Thomas "Loel" Guinness - First Marriage

First Marriage

Usually known as Loel Guinness, was most well known for his first marriage to the Honourable Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller (1908–1997), a daughter of the 3rd Lord Churston, who left him for Prince Aly Khan, the eldest son of the Aga Khan III. (Aly later married the actress Rita Hayworth ; Princess Joan Aly Khan married thirdly the 2nd Viscount Camrose and died as the Dowager Viscountess Camrose or Joan Berry, Viscountess Camrose). By Joan, he had a son:

• Patrick Benjamin Guinness (1931–1965) who would later marry his stepsister in 1955.

Princess Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000) was a godmother at christening of Patrick Benjamin, the infant son of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Loel Guinness at St Margaret's, Westminster on 15 July 1931. The other godparents were Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston (1910–1991), Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet (1888–1939), Mr. Walter Rosen (1875–1951), Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (1873–1957), and Mrs. Richard Guinness (née Beatrice Mackay, formerly Mrs. Nico Jungman).