Britain’s first black marchioness Emma Weymouth is a billionaire oil heiress, London socialite, Strictly Come Dancing star and Vogue editor
The glamorous London scenester – formerly Emma McQuiston, daughter of Nigerian billionaire oil tycoon Oladipo Jadesimi and socialite Suzanna McQuiston – is a keen cook, style icon and UCL buddy of the late Sir David Tang’s son, Edward
When the eccentric seventh Marquess of Bath died in the first week of April, aged 87, his son Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth succeeded him. And Ceawlin’s glamorous 34-year-old wife, Viscountess Emma Weymouth, became the new Marchioness of Bath.
The former Emma McQuiston, a London-born socialite brought up in exclusive South Kensington, married Ceawlin in 2013. Emma moved into Longleat House, the Thynn family seat which Ceawlin had taken over the management of from his father in 2010, and the couple had two sons, John and Henry.
The 9,000-acre Longleat estate in Wiltshire, southwest England, is famous for its safari park created by Ceawlin’s grandfather. Emma has already become involved in running the estate including conservationism and setting up food ventures. So who is the new Marchioness of Bath?
Emma is Britain’s first black marchioness
She’s the daughter of Nigerian billionaire oil tycoon Oladipo Jadesimi and English socialite Suzanna McQuiston.
The Marchioness of Bath first met her husband when they were children
Emma’s half-brother Iain McQuiston is married to Ceawlin’s aunt Lady Silvy, and according to the British magazine Tatler, Emma met her future husband when she was a bridesmaid aged four at their wedding. “I would see Ceawlin at Christmas, Easter and family get-togethers,” she told Tatler [in 2013.] Romance did not spark however until the pair ran into each at London members’ club Soho House decades later.