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Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh
Miranda Daphne Jane Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (née Smiley; 19 August 1939[citation needed] – 30 December 2010) was a Scottish aristocrat who married into the Guinness family.
She was the daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire.[citation needed]
On 12 March 1963, she married Benjamin Guinness, Viscount Elveden (who, in September 1967, became the 3rd Earl of Iveagh).
"Miranda Smiley was the most bewitching debutante of her season; gorgeous and glowing with life and humour, she was popular with the girls of her year as much as with men, and, in 1963, made the match she seemed destined for when she married Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh. Together, they were London's most dazzling golden couple, while in Ireland, still a social backwater, their glamour was practically divine."
Lord Iveagh was the heir to the Guinness fortune, and he was chairman of the brewing company from 1965 to 1995. In 1976, he had a beer tanker, purpose-built to carry Guinness from the Dublin docks to England, named "The Miranda Guinness" in her honour. In 1979, she was named as one of the world's best-dressed women.
The couple had four children: Edward, 4th Earl of Iveagh; Rory; Emma; and Louisa. The marriage was affected by Benjamin's alcoholism; they separated in the mid-1970s and were divorced in 1984. Nevertheless, she nursed him through his final illness in 1992.
Tony Ryan, the founder of Ryanair, was Miranda's lover for a period of six years until around 1991; he was still married, although separated from his wife.
"As a tutor and mentor, Miranda was perfect – cultivated, instinctive and, above all, tactful. She guided him true, shaping his natural good taste into a kind of killer focus, geared towards architecturally important buildings, "serious" art (he favoured 16th- and 17th-century Old Masters), and fine wines (he had a share in the Chateau Lascombes vineyard in Bordeaux). Along the way, they had fun together, hosting and attending parties for the kind of people Ryan wouldn't have had access to without her – wealth alone is never sufficient passport to the world of intellectuals and aristocrats."
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Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh
Miranda Daphne Jane Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (née Smiley; 19 August 1939[citation needed] – 30 December 2010) was a Scottish aristocrat who married into the Guinness family.
She was the daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire.[citation needed]
On 12 March 1963, she married Benjamin Guinness, Viscount Elveden (who, in September 1967, became the 3rd Earl of Iveagh).
"Miranda Smiley was the most bewitching debutante of her season; gorgeous and glowing with life and humour, she was popular with the girls of her year as much as with men, and, in 1963, made the match she seemed destined for when she married Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh. Together, they were London's most dazzling golden couple, while in Ireland, still a social backwater, their glamour was practically divine."
Lord Iveagh was the heir to the Guinness fortune, and he was chairman of the brewing company from 1965 to 1995. In 1976, he had a beer tanker, purpose-built to carry Guinness from the Dublin docks to England, named "The Miranda Guinness" in her honour. In 1979, she was named as one of the world's best-dressed women.
The couple had four children: Edward, 4th Earl of Iveagh; Rory; Emma; and Louisa. The marriage was affected by Benjamin's alcoholism; they separated in the mid-1970s and were divorced in 1984. Nevertheless, she nursed him through his final illness in 1992.
Tony Ryan, the founder of Ryanair, was Miranda's lover for a period of six years until around 1991; he was still married, although separated from his wife.
"As a tutor and mentor, Miranda was perfect – cultivated, instinctive and, above all, tactful. She guided him true, shaping his natural good taste into a kind of killer focus, geared towards architecturally important buildings, "serious" art (he favoured 16th- and 17th-century Old Masters), and fine wines (he had a share in the Chateau Lascombes vineyard in Bordeaux). Along the way, they had fun together, hosting and attending parties for the kind of people Ryan wouldn't have had access to without her – wealth alone is never sufficient passport to the world of intellectuals and aristocrats."