Nina Campbell | |
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| Born | Henrietta Sylvia Campbell 9 May 1945 [1] [2] |
| Education | Heathfield School |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew de Chappuis Konig (m. 1971;div. 1978)John Deen (m. 1981;div. 1991) |
| Children | 3 |
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Henrietta "Nina" Sylvia Campbell (born 9 May 1945) is an English interior designer and businesswoman, whose clients include the Duke and Duchess of York, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart and the Capital Hotel in Knightsbridge. [3] [4] [5] She is known for her heart-shaped spectacles. [5]
Nina is the daughter of Colonel John Archibald Campbell, who was educated at Eton and fought in both World Wars, and Elizabeth Popper Pearth from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her parents divorced in 1960. Her uncle was the British diplomat Ronald Ian Campbell and she is the great-great-granddaughter of Sir Guy Campbell, the first of the Campbell baronets of St Cross Mede. Nina was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot, [1] then began her career working for Colefax & Fowler. [5] Since going independent, she also markets her own fabric, wallpaper and tableware designs, [5] both online and through the retailers John Lewis. [6]
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 16 March 1997. [3] Nina has twice appeared as guest designer on the BBC programme DIY SOS: The Big Build , first on 18 January 2012, in Season 23, Episode 2 from Conwy [7] and a second time on 13 November 2013, in the special episode The Big Build for Children in Need: Peterborough. [8]
Nina married Andrew Guy Louis de Chappuis Konig in 1971 with whom she had two children, Henrietta Lucy Elizabeth Konig (born July 1973) and Maximillian John Konig (born November 1976). They divorced in 1978. She then married John Henry Deen in 1981, with whom she had a third child, Alice Nina Deen (born 6 August 1982). They divorced in 1991. She lives in Chelsea, London and is godmother to her friend Geri Halliwell's daughter. [9]
Dame Penelope Alice Wilton, styled Penelope, Lady Holm between 1998 and 2001, is an English actress. She is known for starring opposite Richard Briers in the BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–1989); playing Homily in The Borrowers (1992) and The Return of the Borrowers (1993); and for her role as the widowed Isobel Crawley in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015). She also played the recurring role of Harriet Jones in Doctor Who (2005–2008) and Anne in Ricky Gervais' Netflix dark comedy After Life.
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Henrietta Russell, Dowager Duchess of Bedford is a landowner and horse breeder, and the widow of Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, with whom she lived, at Woburn Abbey. Until her husband succeeded to the Dukedom in 2002, she was better known as the Marchioness of Tavistock.
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