Wh her dghter tipped to marry Prce Harry, four-tim-married Mary-Gaye Curzon is still a society mag
Contents:
- LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON: BETIFUL BUTANTE WHOM CRSIDA BONAS LLS MUM
- LADY MARY GAYE CURZON: IT GIRL MUM OF CRSIDA, PRCE HARRY'S GIRLIEND RIVALS MRS MIDDLETON
- LADY MARY GAYE CURZON
- MARY GAY SNLON
- MARY GAYE CURZON AND CHRISTOPHER SHAW'S WEDDG
- CAROLE MIDDLETON VS LADY MARY GAYE CURZON AS WEDDG MOURS HOT UP
- CONGRSWOMAN MARY GAY SNLON RJACKED AND ROBBED PHILALPHIA
- SISTER KATHLEEN MARY GAY
LADY MARY-GAYE CURZON: BETIFUL BUTANTE WHOM CRSIDA BONAS LLS MUM
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LADY MARY GAYE CURZON: IT GIRL MUM OF CRSIDA, PRCE HARRY'S GIRLIEND RIVALS MRS MIDDLETON
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For Crsida Bonas, the 24-year-old dance graduate whom Prce Harry is said to be planng to marry wh the year, is strikgly siar to another “It” girl, albe one 40 years her senr: her mother, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon. Mary-Gaye, known as “MG” to her iends, was the darlg of the London social scene durg the Sixti.
LADY MARY GAYE CURZON
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Yet Mary-Gaye beme better known for her chaotic love life, which saw her divorced four tim, wh five children by three hbands. As her youngt dghter, Crsida, gets closer to Prce Harry, Mary-Gaye’s boistero past is likely to weigh heavily on his fay’s imprsn of her – and may return to hnt her dghter’s prospects as a prcs.
Though much has been ma of Crsida’s father’s humble begngs – Jefey Bonas, the old Harrovian entreprenr, me om a fay of butchers the back-streets of Battersea, south London – Mary-Gaye’s upbrgg was perhaps more expected of the mother of a potential royal bri.
Chelsea was, and remas, Mary-Gaye's stompg ground. In the same year, Mary-Gaye posed for a sultry portra taken by her close iend, the photographer Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, lled “ 'Out’ Group”, which also featured the polician Jonathan Aken, TV prenter Cathy McGowan and thor David Benedict.
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In 1971, Mary-Gaye married her first hband, the late Esmond Cooper-Key, grandson of the 2nd Visunt Rothermere, wh whom she had a dghter, Pandora, born 1973. Mary-Gaye moved quickly on to her send hband, the property magnate John Anstther-Gough-Calthorpe, whom she married at Kensgton Register Office 1977. After the relatnship broke down, Mary-Gaye started a passnate affair wh the bsman Jefey Bonas, Crsida’s father, then still married to his first wife, Elspeth.
MARY GAYE CURZON AND CHRISTOPHER SHAW'S WEDDG
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Mary-Gaye married him 1988 and Crsida, named after the Shakpeare play Troil and Crsida, was born a year later. The classil alln her dghter’s name belied Mary-Gaye’s bohemian leangs: though now well-tablished as the wife of a succsful bsman, she remaed an enigma to others the social circl she habed. Her maral hiccups ntued: Mary-Gaye separated om Bonas the early Neti, but this did not dampen her joie vivre.
Mary-Gaye moved wh Shaw, a former Grenadier Guards officer, after her divorce.
The reason for their spl was perhaps explaed by Shaw, who once told a roomful of guts: “Mary-Gaye is a difficult wife, as many of you here know. Now, at 66, Mary-Gaye liv Chelsea. Discreet as ever, Mary-Gaye has refed to ment on Crsida’s relatnship wh Prce Harry.
CAROLE MIDDLETON VS LADY MARY GAYE CURZON AS WEDDG MOURS HOT UP
Yet perhaps is her own secury around men and marriage, tated by three s of love, loss and betrayal, that unrli Mary-Gaye’s hancy. Perhaps her dghter, only a year olr than Mary-Gaye when she married hband No 1, will fare better her burgeong royal romance.
CONGRSWOMAN MARY GAY SNLON RJACKED AND ROBBED PHILALPHIA
Lady Mary Gaye and Carole Middleton on The Elizabethan durg the Queen's Diamond Jubilee river pageant Champagne glass hand, the two slim and elegantly drsed women appeared locked ep nversatn.
