Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke

The Earl of Pembroke
Born	Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert (1939-05-19)19 May 1939
Died
Title	17th Earl of Pembroke 14th Earl of Montgomery
Other titles	Lord Herbert (1960-69)
Other names	Henry Herbert
Predecessor	16th Earl of Pembroke
Successor	18th Earl of Pembroke
Issue	7
Occupation	Film director and producer

Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, 14th Earl of Montgomery (19 May 1939 – 7 October 2003), styled Lord Herbert between 1960 and 1969 and often known simply as Henry Herbert, was a British aristocrat, film director and producer.

Background and education

Herbert was the only son of the 16th Earl of Pembroke and 13th Earl of Montgomery and his wife, Mary (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Linlithgow) and a godson of Prince George, Duke of Kent. Through the 11th Earl of Pembroke, he descended from Countess Catherine Vorontsov. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and briefly served with the Royal Horse Guards from 1958–60 before inherting his father's titles and estate of Wilton House in 1969.

Career in film industry

Herbert's first film was Malachi's Cove (a.k.a. The Seaweed Children, 1974), starring Donald Pleasence and Arthur English amongst others, but it is probably his second film, Emily (1976), a soft-core erotic film starring Koo Stark, which he is best remembered for. He also worked on episodes for the TV series Shoestring and Bergerac, as well as directing the 1998 film, Crossmaheart.

Family

On 20 January 1966 he married Clair Rose Pelly. The couple divorced in 1981. They had four children:

• Lady Sophia Herbert (b. 1968)
• Lady Emma Herbert (b. 1969)
• Lady Flora Herbert (b. 1970)
• William Alexander Sidney Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke (b. 18 May 1978)

In 1983, Pembroke had a brief relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales, who described him as "not a stiff like Charles".

In 1988 he married Miranda Juliet Oram (born 1962). They had three daughters.

• Lady Jemima Herbert (b. 4 October 1989)
• Lady Alice Herbert (b. 10 November 1991)
• Lady Katie Herbert (b. 26 August 1997)

Pembroke died in 2003, and his titles and estates passed to his only son, William Herbert.

Ancestry

Family of Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke

16. Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea               8. Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke                       17. Mary Elizabeth Ashe à Court-Repington               4. Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke                             18. George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham               9. Lady Beatrix Louisa Lambton                       19. Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton               2. Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke                                   20. Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey               10. Lord Alexander Victor Paget                       21. Henrietta Bagot               5. Lady Beatrice Eleanor Paget                             22. Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere               11. The Hon. Hester Alice Stapleton-Cotton                       23. Susan Alice Sitwell               1. Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke and 14th Earl of Montgomery                                         24. John Hope, 5th Earl of Hopetoun               12. John Hope, 6th Earl of Hopetoun                       25. Louisa Bosville Macdonald               6. John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow                             26. Charles Birch Reynardson               13. Ethelred Birch Reynardson                       3. Lady Mary Dorothea Hope                                   28. Thomas de Moleyns, 3rd Baron Ventry               14. Dayrolles Eveleigh-de Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry                       29. Eliza Theodora Blake               7. The Hon. Hersey Eveleigh-de Moleyns                             30. Andrew Wauchope               15. Harriet Wauchope

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Pembroke
• Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke at the Internet Movie Database
• Royal Genealogical Data page

Peerage of England
Preceded by Sidney Charles Herbert	Earl of Pembroke 1969–2003	Succeeded by William Alexander Sidney Herbert