Emma
McQuiston, the 27 year old daughter of Nigerian oil tycoon Ladi Jadesimi, with
a British mother, made history when she married the Viscount Ceawlin Thynn, of
Britain on Saturday 8th of June. Emma's Nigerian father Ladi Jadesimi was also
at the wedding, to walk his daughter down the aisle.
The ceremony was overshadowed by the
conspicuous absence of his parents who refused to attend as a family feud
rumbled on.
Emma McQuiston has made history as she becomes the first black Marchioness in Britain (Marquess of Bath at the family seat of Longleat).
But she claims her relationship
with the aristocrat has caused upset among the British elite because of her
ethnicity and background.
In an interview with society magazine Tatler, the
27-year-old said: 'There's class and then there's the racial thing. It's a
jungle and I'm going through it and discovering things as I grow up.
'I’m not super-easily offended but it’s a problem when
someone’s making you feel different or separate because of your race. I have
never had anything horrible said or happen, but it is something you sense. You
can just tell with some people.’
But the Marquess of Bath – famous for his string of
‘wifelets’ – and his real wife, Hungarian-born Anna Gael, 69, boycotted the
ceremony.
A source told the Daily Express: 'It was an intimate
ceremony. Longleat is considered one of the foremost and widely respected
traditional British estates in the country.
'With the backdrop of the safari park, estate and house,
it was quite special.
'Many people have celebrated that she will be the first
black marchioness in the UK, which was widely praised as "about time
too".'
Lord Bath has expressed great displeasure at his son’s
renovation of the family seat at Longleat, which has involved removing a number
of his prized erotic paintings, and said he would stay away from the wedding.
The 80-year-old Marquess – wearing mustard chinos and a green
velvet jacket – instead went to a wedding in Hampshire yesterday morning,
accompanied by his wife, Ceawlin's mother.
He saw professional polo players Heloise Lorentzen and
Sean Wilson-Smith tie the knot in a lavish affair in Wonston, with the happy couple
then celebrating with their guests, many of them fellow polo players, at a
wedding banquet for almost 250.
Lady Bath, who splits her time between Longleat and Paris,
is thought to disapprove of Miss McQuiston, an aspiring celebrity chef.
‘She has asked her son to call it off,’ a friend of the
family said. ‘She seems to think Emma isn’t good enough for him. Emma’s a
lovely girl and is understandably hurt by this, as is her family. But Ceawlin
loves Emma and won’t be swayed.’
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