ALBERT, Mrs Robert OBE (Revel Sarah nee GUEST) 1931-2022
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Richard R
Jun 15, 2022, 5:00:05 AM6/15/22
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She was of Maj Hon Oscar Montague GUEST 1888-1958 (s of 1st Baron WIMBORNE 1835-1914 and Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria SPENCER-CHURCHILL 1847-1927 d of 7th Duke of MARLBOROUGH 1822-83 (gf of British PM Sir Winston SPENCER-CHURCHILL), gd of 3rd Marquess of LONDONDERRY 1778-1854 etc etc) and Kathleen Susan 1902-81 (not 1982 as shown in DPB2019) d of Graham PATERSON c1869-1938 and Lady Rowena Grace Marion Selina HASTINGS 1879-1944 d of 14th Earl of HUNTINGDON 1841-85 & gd of 2nd Baron ROSSMORE 1765-1842. She m 1963 Robert Alan s of James ALBERT, and had a son and a dau.
Obit from the Times of 15 June 2022:
E X T R A C T
Revel Guest obituary
Pioneering director of Panorama, film producer, horse breeder and well-connected chairwoman of the Hay Festival of literature and arts
...By her own admission, Guest, the daughter of a Conservative politician and the second cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, hated cocktail parties. ...she was, however, a greater giver of dinner parties at her family’s estate in the Golden Valley, Herefordshire. Convivial evenings as guests of Guest became something of a rite of passage for authors attending the Hay Festival near by, though they knew they had to “sing for their supper”....
...Revel Sarah Guest was born in London in 1931. Her father, the Hon Oscar Guest, was a former Liberal but now Conservative MP. His three brothers were also MPs and his cousin was Churchill. Her mother was Lady Kathleen (née Paterson). Revel, who was named after a forebear who was defrocked as a priest, described boarding at Bedgbury School as “horrid”, counting the days when she could return to the family home Cabalva House (which means “horse place” in Welsh) and ride bareback in the Golden Valley...
...In 1968, with her American husband Robert Albert, she created Transatlantic Films, a pioneering independent documentary film company that for 40 years...
...Revel had met Albert, a lawyer, at the Dakota hotel in New York in 1962 while she was making her film about Baldwin for Panorama. They married in 1963 and she called him “my secret weapon, he always manages to leave everyone feeling happy at the end of a negotiation”. They eventually settled at Cabalva House, where they farmed sheep and cattle and cultivated cereal crops... Her husband survives her along with their children: Justin, National Trust director for Wales, and Corisande, a writer, potter and farmer. Her children have taken on ownership of Transatlantic Films...
Revel Guest OBE, film producer and chairwoman of Hay Festival, was born on September 14, 1931. She died in her sleep on June 8, 2022, aged 90
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revel-guest-obituary-bzkh39fcl
Obit from the Times of 15 June 2022:
E X T R A C T
Revel Guest obituary
Pioneering director of Panorama, film producer, horse breeder and well-connected chairwoman of the Hay Festival of literature and arts
...By her own admission, Guest, the daughter of a Conservative politician and the second cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, hated cocktail parties. ...she was, however, a greater giver of dinner parties at her family’s estate in the Golden Valley, Herefordshire. Convivial evenings as guests of Guest became something of a rite of passage for authors attending the Hay Festival near by, though they knew they had to “sing for their supper”....
...Revel Sarah Guest was born in London in 1931. Her father, the Hon Oscar Guest, was a former Liberal but now Conservative MP. His three brothers were also MPs and his cousin was Churchill. Her mother was Lady Kathleen (née Paterson). Revel, who was named after a forebear who was defrocked as a priest, described boarding at Bedgbury School as “horrid”, counting the days when she could return to the family home Cabalva House (which means “horse place” in Welsh) and ride bareback in the Golden Valley...
...In 1968, with her American husband Robert Albert, she created Transatlantic Films, a pioneering independent documentary film company that for 40 years...
...Revel had met Albert, a lawyer, at the Dakota hotel in New York in 1962 while she was making her film about Baldwin for Panorama. They married in 1963 and she called him “my secret weapon, he always manages to leave everyone feeling happy at the end of a negotiation”. They eventually settled at Cabalva House, where they farmed sheep and cattle and cultivated cereal crops... Her husband survives her along with their children: Justin, National Trust director for Wales, and Corisande, a writer, potter and farmer. Her children have taken on ownership of Transatlantic Films...
Revel Guest OBE, film producer and chairwoman of Hay Festival, was born on September 14, 1931. She died in her sleep on June 8, 2022, aged 90
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revel-guest-obituary-bzkh39fcl
Richard R
Jun 19, 2022, 5:02:56 AM6/19/22
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Death notice in the Times of 14 June 2022:
GUEST Revel Sarah Albert OBE died
peacefully on 8th June 2022, aged 90, at Cabalva. Film-maker,
journalist, author, farmer, horsewoman and Chair Emeritus of Hay
Festival. Inspirational wife, mother, grandmother, friend and colleague.
Private funeral for immediate family. Memorial and celebration of her
life at Clyro Church and Cabalva on date to be confirmed.
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