Tania Harcourt-Cooze
Tania Rosamund Harcourt-Cooze (née Coleridge) (b 22 January 1966) is an English former model and actress. [1]
The daughter of Major William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St Mary and his first wife Everild Tania Hambrough, she is directly related to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The oldest of five children, by her father's first marriage she has a brother, James Duke Coleridge (b 1967) and a sister, Sophia Tamsin Coleridge (b 1970). Her parents divorced in 1977 when she was 11. By his second marriage, she has two stepsisters, Vanessa Leyla Coleridge (b 1978) and Katharine Suzannah Coleridge (b 1981). She lives in Tiverton, Devon with her husband William (Willie) Harcourt-Cooze and they have three children - Sophia (nine), William (seven) and Eve (four). [1][2][3][4][5][6]
She left England at the age of 20 in 1986 to become a model and an actress, and lived in Los Angeles until she was 28. She was a model, and starred opposite the singer George Michael in the video for Father Figure. She met Willie and in 1996 they left England for Venezuela where they ran a small hotel, a restaurant and organised tourist walks through one of the national parks. They married, and whilst on honeymoon discovered, and later purchased, a 1,000 acres (400 ha) cocoa hacienda in Choroni. They planted more than 50,000 criollo cacao trees, the highest quality strain of cocoa and built up an eco-tourism venture before having to mothball it temporarily due to the political and economic climate. [1][7][4]
Returning to England, she took over the management of the The Chanter's House, the family's ancestral home in March 2002 and set up events management company Kubla Khan, through which to organise weddings, fashion shoots, residential art courses, exhibitions, house tours and cultural gatherings all centred around the property. [1]
In October 2006 the increasing costs of maintaining the property caused the family trust to put the property up for sale and auction the contents. [8][9][10]
She came to public prominence again in 2008 with the airing of the fly-on-the-wall documentary, Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory, centred around her husbands efforts to be one of the first Britains since the Cadbury family to grow, import and produce their own chocolate. [7][3]
See also
References & footnotes
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Wynn-Davies, Patricia (17 March 2004). "Me and My Home: At home with history". The Independent. findarticles.com.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Major William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary". thePeerage.com.
- ^ a b "Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory". Channel 4.
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Weinberg, Kate (23 February 2008). "Willie's wacky chocolate factory". The Daily Telegraph.
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- ^ "TM: a selection of Trade Marks and Brand Names registered in April 2007". Food Trade Review. Entrepreneur Magazine. August 2007.
- ^ a b Goodhart, Benjie. "Interview: Willie Harcourt-Cooze". News. Channel 4 Sales.
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"Sotheby's to sell property from the Coleridge family collection at The Chanter's House" (PDF) (Press release). Sotheby's. 22 August 2006.
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"Coleridge heirlooms auctioned off". BBC. 24 October 2006.
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Kay, Richard (16 February 2006). "Farewell to Xanadu for Coleridge?". Columnists. Daily Mail.
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External links
- Tania Coleridge at IMDb
- "Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory". Channel 4.
- Wynn-Davies, Patricia (17 March 2004). "Me and My Home: At home with history". The Independent. findarticles.com.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Maddicks, Russell (1 March 2008). "Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory brings Venezuelan cacao to UK". In Humboldt's Footsteps.
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