Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort


Henry John FitzRoy Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort, also known as Harry Beaufort or Bunter Beaufort, previously as Bunter Worcester, is an English peer and landowner, with estates in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire based on Badminton House.

Biography

Beaufort is the son of The 11th Duke of Beaufort and his wife, Lady Caroline Jane Thynne, a daughter of The 6th Marquess of Bath. He and his family are descended in the male line from the House of Plantagenet, through a legitimated line.
Beaufort was educated at Hawtreys, Eton College, and the Royal Agricultural College.
His first wife was the environmentalist and former actress Tracy Louise Ward. They were married on 13 June 1987 at Cornwell, in Oxfordshire, but later separated, and were divorced in 2018. The marriage produced three children:,
Beaufort has famously kept the day to day life of his children out of the society eye, most notably that of his eldest son and heir to the Dukedom.
On 30 April, 2018, Beaufort married secondly Georgia Powell, a granddaughter of the novelist Anthony Powell.
Beaufort is also a singer and songwriter with the rock group The Listening Device. The band was a support act at the Highclere Rocks concert in 2006 that also featured Bryan Ferry, Eric Clapton, and Roger Waters, amongst others.

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