Mary Elizabeth Maugham - Marriages and Children

Marriages and Children

On 20 July 1936 at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Liza Maugham married Lt.-Col. Vincent Rudolph Paravicini, a son of the Swiss Minister (i.e. ambassador) to the Court of St. James's, Charles Paravicini. Their first child, born in 1937, was

Nicholas Vincent Somerset Paravicini, who grew up to marry Mary Ann Parker Bowles, sister of Andrew Parker Bowles, of the earls of Macclesfield. They had two sons and a daughter:

Charles Vincent Somerset Paravicini (b. 1968),

Elizabeth Ann Paravicini (b. 1970), and

Derek Paravicini (b. 1972), the blind autistic savant and musical prodigy. Nicholas and Mary Ann divorced, and around 1986 he married Susan Rose ("Suki") Phipps (born 1941), who had previously been married to Richard de la Mare and Derek Marlowe. She was the daughter of Alan Phipps by his wife Hon. Veronica Nell Fraser, daughter of Lord Lovat. Suki was brought up by Fitzroy Maclean, one of the inspirations for James Bond. Nicholas and Suki had no children.

In 1941 Liza Maugham bore her second child,

Camilla Paravicini, who in 1963 became the third wife of Manuel Basil Mavroleon, alias Bluey Mavroleon. They had two daughters,

Syrie Elizabeth Mavroleon (b. 1965) and

Sacha Mavroleon (b. 1969).

The Mavroleons divorced and Camilla married Count Frédéric Chandon de Briailles, the champagne heir.

Maugham and her first husband divorced in 1948. That same year, she married Lord John Hope, who later became the first Baron Glendevon. They also had children together, namely

Julian John Somerset Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon) (1950–2009), opera producer, died without issue and

Jonathan Charles Hope, 3rd Baron Glendevon (b. 1952), who also has no issue.