He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. [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. Tue 28th June 2022. We have been together for ages and he's wonderful. [28], In February 2010, Patten was appointed President of Medical Aid for Palestinians, but he stepped down in June 2011. I've been in this job for a couple of years. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last governor of Hong Kong. He followed that up with the job of which he is most proud establishing a new, non-sectarian police force in Northern Ireland, as part of the Good Friday agreement. Marisabina Russo, Russo, Marisabina 1950- Russo, Marisabina 1950- Personal Born May 1, 1950, in New York, NY; daughter of Michele Russo (a naval . Then chairman of the BBC Trust, fighting a rearguard action against cuts. How do you know this? After he left Hong Kong, Patten was part of the EU team that negotiated Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization in 2002. But after the official handing over ceremony was complete, and they had been poured stiff gins by Prince Charles aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Patten family faced a rather ignominious return to a semi-detached Victorian house in Barnes. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. In the latest swing by CNN chief Chris Licht to rebrand the cable newser, Maher's appearance gave a bit of a preview of plans for the 9 PM ET slot, diverting from counter programming to . The Legislative Council became a fully elected legislature for the first time in 1995 and extensively expanded its functions and organisations throughout the last years of colonial rule.[10]. 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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. Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( Chinese: ; [1] born 12 May 1944) is a British politician. 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. "Her last one was a series about boxing. 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. +44(0)20 7306 0055, Admission free. The City of M. (30 Jun 1997) Natural Sound The last . As the last Governor, Chris Patten kept diaries giving unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were strengthened and how he sought to ensure . Patten oversaw many crises in the area of European foreign policy, most notably the failure of the European Union to come up with a common unified policy before the Iraq War in 2003. 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". Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. 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. Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. Well, there are two elements to it. Your contributions must be polite and with no intention of causing trouble. Simply to denounce it seems crazy. Patten also played the role of Vicky Anderson, in an episode of New Tricks, the daughter of an English-born Hong Kong businessman, Douglas Anderson, who had been involved in questionable building deals in Hong Kong, shortly before the end of British rule in 1997.[5]. 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. He reads a lot and is keen on tennis and gardening. His father was a drummer in a jazz band who became a music publisher, before running a precarious business making jingles for TV. 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. According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EURussia ministerial consultations in Brussels. Alice Patten is a English actress appeared in film Rang De Basanti opposite Aamir Khan.The British actress is daughter of politician Chris Patten, she played character Sue who came to India to make a documentary film about the British rule. Chris Patten's Hong Kong Diaries take us behind the scenes of 1997 handover Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister and new ambassador to the United States, made himself far more. 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?. 1 episode, Downtown Abbey (2014) as Diana Clark. His family was Irish Catholic. 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. Chris Patten. Isnt deciding who we venerate a vital part of that reckoning also? 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. 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[22] BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. 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. Thats just good history.. In 1990, he was appointed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired. The Hong Kong Diaries is published on 21 June by Allen Lane (30). 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. Now 28, she is a television producer at the BBC, making programmes for BBC Choice. A colleague who works with Kate at the BBC describes her as "serious and hard-working". I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.. In 1979, he won his first parliamentary election to become an MP from Bath. [32] In March 2009, Patten received the title Doctor honoris causa by South East European University. 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. 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. It is hard to beat Dominic Grieves description of him as a moral vacuum., A few minutes later he phones me back. On September 11, 1971, Chris Patten married barrister Lavender Thornton. 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. "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. He lost his first parliamentary election (for Lambeth Central) in 1974 against the Labour Party candidate Marcus Lipton. "We think the world of her, but as far as I'm concerned, there isn't really much to say. 