De Silva - Yugoslavia divorce in the works?
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Shinjinee
Sep 1, 2009, 11:30:06 PM9/1/09
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According to Richard Kay, Desmond DeSilva, QC is in the process of
divorcing his wife Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, who is of course a
great-niece of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The couple married in the
1980s, have one daughter Victoria who was a deb, and seemed happily
married until recently.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210591/De-Silva-love-loses-shine.html
"For Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, a descendant of Queen Victoria
and 100th in line to the throne, is enmeshed in a divorce from her
colourful husband of 22 years, eminent QC Sir Desmond de Silva, and
is, I am told, enormously worried about her future.
The couple became estranged in April, as I revealed, and friends had
hoped they would be reconciled Now, I understand, there is no chance
of rekindling the marriage and lawyers have been consulted.
Until recently, Katarina, Sir Desmond and their only daughter lived in
a large country house near Horsham in Sussex. But de Silva has de-
camped to one of his clubs - he is a member of Brook's, the Naval And
Military and the Carlton - and there is talk that he wants to sell the
marital home.
Says a friend: 'Katarina absolutely loves the house and is very upset
at the thought that it may have to be sold. She is worried about what
will happen in the future.'
The Princess, who, at 48, is 21 years younger than Sir Desmond, has
previously spent time living apart from her husband when he was
employed as the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
of Sierra Leone in 2005.
[end of extract]
Shinjinee
divorcing his wife Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, who is of course a
great-niece of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The couple married in the
1980s, have one daughter Victoria who was a deb, and seemed happily
married until recently.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210591/De-Silva-love-loses-shine.html
"For Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, a descendant of Queen Victoria
and 100th in line to the throne, is enmeshed in a divorce from her
colourful husband of 22 years, eminent QC Sir Desmond de Silva, and
is, I am told, enormously worried about her future.
The couple became estranged in April, as I revealed, and friends had
hoped they would be reconciled Now, I understand, there is no chance
of rekindling the marriage and lawyers have been consulted.
Until recently, Katarina, Sir Desmond and their only daughter lived in
a large country house near Horsham in Sussex. But de Silva has de-
camped to one of his clubs - he is a member of Brook's, the Naval And
Military and the Carlton - and there is talk that he wants to sell the
marital home.
Says a friend: 'Katarina absolutely loves the house and is very upset
at the thought that it may have to be sold. She is worried about what
will happen in the future.'
The Princess, who, at 48, is 21 years younger than Sir Desmond, has
previously spent time living apart from her husband when he was
employed as the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
of Sierra Leone in 2005.
[end of extract]
Shinjinee
Yrieix de Pourceaugnac
Sep 2, 2009, 10:10:53 AM9/2/09
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Is Sir Desmond belonging to the same family as Marguerite Silva
daughter of John Silva and Mary Frances Corrie wife of Frederick
Leslie Courtenay (1875-1935), Earl of Devon ?
On 2 sep, 04:30, Shinjinee <ssenpub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to Richard Kay, Desmond DeSilva, QC is in the process of
> divorcing his wife Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia (...)
daughter of John Silva and Mary Frances Corrie wife of Frederick
Leslie Courtenay (1875-1935), Earl of Devon ?
On 2 sep, 04:30, Shinjinee <ssenpub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to Richard Kay, Desmond DeSilva, QC is in the process of
www.maltagenealogy.com
Sep 3, 2009, 1:27:05 AM9/3/09
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Different family, he is of Sri Lankran descent.. I think by memory.
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On Sep 3, 12:10 am, Yrieix de Pourceaugnac <de_pourceaug...@yahoo.fr>
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Shinjinee
Sep 3, 2009, 2:28:26 PM9/3/09
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Yes. He is a brother of (Elaine) Helga de Silva, widow of Jonathan
Oliver Tollemache Blow, by whom she had issue, 2 sons and 1 daughter.
