Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke

The Earl of Pembroke
Born Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert
(1939-05-19)19 May 1939
Died 5 October 2003(2003-10-05) (aged 64)
Title 17th Earl of Pembroke
14th Earl of Montgomery
Other titles Lord Herbert (1960-69)
Other names Henry Herbert
Predecessor 16th Earl of Pembroke
Successor 18th Earl of Pembroke
Issue 7
Occupation Film director and producer

Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, 14th Earl of Montgomery (19 May 1939 – 7 October 2003), styled Lord Herbert between 1960 and 1969 and often known simply as Henry Herbert, was a British aristocrat, film director and producer.

Background and education

Herbert was the only son of the 16th Earl of Pembroke and 13th Earl of Montgomery and his wife, Mary (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Linlithgow) and a godson of Prince George, Duke of Kent. Through the 11th Earl of Pembroke, he descended from Countess Catherine Vorontsov.[1] He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and briefly served with the Royal Horse Guards from 1958–60 before inherting his father's titles and estate of Wilton House in 1969.

Career in film industry

Herbert's first film was Malachi's Cove (a.k.a. The Seaweed Children, 1974), starring Donald Pleasence and Arthur English amongst others, but it is probably his second film, Emily (1976), a soft-core erotic film starring Koo Stark, which he is best remembered for. He also worked on episodes for the TV series Shoestring and Bergerac, as well as directing the 1998 film, Crossmaheart.

Family

On 20 January 1966 he married Clair Rose Pelly. The couple divorced in 1981. They had four children:

In 1983, Pembroke had a brief relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales, who described him as "not a stiff like Charles".[2]

In 1988 he married Miranda Juliet Oram (born 1962). They had three daughters.

Pembroke died in 2003, and his titles and estates passed to his only son, William Herbert.

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ Woronzow, HumphrysFamilyTree, accessed 4 April 2012. Catherine's father, Count Semyon Vorontsov, the Russian ambassador to Britain, brought the family to London in 1785.
  2. ↑ Lady Colin Campbell, The Real Diana, p. 133

External links

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Sidney Charles Herbert		 Earl of Pembroke
1969–2003 		Succeeded by
William Alexander Sidney Herbert


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