Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington
Arthur Gerald Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, also known as Arthur Mornington, is the eldest son of Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington. Since 2014, following the succession of his father as Duke of Wellington, he is entitled to the courtesy title of Marquess of Douro but continues to use the title Earl of Mornington.
The Wellesleys are an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. Through his mother, Princess Antonia of Prussia, he is a great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II, German Emperor. As a descendant of Queen Victoria, he is in the line of succession to the British throne. He is the older brother of Lady Charlotte Wellesley.
Mornington was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford where he received a BA degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1999. He subsequently obtained an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 2005 and in 2006 his BA was, as is the custom for all BAs at Oxford, raised to an MA on the payment of a small fee. He was an employee of Bain & Company between 1999 and 2001, and for BC Partners between 2001 and 2003. He subsequently was a manager for Exponent Private Equity from 2005 to 2006. Next, he was a partner in the merchant bank Charterhouse Capital Partners from 2006 to 2016. A fellow banker, Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, has been reported in the press to be coincidentally an heir of the first Duke of Wellington's adversary Napoleon Bonaparte, but is not in fact, being only indirectly - and disputably - in the line of the House of Bonaparte. Since 2016 Mornington has been a partner of private equity investor Oakley Capital.
In 2005 he married the makeup artist and fashion model Jemma Kidd. The couple have twins and a younger son:
Mornington is the heir apparent to the Dukedom of Wellington and to the titles Prince of Waterloo, Duke of Victoria, and Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo. The British Peerage and the first two foreign titles can only be inherited in the male line, while the Spanish can devolve upon the holder's daughters.