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". help his daughter bypass airport security rules, I can finally breathe: Some celebrate the end of Hong Kongs Covid mask rule, but most remain cautious, US politicians call for sanctions on Hong Kong prosecutors in 47 democrats case; Beijing slams hypocritic political show, In Pictures: Hong Kong bids farewell to Pennys Bay Covid facility with giant padlock and Auld Lang Syne, Hong Kong 47: Prosecutors to seek witness anonymity order as trial adjourned over defendants injury, Covid-19: Medic urges Hong Kong students to remove face masks to improve learning, immunity, Artist Vaevae Chan spent years building a cave in a Hong Kong high rise. * Academics were turning out in full regalia for a procession and ceremony at . 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. There is an inevitable sentimental or nostalgic strain to Pattens diaries of 25 years ago, as he departed on the royal yacht. [8], In contrast to his predecessors, Patten decided not to wear the official Court uniform on formal occasions. It was an extremely apolitical household; my parents would have voted Conservative. It is certainly important to use Rhodes money for more black African students. Following his governorship, Patten led the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland, a major implementation step of the Northern Ireland peace process pursuant to the Good Friday Agreement from 1998 to 1999. He was appointed Secretary of State for the Environment by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as part of her third ministry, becoming responsible for implementation of the unpopular poll tax. But the debate goes on.. A Lancashire native, Patten grew up in London and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. At which point, the young mans lovely girlfriend just burst into tears. "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. 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. How Covid helped China tighten its hold on Hong Kong, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Tv film Basanti (2006) as Sue McKinley. 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. On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in 1990, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. 04 Dec 1998. 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". (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. It's unnerving being seen at your most vulnerable by so many people.". | Contact Us | Newsletter | Annual & Transparency Report. [11] The legislative council which was elected under Patten's governorship was dissolved upon the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC and replaced by a Provisional Legislative Council which did not have any democratic functions until elections were held under the previous rules in 1998. Blonde and elfin, Alice - who was nicknamed "Little Princess" by her sisters - found it perhaps hardest of all to adjust to returning to Britain. His family lived in Greenford, and Chris Patten went to primary school there and then won a scholarship to the Catholic St Benedict's. In 2004, she appeared in Jonathan Creek as Gillian Bailey. Lord Patten married Lavender Thornton in 1971. He talks about how you will see Christ sitting at the right hand of his father and a sort of celebrity troop of angels, Patten says, chuckling. He might just have got through the modest . Patten was Chancellor of Newcastle University from 1999 to 2009. Paperback. Hong Kong nicknamed him Fat Pang (Chinese: ), making him the only governor to have a widely recognised Chinese nickname. Patten was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979. 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. 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. He is known for Tory! We're completely supportive of her and backing her 110 per cent. Photo: AFP/WTN Chris has an amazing sense of humour. THE youngest daughter of Chris Patten is to star in a "lusty" BBC One drama about the life and loves of King Charles II. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Between February 2010 and June 2011, he served as the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. Delivery charges may apply. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STILLWELL/PA. Patten was educated at Island School in Hong Kong[1] Contact Us Also Known As: Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, children: Alice Patten, Kate Patten, Laura Patten, See the events in life of Chris Patten in Chronological Order, (Chancellor of the University of Oxford (Since 2003)). Jun 2020 - Present2 years 9 months. The Billionaire's Daughter Knows What You're Thinking. While he basically orchestrated the Conservative victory in the general election of 1992, he lost his own MP seat at Bath. He also helmed the initiative of passing the Environmental Protection Act 1990. We never talked about politics or religion at home, Patten says. Developer Chris Patten has submitted new plans to build a four-story apartment complex at the corner of Glen and Bay streets, directly across from City Park. 1 episode, Heroes and Villains (2008) as Joan. We dont have a Conservative government at all, but an English nationalist party. Chris Patten photographed at his home in London. 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. Yana Gupta. The most depressing thing is Ive been watching interviews with ministers this evening, he said, and the titles alone are so depressing. Former Hong Kong Gov. 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. And I just think Johnson is terribly wrong. 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. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. He fears the results are being played out in Hong Kong. Patten's actions were strongly criticised by the pro-Beijing political parties of Hong Kong. Under a painted portrait of Patten and his wife of 51 years are photographs of their eight grandchildren. 