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OLUWAYINKA DADA takes a look at the background, life and style of a Nigerian, Emma McQuiston, who recently became a marchioness, the first black to assume that status in the United Kingdom.
A 26-year-old Nigerian, Emma McQuiston, recently made history in the United Kingdom, when she got enrolled into the British artistocratic royal class of noblewomen, now becoming the first ever UK’s first black marchioness.
In the United Kingdom, a marchioness is a noblewoman ranking between duchess and countess. In essence, the ranking in the British royalty goes thus: Dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons.
Hence, since McQuiston has assumed the highborn status as a marchioness in the British royal hierachy, she now has the full honour of being enlisted among distinguished protocols in Buckingham palace, UK.
Recently, McQuiston got married to Ceawlin Thynne, from the most eccentric aristocratic family of Alexander Thynn, the seventh Marquess of Bath, a city on the Avon River in Somerset, England. He is popularly known as the “notorious” Marquess of Bath.
It was her marriage to Thynne, son of Britain’s rich man that fetched her the title, Marchioness of Bath, UK.
McQuiston, who is also from a rich background, is a former actress, a cookery blogger, ‘celebrity chef’ and proud daughter of a Nigerian oil tycoon, Ladi Jadesimi, an Oxford University graduate, said to own an oil-rig company.
She got the ‘celebrity chef’ sobriquet because she takes pleasure in preparing healthy recipes, in addition to her likes which include “cute manicures and feeding giraffes.”
Speaking about her status as British black royalty, McQuiston said, “there has been some snobbishness, particularly among the older generation.”
She said before she became a marchioness, “I have never had anything horrible said or happen to me… But it is something you sense.”
Her, proud mother, Suzanna, speaking about her daughter’s new status said: “I always felt there might be this slight snobbish thing about anyone who’s black, but it seems everybody has taken Emma into their hearts and they love her.”
McQuiston, an arts graduate and former head girl in her school, will initially be a viscountess. She is expected to become Marchioness of Bath when her husband inherits the title.
Surprisingly, McQuiston met her husban when she was four, during a time she used to spend her Christmas and Easter holidays at the historic house and park in the UK.
Last year, her husband 38-year-old husband, Viscount Weymouth, took over the running of the familyLongleat Estate from his 80-year-old father, who has had at least 75 mistresses he refers to as ‘wifelets.’
“He wanted a happy, harmonious life with lots of women and lots of babies. That’s what he set out for in the Sixties and that’s what he’s stuck to,” McQuiston said of her father-in-law.
However, she said she is not expecting her husband to follow suit with the ‘wifelets’ or “the eccentric dress sense” known of his father-in-law.
“We do dress up, but mostly as cowboys and Indians, or cheetahs (for parties)...,” she said.
“I want babies and I’d love to have them soon. I want to be a young mum,” the obviously elated McQuiston said.
The Thynne family lives in a set of private apartments in their country house, surrounded by the 100,000-acre estate in idyllic countryside in Warminster, Wiltshire, UK.
Their safari park environment, first opened in 1966 and claims to be the first drive-through safari park outside Africa.
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