Helena Rees-Mogg
Helena Rees-Mogg is a British heiress and TV personality born in 1977. She is married to Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative politician who has served as an MP and as Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
She is the only daughter of Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam. Her grandfather was the very wealthy 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, who died in 1948 in a plane crash along with his intended second wife, Kathleen Cavendish, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The de Chair family has English gentry roots and Huguenot ancestry going back to Rene de la Chaire. Helena has a half-brother, Lord Nicholas Hervey, and she is aunt to Olympic athlete Lawrence Clarke and Conservative MP Theo Clarke. She grew up at Bourne Park near Canterbury, Kent.
Helena studied chemistry at the University of Bristol and later worked as a journalist for Argus Media. She became engaged to Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2006 after knowing him since childhood, and they married in 2007 at Canterbury Cathedral in a Latin Mass ceremony.
In 2010 they bought Gournay Court in West Harptree, Somerset, where they live with their six children: Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred, and Sixtus.
Her mother's inheritance, from Helena’s grandfather, includes the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estate, which is worth about £45 million and features a large art collection and properties in several countries. Helena is the sole heiress to this estate.
Helena and Jacob and their children star in Meet the Rees-Moggs, a reality TV show on Discovery+ that began on December 2, 2024. The show has five episodes. Reviews have been mixed: The Independent criticized it as shallow and not fair to the kids, while The Guardian praised it as high-quality reality TV, noting Helena often steals the show with her frank remarks.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 08:39 (CET).