For one is Carole Middleton, mother of the Duchs of Cambridge, and the other is Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, mother to Crsida Bonas — Prce Harry’s whether they were discsg their rpective dghter’s relatnships is open to bate, bee wasn’t until the followg month that Crsida was beg openly talked of as a royal flame. Now, seems, Crsida has been ved to jo the Queen and other senr members of the Royal Fay at the christeng of Prce Gee on Wednday — an vatn that is the cleart signal yet of jt how ser the relatnship between Prce Harry and the pretty dance graduate has while Carole might be mother to a future queen, her apparently more ferential pose aboard The Elizabethan suggts ’s her pann who is more at ease such illtr Lady Mary Gaye’s pedigree, ’s perhaps no surprise.
While, if her dghter’s relatnship ntu to blossom, Lady Mary Gaye uld be the next Carole Middleton, many rpects the two women uld hardly be more at the start of her life a uncil flat, Carole is a former air hosts whose anctors were workg-class labourers and mers. Carole, 58, and hband Michael are now firmly and publicly ‘ tra’ (albe very succsfully) wh their mail-orr pany, Party ntrast, Lady Mary Gaye, 66, who tak her pet Pekge ‘Pocket’ wh her wherever she go, is jt about as blue-blood as n late father, Edward Curzon, was the 6th Earl Howe, godson of Kg Edward VII, a World War II naval officer and later a nservative polician. The fay seat, Penn Hoe, Buckghamshire, dat to the 16th century, when Henry VIII and his son, Edward VI, ma grants of land to a uple lled David and Sarah Penn — Lady Mary Gaye’s anctors — regnn of the latter’s role as nursemaid to the royal children durg the 1530s and 1540s.
SISTER KATHLEEN MARY GAY
Today, Lady Mary Gaye is an archetypal Chelsea lady of a certa age, a keen chary fundraiser who is always elegantly turned out and wh the impecble manners, abundant charm and ner nfince that wh good breedg. Society bety: Lady Mary Gaye at the Howe home Pts Head Mew, Mayfair If the Duchs of Cambridge and her sister Pippa Middleton have hered their dark hair and trim figur om their mother Carole, Crsida has certaly hered her goln bety om Lady Mary Gaye, known as MG by her social much as Carole Middleton is a very different woman today om the air hosts who dreamed of gog up the world, Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, too, has been on a journey.
And the time that same year she partied the Mederranean on a yacht lled Hedonist that belonged to the dashg Michael Pearson, son of Lord fact, Lady Mary Gaye was one of the most glamoro butant of her day and so bedazzled London that a blue-loured cktail — to match her blue-blood crentials — lled The Curzon was vented at Claridge’s her ntrast wh Carole Middleton, who has been happily married to Michael for 33 years, what ma Lady Mary Gaye most notor of all were her marriag, all four of them, and her divorc, all four of married her first hband, Esmond Cooper-Key, grandson of the 2nd Visunt Rothermere, 1971. Lady Mary Gaye Curzon pictured at her fay's untry home, Penn Hoe They had three children: Geiana, now a 34-year-old sculptrs; Isabella, 33, now married to Sir Richard Branson’s son Sam; and Jabi, 29, a PR who is a good iend of the De of relatnship, however, broke down after ne years, and Lady Mary Gaye began an affair wh old Harrovian bsman, Jefey Bonas, Crsida’s father, while he was still married to his first wife, Mary Gaye and Jefey married 1988 and Crsida, named after the character Shakpeare’s Troil And Crsida, was born a year later.
Lady Mary Gaye reportedly thought Jefey was ‘The One’. For her 51st birthday, Shaw threw a Veian-themed party at Claridge’s for 350 iends, plete wh flame-throwers and men on uple beme known for their extravagant parti, particularly those at Royal Ast, where Lady Mary Gaye’s was the biggt tent the No 1 r park, ntag a mobile kchen plete wh ok, butler and tabl laid wh silver went wrong is known only to the parti ncerned, but 2000 Shaw left Lady Mary Gaye for 40-year-old Eliza Dugdale, ex-wife of Warwickshire landowner Rob Smh-Ryland. Lady Mary Gaye retreated back to Chelsea, where she has remaed ever sce.