[They married in 1962 when he was 42 and she was 17; he inherited when
his mother Winifred Blow nee Tollemache disinherited the elder son
Purcell Blow who had sons - they have Tennant ancestry IIRC via their
mother] The elder son Detmar Hamilton Lorenz Arthur Blow is the
widower of the late Isabella Blow, nee Delves Broughton. He has had a
son Sasha Filgueiras Castilho Blow (b Sept 2008) by a Brazilian
girlfriend Mara Filgueiras Castilho, since his wife's death. The
younger son is Amaury Hugh John Jellings Blow (b. 1965), but I know
little about him. The daughter is Selina Jane Blow (b. 1966) fashion
designer, who is married since 1994 to Charles Lewinson, journalist,
or Dr Charles Levinson , a GP (per The Times), and has issue Augustus,
or Gus (aged 11) and Violet (aged 7). Helga is now remarried to a
Desmond Perera.
According to Isabella Blow's obit, Jonathan Blow committed suicide by
weedkiller at Hilles, their country house, when his elder son was 14
(and his daughter Selina 10 or 11, according to various accounts).
[Helga later remarried, separated from her second husband, and spent
more time in Sri Lanka than in Gloucester, leaving her three children
to "more or less fend for themselves"] The obit contains a lot more
on the strained relationship between Helga and her elder son, somewhat
reminiscent of that between Winifred Blow and her elder son, I would
assume.
Helga (b ca 1945) and Desmond de Silva (b 13 Dec 1939) are children of
His Excellency Edmond Frederick Lorenz de Silva, Ambassador to France
and Switzerland in the 1960s, MP, barrister, and Chancellor of the
University of Peradeniya in Kandy. Edmond de Silva was a son of The
Honourable George Edmond de Silva, Minister of Power , Health and
Fisheries in the First War Cabinet, by his wife Agnes Nell, daughter
of Paul Nell the inventor of the double action tea roller in 1900.
Agnes's grandfather apparently came to Ceylon from Nell Straits in
South Africa.
Her mother was Esme de Silva nee Esme Norah Gregg, who was associated
with the Bauhaus movement.
The family is of mixed Sri Lankan descent IIRC (Burgher ancestry -
part Sinhalese, part Dutch, and perhaps some Portuguese). According
to one newspaper report, Helga inspired a song by the Stereophonics
called Madame Helga.
See this
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3277055.ece
Selina Blow and Amaury Blow on their childhood, "Relative Values:
Selina Blow and her brother Amaury" The Times, 3 Feb 2008
Helga's childhood home, now Helga's Folly, a 1930s Art Deco chateau
designed by her mother Esme de Silva
http://www.helgasfolly.com/History.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2004/nov/14/srilanka.observerescapesection
http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/magazine/01style.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/travel/a-week-in-centuries-past.html?pagewanted=3
http://www.turtlebunbury.com/interviews/interviews_misc/interviews_misc_helga.html
On her daughter Selina Blow
http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/main-menu-cotswold-people-living-on-the-edge--31478
[has a picture of Selina Blow, now in her early forties]
http://www.selinablow.com/site_biog.html
"It was, she admits, an isolated childhood. Her mother is Helga de
Silva, an aristocratic Sri Lankan, who married Selina’s father,
Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow, at the high altar of St Paul’s
Cathedral when she was just 17. The 25-year age gap, coupled with
rural life in a draughty great house, couldn’t have been easy for
her...When Selina was 11, her father died tragically. In the loss and
confusion, she spent an extra year at primary school after her
contemporaries had flown, before being sent to board at Hatherop
Castle in Cirencester. "
On her brother
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Lorenz_de_Silva
On the Blow family
http://www.thepeerage.com/p18074.htm#i180734 [Detmar Blow (b 1963)]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detmar_Blow
http://www.thepeerage.com/p26031.htm [for Winifred Gertrude Tollemache
(d 1954) and her marriage 1910 to Detmar Blow] - there is an error in
that Jonathan Blow and Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow (1919-1977) are
one and the same]
Blow, Simon "The duke who killed my father". The Spectator.
FindArticles.com. 03 Sep, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199612/ai_n8756424/
[Simon Blow on the relationship between Detmar Blow, his grandfather,
and the 2nd Duke of Westminster who turned on his old friend]
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199612/ai_n8756424/pg_3/?tag=content;col1
[on how Purcell Blow and his two sons were disinherited in favor of
Jonathan, the younger son who later married Helga de Silva]
and an old post of mine from 2007
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.talk.royalty/2007-05/msg00470.html
[extracted]
Selina and Detmar Blow are children of the late Jonathan Oliver
Tollemache Blow (1919-77), by his wife (Elaine) Helga, dau. of Edmund
Frederick Lorenz de Silva, MBE, of Kandy, Sri Lanka, sometime MP for
Kandy and Ceyloneese Ambassador to France, &c.
