Contributions are moderated. "I'm the deputy beauty editor at Tatler, I'm very happy here, and that's it really. His first job in the party was as a desk officer. Perhaps because she was forced to play out her rebellious teenage years in the public view - a leader in The Independent in 1992 criticised her for failing to dress appropriately and sitting "in what could only be described as a slouch - legs askew and one arm dangled over the side of her chair," during a formal ceremony - Laura has cultivated a quiet domestic life out of the limelight and, after her sudden promotion to a pop-star level of fame in Hong Kong, now shuns publicity. THE youngest daughter of Chris Patten is to star in a "lusty" BBC One drama about the life and loves of King Charles II. Patten was born in 1944 on the day the German army was driven out of Crimea. Chris Pratt is being called "cringe and vile" for praising his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, for giving him a "healthy daughter" given that his son with ex Anna Faris, Jack, has suffered. degree from the University of Ulster. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. He put out his memoir, 'Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs', on September 29, 2005. A caption was changed to correct a date: Chris Patten received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1998; not 1989. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. I suggest the fractures go back to the 1990s. I've been in this job for a couple of years. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. W e had one of those thunderbolt feelings when we saw our main home in Barnes . He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation which works to promote good governance around the world. After graduating, she took a job with billionaire Peter Woo's Wharf Cable TV channel, before graduating to work on Esther Rantzen's That's Life! Christopher Francis Patten Visitor Chancellor of the University If hes honest he cant see any other future for the territory than that it will have its freedoms and its attributes as an open society stripped away comprehensively. Try AbeBooks. by Jillian Edelsteinbromide fibre print, August 1990NPG x45377. Within the last five years of British rule, acclaimed journalist Jonathan Dimbleby was given unique access to the governor which enabled him to document the . On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Patten turned down offers of a new post and instead, in July 1992, he became the 28th and the last governor of Hong Kong until its transfer of sovereignty to China on 30 June 1997. Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 21:00. 1 episode, Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016) as Katherine Parr. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. "He seems a completely reasonable man when discussing the Middle East or energy policy, but when the conversation shifts to Chechnya or Islamic extremism, Putin's eyes turn to those of a killer.". In November 2016 Patten was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and was presented with the award by the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom Sylvie Bermann at Kensington Palace Gardens. Western governments, Patten believes, have been wrong because of greed to give Xi Jinpings regime an easier ride than Vladimir Putins. I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. East and West. The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten is published by Allen Lane . In politics, one has to make a distinction between people who are doing things that are wrong and people who are trying to do things that are right. Isnt deciding who we venerate a vital part of that reckoning also? When they learn that their coach has died, they all return to New England with their families for the funeral. With her long hair and perfect features, the 22-year-old is possibly the prettiest of the Patten girls and made her TV debut this year as Imogen Dartie in The Forsyte Saga, and now spends her time flitting between rehearsals at the Royal National Theatre and her new boyfriend, Cambridge graduate Dan Rookwood, an internet sports journalist and sometime travel writer at The Guardian. In 1999, he was appointed as one of the United Kingdom's two members to the European Commission as Commissioner for External Relations where he was responsible for the Union's development and co-operation programmes, as well as liaison with Javier Solana, the High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. A picture of the family of last governor Chris Patten posted by her daughter Alice (left, front) on her Facebook turns viral on social media. In 1966, Chris Patten became involved with the Conservative Party. He laughs. [18], On 11 January 2005 Patten was created a life peer as Baron Patten of Barnes, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. Chris Patten, Hong Kong's final British governor before the 1997 handover, says the UK should tell China its proposal for a Hong Kong national security law is "outrageous". It's that kind of awful TV.". Patten was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Northern Ireland Office in June 1983. [22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. I talk in the diaries about trying to explain to my opposite number in Beijing what the rule of law was, that it wasnt rule by law. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). Patten was then appointed the last governor of Hong Kong, to oversee the final years of British administration in the colony and prepare for its transfer to China in 1997. Its too depressing to think about, Patten says. