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Astor was married three times. He married firstly on 23 October 1944 to Ana Inez "Chiquita" Carcano y Morra (1918–1992), daughter of the Argentine ambassador (from 1942 to 1946) and a prominent Catholic laywoman, which hurt his relationship with his mother. His mother had become a
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In 1976, he married secondly Susan Eveleigh Sheppard, that marriage too ended in divorce in 1985. In 1988, he married thirdly Marcia de Savary, former wife of
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that had been held by both his parents. Unsuccessful at first, he won the seat in 1951 as a member of the
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In 1978 he was granted a knighthood for services to agriculture, due to his chairmanship of the
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Michael Ramon Langhorne Astor (b. 1946), who married Daphne Warburg (1949-2024), daughter of
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in 1946. Before their divorce in 1972, Jakie and Ana had three children:
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Shaw, Bernard; Astor, Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (2005).
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enthusiast who won a number of prestigious races including the
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John Jacob "Jakie" Astor VII was born 29 August 1918 at
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John William Astor (1962–1963), who died as an infant.
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Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
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Index

Major
The Honourable
MBE
ERD

Member of Parliament
Plymouth Sutton
1951
1959
Lucy Middleton
Ian Montagu Fraser
High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire
and Isle of Ely

Cliveden
Buckinghamshire
Wandsworth
Astor family
Waldorf Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne
Eton College
New College, Oxford
Knight Bachelor
OBE
ERD
Légion d'Honneur
Croix de Guerre
Major
MBE
ERD
Astor family
Cliveden

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