Earl of Cardigan speaks of marriage to woman he met in therapy - The Earl of Cardigan has spoken for the first time of how he met his new wife at an American therapy clinic, and that her son believed she was about to become an accountant, not a countess.
The Earl of Cardigan has spoken for the first time about his marriage to a woman he met at an American therapy clinic.
Lord Cardigan, 58, admitted the couple’s courtship had been “pretty strange” because he was being treated for his “despair” after the collapse of his first marriage.
His new bride, Joanne Hill, 46, was at the Trauma Resolution clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico, trying to kick an addiction to prescription pills.
Lord Cardigan said he had decided to speak out partly to correct what suggestions that the new Lady Cardigan had left her husband for him, which he described as “rubbish”.
The old Etonian went to the clinic to help him get over the sudden ending of his marriage to Rosamond, the author of a number of cookbooks.
The then Mrs Hill was being treated for addiction to Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, which she had been prescribed after being sexually assaulted at knifepoint while walking back to her car in Phoenix, Arizona.
David Cardigan, 58, married American Joanne Hill at the beginning of May in a private ceremony in the romantic mediaeval hilltop village of San Miniato, near Pisa in Italy
“I suppose the circumstances of our meeting were pretty strange, because Joanne and I were in therapy,” Lord Cardigan said.
“I was in deep despair and shock in 2005 because of the very sudden termination of my twenty five year marriage. Joanne was there to address the cause of her use of Xanax addiction, which was the attack she had suffered in the first place.
“We met there during very intense therapy when we were both part of the same Trauma Resolution group”.
“Our relationship really began when we went our separate ways at the end of the therapy,” said Lord Cardigan.
“I’d gone to live with my very dear sister Carina, who lives on the Caribbean island of Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.”
He continued: “I missed Joanne hugely, and we began contacting each other, and it grew from there.”
Lord Cardigan attacked what he described as “malicious rubbish” which had been written about their relationship.
“I think it is as good a time as any to put the record straight, starting with the simple fact that Joanne and her husband had already both filed against each other for divorce before she and I ever even met”.
“Actually we first met in a room where the most personal of things had to be openly discussed, and we had to go through the story of our lives examining the good, the bad and the ugly.
“There were no secrets in there, and to that extent we knew some very deep and very personal stuff about each other before our relationship even started, and like everyone else in that group we implicitly trusted each other with all that.”
The couple married at the beginning of May at a private ceremony at San Miniato, a hilltop village near Pisa and have set up home at Lord Cardigan’s estate in Savernake Forest, near Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Lord Cardigan has two children from his previous marriage, Thomas, Viscount Savernake and Lady Catherine, who is better known as Bo Bruce, a singer songwriter, from whom he is estranged.
The new countess has a 13-year-old son, Wolfy.
Lady Cardigan said her first impressions of the man who became her husband was of an stereotypical Briton.
“When I first met David in group therapy I thought he was an archetypal Englishman. Very up-tight and proper, and initially very unwilling to open up, which of course is what Group Therapy is all about.
“But we learned the worst about each other first, and since then I have come to love him for the warm, sensitive man that he is.”
Lord Cardigan said the couple who, having “put the record straight”, were looking forward to starting life together in Wiltshire.
“My heartfelt wish now is to be reconciled with my two children. I've missed them both enormously”. ( telegraph.co.uk )
The Earl of Cardigan has spoken for the first time about his marriage to a woman he met at an American therapy clinic.
Lord Cardigan, 58, admitted the couple’s courtship had been “pretty strange” because he was being treated for his “despair” after the collapse of his first marriage.
His new bride, Joanne Hill, 46, was at the Trauma Resolution clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico, trying to kick an addiction to prescription pills.
Lord Cardigan said he had decided to speak out partly to correct what suggestions that the new Lady Cardigan had left her husband for him, which he described as “rubbish”.
The old Etonian went to the clinic to help him get over the sudden ending of his marriage to Rosamond, the author of a number of cookbooks.
The then Mrs Hill was being treated for addiction to Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, which she had been prescribed after being sexually assaulted at knifepoint while walking back to her car in Phoenix, Arizona.
David Cardigan, 58, married American Joanne Hill at the beginning of May in a private ceremony in the romantic mediaeval hilltop village of San Miniato, near Pisa in Italy
“I suppose the circumstances of our meeting were pretty strange, because Joanne and I were in therapy,” Lord Cardigan said.
“I was in deep despair and shock in 2005 because of the very sudden termination of my twenty five year marriage. Joanne was there to address the cause of her use of Xanax addiction, which was the attack she had suffered in the first place.
“We met there during very intense therapy when we were both part of the same Trauma Resolution group”.
“Our relationship really began when we went our separate ways at the end of the therapy,” said Lord Cardigan.
“I’d gone to live with my very dear sister Carina, who lives on the Caribbean island of Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.”
He continued: “I missed Joanne hugely, and we began contacting each other, and it grew from there.”
Lord Cardigan attacked what he described as “malicious rubbish” which had been written about their relationship.
“I think it is as good a time as any to put the record straight, starting with the simple fact that Joanne and her husband had already both filed against each other for divorce before she and I ever even met”.
“Actually we first met in a room where the most personal of things had to be openly discussed, and we had to go through the story of our lives examining the good, the bad and the ugly.
“There were no secrets in there, and to that extent we knew some very deep and very personal stuff about each other before our relationship even started, and like everyone else in that group we implicitly trusted each other with all that.”
The couple married at the beginning of May at a private ceremony at San Miniato, a hilltop village near Pisa and have set up home at Lord Cardigan’s estate in Savernake Forest, near Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Lord Cardigan has two children from his previous marriage, Thomas, Viscount Savernake and Lady Catherine, who is better known as Bo Bruce, a singer songwriter, from whom he is estranged.
The new countess has a 13-year-old son, Wolfy.
Lady Cardigan said her first impressions of the man who became her husband was of an stereotypical Briton.
“When I first met David in group therapy I thought he was an archetypal Englishman. Very up-tight and proper, and initially very unwilling to open up, which of course is what Group Therapy is all about.
“But we learned the worst about each other first, and since then I have come to love him for the warm, sensitive man that he is.”
Lord Cardigan said the couple who, having “put the record straight”, were looking forward to starting life together in Wiltshire.
“My heartfelt wish now is to be reconciled with my two children. I've missed them both enormously”. ( telegraph.co.uk )
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