chairman of the Sunshine Fund for Blind Children from 1947 to 1989, during which she raised over £14 million and she served as vice president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind from 1977 to her death in 2001.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ririd Myddelton, MVO KStJ DL JP, was a country gentleman and one-time member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Leigh Horton, sometimes known as Liz Horton, was Miss North Carolina 2006 and is now a freelance meteorologist at CBS 4 WFOR-TV in Miami, Florida.
The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2003 BBC television film directed and written by Philippa Lowthorpe, adapted from Philippa Gregory's 2001 novel of the same name. It centres around courtier Mary Boleyn and her sister Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, King of England, and their competition for his affections.
Mary Boleyn, also known as Lady Mary, was the elder sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn, whose family enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII.
William Mure, of Caldwell was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician.
John Jacob "Johnny" Astor VIII, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever,, is an English businessman and politician from the Astor family. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative hereditary peer from 1986 to his retirement in 2022. Astor was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from 2010 to 2015. Astor is a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.
Mary Adelaide Virginia Thomasina Eupatoria "Patsy" Cornwallis-West was an Irish-born aristocrat and a prominent mistress of the future King Edward VII.
Astor is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Love Anthony is a novel by American writer Lisa Genova. The hardcover was released in September 2012 and the paperback was released in April 2013 to coincide with Autism Awareness Month. Set in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Love Anthony is a story about a mother dealing with the death of her son, who was diagnosed with autism at age three, and ultimately, finding the courage to start over.
Helen Hoang is the pen name of an American romance novelist, best known for her best-selling debut novel The Kiss Quotient.
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