[How was Helga de Silva related to Desmond de Silva, husband of Pss
Katharine of Yugoslavia, great-niece of the Duke of Edinburgh? I
suspect they are siblings, but seem to recall his Who's Who entry only
vaguely]
Jonahtan Blow [sic], was a son of Detmar Jellings Blow, (of Blow LG),
who married in 1910, Winifred Gertrude Tollemache, (d. 1954), scion of
the Baron Tollemache, & the Earls of Dysart.
[snipped]
4. Isabella Blow's husband Detmar Blow was grandson of Winifred
Gertrude Tollemache, (d. 1954), scion of the Baron Tollemache, & the
Earls of Dysart. - thus putting him very distantly in succession to
the earldom of Dysart.
5. Detmar Blow's paternal grandfather and namesake was employed by the
2nd Duke of Westminster.
6. A daughter of the first Detmar Blow - Clare Desiree Blow - married
th 2nd Baron Rathcavan
[http://groups.google.de/group/alt.talk.royalty/tree/browse_frm/month/
2002-08/0e2b578c9a44893c?rnum=1&hl=de&_done=%2Fgroup
%2Falt.talk.royalty
%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2002-08%3Fhl%3Dde%26]
[end of extract]
From Wikipedia
Family background
Sir Desmond is of Sri Lankan, Anglo / Scottish and Portuguese origins
and comes from a family of lawyers. He married HRH Princess Katarina
Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia on 5 December 1987. They have one
daughter, Victoria Marie Esmé Margarita, born on 6 September 1991.[1]
Sir Desmond has one sister, Helga De Silva
On Isabella Blow
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article2224237.ece
Detmar had his own grand lineage, and shared with Issie a passion for
art, fashion and history. His family estate was Hilles, near
Painswick, not as grand as Doddington perhaps, but not exactly a two-
up two-down either. Detmar’s father, Jonathan, had married a Sri
Lankan woman, Helga de Silva, whose brother Desmond was a well-known
and highly successful QC. Jonathan had been a journalist and suffered
from depression, making several attempts at suicide before killing
himself by drinking weedkiller at Hilles in 1977, when Detmar was 14.
“How romantic,” Issie had once said to Helga, “that he died in your
arms.” But he had not died in her arms, he had collapsed on the
bedroom floor and the reality had been anything but romantic.
Helga had spent most of the following years back in Sri Lanka, leaving
Detmar and his brother and sister to more or less fend for
themselves.
Descendants of Jonathan Blow and Helga de Silva
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/Part_h7.htm
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow
(1919-20 Nov 1977); m.St Pauls Cathedral 1962 Elaine Helga de Silva
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.1.Detmar Hamilton Lorenz Arthur Blow,
b.1963; m.1989 Isabella Delves Broughton (1958-Gloucestershire 7 May
2007)
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.1.1.[by Maria Castilho] a child,
b.Sep 2008
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.2.Amaury Hugh John Jellings Blow, b.
1965
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.3.Selina Jane Blow, b.1966; m.1994
Charles Lewinson
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.3.1.Augustus Hugh Hamilton Jonathan
Lewinson, b.1998
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.3.2.Violet Edith Helga Anic Lewinson,
b.2002
On Sep 3, 10:27 am, "www.maltagenealogy.com" <tancarvil...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Oliver Tollemache Blow, by whom she had issue, 2 sons and 1 daughter.
[They married in 1962 when he was 42 and she was 17; he inherited when
his mother Winifred Blow nee Tollemache disinherited the elder son
Purcell Blow who had sons - they have Tennant ancestry IIRC via their
mother] The elder son Detmar Hamilton Lorenz Arthur Blow is the
widower of the late Isabella Blow, nee Delves Broughton. He has had a
son Sasha Filgueiras Castilho Blow (b Sept 2008) by a Brazilian
girlfriend Mara Filgueiras Castilho, since his wife's death. The
younger son is Amaury Hugh John Jellings Blow (b. 1965), but I know
little about him. The daughter is Selina Jane Blow (b. 1966) fashion
designer, who is married since 1994 to Charles Lewinson, journalist,
or Dr Charles Levinson , a GP (per The Times), and has issue Augustus,
or Gus (aged 11) and Violet (aged 7). Helga is now remarried to a
Desmond Perera.
