Guinness family curse strikes again as young heiress drowns in pool
The famed Guinness clan has tragically lost another member of its family.
It was revealed this week that heiress Honor Uloth, 19, died in a freak swimming pool accident over the summer. On Friday, the “utterly devastated” family revealed Honor’s organs had been donated, telling the Daily Mail: “She always made it clear that if anything happened to her, she would like her organs to be donated to those in need.”
Honor, the granddaughter of Benjamin Guinness, the 3rd Earl of Iveagh, was found unconscious at the bottom of a swimming pool by her 15-year-old brother after a family get-together. Her brother tried to save her to no avail.
The tragedy occurred on July 31, at a BBQ attended by four families at the Guinness mansion in Sussex. According to the inquest papers obtained by the Daily Mail, “ice buckets filled with bottles of wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks were dotted around the large grounds that had a climbing frame, a tennis court, a fire pit and a large pool with an attached hot tub. … Miss Uloth, who had not been drinking alcohol, was soaking in the hot tub with two friends before going for a swim around 11 p.m.”
“Altogether there were 19 people present at the barbecue consisting of four families,” according to Geoff Charnock of the coroner’s office. “These families have all known each other for many years and have had many gatherings and barbecues together. … During the course of the evening, there was music playing and everyone was enjoying themselves in the warm weather.
“The other two young ladies remained in the hot tub and they were looking out onto the harbor with their backs to the pool and did not see where Honor went,” Charnock continued. “A short while later, Honor’s brother was walking back toward the hot tub … and saw her lying at the bottom of the pool. He raised the alarm and rescued her from the pool. The adults commenced CPR while an ambulance was called.”
By the time Honor was pulled from the pool, it was found she had suffered a broken shoulder and brain injuries and was pronounced dead in a hospital six days later on August 6.
Meanwhile, in 1978, Lady Henrietta Guinness leapt off a bridge in Umbria, Italy while four-year-old Peter Guinness was killed in a car crash in the same year, The Mail notes.
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