Tania Harcourt-Cooze

Tania Rosamund Harcourt-Cooze (née Coleridge) (b Birth date and age|1966|1|22|df=yes) is an English former model and actress. cite news
last = Wynn-Davies
first = Patricia
title = Me and My Home: At home with history
work = The Independent
publisher = findarticles.com
date = 17 March 2004
url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040317/ai_n12773773]

The daughter of Major William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St Mary and his first wife Everild Tania Hambrough, she is directly related to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The oldest of five children, by her father's first marriage she has a brother, James Duke Coleridge (b 1967) and a sister, Sophia Tamsin Coleridge (b 1970). Her parents divorced in 1977 when she was 11. By his second marriage, she has two stepsisters, Vanessa Leyla Coleridge (b 1978) and Katharine Suzannah Coleridge (b 1981). She lives in Tiverton, Devon with her husband William (Willie) Harcourt-Cooze and they have three children - Sophia (nine), William (seven) and Eve (four). cite web
last = Lundy
first = Darryl
title = Major William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary
publisher = thePeerage.com
url = http://www.thepeerage.com/p24378.htm#i243772] cite web
title = Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory
publisher = Channel 4
url = http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/willies-wonky-chocolate-factory/] cite news
last = Weinberg
first = Kate
title = Willie's wacky chocolate factory
publisher = The Daily Telegraph
date = 23 February 2008
url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2008/02/23/edwonka125.xml] [Childrens ages as of 23 February 2008 Telegraph article] cite web
title = TM: a selection of Trade Marks and Brand Names registered in April 2007
work = Food Trade Review
publisher = Entrepreneur Magazine
date = August 2007
url = http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/171295664_2.html]

She left England at the age of 20 in 1986 to become a model and an actress, and lived in Los Angeles until she was 28. She was a model, and starred opposite the singer George Michael in the video for "Father Figure". She met Willie and in 1996 they left England for Venezuela where they ran a small hotel, a restaurant and organised tourist walks through one of the national parks. They married, and whilst on honeymoon discovered, and later purchased, a convert|1000|acre|ha cocoa hacienda in Choroni. They planted more than 50,000 criollo cacao trees, the highest quality strain of cocoa and built up an eco-tourism venture before having to mothball it temporarily due to the political and economic climate. cite web
last = Goodhart
first = Benjie
title = Interview: Willie Harcourt-Cooze
work = News
publisher = Channel 4 Sales
date =
url = http://www.channel4sales.com/news/home?id=534]

Returning to England, she took over the management of the The Chanter's House, the family's ancestral home in March 2002 and set up events management company Kubla Khan, through which to organise weddings, fashion shoots, residential art courses, exhibitions, house tours and cultural gatherings all centered on the property.

In October 2006 the increasing costs of maintaining the property caused the family trust to put the property up for sale and auction the contents. cite press release
title = Sotheby's to sell property from the Coleridge family collection at The Chanter's House
publisher = Sotheby's
date = 22 August 2006
url = http://www.shareholder.com/bid/downloads/news/20060822-208011.pdf
format = PDF] cite news
title = Coleridge heirlooms auctioned off
publisher = BBC
date = 24 October 2006
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6079558.stm] cite news
last = Kay
first = Richard
title = Farewell to Xanadu for Coleridge?
work = Columnists
publisher = Daily Mail
date = 16 February 2006
url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=377355&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=230]

She came to public prominence again in 2008 with the airing of the fly-on-the-wall documentary, "Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory", centered on her husband's efforts to be one of the first Britains since the Cadbury family to grow, import and produce their own chocolate.

ee also

*Willie Harcourt-Cooze
*Baron Coleridge
*Ottery St Mary

References & footnotes

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imdb name | id = 0171283 | name = Tania Coleridge
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* cite web
title = Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory
publisher = Channel 4
url = http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/willies-wonky-chocolate-factory/
* cite news
last = Wynn-Davies
first = Patricia
title = Me and My Home: At home with history
work = The Independent
publisher = findarticles.com
date = 17 March 2004
url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040317/ai_n12773773

Persondata
NAME = Harcourt-Cooze, Tania Rosamund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Coleridge, The Honourable Tania Rosamund; Harcourt-Cooze, The Honourable Tania Rosamund
SHORT DESCRIPTION = English former model and actress.
DATE OF BIRTH = 22 January 1966
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DATE OF DEATH =
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