Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill

{{Short description|English interior designer and writer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|10|07|df=yes}}

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| occupation = Interior decorator

| father = John Spencer-Churchill

| relatives = James Spencer-Churchill (brother)
John Spencer-Churchill (grandfather)
Michael Hornby (grandfather)

| spouse = {{marriage|Nathan Gelber|1980|1989|end=div.}}

| children = 2

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Lady Henrietta Mary Spencer-Churchill (born 7 October 1958){{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 2620 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}} is an English interior decorator and founder of Woodstock Designs.

Biography

Lady Henrietta is the youngest child and only daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough by his first wife Susan Mary, daughter of Michael Hornby. She is the great-granddaughter of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the step-sister of Christina Onassis through her father's second marriage to Tina Onassis, former wife of Aristotle Onassis.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Her name has been more than once included in a list of 100 Leading Interior Designers by House & Garden magazine.{{cite web|title=Henrietta Spencer-Churchill - House & Garden 100 Leading Interior Designers|url=http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/top100/henrietta-spencer-churchill/|publisher=House and Garden|accessdate=25 July 2016}} She is the author of several books on the subject, as well as Blenheim and the Churchill Family: A Personal Portrait (2005), an historical and anecdotal account of her family home, Blenheim Palace.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

She was married to German banker Nathan Gelber from 1980 to 1989, with whom she has sons David Aba Gelber (born 1981) and Maximilian Henry Gelber (born 1985).

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