Family
In January 2007 Rees-Mogg married heiress Helena de Chair, a writer on a trade magazine for the oil industry. She is the daughter of Somerset de Chair and his second wife, the former Juliet, Marchioness of Bristol, who, in turn, was the only child of the eighth and last Earl Fitzwilliam.
Part of the ecumenical marriage service in Canterbury Cathedral included a Roman Catholic Tridentine Mass conducted by Dom Aidan Bellenger, the Abbot of Downside Abbey. The couple's first son was named Peter Theodore Alphege. "The first name is after Helena's grandfather and the last name is that of a saint. They have a daughter, Mary (aged 3 in 2012), and a second son Tom Wentworth Somerset Dunstan Rees-Mogg (born 8 June 2010). Their fourth child, a son named Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg, was born 22 June 2012 according to the Daily Mail.
Rees-Mogg's youngest sister, the journalist Annunziata Rees-Mogg, was also a Conservative parliamentary candidate in Somerset but failed to win her seat.
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