Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last colonial governor, departed from the Government House in Hong Kong on the 1 st July 1997, and made the historic and iconic trip back to the HMY Britannia. 1 episode, Vincent In Brixton (2003) as Eugenie Loyer, Rang De Eugenie Loyer. And I dont see what pulls the party together again. Do you think it was also their belief that the British government had deluded itself about its own purpose? I occasionally get asked to preach in college chapels. Chris Pratt is being called "cringe and vile" for praising his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, for giving him a "healthy daughter" given that his son with ex Anna Faris, Jack, has suffered. 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. 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. Patten was also denounced by some Chinese media and politicians as the "whore of the East" and a "serpent", and was most famously called a "sinner who would be condemned for a thousand generations" (Chinese: ) by Lu Ping, the head of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. She threatened to leave home forever on social media. And him looking at me mystified. Kris is HKFP's Editorial Director. Alice Patten is an English actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, a prominent British Conservative politician and the last Governor of Hong Kong. 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. Search over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th Century to the present day. Katharine Joan ('Kate') Patten (1973-), Television producer; daughter of Chris Patten Sitter in 1 portrait Tell us More Like List Thumbnail Sort by Chris Patten and his family by Jillian Edelstein bromide fibre print, August 1990 NPG x45377 Find out more > Use this image Related People Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes (father) I suggest the fractures go back to the 1990s. Laura, meanwhile, who 10 years ago catapulted the Patten girls to celebrity status by appearing at the age of 17 in a micro-skirt and a tight T-shirt, launching a bout of Laura-mania in the Hong Kong press, is now the deputy health and beauty editor of Tatler. Sandra Lee is most worried for Andrew Cuomo's daughters in the wake of his sexual harassment scandal, sources told The Post.. Lee, who was with Cuomo for 14 years until their spit in September . The gracious, book-lined sitting room gives out on to a generous garden. Nostalgia for theformer first family was also invokedby an incident in March last year. [citation needed]. He fears the results are being played out in Hong Kong. Environment secretary Chris Patten (r) was charged with introducing the poll tax Instead of the tax shining a spotlight on spendthrift local councils, she said, the government was getting the. However, in 1979, he contested from Bath and won. It's just that after those heady years in the spotlight, her sisters would seem to crave the exact opposite. Former Hong Kong Gov. SHANGHAI -- Seventeen years after sailing on Britain's Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong, the tango dancer is on the move again. If ever there as a contradiction in terms it is that. Lord Patten married Lavender Thornton in 1971. From 2014 to 2016, he worked under Pope Francis as the head of the body that advises the Vatican on media strategy. 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. And yeah, I do get angry about things. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bath in 1979, and served until he was unseated in 1992. Patten turned down offers of a new post and instead, in July 1992, he became the 28th and the last governor of Hong Kong until its transfer of sovereignty to China on 30 June 1997. He has been married to Lavender Thornton since 1971. 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.. He is also an actor and was recently embroiled in controversy when he opted to play Prince William in an American film about the young Royals. Chris Patten I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. In September 1985, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. 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. Does he ever get mad, watching his lifes work, at home and abroad, unravel? A picture of the family of last governor Chris Patten posted by her daughter Alice (left, front) on her Facebook turns viral on social media. He was given an official Chinese name, Pang Ding-hong (Chinese: ), a name with an etymology based on the words "stability" and "calm; joyous; healthy". Support HKFP | Code of Ethics | Error/typo? 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. He was born into an Irish Catholic family on his paternal side. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. And they hate it when we do.. They have three children. [18], On 11 January 2005 Patten was created a life peer as Baron Patten of Barnes, of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. After obtaining a modern history degree in 1965, he became active in politics and joined the Conservative Party. [3] Patten's father, Frank, a jazz-drummer turned popular-music publisher and his mother Joan sent him to a Catholic primary school, Our Lady of the Visitation, in Greenford, and later to the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London, where he won an exhibition to read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford. Millions of premium Stock photos and illustrations created by leading commercial photographers, world-famous Museums, Historical Archives and Private Collections. "I cried all day," she says of her very public departure. God Save The Queen. I take as my baseline what Nelson Mandela said about the Rhodes Trust, he says. 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. Hong Kong's legacy from Chris Patten's Diaries to City on the Edge. On 23 May 2005 he was appointed by Cadbury as a non-executive director.[16]. She has played a key role in the Bollywood film Rang De Basanti (2006). How Covid helped China tighten its hold on Hong Kong, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Patten has become a kind of living reminder of that shift on the right. In October, he severely criticised the Hong Kong government for banning face masks. He laughs. Patten was born in 1944 on the day the German army was driven out of Crimea. Lavender doesnt entirely approve; I think she fears it makes me a tad sanctimonious. To me, they're not a story, they're just my girls.". Yana Gupta. In the 1998 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Companion of Honour (CH).[31]. As the last Governor of Hong Kong, he supervised the final years of British governance in the colony and readied it for the transition to Chinese control in 1997. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Patten_-2008-10-31-.jpg, https://flickr.com/photos/ukinfrance/11115110006, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MtANpVq6s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkYBUBJgws. He was, of course, Britains last governor of Hong Kong, lampooned in Private Eye as the grand poobah, before the handover to China in 1997. [N]o one was above the laws; police were not being used to suppress freedoms; top govt officials were qualified and experienced; less crowded streets and MTR; less fights and above all, the mayors daughters were beautiful and well-educated!!!. The one he liked most was coined by an Episcopalian American missionary bishop who talked about being on the seashore with his friend. Patten is portrayed the video game Hong Kong 97 as ordering Chin, an unspecified relative of Bruce Lee, to massacre the entire population of mainland China. 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. Please ensure your comments are relevant and appropriate. Between 1998 and 1999, Chris Patten served as the Chairperson of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland. degree from the University of Ulster. Anyway on we go, in my case to Strasbourg and treason the European parliament. Even for old Tories, hope springs eternal. Patten's most controversial actions in Hong Kong are related to the 1994 electoral reform. 04 Dec 1998. In 2003, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. 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