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. [28], In February 2010, Patten was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, but he stepped down in June 2011. Patten submitted his letter of resignation as BBC Trust Chairman to the Secretary of State on 6 May 2014; citing health reasons following his heart bypass surgery on 28 April. [14], From 1998 to 1999, he chaired the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, better known as the Patten Commission, which had been established in 1998 as part of the Belfast Agreement. One time I. Now she is ready to share it with others, Witnesses to war: the Hong Kong journalists on the frontlines in Ukraine, Artist considers legal action to retrieve Tiananmen crackdown monument removed from University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong trans activist Henry Tse fought for the right to be recognised as a man without full surgery and won, Hong Kong to axe Covid-19 mask mandate from Wed after over 2.5 years, Ex-husband among 4 remanded without bail after Hong Kong socialite found dismembered in gruesome murder, Covid-19: PCR test requirement for entry to Hong Kong public hospitals, care homes axed from Wed, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. The tone sometimes threatens to override his reservations about Britains own shaming colonial history that led to the acquisition of the rocks in the first place. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". "They didn't have the choice. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. RM G4CGKC - Former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten, with wife Lavender (2nd left) and daughters (l to r) Kate, Laura and Alice, after receiving his Order of the Companions of Honour from the Prince of Wales at today's (Friday) Buckingham Palace investiture. In 1989, the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made him the Secretary of State for the Environment. What I should say, he said, is that we dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party which is populist, but fatally without being popular.. Laura, meanwhile, who 10 years ago catapulted the Patten girls to celebrity status by appearing at the age of 17 in a micro-skirt and a tight T-shirt, launching a bout of Laura-mania in the Hong Kong press, is now the deputy health and beauty editor of Tatler. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. Dominic Patten / Deadline: David Zaslav Praises CNN Adding More GOP Voices; "Balance Strategy" Is "Important," Warner Bros Discovery Boss Says . Which he thought was something which was valuable to South Africa. This account already exists. Mirsky had many Chinese friends, but he denounced the Chinese Communist party as wicked. Patten believes both politicians and businessmen are too slow to say that. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last Governor of Hong Kong.She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. We'll need your email address so that we can follow up on the information provided and contact you to let you know when your contribution has been published. If Patten places some of his faith in what comes next, however, he hasnt quite given up hope of redemption in the here and now. "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. Tv film Basanti (2006) as Sue McKinley. (1973-), Television producer; daughter of Chris Patten, Paul McCartney Photographs 196364: Eyes of the Storm, Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, Mary Lavender St Leger Patten (ne Thornton), / Person - Katharine Joan ('Kate') Patten. 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At midnight Hong Kong Time 1 July 1997 (16:00 GMT, 30 June 1997), he sent the telegram: "I have relinquished the administration of this government. (Photo by David Montgomery/Getty Images) PURCHASE A LICENSE Get personalized pricing by telling us when, where, and how you want to use this asset. Indian film, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23. The morning after the Westminster confidence vote, he sends me an email mentioning that he is at an airport on his way to give a memorial lecture to one of his political heroes, John Hume, prime mover in the Belfast agreement now under threat. The Hong Kong Diaries is published on 21 June by Allen Lane (30). Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:23, "Laura's straw hat puts Patten in the shade", "Old Patten family photos making some Hongkongers nostalgic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Patten&oldid=1139788810, The Forsyte Saga (2002) as Imogen. JACK HILL. Enter your password to log in. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he says. There are still a few. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. Consider its policies in Xinjiang. Patten was not a career diplomat, unlike the previous governors. Chris Patten East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia Hardcover - September 14, 1998 by Christopher Patten (Author) 21 ratings Hardcover $22.11 45 Used from $1.66 5 New from $18.85 2 Collectible from $17.00 Paperback $16.99 12 Used from $2.93 Spotted an error, information that is missing (a sitters life dates, occupation or family relationships, or a date of portrait for example) or do you know anything that we don't know? In 2019, amidst the protests in Hong Kong, Patten spoke out in support of the protesters. He was promoted to be a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science in September 1985, and was named Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in September 1986. