HOWARD DE WALDEN, Rt Hon Baroness 1935-2024

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph & Times of 18 July 2024: Baroness Hazel died peacefully on 13th July, aged 88. Loving wife of the late Count Joseph Czernin; devoted mother of Charlotte, Henrietta, Alexandra, Philippa, Peter and Isabelle; beloved grandmother of 17 and great grandmother of 4. Funeral with Requiem Mass at 10 a.m. on 29th July at St James's Spanish Place, 22 George Street [London]. Family flowers only. Donations, if desired, to Age UK and the Carers Trust. Enquiries J.H. Kenyon, 279 Kensington High Street, London…

She was the eldest of four daus of the 9th Baron HOWARD DE WALDEN & 5th Baron SEAFORD 1912-99 (whom she succ. in the former title as 10th holder on termination of the abeyance in 2004) and Countess Irene HARRACH 1910-75. She m 1957 Count Joseph 1924-2015 s of Count Franz Joseph Theodor Ottokar Maria CZERNIN 1878-1963 and Wilhelmine Clanner VON ENGELSHOFEN 1894-1974, and had a son and five daus. Her son succeeds her:

PETER JOHN JOSEPH Czernin [11th Baron HOWARD DE WALDEN] b 1 Jan 1966 has yet to establish claim: m 1994 Lucinda Suzanne b Jan 1965 d of (Godfrey) Richard W WRIGHT 1928-2020 of Great Wilbraham, Cambs, by his 1959 m reg Q3 Cambs to Angela Christine WALE 1935-2020, and had a son and a dau

SON LIVING
Hon ALEXANDER JOHN PETER Czernin b 2 Oct 1999

DAUGHTER LIVING
Hon Audrey Serena Angela b 13 Aug 1997

[https:/www.maltagenealogy.com/LeighRayment/]

PETER John Joseph Graf Czernin v. Chudenitz, Film producer
*London 1.1.1966
11th Baron Howard de Walden
oo Cambridge 17.9.1994
Lucinda Suzanne Wright
*Cambridge 9.1.1965
      |
1. AUDREY Serena Angela Gräfin Czernin v. Chudenitz
*Los Angeles 13.8.1997

2. ALEXANDER John Peter Graf Czernin v. Chudenitz
*Los Angeles 2.10.1999

SOURCE
GHdA, Gräfliche Häuser XVI (2000), 88

[marquess]

Is the countship of the Holy Roman Empire or the Austrian Empire? Thanks! Also where can one buy Countly Houses book? I used to get mine about 30 years ago from Mrs Pinches.

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Good old Mrs Pinches and Heraldry Today. I bought almost all my books from them for a couple decades.

As for the Czernins, my page is here:

https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/czernin.html

[dpth...@gmail.com]

The Czernins were Counts since 1627, so not Austrian Empire. Attached is what the 1835 GGT says about their history. The 2000 GHdA makes clear that they were created Reichsgraf in 1627, so they were counts of the HRE and not just of the kingdom of Bohemia.

More history here (and on preceding and following pages) in the Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich:

https://austria-forum.org/web-books/en/wurzbach03de1858kfu/000107

On Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 2:44:48 AM UTC-5 marquess wrote:

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Her mother's family, the Grafen von Harrach, are in the Almanac de Gotha Part 2, as a Standesherr family (sometimes misleadingly called mediatized families).

[BREMENMURRAY]

Lord Howard de Walden must be the only Hereditary Peer to be nominated for an Oscar.He was involved in the excellent Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri

[marquess]

Thank you everyone for your most excellent replies.

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Possibly, though Lord Haden-Guest has an Emmy for Writing, and Lady Haden-Guest has an Oscar.

[dpth...@gmail.com]

The Barony of Howard de Walden was in abeyance 1689 to 1784, 1797-1799, 1999-2004.

The way in which it descended from Lord Thomas Howard, later Earl of Suffolk, who was summoned in 1597 as Lord Howard of Walden, through several different families, can be seen on my page here:

https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/walden.html

On Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 12:10:22 AM UTC-5 Richard R wrote:

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Thank goodness for the new baron and his son.  Otherwise, the title would be headed back to abeyance, as the late baroness had 5 daughters.

Brooke

[bx...@yahoo.com]

DPB Online has now updated this page.

Brooke

[https:/www.maltagenealogy.com/LeighRayment/]

Oh how I missed Mrs Pinches and Heraldry Today. I too purchased so much from her. Great searcher of books too. RIP to her.

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times of 28 Aug 2024:

E X T R A C T

Baroness Howard de Walden obituary: unassuming steward of London landholding

Intensely private, unassuming and wealthy steward of the third largest landholding in the Capital

That much of central London is owned by a handful of aristocratic families is well-known. Less familiar are the custodians of these great estates. The Duke of Westminster and Earl Cadogan eschew the spotlight as much as they can. Even more unassuming was the steward of the third largest landholding in the capital: Hazel Czernin, 10th Baroness Howard de Walden.

When her father, the 9th Baron Howard de Walden, died in 1999, the barony fell into abeyance between his daughters because he had no sons. After five years of family discussions between Hazel and her three younger sisters, she claimed the title.

She was then nearing 70. With her sisters, she was appointed a director of the property company which runs the Howard de Walden estate. Thereafter she participated in key decisions it made…

… Bought by the 1st Duke of Newcastle in 1711, Marylebone village came down in 1889 to the widow of the 6th Baron Howard de Walden. That family had gained the peerage in 1597, when Thomas Howard was rewarded for his role as admiral in the defeat of the Spanish Armada…

… Some £250 million was invested by the estate between 2002 and 2012, with profits rising from £8.5 million to £31 million. Accordingly, in 2012 its owners took a dividend of £150 million by revaluing the estate. Some £42 million went to Howard de Walden and her sisters, the remainder to dozens of members of the wider family…

… She was born Mary Hazel Caridwen Scott-Ellis in London in 1935. Like her three younger sisters — Susan, Jessica and Camilla — Hazel, as she was known, was given a Celtic middle name. Her paternal grandfather had close ties to Wales…

… In 1953, when she was 17, at a ball given at the Austrian Embassy to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation, she went out onto a balcony and there met Count Joseph Czernin von und zu Chudenitz. A decade her senior, he was of a cadet branch of a Bohemian family that had risen to prominence in service of the Habsburgs…

…[They] were married in 1957. They had five daughters — Charlotte, Henrietta, Alexandra, Philippa and Isabelle — all of whom had families of their own. Their fifth-born child, Peter, succeeds as 11th Baron Howard de Walden. A former flatmate of David Cameron, he is the Bafta-winning producer of films such as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Three Buildboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) and All of Us Strangers (2023)…

… As well as supporting her husband’s endeavours, Howard de Walden took a particular interest herself in the community work of the estate. Modesty and charities, such as Cafod and the Cardinal Hume Centre, were close to her heart, befitting her two family mottos: Non Quo Sed Quomodo (Not by whom, but in what manner); and In Tenebris Lux (Light in darkness).

The 10th Baroness Howard de Walden, landowner, was born on August 12, 1935. She died on July 13, 2024, aged 88

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/baroness-howard-de-walden-obituary-unassuming-steward-of-london-landholding-slblj3qx9

[colinp]

The College of Arms website records that the succession of Peter John Joseph Czernin as Baron Howard de Walden has been approved by the Secretary of State for Justice

[Harry Merritt]

I happened to watch one of the new lord's recent films this week and was amused to see that he was listed in the credits as "Pete Czernin."

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