Emma
McQuiston, Ceawlin’s 29-year-old wife, is the daughter of Nigerian oil tycoon,
Chief Oladipo (Ladi) Jadesimi, a founder and the executive chairman of Lagos
Deep Offshore Logistics Company (LADOL).
The firm is famous for partnering with Samsung Heavy Industries of Korea in 2013 to win a multi-million dollar contract for the construction of a Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel for Total Oil’s deep water Egina oil field off Nigeria’s coast.
UK Telegraph
The firm is famous for partnering with Samsung Heavy Industries of Korea in 2013 to win a multi-million dollar contract for the construction of a Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel for Total Oil’s deep water Egina oil field off Nigeria’s coast.
In June 2013,
Ceawlin Thynn, the Viscount Weymouth, an heir to the marquisate of Bath, in
Somerset, England, banned his mother from his wedding and put “security on
standby” in fear that she might turn up and make a scene.
Ceawlin said
his action is explained by the fact that his mother allegedly suggested that
marrying his half-Nigerian wife would damage the bloodline of their
aristocratic family.
According to the UK Telegraph, Emma will
become Britain’s first marchioness of African origin when her husband, who
currently runs the 10,000-acre estate and safari park in Wiltshire, inherits
his father’s title.
The Bath’s
family have been known to McQuiston since she was a child, but when the couple
announced their engagement the 41-year-old viscount, said his mother wondered:
“Are you sure about what you’re doing to 400 years of bloodline?”
This
statement was initially not taken seriously but when the current marchioness
repeated it, then the viscount took measures to ensure that his wedding to the
daughter of the Nigerian multi-millionaire was in no way tampered with.
However, in
her defence the marchioness said she had promised her children she would tell
them what she thought about their “serious partners”, adding: “Then I would
never mention it again. That is what I did with my son.”
Emma the
Viscountess had previously spoken of racism in the British aristocratic circles
in which she now finds herself. She once told Tatler magazine: “There has been
some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation. There’s class
and then there’s the racial thing.”
There are reports that the
marchioness and the viscountess do not exchange greetings when they meet in the
courts of the estate. According to Emma, whenever the two women walked towards
each other, a tension builds and when she says hello to her husband’s mother,
the reply goes: “Oh sorry, I didn’t recognise you” and they walk on.
Emma and Ceawlin now have a
son who is almost one year of age
There are also claims by
Ceawlin that his mother has no contact with his 11-month-old son. The viscount
is quoted as saying: “I don’t want him contaminated by that sort of atmosphere
and those sort of views.”
This rift is the latest to
erupt in the family. Prior to this, Lord Bath, 83, had fallen out with Ceawlin
after discovering that he had taken down some of the murals at Longleat House,
the family’s 130-room Elizabethan mansion.
Lord Bath who was nicknamed
“Loins of Longleat” fell out with his son in 2012 when he removed some erotic
murals his father had painted for him and his sister when they were children,
and because of this, he refused to turn up to Ceawlin and Emma’s wedding.
There was another case
three years after the murals rift and this time the row flared up when Cealwin
failed to consult his father about a proposed colour scheme while renovating
the house.
A source close to the
family said: “Bath family politics are always colourful and difficult. All
parties involved are attempting to move on and live normal lives.”
Two years after the wedding
saga, Ceawlin and his mother are still not on speaking terms with the
Marchioness and reports reveal that they work hard to avoid each especially
when she visits Longleat from her home in Paris.
Ceawlin’s mother, Anna Gael
(née Gyarmathy), was an actress before her marriage to Lord Bath in 1969. She
starred in erotic films such as “Therese & Isabelle” in which she stripped
naked she was nicknamed the “Naked Lady of Longleat.”
There are speculations that
the 71-year-old marchioness, spent most of her time with her lover in France,
but has now returned to Longleat since his death.
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African blood flows in Mamas grandchildren
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