The marriage was happy at first and the couple shared many interests, including yachting and motor racing.
Lady Mary Constance Grosvenor (1910–2000), who never married and became a motor racing and rally driver. Edward George Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (1904–1909), who died young. Lady Ursula Mary Olivia Grosvenor (1902–1978), whose descendants are the only descendants of the Duchess and of the Duke. The Duke was one of the richest men in the world. Later they lived together at Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The pair were married on 16 February 1901 and moved into Grosvenor House on Park Lane, a mansion that the Duke had inherited from his grandfather. Personal life Īt a party at Blenheim Palace, Mary asked the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to convince Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, to marry her daughter. She distributed the diplomas of special merit to the competitors of the other Olympic sports on 25 July 1908. The Duchess was one of only two women to compete in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics as owner and extra crewmember of the 8-metre bronze medal-winning yacht Sorais. Frederick West, younger son of John West, 2nd Earl De La Warr). Her maternal grandfather was Reverend Frederick Fitzpatrick and her paternal grandfather was Frederick Richard West (son of the Hon. Her brother was George Cornwallis-West, the second husband of Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill. She was very close to her sister, Daisy, Princess of Pless (wife of Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg). Her father was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire West and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Denbighshire from 1872 to 1917 and his mother was known as a great beauty and leading socialite. Early life Ĭonstance Edwina Cornwallis-West was the youngest child of William and Mary "Patsy" FitzPatrick. Constance Edwina Lewis, CBE (formerly Grosvenor, née Cornwallis-West – 21 January 1970), also known as Shelagh, was an English socialite and peeress.
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