He laughs. Try AbeBooks. The gracious, book-lined sitting room gives out on to a generous garden. 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. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. Friends describe Rookwood, or "Rookers" as he is known, as "an avid Liverpool supporter, and a bit of a lad", but say that the couple - who have been together for eight months - are in love. 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. To me, they're not a story, they're just my girls.". In May 2016, Patten said that the BBC has "lost some of its ambition" in its coverage of science, philosophy and history, and should "stretch" audiences more. East and West. This account already exists. Paperback. He is the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 19 July 1992 until the end of British administration over the territory on 30 June 1997. Their mother, Lavender Patten, told the Evening Standard that her daughters had never wanted to be famous in the first place. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. Something went wrong. East and West HB Spec Ed. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. Join our newsletter and follow us on our social media channels to find out more about exhibitions, events and the people and portraits in our Collection. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. Though he robustly defended the policy at the time, in his 2006 book Not Quite the Diplomat (published in the United States as Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in the New Century) he claims to have thought it was a mistake on Margaret Thatcher's part. degree from the University of Ulster. 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.. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. Do you think that they always saw through that? Why was it that Chris Pattens daughters did not get intotrouble living in Government House for all those years, yetsuch troubles have cometo Ms Leung sinceshe moved in? a user questioned on popular HKGolden forum. Chris Patten Writing for PS since 2000 151 Commentaries Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the author of The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, 2022). Verden, Alexander Griffiths, SnipsGTI, Brian Sousa, bilbens baggo, Stuart, IbKelek, Galygious, Andrew Patton, Nicole Patten, Clementine . Isnt deciding who we venerate a vital part of that reckoning also? 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. Former Hong Kong Gov. Chris Patten. 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. Her father Leung Chun-ying called an ambulance to the Government House and told reporters that Chai-yan was under a lot of pressure as a young girl, that she has been seeking medical help. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. Unlike most previous Hong Kong governors, he was not a career diplomat from the UK Foreign Office although he was not the first former MP to become a governor of Hong Kong. During the tenure of John Major as the PM, Patten served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and played an instrumental role in his partys victory in the 1992 general election. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. He might just have got through the modest . . He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of . 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! In PM Margaret Thatchers cabinet, Patten served as the Secretary of State for the Environment from July 1989 to November 1990. After the speech in 2017, he says, there was a Q&A. "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. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary LL.D. In 2003, he was appointed the Chancellor of Oxford University. Cautioning that "I'm not saying that genes are determinant," Patten then reviewed the Putin family history grandfather part of Lenin's special protection team; father a communist party apparatchik, and Putin himself decided at a young age to pursue a career in the KGB. 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. Contributions are moderated. Although supportive of Alice, they seem wary that her success will reignite interest in the family. He put out his memoir, 'Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs', on September 29, 2005. 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. 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. Chris Patten, with wife Lavender and daughters Alice and Laura, is greeted by the Chief Secretary, Sir David Ford, on arrival in Hong Kong on 9 July 1992 Much of the time during the summer is. He garnered widespread criticism for the controversial Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). 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. Like Laura, she has also spent the past five years quietly pursuing her career. I occasionally get asked to preach in college chapels. Is he guilty of a kind of historical myopia? A media frenzy greeted their exuberant, mini-skirted arrival in 1992, and their gulping tears when they left five years later came to symbolise the last days of the British Empire in the territory.. Delivery charges may apply. On 29 September 2005, he published his memoirs, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs. Open Daily: 10:30 - 18:00 There is a 1930s village atmosphere, which bankers and lawyers now pay 5m to inhabit. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. Before that, he was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] In September 2005 he was elected a Distinguished Honorary Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto (the only person so elected except for the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, the Duke of Edinburgh) as well as receiving an honorary D.S.Litt. The latter initiative was heavily criticised in China, with one Chinese media outlet calling him a wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations. Chris Patten is Chancellor of Oxford University. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. She threatened to leave home forever on social media. Chris Patten. 1 episode, Jonathan Creek (2004) as Dawn/Gillian Bailey. I suggest the fractures go back to the 1990s. n Hong Kong, they were known as the Three Graces. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". Before that she was doing a series called Rock Shrines, about dead pop stars and their fans. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. Reading his 2017 memoir, First Confession, I was struck by how much his faith meant to him. When MP for Bath (1979-92) he served as Minister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for the Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party. He returned to sit with the Conservative party in the House of Lords in September of that year. He was also the last governor of the colony, as it was transferred to Chinese control on June 30, 1997. Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. In 2008, she played Thea in Hedda, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, at London's Gate Theatre and, in 2009, she guest-starred as Arthur's mother Ygraine in the BBC fantasy drama series Merlin. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. He was, of course, Britains last governor of Hong Kong, lampooned in Private Eye as the grand poobah, before the handover to China in 1997. They have three children. How I wonder, sitting on his plump sofa, does he envisage that? (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten has left his colonial-style mansion for good.Patten bade his 250 staff an emotional. Chris Patten. By ticking permission to publish you are indicating your agreement for your contribution to be shown on this collection item page. [2][3], Her first major role after graduation was Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton in the West End in 2002.[4]. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. In 2019, amidst the protests in Hong Kong, Patten spoke out in support of the protesters. Connor Patten Basketball. How Covid helped China tighten its hold on Hong Kong, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. 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 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. Im met at the door by his wife, Lavender, and their terrier, Bobby. degree from the University of Bath. [33], University roles and elevation to the peerage, BBC royal river pageant outside broadcast, Critical studies and reviews of Patten's work. 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. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was no stranger in picking fights with China. In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. Western governments, Patten believes, have been wrong because of greed to give Xi Jinpings regime an easier ride than Vladimir Putins. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. God Save The Queen. Blonde and elfin, Alice - who was nicknamed "Little Princess" by her sisters - found it perhaps hardest of all to adjust to returning to Britain. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. By clicking Sign up you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. Chris Patten trying to console his daughter Kate (left) on the evening of Hong Kong's handover as daughter Alice looks on. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. "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.". Patten bemoaned the fact that much of the corporation's high-brow programming had been moved to BBC Four, the digital channel, and given low budgets that meant shows were "sometimes made with glue and string". This wasnt a colony like any other. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. They're now grown up and all doing fine. The daughters of Chris Patten, (l to r) Laura, Kate and Alice, say a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong, from on board the Royal yacht Britannia. 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. Chris Patten: We have a populist government that is fatally not popular, few minutes after the result of Mondays confidence vote in the prime minister was announced, I spoke to. : Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH PC 1944 512 - . In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. Im grateful for your support, I love you Hong Kong, a poston the Alice Patten Facebook page said. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in English Touring Theatre's Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ed Stoppard's Prince of Denmark. "This is where I'm happiest: on stage," she says. [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. In each of those roles, he has been pitted not against the left, but mostly against the Daily Mail and the ideologues and nut jobs in his own party. However, he lost his marginal seat of Bath to the Liberal Democrat candidate Don Foster at that election. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. 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. He asked Patten the question that all young people from Hong Kong he meets now ask him: Do you think when we finish our degree we should go back to Hong Kong?. 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. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th . [29], In 2014 Pope Francis appointed Patten to head a body to advise the Vatican on media strategy and on how to handle the press, which he remained on until 2016. 04 Dec 1998. I look at people like Jeremy Hunt though I fear it is going to ruin his leadership chances for me to say hes perfectly good and decent.. Her role earned her praise from film critics in India. Between 1974 and 1979, he served as the director of the Conservative Research Department. The former Conservative party chairman and current rebellious Tory peer was dismayed to see the Johnson cult still hanging on. He was then an EU commissioner, partly responsible for the unions foreign policy. St Mary's Barnes, United Kingdom, SW13 9HL. THE youngest daughter of Chris Patten is to star in a "lusty" BBC One drama about the life and loves of King Charles II. 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. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. 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". St Martin's Place I kept on saying the only bunkers in Hong Kong were on golf courses., Events of the last decade, not just in China, have shown how the liberal idea that market freedom goes hand in hand with political freedom has been disproved. When Chinese leaders said Hong Kong could remain itself for 50 years after 1997, he says, it rather begged the question of whether they knew what it was in the first place. . Read our, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. 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. How do you know this? Visiting him is like stepping into a lost Conservative hinterland. Prices start at 6 for unframed prints, 25 for framed prints. He has a BSSc in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 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. The 42-year-old musician's family confirmed to People magazine that Hannah Price, who was found dead in her home two . Please Like other favourites! Christopher Francis Patten Visitor Chancellor of the University And him looking at me mystified. 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