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? [15] This report led to the disbanding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Loree Seitz / The Wrap: David Zaslav Signals Confidence in CNN Chief Chris Licht: . I train athletes looking for upgrades to their shooting, ball handling, court awareness, and post play skills. 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. Patten grew up in an Irish Catholic family in west London, the son of an unsuccessful music publisher whose forebears had come to England from County Roscommon, Ireland. 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! I listened to Sheila Hancock earlier talking about how one of the things about getting old is getting angrier. 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 September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 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. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. St Martin's Place I suggest the fractures go back to the 1990s. 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.. 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. Patten, a practising Catholic, has been disturbed in particular by the recent crackdown on religion and the arrest of Cardinal Zen, the churchs primate in Hong Kong. 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. They have three daughters together, Katharine Joan (born 1973), Laura (1974 or 1975), and Alice (1980). 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. 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. They had the mandate of heaven and I didnt even have the mandate of the voters of Bath. As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. Alice Patten. Chris Patten trying to console his daughter Kate (left) on the evening of Hong Kong's handover as daughter Alice looks on. Please ensure your comments are relevant and appropriate. 2023 Hong Kong news - Independent, non-profit, impartial. For the last 19 years he has been chancellor of Oxford University. 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 wasnt a colony like any other. Ann Lewis. They're now grown up and all doing fine. He was then an EU commissioner, partly responsible for the unions foreign policy. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. She threatened to leave home forever on social media. Source for information on Patten, Chris 1944-: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary. He was the architect of Majors 1992 election victory, built on a belief that, post-Thatcher, the party must be tolerant, efficient and generous-spirited. Please refresh the page and/or try again. In 1989, he was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment and became responsible for the unpopular Community Charge (or so-called "Poll Tax"). and at Queens' College, Cambridge. 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. Great Britain and the World. [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. It was going to become part of China. During this time, Patten sat as a crossbencher. Which he thought was something which was valuable to South Africa. 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. The couple held their wedding reception at the rather unlavish Wetlands Centre close to the family home in Barnes, and on a rare social outing to a fundraising event at the Royal Academy last year Laura said: 'I am a very private person, and so is Elton. But if it was difficult to convince them of that hope then, certainly after 2019 when Mr Lees police had been beating them over the head, tasering and teargassing them, it wasnt going to be any easier., A year ago, Patten was taking Bobby for a walk in Richmond Park when he bumped into two Chinese couples in their mid-20s. [17], According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels (published by WikiLeaks in November 2010): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man's character. 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". With Margaret Thatcher (and Michael Portillo, far right) while he was environment secretary in 1989. atten was not a silver-spoon Tory. Kate, who missed her father's signing-in as Governor when she chose instead to go trekking with friends around South America, spent the least time in Hong Kong because she was studying for a degree in Spanish and Latin American studies at Newcastle University. Concepts like that were mysterious to them. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. 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 . The EU and Moldova. The gracious, book-lined sitting room gives out on to a generous garden. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. He became a life peer in 2005, and since 2003, he has held the position of the Chancellor of Oxford University. The controversial US oil plan explained, Green leader storms out of council meeting after being misgendered. Commentaries Videos & Podcasts Author's Comments Sort by: Latest Popular Show: All On Point Im grateful for your support, I love you Hong Kong, a poston the Alice Patten Facebook page said. Chris Patten at his home in Barnes. After two weeks without a glimpse, Governor Chris Patten's teenage daughter, Laura, had been spotted in the beauty salon of the colony's 108-year-old Ladies' Recreation Club along with her. (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. 01 Dec 1990. Search over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th Century to the present day. She portrayed Ygraine Pendragon, the deceased Queen of Camelot, the mother of Arthur, and the wife of the King Uther Pendragon in the BBC series Merlin . 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