She grew up on a sprawling 18th-century estate, has her husband’s nanny on hand to care for her six children, and has spoken of the “responsibility” of one day inheriting a priceless art collection.
There can be no doubt that Helena Rees-Mogg lives a life that most people don’t identify with and yet she has been hailed as the most “grounded and fun” member of the family after winning over critics on the family’s new reality show, which landed on Discovery+ last night.
One critic admitted a “deep obsession” with the 47-year-old, while another said she quickly became the star of the show.
It’s a big win for the former journalist who said her hope for the show was that people wouldn’t see her as a “horribly out of touch idiot” and “not a total idiot.”
However, despite her seemingly solid nature, Helena, whose full name is Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, comes from far from humble beginnings.
He grew up on an extensive estate built in the 18th century, Bourne Park in Kent, looked after by a nanny, which has its own cricket pitch. It is currently a Grade I listed property.
Her father, the Conservative MP Somerset de Chair, was an “old man” of 65 when Helena was born, but he was “affectionate”.
Meanwhile, her mother, Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, was the sole heiress of the wealthy 8th Earl Fitzwilliam and Helena is on track to one day inherit the family’s rumored £45 million fortune.
A reality show about Jacob Rees-Mogg’s wife and six children caused many to roll their eyes, but also attracted a flood of viewers who were baffled by how deeply visible the inside look at the family had seemed to them.” elegant”. . Jacob and Helena in 2006
The pair appeared on hosts Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary’s ITV show to promote their new fly-on-the-wall documentary after a trailer was released last week.
The couple married at Canterbury Cathedral in 2007. Pictured together on their wedding day 17 years ago.
However, despite her seemingly solid nature, Helena, whose full name is Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, comes from far from humble beginnings.
Speaking to the Telegraph, she admitted that it was only after being sent to boarding school at the age of 10 that she realized how rich her upbringing was. In the photo with her husband and children.
When Juliet was a teenager, her father died in a plane crash with his lover, Kathleen Cavendish, whose brother, JFK, would become president of the United States.
Talking to him TelegraphShe admitted that only after being sent to boarding school at age 10 did she realize how rich her education was.
‘Helena, is it true that you live in a mansion?’ they ask. “I had no idea what a mansion was,” he admitted.
After graduating, Helena enrolled at the University of Bristol to study chemistry and prepared for a career at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).
However, soon the idea of being in a laboratory all the time worried him and he preferred to work as a journalist at Argus Media, specialized in the oil industry.
Her father, the Conservative MP Somerset de Chair, was “elderly” when Helena was born (her father was 65), but he was “affectionate”. Pictured with Jacob and their baby in 2017.
In 2003, she would cross paths with Jacob for the second time in her life; The first was when she was just a little girl. Photographed in 2017
In 2010, Helena had left her job and already had Peter, now 17, Mary, 16, and Thomas, 14. Pictured in 2017 with her family.
In 2003, she would cross paths with Jacob for the second time in her life; The first was when she was just a little girl.
As their parents were old friends, Lady Juliet Tadgell and Gillian Shakespeare Morris organized a lunch together which both children attended.
However, they do not remember it, since Helena was one year old and Jacob was nine.
Decades later, the politician had shown his ability to speak fluently at a party in Mayfair, hosted by his younger sister Annunziata. The cause célèbre? A campaign for a referendum on the European Constitution.
“He gave a 20-minute lecture on my ancestor Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stafford, who was a prominent supporter of Charles I,” he told the Telegraph.
‘I staggered away after about 20 minutes. But I do remember that that night I was wearing a white Jasper Conran pantsuit from Debenhams.
It is clear that the efforts paid off: just four years later, the couple married at Canterbury Cathedral.
In 2010, Helena had left her job and already had Peter, now 17, Mary, 16, and Thomas, 14.
Although he wasn’t present to help change the diapers (the former congressman’s wife told the outlet he’s “never changed one in his life”), Helena praised Jacob as a loving father and husband.
Although, she admitted, their romance has an eccentric side, as she revealed that he once gave her a “heart-shaped amethyst on a chain when we were engaged.”
They last had a baby in 2017 and now have six children in total, plus Anselm, 12, Alfred, eight, and Sixtus, seven.
Although he wasn’t present to help change the diapers (the former congressman’s wife told the outlet he’s “never changed one in his life”), Helena praised Jacob as a loving father and husband.
‘I think they imagine it’s quite austere and cold. But it is not at all. “It’s very happy and fun,” he told the outlet.
Although, she admitted, their romance has an eccentric side, as she revealed that he once gave her a “heart-shaped amethyst on a chain when we were engaged.”
“Jacob is obviously not someone who buys flowers spontaneously,” he added.
Since their marriage in 2007, Jacob and Helena have also purchased two properties in which they live.
The first is a house in their north-east Somerset constituency which they bought outright in 2010 for £2.9m; the second is a house in Westminster which they bought in 2018 for £5.6 million.
The politician lost his Somerset North East & Hanham seat in July’s general election to Labor’s Dan Norris by more than 5,000 votes.
Since their marriage in 2007, Jacob and Helena have also purchased two properties in which they live.
For many critics of the show, there is one specific standout act: Helena, 47, who met her future husband-in-law when they were both children and is reportedly set to inherit her family’s “£45million” fortune.
He later said he could “blame no one but myself” and that it had been “a very bad night for the Conservatives.”
Elsewhere, Jacob left viewers stunned when he compared himself and his wife Helena to Tyson and Paris Fury in a baffling This Morning interview on Wednesday.
The pair appeared on hosts Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary’s ITV show to promote their new fly-on-the-wall documentary after a trailer was released last week.
Cat asked the duo: ‘Have you seen anything like this before? You say on the show, “I’ve never seen The Kardashians,” but did you start watching The Fury’s or something like that?
“We watched it in the summer,” Jacob admitted, and Helena chimed in: “We watched The Furies together.”
‘Like your homework? joked a stunned Cat, to which Helena added, “It was too late by the time we started,” and Jacob agreed, “We were already on it by then.”
The politician added: ‘But I thought, and this is what’s happening now with this show, I thought Mrs Fury was wonderful and I think Helena comes out of this wonderfully well.
‘Mister. Fury and I are kind of grumpy old men at heart, but I don’t care about that. Helena and Ms. Fury are big stars in all of this.”
Suddenly the interview took another strange turn when Helena chimed in and said: “Very nice, I think she’s much, much sexier than me.”
“Don’t be discouraged,” Dermot joked, before laughing: “I can’t believe we’re having this conversation.”
At Home With The Furys was hugely popular on Netflix when it was released last year and immediately rose to the top of the streaming service’s charts.
With a similar concept to Meet The Rees-Moggs, their entertaining reality show gave insight into their life as parents to their six children.