Socialite Elizabeth Harris, wife of former Tory Cabinet minister, dies
Ms Harris is survived by her husband and three sons.
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A Welsh socialite who was married to a former Conservative Cabinet minister has died.
Elizabeth Harris, nee Rees-Williams, died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at 11.10pm on Good Friday after a long illness.
The daughter of the first Baron Ogmore, a Labour Cabinet minister in the 1945-51 Attlee Government, was married to former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken.
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She was also formerly married to actor Sir Rex Harrison and Peter Aitken, the cousin of her widower.
She was the author of the memoir Love, Honour And Dismay published in 1976.
Mr Aitken, now a prison chaplain, will still lead the Easter Sunday service at HMP Pentonville in accordance with his late wife’s wishes.
Her funeral will be held on a date to be announced at St Matthew’s, Westminster.