Fiona, Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu 1943-2023

 Fiona, Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu died at her home in London, 14 May, 2023.

She was the second wife, and widow, of the 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1926-2015), of Palace House, Beaulieu, Hampshire.

She was born in 1943 in Southern Rhodesia, as Fiona Margaret Herbert, daughter of Richard Lionel Deane Herbert, of Clymping, Sussex, and his wife, Isobel, and married 26 September, 1974, as his second wife, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (born 20 Oct, 1926), son of the 2nd Baron (1866-1929), and his second wife the former Alice Pearl Crake.

 Lady Montagu of Beaulieu worked as a film production assistant in Britain before marrying Lord Montagu, and as chatelaine of Palace House she became a champion of the newly established Countryside Education Trust, raising considerable funds for the charity, particularly through an annual Christmas Fair which she organised at Palace House.

She served as an international advisor to the World Centre of Compassion for Children, was a trustee of Vision-in-Action, led by Yasuhiko Kimura, and became a Patron of the Relational Thinking Network. She was instrumental in the foundation of the Club of Budapest, an informal association of people in art, literature and culture, and was appointed their first global ambassador. This gave rise to the formation of the World Wisdom Council which promotes the idea of change through a new dimension of consciousness.

Lady Montagu was widowed 31 Aug, 2015 and thereafter lived in London. She is survived by a son, the Hon Jonathan Deane Douglas-Scott-Montagu (born 11 Oct, 1975), and two step-children, Ralph, 4th Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (born 13 March, 1961), and the Hon Mary Douglas-Scott-Montagu  (born 16 Nov, 1964).

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