According to Isabella Blow's obit, Jonathan Blow committed suicide by
weedkiller at Hilles, their country house, when his elder son was 14
(and his daughter Selina 10 or 11, according to various accounts).
[Helga later remarried, separated from her second husband, and spent
more time in Sri Lanka than in Gloucester, leaving her three children
to "more or less fend for themselves"] The obit contains a lot more
on the strained relationship between Helga and her elder son, somewhat
reminiscent of that between Winifred Blow and her elder son, I would
assume.
Helga (b ca 1945) and Desmond de Silva (b 13 Dec 1939) are children of
His Excellency Edmond Frederick Lorenz de Silva, Ambassador to France
and Switzerland in the 1960s, MP, barrister, and Chancellor of the
University of Peradeniya in Kandy. Edmond de Silva was a son of The
Honourable George Edmond de Silva, Minister of Power , Health and
Fisheries in the First War Cabinet, by his wife Agnes Nell, daughter
of Paul Nell the inventor of the double action tea roller in 1900.
Agnes's grandfather apparently came to Ceylon from Nell Straits in
South Africa.
Her mother was Esme de Silva nee Esme Norah Gregg, who was associated
with the Bauhaus movement.
The family is of mixed Sri Lankan descent IIRC (Burgher ancestry -
part Sinhalese, part Dutch, and perhaps some Portuguese). According
to one newspaper report, Helga inspired a song by the Stereophonics
called Madame Helga.
See this
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3277055.ece
Selina Blow and Amaury Blow on their childhood, "Relative Values:
Selina Blow and her brother Amaury" The Times, 3 Feb 2008
Helga's childhood home, now Helga's Folly, a 1930s Art Deco chateau
designed by her mother Esme de Silva
http://www.helgasfolly.com/History.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2004/nov/14/srilanka.observerescapesection
http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/magazine/01style.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/travel/a-week-in-centuries-past.html?pagewanted=3
http://www.turtlebunbury.com/interviews/interviews_misc/interviews_misc_helga.html
On her daughter Selina Blow
http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/main-menu-cotswold-people-living-on-the-edge--31478
[has a picture of Selina Blow, now in her early forties]
http://www.selinablow.com/site_biog.html
"It was, she admits, an isolated childhood. Her mother is Helga de
Silva, an aristocratic Sri Lankan, who married Selina’s father,
Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow, at the high altar of St Paul’s
Cathedral when she was just 17. The 25-year age gap, coupled with
rural life in a draughty great house, couldn’t have been easy for
her...When Selina was 11, her father died tragically. In the loss and
confusion, she spent an extra year at primary school after her
contemporaries had flown, before being sent to board at Hatherop
Castle in Cirencester. "
On her brother
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Lorenz_de_Silva
On the Blow family
http://www.thepeerage.com/p18074.htm#i180734 [Detmar Blow (b 1963)]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detmar_Blow
http://www.thepeerage.com/p26031.htm [for Winifred Gertrude Tollemache
(d 1954) and her marriage 1910 to Detmar Blow] - there is an error in
that Jonathan Blow and Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow (1919-1977) are
one and the same]
Blow, Simon "The duke who killed my father". The Spectator.
FindArticles.com. 03 Sep, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199612/ai_n8756424/
[Simon Blow on the relationship between Detmar Blow, his grandfather,
and the 2nd Duke of Westminster who turned on his old friend]
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199612/ai_n8756424/pg_3/?tag=content;col1
[on how Purcell Blow and his two sons were disinherited in favor of
Jonathan, the younger son who later married Helga de Silva]
and an old post of mine from 2007
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.talk.royalty/2007-05/msg00470.html
[extracted]
Selina and Detmar Blow are children of the late Jonathan Oliver
Tollemache Blow (1919-77), by his wife (Elaine) Helga, dau. of Edmund
Frederick Lorenz de Silva, MBE, of Kandy, Sri Lanka, sometime MP for
Kandy and Ceyloneese Ambassador to France, &c.
