Woodrow Wyatt - Marriages, Children, and Death

Marriages, Children, and Death

Wyatt was married four times, to:

  • First (div): Susan Cox, no issue. She was a fellow student at Oxford.
  • Second (div): Nora Robbins, no issue. She was his secretary
  • Third (1957, dissolved 1966): Lady Moorea Hastings (b. 1928) daughter of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon and a granddaughter of Luisa Casati; one son: Hon. Pericles Plantagenet Wyatt.
  • Fourth (1966): Veronica (Verushka) Banszky von Ambroz, née Racz, a Hungarian and widow of a surgeon; one daughter: journalist Petronella Wyatt (b. 1968).

He arranged for cousins to take care of his first child when his wife made it clear she was not interested. When they divorced, he got custody of his son.

He was the cousin of England Test cricketer Bob Wyatt. He claimed to be a descendent of the architectural Wyatt family.

He died in Camden aged 79.

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