Elizabeth Rees-Williams


Joan Elizabeth Rees-Williams, The Honourable Mrs Aitken is a Welsh socialite. She appeared on the British television series Question Time in 1979, and in the documentaries Biography and 50 Films to See Before You Die.
She was born in Cardiff, the daughter of Alice Alexandra Constance and the politician David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore.
She has three children from her first marriage, and gained at least eight stepchildren from her later marriages.

Marriages and children

She has been married four times.
She married Richard Harris in 1957, with whom she had three sons. They divorced in 1969. Sir Rex Harrison was her second husband from 1971 to 1975. He had two sons from two previous marriages. Rees-Williams wed Peter Michael Aitken in 1980 and divorced him in 1985. He has two sons from a prior relationship, and is the cousin of her current husband, Jonathan Aitken, whom she married on 25 June 2003. Jonathan already had three daughters and one son,.