[How was Helga de Silva related to Desmond de Silva, husband of Pss
Katharine of Yugoslavia, great-niece of the Duke of Edinburgh? I
suspect they are siblings, but seem to recall his Who's Who entry only
vaguely]
Jonahtan Blow [sic], was a son of Detmar Jellings Blow, (of Blow LG),
who married in 1910, Winifred Gertrude Tollemache, (d. 1954), scion of
the Baron Tollemache, & the Earls of Dysart.
[snipped]
4. Isabella Blow's husband Detmar Blow was grandson of Winifred
Gertrude Tollemache, (d. 1954), scion of the Baron Tollemache, & the
Earls of Dysart. - thus putting him very distantly in succession to
the earldom of Dysart.
5. Detmar Blow's paternal grandfather and namesake was employed by the
2nd Duke of Westminster.
6. A daughter of the first Detmar Blow - Clare Desiree Blow - married
th 2nd Baron Rathcavan
[http://groups.google.de/group/alt.talk.royalty/tree/browse_frm/month/
2002-08/0e2b578c9a44893c?rnum=1&hl=de&_done=%2Fgroup
%2Falt.talk.royalty
%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2002-08%3Fhl%3Dde%26]
[end of extract]
From Wikipedia
Family background
Sir Desmond is of Sri Lankan, Anglo / Scottish and Portuguese origins
and comes from a family of lawyers. He married HRH Princess Katarina
Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia on 5 December 1987. They have one
daughter, Victoria Marie Esmé Margarita, born on 6 September 1991.[1]
Sir Desmond has one sister, Helga De Silva
On Isabella Blow
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article2224237.ece
Detmar had his own grand lineage, and shared with Issie a passion for
art, fashion and history. His family estate was Hilles, near
Painswick, not as grand as Doddington perhaps, but not exactly a two-
up two-down either. Detmar’s father, Jonathan, had married a Sri
Lankan woman, Helga de Silva, whose brother Desmond was a well-known
and highly successful QC. Jonathan had been a journalist and suffered
from depression, making several attempts at suicide before killing
himself by drinking weedkiller at Hilles in 1977, when Detmar was 14.
“How romantic,” Issie had once said to Helga, “that he died in your
arms.” But he had not died in her arms, he had collapsed on the
bedroom floor and the reality had been anything but romantic.
Helga had spent most of the following years back in Sri Lanka, leaving
Detmar and his brother and sister to more or less fend for
themselves.
Descendants of Jonathan Blow and Helga de Silva
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/Part_h7.htm
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow
(1919-20 Nov 1977); m.St Pauls Cathedral 1962 Elaine Helga de Silva
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.1.Detmar Hamilton Lorenz Arthur Blow,
b.1963; m.1989 Isabella Delves Broughton (1958-Gloucestershire 7 May
2007)
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.1.1.[by Maria Castilho] a child,
b.Sep 2008
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.2.Amaury Hugh John Jellings Blow, b.
1965
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.3.Selina Jane Blow, b.1966; m.1994
Charles Lewinson
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.3.1.Augustus Hugh Hamilton Jonathan
Lewinson, b.1998
6.2.2.1.2.7.3.4.3.2.12.1.1.4.4.2.3.2.Violet Edith Helga Anic Lewinson,
b.2002
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I ve learn't something here today.. Many thanks. Interesting
connections.
Charles.
> See thishttp://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_li...
>
> On her daughter Selina Blowhttp://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/main-menu-cotswold-people-living-on-the...
> On Isabella Blowhttp://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/artic...
connections.
Charles.
> Selina Blow and Amaury Blow on their childhood, "Relative Values:
> Selina Blow and her brother Amaury" The Times, 3 Feb 2008
>
> Helga's childhood home, now Helga's Folly, a 1930s Art Deco chateau
> designed by her mother Esme de Silvahttp://www.helgasfolly.com/History.htmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2004/nov/14/srilanka.observerescapes...http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/magazine/01style.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/travel/a-week-in-centuries-past.htm...http://www.turtlebunbury.com/interviews/interviews_misc/interviews_mi...
> Selina Blow and her brother Amaury" The Times, 3 Feb 2008
>
> Helga's childhood home, now Helga's Folly, a 1930s Art Deco chateau
>
> On her daughter Selina Blowhttp://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/main-menu-cotswold-people-living-on-the...
