Georgia Powell Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Her Grace
The Duchess of Beaufort
Birth Name:	Georgia Powell
Birth Date:	18 February 1969
Occupation:	Journalist

Georgia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (née Powell; born 18 February 1969)^[1] is an English journalist who is married to Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort.^[2]

Powell is the daughter of the director and producer Tristram Powell and his wife, the former Virginia Lucas, and is thus a granddaughter of the novelist Anthony Powell.^[3] She studied Classics at the University of Oxford, and is best known as a columnist and obituarist for the Daily Telegraph.^[4]

Her first marriage, in 1996, was to Tobias Coke; they had a son and a daughter.^[4] On 30 April 2018, she married the Duke of Beaufort at St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton. The Duke had previously divorced his first wife, actress Tracy Ward,^[5] after making a public announcement to guests at the Duke of Beaufort's annual hunt ball.^[6]

Publications

By Georgia Powell Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (with Katharine Ramsay). John Murray, 2005.

Notes and References

Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Volume 2, page 2395
Web site: Gloucestershire's most eligible bachelor has been taken off the market. Gloucestershire Live. 10 May 2018. Janet Hughes. 21 May 2019.
Web site: Why I am not drinking for the rest of the year. 14 July 2018. Taki. Spectator. 21 May 2019.
Web site: 'I wish I'd known that when I went to university' - Telegraph writers share their student wisdom. 17 September 2016. The Telegraph. 21 May 2019.
Web site: Duke of Beaufort's wife insists she will be Duchess despite four-year separation. 18 August 2017. Eleanor Steafel. 21 May 2019.
Web site: Double duchess: 'Rock god' Duke of Beaufort to divorce wife and re-marry in the spring. 1 December 2017. Robert Mendick. The Telegraph. 22 May 2019.