Arthur Gerald Wellesley, Earl of Mornington (born 31 January 1978 in Paddington

Paddington

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, London), is the son of (Arthur) Charles Valerian Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, and after his father heir to the Dukedom of Wellington. Through his mother, HRH Princess Antonia of Prussia

Princess Antonia, Marchioness of Douro

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, he is a descendant of Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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, a great-great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and is 374th in the line of succession to the British Throne

Line of succession to the British Throne

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. The Wellesleys are an aristocratic Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

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 family.

Educated at Eton College

Eton College

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, Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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 (obtaining a first-class degree) and Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School

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, he has worked in private equity

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.

He married Jemma Madeleine Kidd

Jemma Wellesley, Countess of Mornington

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 (born 1974), great-granddaughter of Lord Beaverbrook

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

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, on 4 June 2005 at St James' Church in Barbados

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. Due to this marriage Jemma acquired the title of Countess of Mornington

Earl of Mornington

Earl of Mornington is a title in the Peerage of Ireland, since 1863 a subsidiary title of the dukedom of Wellington. It was created in 1760 for the Anglo-Irish politician and composer Garret Wellesley, 2nd Baron Mornington. He was made Viscount Wellesley, of Dangan Castle in the County of Meath, at...

. The title is named after Mornington, a village in the east of County Meath

County Meath

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 in Ireland.

Lord Mornington and his wife announced they were expecting twins, due in January 2010. Lady Mornington gave birth to a girl and a boy, Lady Mae Madeleine and Arthur Darcy, who takes the courtesy title Viscount Wellesley. The twins were born in early January at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

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. Lord Mornington and his son have the right to succeed to the Dukedom of Wellington and the title Prince of Waterloo

Prince of Waterloo

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, while he and both his children have the right to succeed to the Dukedom of Ciudad Rodrigo.

Ancestry