> [has a picture of Selina Blow, now in her early forties]http://www.selinablow.com/site_biog.html
>
> "It was, she admits, an isolated childhood. Her mother is Helga de
> Silva, an aristocratic Sri Lankan, who married Selina’s father,
> Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow, at the high altar of St Paul’s
> Cathedral when she was just 17. The 25-year age gap, coupled with
> rural life in a draughty great house, couldn’t have been easy for
> her...When Selina was 11, her father died tragically. In the loss and
> confusion, she spent an extra year at primary school after her
> contemporaries had flown, before being sent to board at Hatherop
> Castle in Cirencester. "
>
> On her brotherhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Lorenz_de_Silva
>
> On the Blow familyhttp://www.thepeerage.com/p18074.htm#i180734[Detmar Blow (b 1963)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detmar_Blowhttp://www.thepeerage.com/p26031.htm[for Winifred Gertrude Tollemache
>
> "It was, she admits, an isolated childhood. Her mother is Helga de
> Silva, an aristocratic Sri Lankan, who married Selina’s father,
> Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow, at the high altar of St Paul’s
> Cathedral when she was just 17. The 25-year age gap, coupled with
> rural life in a draughty great house, couldn’t have been easy for
> her...When Selina was 11, her father died tragically. In the loss and
> confusion, she spent an extra year at primary school after her
> contemporaries had flown, before being sent to board at Hatherop
> Castle in Cirencester. "
>
> On her brotherhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Lorenz_de_Silva
>
> (d 1954) and her marriage 1910 to Detmar Blow] - there is an error in
> that Jonathan Blow and Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow (1919-1977) are
> one and the same]
> Blow, Simon "The duke who killed my father". The Spectator.
> FindArticles.com. 03 Sep, 2009.http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199612/ai_n8756424/
> that Jonathan Blow and Jonathan Oliver Tollemache Blow (1919-1977) are
> one and the same]
> Blow, Simon "The duke who killed my father". The Spectator.
> [Simon Blow on the relationship between Detmar Blow, his grandfather,
> and the 2nd Duke of Westminster who turned on his old friend]http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199612/ai_n8756424/pg...
> [on how Purcell Blow and his two sons were disinherited in favor of
> Jonathan, the younger son who later married Helga de Silva]
> and an old post of mine from 2007http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.talk.royalty/2007-05/...
> Jonathan, the younger son who later married Helga de Silva]
>
> Detmar had his own grand lineage, and shared with Issie a passion for
> art, fashion and history. His family estate was Hilles, near
> Painswick, not as grand as Doddington perhaps, but not exactly a two-
> up two-down either. Detmar’s father, Jonathan, had married a Sri
> Lankan woman, Helga de Silva, whose brother Desmond was a well-known
> and highly successful QC. Jonathan had been a journalist and suffered
> from depression, making several attempts at suicide before killing
> himself by drinking weedkiller at Hilles in 1977, when Detmar was 14.
> “How romantic,” Issie had once said to Helga, “that he died in your
> arms.” But he had not died in her arms, he had collapsed on the
> bedroom floor and the reality had been anything but romantic.
>
> Helga had spent most of the following years back in Sri Lanka, leaving
> Detmar and his brother and sister to more or less fend for
> themselves.
>
> Descendants of Jonathan Blow and Helga de Silvahttp://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/Part_h7.htm
> Detmar had his own grand lineage, and shared with Issie a passion for
> art, fashion and history. His family estate was Hilles, near
> Painswick, not as grand as Doddington perhaps, but not exactly a two-
> up two-down either. Detmar’s father, Jonathan, had married a Sri
> Lankan woman, Helga de Silva, whose brother Desmond was a well-known
> and highly successful QC. Jonathan had been a journalist and suffered
> from depression, making several attempts at suicide before killing
> himself by drinking weedkiller at Hilles in 1977, when Detmar was 14.
> “How romantic,” Issie had once said to Helga, “that he died in your
> arms.” But he had not died in her arms, he had collapsed on the
> bedroom floor and the reality had been anything but romantic.
>
> Helga had spent most of the following years back in Sri Lanka, leaving
> Detmar and his brother and sister to more or less fend for
> themselves.
>
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