Henry Edward Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, (born 31 March 1924), is a British peer.

He is the son of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe was a member of the British aristocracy. He became Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe in 1947.-Education and career:...

 and Sonia Rosemary Keppel

Sonia Cubitt, Baroness Ashcombe

Sonia Rosemary Cubitt, Baroness Ashcombe OBE DStJ was the daughter of Hon. George Keppel and his wife, Alice and the grandmother of the Duchess of Cornwall. Violet Trefusis was her sister.On 16 November 1920, she married Hon...

, and the uncle of Her Royal Highness Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Education & career

Educated at Eton College

Eton College

Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

, he served in the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

 during the Second World War. He was the London

London

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-based Consul-General for Monaco

Monaco

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 from 1961-1968.

Family

He has married three times without issue:

• Ghislaine (née Dresselhuys)
  Ghislaine Alexander
  Ghislaine Alexander, née Ghislaine Marie-Rose Edith Dresselhuys was a wealthy heiress and British socialite who was a panelist on the British version of What's My Line?.-Life and times:...
  
   Countess of Caledon (ex-wife of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon
  Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon
  Denis James Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon was a soldier and landownerHe was the son of Lt.-Col. Hon. Herbrand Charles Alexander and Millicent Valla Meredyth and grandson of James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon. He was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst...
  
  ) was married to Lord Ashcombe from 1955-1968. In 1972, she married Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley
  Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley
  Adrian Gerald Foley, 8th Baron Foley is a British peer and a former composer and pianist.Upon the death of his father, the 7th Baron Foley, in 1927, Foley succeeded to his title at the age of three. In 1946, he composed music for the film Piccadilly Incident and for Bond Street in 1947...
  
  .
• Hon. Virginia Carington (daughter of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
  Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
  Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, is a British Conservative politician. He served as British Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as the sixth Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. He is the last surviving member of the Cabinets of both Harold Macmillan and Sir...
  
  ) was married to Lord Ashcombe from 1973-1979. She is now a special aide to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
   and The Duchess of Cornwall.
• Mary Elizabeth Chipps, the mother of two children from her previous marriage to the late Mark Dent-Brocklehurst
  Mark Dent-Brocklehurst
  Mark Dent-Brocklehurst was a stockbroker and the heir to Sudeley Castle. He died suddenly from a heart attack in 1972. The castle passed to his wife Elizabeth, Lady Ashcombe and his two children Henry and Molly....
  
  , married Lord Ashcombe in 1979 at Sudeley Castle
  Sudeley Castle
  Sudeley Castle is a castle located near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. It dates from the 10th century, but the inhabited portion is chiefly Elizabethan. The castle has a notable garden, which is designed and maintained to a very high standard. The chapel, St. Mary's Sudeley, is the burial...
  
  , which Lady Ashcombe partially owns with her children. The medieval fortress, situated in the Cotswolds
  Cotswolds
  The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, an area across and long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
  
  , is the home of both Lord and Lady Ashcombe.

Lord Ashcombe's first cousin once removed, Mark Edward Cubitt, born in 1964, is the Heir Presumptive

Heir Presumptive

An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question...

 to the Barony Ashcombe

Baron Ashcombe

Baron Ashcombe, of Dorking in the County of Surrey and of Bodiam Castle in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 for the Conservative politician George Cubitt. He was the son of the architect Thomas Cubitt. Lord Ashcombe was succeeded by his...

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