Lady Kinvara Balfour
Lady Kinvara Clare Rachel Balfour (born 1975), second daughter of Roderick Francis Arthur Balfour, 5th Earl of Balfour, and a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, is an English playwright, novelist, fashion commentator and performer.
Dazed & Abused, her first play, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, where it was completely sold out during its three-week run. It later transferred to London and New York where Diane von Fürstenberg made her studio theatre available for the production. She has also acted, performed and written other works. She has had a successful career as a fashion commentator and trend analyst, and since her work as fashion editor of the Saturday Telegraph, now runs the London wing of the U.S. company DailyCandy.com.
In early 2009 she married Riccardo Lanza, an event organiser and property specialist based in London and Venice, at the Duke of Norfolk's family seat, Arundel Castle. According to an April 2011 Daily Mail article by Richard Kay, the couple has separated.[1]
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[edit] Family connections
Her father is the 5th Earl of Balfour (descended from the British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour).
Her mother, Tessa Balfour, is the eldest daughter of the late 17th Duke of Norfolk, Myles Fitzalan-Howard and his wife, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (formerly Anne Constable-Maxwell). The title of Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel and Earl Marshal of England, is the oldest and premier British aristocratic title after the Royal Family, the Norfolks are direct descendents of King Edward I and they are also the leading Roman Catholic family in Britain.
[edit] Education
She attended St. Mary's Convent School, South Ascot.
[edit] External links
- Darryl Lundy, Peerage database, for information on Balfour's family
- Richard Kay. Heartbreat hits Norfolk clan again, Daily Mail, 28 April 2011
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