Lord Charles O’Hagan, one of the godsons to the late Queen Elizabeth II, died earlier today at North the Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple, England, from a severe head injury.
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According to Hello! his “cause of death was attributed to a subdural hematoma, a condition often caused by head trauma” at the age of 79. The cause of the injury has not yet been disclosed.
Lord O’Hagan, whose real name is Charles Towneley Strachey O’Hagan, had a close relationship with the royal family and it began back decades ago when he became one of Queen Elizabeth‘s godsons while she still had the title of princess. After she was coronated as the Queen of England in 1953, O’Hagan served as her Page of Honour from 1959 to 1962.
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After graduating from New College, Oxford in 1961, he got his master’s degree and later became a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Devon twice, the first time in 1973 until 1975. He served a second time in 1979 to 1994.
Throughout his life, he was married three times. His first marriage was to Princess Tamar Bagration-Imeretinsky of Georgia in 1967. The two had their daughter Nino Natalia O’Hagan Strachey in 1968 before ultimately splitting up in 1984. He got married again in 1985 to a woman named Mary Claire Roose-Francis. The couple stayed together for 10 years and ended up divorced in 1995.
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He and his third wife, Elizabeth Lesley Eve Smith, wed the same year, shortly after his divorce, and they stayed together until he died.