The Baron Soames of Fletching

 The life peerage recently awarded to Sir Nicholas Soames has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Soames of Fletching, of Fletching in the County of East Sussex.

Soames, born 12 Feb, 1949, is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, and the son of Christopher Soames, life peer as Baron Soames (1920-1987), and his wife the former Mary Spencer-Churchill, LG (1922-2014), scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (1874-1965), and his wife the former Clementine Hozier, GBE (1885-1977).

Lord Soames of Fletching has been twice wed; 1stly in 1981, Catherine Weatherall, descended from the Keswick landed family, sister of Isobel, Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne; and married 2ndly, 1993, Serena Mary Smith (born 1959), scion of the Smith landed gentry family, daughter of Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith (1923-2007), and his wife the former Christian Margaret Carnegy (born 1927).

Lord Soames of Fletching has a son, Harry (born 1985), from his first marriage, and from his second marriage, a son, Christopher (born 2001), and Isabella (born 1996).

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