Catherine Guinness was a close friend of Andy Warhol, for whom she worked as a personal assistant in New York, and was active in the New York social scene and The Factory.
12 Facts About Catherine Guinness
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The Honourable Catherine Ingrid Guinness was born on 1 June 1952 in Oxford to Jonathan Bryan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne, and Ingrid Georgia Olivia Wyndham.
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Catherine Guinness's father was a member of the Guinness family, a wealthy and politically prominent Irish family that made a fortune from brewing and banking.
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Catherine Guinness's mother was a member of the Wyndham family and a descendant of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield.
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Catherine Guinness' parents divorced in 1963, after which her mother remarried to Lord Moyne's cousin, Henry Paul Catherine Guinness Channon, Baron Kelvedon.
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Catherine Guinness is the half-sister of Daphne Guinness, who lived with her in New York in the early 1980s.
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Catherine Guinness married James Donald Charteris, Lord Neidpath, the son and heir of David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, in July 1983.
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In 1990, Catherine Guinness married a second time, to Robert Fleetwood Hesketh, a relative of the Baron Hesketh.
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Catherine Guinness's husband died from a drug overdose in 2004.
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Catherine Guinness worked as a personal assistant for her friend Andy Warhol.
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Catherine Guinness was a close friend of Charles, Prince of Wales, and active in the London social scene.
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In 1979, Catherine Guinness appeared alongside Warhol in the film Cocaine Cowboys.