But there was a bigger question, which I think framed the whole problem. Keir Starmer demands Covid inquiry reports by end of year, Police scour woodland in search for Constance Martens baby, Dozens killed after passenger and freight train collide in Greece, Hancock under fire over care home deaths and chaotic Covid response, London Bridge overcrowding: Give TfL control of Southeastern trains, Number of children in food poverty near double in a year to 4 million, Putins 274mil spy plane destroyed by drones at air base in Belarus, What is the Willow Project? His second thought was metaphor. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. 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. There she goes, one says, to which the other, thinking about mortality, replies: Yes but therell be others who will say, Here she comes. Though Patten likes that idea, the third possibility strikes him as most understandable: that we live on in people remembering our smiles. Tory! Tony Blair suggested that it made the road to democracy [in China] unstoppable. The Billionaire's Daughter Knows What You're Thinking. People said to him he couldnt talk to students about death, but he thought, why not? On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/christopher-francis-patten-1050.php. She lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA Thats just good history.. The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Had things gone differently for him in 1992, it is quite possible to imagine that Patten could have been the first Catholic prime minister of Britain. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. Chris Patten. After serving the organisation for three years, he resigned on May 6, 2014. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, was no stranger in picking fights with China. Posted By: VOHK April 12, 2016 By Chan King-cheung - 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. Western governments, Patten believes, have been wrong because of greed to give Xi Jinpings regime an easier ride than Vladimir Putins. In a speech on the future of the BBC, which he said was "one of this country's greatest institutions", Patten called on ministers to respect the "besieged" broadcaster's independence, and set in place measures to stop it becoming "the plaything of the government of the day". See PA story ROYAL Patten. "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.". A year later, he became Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His background is decidedly unstarry: his mother is a housewife from Dominica, his father worked as a warehouseman. Chris Patten is calling for the European Union to throw out its trade agreement with China. "It spits in the face of human rights and shows a delusional view of the Chinese Communist Party's trustworthiness on the international stage," Patten is quoted by the Daily Mail.. His comments came as 53 people were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of "subversion" in Hong Kong. 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. "[24] Patten said that Chinese company Huawei "is an agent of an unpleasant Chinese state."[25]. I'll probably go to previews of her play, but I won't tell her I'm there to check she's all right, I'll probably end up going lots of times.". His wifes father competed in the 1936 Olympics, part of that Chariots of Fire generation, and was killed in 1944. Anyway on we go, in my case to Strasbourg and treason the European parliament. Even for old Tories, hope springs eternal. Try AbeBooks. 01 Dec 1990. 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. During his tenure, his government significantly expanded the territory's social welfare programmes and introduced democratic reforms to the electoral system.[2]. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. Grand promises made about one country, two systems mixed with anecdotes about the Pattens three daughters and two dogs. 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. With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey. He was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong, serving between 1992 and 1997. His latest sermon outlined three possibilities. The gracious, book-lined sitting room gives out on to a generous garden. 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It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. You can see it in the language used by [former Hong Kong chief executive] Carrie Lam and now this terrible policeman who is her successor, John Lee. East and West. Hardback. He turns off a muted symphony when I arrive. It wasnot the first time Hong Kong netizens posted photos of Pattens family, after they left the city in 1997. Paperback. degree from the University of Ulster. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, reading, browsing in bookshops. Its been a very long nervous breakdown. 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London, WC2H 0HE Chris Patten. After the handover ceremony he left the city, together with Prince Charles, on board the British royal yacht, HMY Britannia. In the last three months, he says, partly as a result of Britains generous visa scheme, there have been 100,000-plus people from Hong Kong, teachers, medics, lawyers, leaving to come here and lots of other places as well. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). by Jillian Edelsteinbromide fibre print, August 1990NPG x45377. Shortly after graduating in 1965, he began working for the Conservative Party. I knew the cardinal when I was there, he says. But the last two Ive done involved preaching on the days when the readings were about death and afterwards.. Kris Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist with an interest in local politics. In May, Laura married Elton Charles, a florist from Paddington, whom she met seven years ago. 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". 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". n Hong Kong, they were known as the Three Graces. The attempt, for example, to understand the relationship between a slave trade and the Atlantic economy of which we were a part seems to me to be fundamentally important. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. 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. . 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. A practising Roman Catholic, he organized Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010. Friday July 01 2022, 5.00pm, The Sunday Times. He kept a daily journal of his historic years in Hong Kong, partly on tape recordings. Despite this, he enjoyed significant popularity in Hong Kong. [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. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. "I'm very, very private," she said from her office at Cond Nast. 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. Wednesday night, musician Chris Daughtry and his wife shared the cause of their daughter's sudden death on Nov. 12, 2021. Although supportive of Alice, they seem wary that her success will reignite interest in the family. 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. We normally spend our time down the pub and avoid society events like the plague.". Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. His role however is minor as the film depicts him being replaced with one month to go before the handover. From 2014 to 2016, he worked under Pope Francis as the head of the body that advises the Vatican on media strategy. It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large. God Save The Queen. 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. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. Rt hon chris patten ch former governor and commander-in-chief hong kong with his wife lavender and daughters left to right kate laura and alice at buckingham palace to receive his invest. His subsequent career has been a tour of duty of threatened institutions and imperial relics, the more grown-up version of Portillo on a train. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. I occasionally get asked to preach in college chapels. He might just have got through the modest . Before that, he was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. 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. 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. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. He has been an opponent of the movement at Oxford to tear down the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. 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. Before that she was doing a series called Rock Shrines, about dead pop stars and their fans. What theyre doing in Hong Kong is wicked. That grim communist-speak.. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. It's that kind of awful TV.". They're now grown up and all doing fine. 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. 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