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Viscount Petersham | |
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Viscount Petersham | |
Tenure | 12 April 2009 – present |
Born | The Hon. William Henry Leicester Stanhope 14 October 1967 Limerick, Ireland |
Spouse(s) | Candida Bond (m. 2001) |
Issue The Hon. Tirkana Stanhope The Hon. Augustus Stanhope | |
Parents | Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington Virginia Freeman-Jackson |
William Henry Leicester Stanhope, Viscount Petersham (born 14 October 1967), [1] is the son of Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington, and his first wife, Virginia Freeman-Jackson. He is the heir apparent to the earldom of Harrington. [2]
Stanhope was born on 14 October 1967 in Limerick, Ireland, to the then-Viscount Petersham and his wife Virginia Freeman-Jackson, a debutante. His parents divorced when he was 16 years old. He has one younger sister, Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon, who is a niece-by-marriage of Queen Elizabeth II. Through his father, he is a descendant of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England. [3]
Stanhope spent most of his childhood between Chelsea with his father and his father's girlfriend and later wife Anita Howard, Countess of Suffolk, and Monaco with his mother. [4]
He went to Aysgarth School in North Yorkshire. After leaving Aysgarth, he went on to study at Aiglon College in Switzerland. [2]
On 28 April 2001, Stanhope married Candida Sophia Bond in Gloucestershire. They have two children:
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