Denise Orme - Personal Life

Personal Life

Orme was married three times, her husbands being:

• John Reginald Lopes Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston (1873–1930), whom she married on 24 April 1907 and divorced in 1928, due to her affair with Theodore W. Wessel. They had six children:
  • Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller (22 April 1908 – 25 April 1997), who married: (1) G/Capt Loel Guinness, divorced 1936 (2) Prince Aly Khan, divorced 1949 (3) the 2nd Viscount Camrose. One of her children is Aga Khan IV.
  • Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston (12 February 1910 - 1991)
  • Hon. John Reginald Henry Yarde-Buller (13 June 1915 - 1962)
  • Denise Margaret Yarde-Buller Grosvenor, Baroness Ebury (24 October 1916 - 2005), divorced 1954.
  • Lydia Russell, Duchess of Bedford (17 October 1917 – 25 July 2006)
  • Primrose Cadogan, Countess Cadogan (24 December 1918 – 1970), divorced 1960
• Theodore W. "Tito" Wessel (died 1948), a Danish millionaire and one-time Danish chargé d'affaires in Chile. They married in London on 31 October 1928 and divorced in Tahiti in 1934. By this marriage she had three stepchildren (Barbara, Frederika, and Nina) and one son:
  • Hugo Wessel (born 18 March 1930), who became a singer and actor and was the first husband of Nina Van Pallandt. Hugo Wessel's son, Mark Wessel, became a French singer-songwriter.
• Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, whom she married on 11 March 1946.

In the late 1930s, Orme had an affair with Esmé Ivo Bligh, 9th Earl of Darnley. Her cousin Ethel Rose Kendall, who acted under the name Eileen Orme, married, in 1908, the Hon. Maurice Nelson Hood, son and heir of the second Viscount Bridport (who was also the 5th Duke of Bronte).