Julia Helen Rausing (nee Delves Broughton) (1961 - 2024)
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She passed away peacefully on Thursday [18 April 2024] morning after an extended illness, a statement issued on behalf of The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust and the Rausing and Delves Broughton families.
Her husband, Hans Rausing said: “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of my beloved wife Julia after an extended illness. Julia dedicated her life to her family and charitable causes, and she will be missed by all who knew her.
....She is survived by her husband, four stepchildren, her sister Lavinia Verney and mother Lady Helen Delves Broughton.
https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/national/24263729.philanthropist-julia-rausing-dies-aged-63/
Julia Helen Delves (b 1961) d of Sir Evelyn DELVES BROUGHTON 12th Bt (1915-93* see note) and his 2nd w Helen Mary d of John SHORE. More information https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/s8K2aXC5cQs/m/p2mi2akLbEgJ
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Julia Rausing obituary: art expert and philanthropist
She was also the wife of the billionaire heir to the seemingly cursed Swedish Tetra Pak fortune
The cloister of Gloucester Cathedral has echoed for centuries to the sound of scriptures that promise redemption for sinners, but in 2022 it was threatening to crumble into ruin — until Julia Rausing and her former heroin-addict husband Hans, a billionaire heir to the Swedish Tetra Pak fortune, stepped in. Their £550,000 donation helped to restore the cathedral’s 14th-century walkways, including the world’s earliest surviving fan-vaulted ceiling.
Rausing, a petite and chic figure with a sheet of golden hair, instinctively shied away from publicity. “I don’t like the cameras,” she told Time Out magazine in a rare interview about the legacy of her older sister Isabella Blow, the flamboyant stylist and fashion editor who took her own life (obituary, May 8, 2007). “I don’t know how Issy did it really. If I was with her and I saw a camera I’d think, Oh my God!”…
…[She first met her husband Hans Rausing] in 2002 when Julia was a senior director at Christie’s and Hans, a serious art collector, took his first wife Eva to a lunch there. They met again in 2006 when he invited the auction house to undertake a valuation at his £70 million mansion in Belgravia.
Eva died of an overdose in 2012, but her body was not discovered until two months later when police searched their house after arresting her husband for erratic driving and finding drugs and a crack pipe in his car. Her body was so badly decomposed that she had to be identified from a fingerprint and the serial number on her pacemaker. Staff had been told not to enter the bedroom because she was unwell…
…They were married in 2014 and she helped to bring him back from his grief, encouraging him to find happiness through philanthropy…
…Julia Helen Delves Broughton was born in Cheshire in 1961, the second of four children of Major Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, 12th baronet, and his second wife Helen Mary (née Shore), who had been Britain’s youngest female barrister when she qualified at the age of 21 and who survives her with a younger sister, Lavinia. Their brother, John, died from choking in 1964 after falling in an ornamental pool on the family estate at the age of two. Julia remembered little of the fatal accident…
…She married Rausing at Woburn Abbey, home of the Duchess of Bedford, whose mother had become her father’s third wife. Rausing had proposed while on holiday in Barbados and she was given away by the Earl of Derby in front of 60 guests, keeping news of their nuptials out of the press for a week…
…They spent £11 million acquiring the Lasborough Park estate including a grade II-listed, 11-bedroom house near the King’s Highgrove estate, close to Tetbury in Gloucestershire. They also rebuilt Greensleeves, the £20 million estate in Barbados that Rausing had bought with his first wife and which, in earlier days, had been the site of wild parties. He survives her with four stepchildren…
Julia Rausing, art expert and philanthropist, was born on February 11, 1961. She died of cancer on April 18, 2024, aged 63
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/julia-rausing-obituary-death-lgzl2r3n3