Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath


Emma Clare Thynn, Marchioness of Bath is a British socialite, fashion model and television personality. She is married to Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath. In 2020, she became the first black marchioness in British history.

Early life and background

The Marchioness was born Emma Clare McQuiston, on 26 March 1986, in London, the daughter of a Nigerian father and an English mother. Her father, Chief Oladipo Jadesimi, is a Nigerian oil billionaire who is the founder and executive chairman of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Company, while her mother, Suzanna McQuiston, is an English socialite. Through her father, Emma is a half-sister of Amy Jadesimi, who is 10 years older than her. Emma is an heir to her father's estate, estimated in the billions from oil.
Emma was raised in South Kensington. She was head girl at Queen's Gate School and later attended University College London to study Art History. After university, she studied classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Marriage and family

McQuiston and Ceawlin Thynn announced their engagement in November 2012. They were married at Longleat, the family seat in Wiltshire, on 8 June 2013. Upon her marriage McQuiston became Viscountess Weymouth.
The wedding ceremony was not attended by the groom's parents, Anna and Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath. Her fiancé's father boycotted the ceremony after a feud with Viscount Weymouth over changes made to his artworks at Longleat. The bridegroom's mother was banned from the ceremony by the Viscount after she repeatedly made racist remarks about McQuiston.
In 2013, she stated that she has experienced racism and prejudice from other members of the British aristocracy. Anna, the Dowager Marchioness of Bath, is banned from visiting her grandchildren after making racist remarks regarding their mother. When her husband succeeded his father as the Marquess of Bath, she became the first black marchioness in British history.

Children

John Alexander Ladi Thynn, Viscount Weymouth was born on 26 October 2014, in London by emergency caesarian section. His birth took place at the Lindo Wing, St. Mary's Hospital. The viscount is currently the heir apparent to his father's marquessate.
Lord Henry Richard Isaac Thynn was born in December 2016, in Los Angeles. He had been carried to term by a gestational carrier.

Career

Upon her marriage to Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath in 2013, she became chatelaine at Longleat. There, she founded the food and lifestyle brand Emma's Kitchen.
In 2017, she became a brand ambassador for Fiorucci. She also modelled for Dolce & Gabbana, walking in runway shows at Harrods. The same year, she hosted the first annual Longleat Food and Drink Festival.
In February 2018, she walked in Dolce & Gabbana's Secrets & Diamonds fashion show in Milan.
She is a financial supporter of the Women's Institute.
She has a lifestyle website, although updates ended in February 2018, when she began working as a fashion editor at British Vogue. She is also contributing editor at Huffington Post.

Television

Lady Bath was featured alongside her husband in All Change at Longleat, a three-part documentary filmed in 2014 and broadcast on BBC One in September 2015.
From September 2019, she was a contestant in the seventeenth series of the prime-time BBC television programme Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional dancer Aljaž Skorjanec. The couple were eliminated in week 7.
Lady Bath has been identified by a number of titles during her life:
She is also Baroness Thynne, which is the female equivalent of her husband's subsidiary title.