Jacquetta Eliot, Countess of St Germans


Jacquetta Jean Frederica Eliot, Countess of St. Germans is the third daughter of Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn. She is his first daughter by his second marriage, to Jacqueline Aldine Leslie, daughter of Marchese Senator Aldo Castellani.
On 9 October 1964 she married Peregrine Nicholas Eliot, 10th Earl of Saint Germans. The marriage lasted 26 years, ending in divorce in 1990. Three children were born during that marriage:
  1. Jago Nicholas Aldo Eliot, Lord Eliot died on 16 Apr 2006, leaving an infant son, Albert Clarence Eliot, heir to his grandfather's titles
  2. Hon Louis Robert Eliot
  3. Hon Francis Michael Eliot It was later revealed that the noted painter Lucien Freud was his biological father.
In 1967, she played the role of Jacquetta in the film Echoes of Silence, written and directed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Jacquetta was a socialite and noted beauty and sat for various artists and photographers including Horst P. Horst who featured her in Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens and People and Richard Avedon.
Between 1969 and 1978 she sat for Freud and featured in nine of his paintings, including the 1973 work Large Interior W9 and several drawings. In 2006 she modelled for Mario Testino in a Burberry advertisement.
She was a founder member/director of the Elephant Fayre 1981–1986. She has been featured in various documentaries about the life and art of Lucian Freud.