BRAGG, Cate Lady (Catherine Mary nee HASTE) 1945-2021
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Richard R
May 5, 2021, 4:10:35 AM5/5/21
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She was d of Eric Leighton HASTE 1916-2000 by his c1941 m (reg Q1 Yorks) to (Joan) Margaret HODGE. She m 1973 (div 2018) as his 2nd w the LP Baron BRAGG b 1939, and had a son and a dau as below.
Obit in the Times of 5 May 2021:
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Cate Haste obituary
Writer, film-maker and ex-wife of Melvyn Bragg who explored the lives of prime ministers’ spouses inside Downing Street
...Haste began living with Bragg in 1969 after he had left his first wife, Marie- Elisabeth Roche, a painter from an aristocratic French family. Known to friends as Lise, she took her own life in 1971, leaving their six-year-old daughter, Marie-Elsa, motherless. Haste and Bragg married two years later. ...
...Haste and Bragg were guests at the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005...
...Haste bravely turned a blind eye to her husband’s affairs, which ... included an eight-year relationship with Lady Jane Wellesley, ... former girlfriend of the Prince of Wales. [Bragg then] met Gabriel Clare-Hunt, 16 years his junior and who was briefly employed as a secretary at London Weekend Television, where Bragg was controller of arts. ... Their protracted on-off affair was an open secret but it came as a surprise to friends when in 2016, after 43 years of marriage, [both] had “agreed to an amicable separation”. ... their divorce was finalised in 2018...
...Six months after the divorce and three weeks before his 80th birthday, Bragg married Clare-Hunt. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev Marie-Elsa Bragg, his daughter from his first marriage whom Haste had brought up and who went on to become a chaplain of Westminster Abbey....
...Catherine Mary Haste was born in Leeds in August 1945 on the day that the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was the daughter of Margaret (née Hodge), a further education teacher, and Eric Haste, a civil engineer. ...She is survived by her two children with Bragg, Alice, a film-maker, and Tom, a science writer....
Cate Haste, writer and film-maker, was born on August 6, 1945. She died on April 29, 2021, aged 75
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cate-haste-obituary-5c09jgkq8
Obit in the Times of 5 May 2021:
EXTRACT
Cate Haste obituary
Writer, film-maker and ex-wife of Melvyn Bragg who explored the lives of prime ministers’ spouses inside Downing Street
...Haste began living with Bragg in 1969 after he had left his first wife, Marie- Elisabeth Roche, a painter from an aristocratic French family. Known to friends as Lise, she took her own life in 1971, leaving their six-year-old daughter, Marie-Elsa, motherless. Haste and Bragg married two years later. ...
...Haste and Bragg were guests at the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005...
...Haste bravely turned a blind eye to her husband’s affairs, which ... included an eight-year relationship with Lady Jane Wellesley, ... former girlfriend of the Prince of Wales. [Bragg then] met Gabriel Clare-Hunt, 16 years his junior and who was briefly employed as a secretary at London Weekend Television, where Bragg was controller of arts. ... Their protracted on-off affair was an open secret but it came as a surprise to friends when in 2016, after 43 years of marriage, [both] had “agreed to an amicable separation”. ... their divorce was finalised in 2018...
...Six months after the divorce and three weeks before his 80th birthday, Bragg married Clare-Hunt. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev Marie-Elsa Bragg, his daughter from his first marriage whom Haste had brought up and who went on to become a chaplain of Westminster Abbey....
...Catherine Mary Haste was born in Leeds in August 1945 on the day that the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was the daughter of Margaret (née Hodge), a further education teacher, and Eric Haste, a civil engineer. ...She is survived by her two children with Bragg, Alice, a film-maker, and Tom, a science writer....
Cate Haste, writer and film-maker, was born on August 6, 1945. She died on April 29, 2021, aged 75
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cate-haste-obituary-5c09jgkq8
Richard R
May 7, 2021, 2:11:39 AM5/7/21
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Obit in the Telegraph of 7 May 2021: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/05/06/cate-haste-writer-tv-producer-whose-projects-explored-among/
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