GUINNESS DE CAPELL BROOKE, Mrs Hugh c1942-2022

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 12 April 2022: GUINNESS de CAPELL BROOKE Bianca Carla (née della Pura Onorati). Peacefully at home on 8th April, aged 80, surrounded by family.  Loving wife of the late Hugh, much loved mother of Alexander and Carolina and daughter in law, Wendy. Proud grandmother to William, Isabella and Charles and step grandmother to Georgina and Charlie. Private family funeral. Memorial Service on Friday 27th May at 2 p.m. at Great Oakley, Northamptonshire. No flowers please...

She was d of Col Renzo & Donna Isabella della Pura Onorati, of Florence. She m 1966 Hugh Welby GUINNESS DE CAPELL BROOKE 1937-2014 s of Gerald Richard de Capell Brooke GUINNESS 1899-1975 scion of not descended from the GUINNESS Bts cr 1867 and Desiree Ann Eda 1904-81 d of Lt-Col Sir Alfred Cholmeley Earle WELBY KBE 1849-1937 (s of Sir Glynne Earle WELBY-GREGORY 3rd Bt 1806-75 & gs of Sir Montague CHOLMELEY 1st Bt 1772-1831) and Alice Desiree COPLAND-GRIFFITHS 1878-1969 scion of that gentry family of Potterne, and had a son and a dau as above.

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I suppose her husband could just as easily be described as a scion of the Earls of Iveagh, but his line is generally included in the Burke's article on the Baronets. The common male-line ancestor died 250 years ago, so the relationship to either is the same, but quite distant.


As for Bianca:

Caroline Bonaparte, b.Ajaccio 25 Mar 1782, d.Florence 18 May 1839; m.Mortefontaine 20 Jan 1800 Prince Joachim Murat, King of Naples and Sicily (1767-1815)
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Princess Letizia Murat, b.Paris 1802, d.Bologna 1859; m.Venice 1823 Guido Taddeo Marchese Pepoli, Cte di Castiglione (Bologna 1789-Bologna 1852)
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Elisabetta Pepoli (Bologna 1829-Rome 1892); m.Rome 1848 Ippolito Ruspoli (Rome 1817-Rome 1886)
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Letizia Ruspoli (Rome 1849-Rome 1944); m.Rome 1871 Mario Rappini Marchese di Casteldelfino (Rome 1834-Rome 1899)
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Vittorio Rappini (Rome 1877-Rome 1939); m.London 1912 Clara Dudgeon (Shanghai 1885-Fiesole 1954)
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Isabella Letizia Rappini (London 1913-London 1986); m.Varese 1934 Renzo della Pura Onorati (Pisa 1904-Florence 1975)
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Bianca della Pura Onorati (Padua 1941-8 Apr 2022); m.Florence 1966 Hugh Welby de Capell Brooke Guinness (2 Oct 1937-30 Jul 2014)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 11 May 2022: GUINNESS de CAPELL BROOKE A Memorial Service for the life of Bianca Carla Guinness de Capell Brooke will be held on Friday 27th May 2022 at 2 p.m. at St Michael & All Angels Church, Church Drive, Great Oakley, Northamptonshire... followed by refreshments at Great Oakley Hall...