ship owner, Grenadier Guardsman, yachtsman, pilot, patriot, a good
shot and a famously generous host. He was born 17 April 1927, the son
of Basil Mavroleon and his English wife Violet (née Withers).
Mavroleon's first wife, Ruth, was a London policeman's daughter. They
married in 1951 and divorced three years later. In 1956 he married
Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro, with whom he had two sons, Carlos (d
1998) and Nicholas. The marriage was dissolved in 1961, and he married
thirdly, in 1963, Camilla Paravicini, later Countess Frédéric Chandon
de Brailles, dau of Lt.-Col. Vincent Rudolph Paravicini, by his wife
Mary Elizabeth Maugham (later Lady John Hope (see Linlithgow) & then
Baroness Glendevon), dau of the playwright Somerset Maugham and niece
of the 1st Viscount Maugham (extinct 1981). They had two daughters,
(i) Syrie Mavroleon (engaged now married (?) to Mark R.A. Swire, scion
of that LG family, eldest son of the late Humphrey Roger Swire (b 17
Oct 1934, d 3 Jan 2004) by his 1st wife, the former Philippa Sophia
Kidston-Montgomerie, scion of that LG family (now Marchioness
Townshend, of Raynham), & (ii) Sacha Mavroleon, before this marriage
too was dissolved. In 1982 Mavroleon married Caroline Tomé, who
survives him together with his son Nicholas (a former husband of the
actress Barbara Carrera) and his two daughters. His son Carlos, a
journalist working for CBS who had converted to Islam, died in
mysterious circumstances in a hotel room in Peshawar, Pakistan, in
1998.
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