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. Chris Patten. He grew up in West London and attended a Catholic primary school, Our Lady of the Visitation, in Greenford, and later the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London. Had he not lost his own seat in Bath in that election, partly because he was associated with the poll tax, he would have become, at 48, chancellor of the exchequer. [20], As Chairman of the BBC Trust, Patten joined the Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family in the royal box for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert. 1,490 Chris Patten Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 1,490 chris patten stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. He took steps to get in touch with the people of the colony, and was known for his penchant for taking public strolls around Hong Kong as well as in the media limelight. In 2005, he became an appointed member of the British peerage. She still lives at home with her parents and is particularly close to her father, who is now the external relations commissioner for the European Union and is described by Alice as "the best listener I know". 04 Dec 1998. St Martin's Place After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. Patten's defeat was attributed to factors such as the Poll Tax.[6]. He kept a daily journal of his historic years in Hong Kong, partly on tape recordings. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979, and served until he was unseated in 1992. "We are very, very happy together," she says. Christopher Francis Patten was born on May 12 1944. Please Like other favourites! SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. If you have information to share please complete the form below. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. But the debate goes on.. But there was a bigger question, which I think framed the whole problem. "I don't think they ever wanted to be in the limelight, these decisions are not necessarily there to be made - it's a question of how one stays out of the limelight, rather than wanting to be in it," Mrs Patten said from the family holiday home in France. Alice has obviously chosen to go into a world that's amazing and stuff, which will obviously attract attention, but she's my dearest best friend, she's absolutely amazing, and I know she'll be a huge star. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. He is the co-chair of International Crisis Group, overseeing many international operations. 01 Dec 1990. Leung Chai-yan, the other daughter of the Chief Executive, claimed she was domestically abused by hermother and had beenlocked up. This wasnt a colony like any other. Patten was also denounced by some Chinese media and politicians as the "whore of the East" and a "serpent", and was most famously called a "sinner who would be condemned for a thousand generations" (Chinese: ) by Lu Ping, the head of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. They bought the. 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong's last governor, and was the man to oversee the handover ceremony of this former British colony. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. He has been married to Lavender Thornton since 1971. [citation needed], After graduating with a second-class honours degree in 1965 and winning a Coolidge travelling scholarship to the US,[4] Patten worked for the campaign of then-Republican New York Mayor John Lindsay, where he reported on the television performance of rival William F. Buckley Jr.[5] He worked for the Conservative Party from 1966, first as desk officer and then director (from 1974 to 1979) of the Conservative Research Department. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. Cut to June 30 1997, and his daughters' faces, like his wife's, were "crumpled with emotion and streaked with tears". Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. In 2016, in the wake of a student movement to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes from a college in Oxford, as had happened in South Africa, Patten said that Oxford students who did not like Cecil Rhodes should "think about being educated elsewhere". Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. Hong Kong news Independent, impartial, non-profit. Laura, Kate and little Alice, the daughters of the last Governor Chris Patten, were only in their early teens when they became unlikely celebrities. On May 1, 2011, following the advice from the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron, the Queen-in-Council made him the Chairman of BBC Trust. The National Portrait Gallery will NOT use your information to contact you or store for any other purpose than to investigate or display your contribution. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. And they hate it when we do.. Patten was noted to be in tears throughout the day, notably after his speech at Tamar. Their little sister, who was spotted by an agent last summer when she appeared in a student production at Cambridge, will be in her element in the West End. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. Between 1998 and 1999, Chris Patten served as the Chairperson of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. The Tory grandee, publishing his diaries of his time as governor of Hong Kong, on the greedy west giving China an easy ride and his partys long nervous breakdown, A few minutes after the result of Mondays confidence vote in the prime minister was announced, I spoke to Chris Patten on the phone. The daughter of the last British governor of Hong Kong has receiveda recent outpouring of affection from Hongkongers, following an incident in whichthe Chief Executive allegedly used his privilegestohelp his daughter bypass airport security rules. He also introduced, and steered through Parliament, the major legislation that became the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Laura patten Stock Photos and Images. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. "I was leaving my home, my friends, my school - my childhood - and I had only finished my A-levels the day before. Rather than use her name to her advantage, Laura has quietly worked her way up in the magazine world, beginning with three weeks work experience on Vogue, followed by a job at Harpers and Queen, then Vanity Fair, culminating in her present position at Tatler where she is known as hard-working and unpretentious. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. Nevertheless, she matured into an ordinary teenager, doing some modelling and going out with an Australian surfer called Alex while in Hong Kong. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. In 2010, The Tablet named him as one of Britain's most influential Catholics. 3 episodes, The Last King (2003) as Lady Farnces Stewart. In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. The plans call for 21 apartment units . Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. He fears the results are being played out in Hong Kong. The family has enjoyed good image among the populace, contrasting oddly with the city's present first family hit by accusation of abuse of power. Donations welcome I occasionally get asked to preach in college chapels. Ann Lewis. Patten's guest was entranced by a picture of his children on his desk and asked: "How come ugly father produce such beautiful daughters?" He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement. Chris Patten I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. Chris Patten trying to console his daughter Kate (left) on the evening of Hong Kong's handover as daughter Alice looks on. I train athletes looking for upgrades to their shooting, ball handling, court awareness, and post play skills. And its probably just because so many of the things that I think my generation took for granted are now being trashed., Patten was not a silver-spoon Tory. Im grateful for your support, I love you Hong Kong, a poston the Alice Patten Facebook page said. He might just have got through the modest . The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . Environment secretary Chris Patten (r) was charged with introducing the poll tax Instead of the tax shining a spotlight on spendthrift local councils, she said, the government was getting the. (2006), Points of View (1961) and The Walden Interview (1988). 3 episodes, The Musketeers (2014) as Sister Hlne. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number, I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from Evening Standard. In 2006, she appeared in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti as Sue McKinley, a young British woman who comes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. East and West HB Spec Ed. The daughters of Chris Patten, Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. And cross-checking against my wifes diary, to make sure I had the days right.. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. A month after her father was elected Chancellor of Oxford University,. Chris Patten, the 28th and last governor of Hong Kong was swallowing hard as he emerged from Government House for the last time yesterday afternoon. All contributions are moderated. At Queens College, Cambridge - where a month ago she achieved a "slightly disappointing" 2:2 in modern languages, she went out with Jordan Frieda, the son of Lulu and hairdresser John Frieda. Although supportive of Alice, they seem wary that her success will reignite interest in the family. Hong Kong netizens have been posting old photos of Chris Patten's three daughters Laura, Kate and Alice when they were in Hong Kong, since the incident involving Leung Chun-yan, the Chief. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. Many good people were driven out of the Conservative party by Brexit. The plan was to hand the lot over to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, but he felt he should get it in order. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. He was given an official Chinese name, Pang Ding-hong (Chinese: ), a name with an etymology based on the words "stability" and "calm; joyous; healthy". His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. And yeah, I do get angry about things. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. Blonde and elfin, Alice - who was nicknamed "Little Princess" by her sisters - found it perhaps hardest of all to adjust to returning to Britain. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (Chinese: ; born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. This article about an English actor is a stub. On the table is the book hes just put down, Julia Boyds A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism, and a copy of his own new book, The Hong Kong Diaries, which is the occasion for our meeting. Raised in west London, Patten studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. [33], University roles and elevation to the peerage, BBC royal river pageant outside broadcast, Critical studies and reviews of Patten's work. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. You can opt-out at any time by signing in to your account to manage your preferences. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. 1 episode, Midsomer Murders (2004) as Emily Hide. It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. Search over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th Century to the present day. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. Tony Blair suggested that it made the road to democracy [in China] unstoppable. Try AbeBooks. When Alice took her bow on the stage of Wyndham's Theatre on Monday night, both Laura and Kate were there to support her. Patten. It was politically and morally difficult both for them and for us. 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