• Events: The tragic death of Honor Uloth, the heir to the Guinness empire

In the last 250 years,

Guinness beer

has become one of the most representative icons to celebrate or hang out.

Its name refers to

its founder, Arthur Guinness,

who invested the 100 pounds inherited from his uncle the Archbishop of Cashel in making a

stout in Dublin in 1759.

The success was immediate.

His ingenuity made him amass an

incalculable fortune

that the family has been able to exploit thanks to its marketing strategy by

founding St. Patrick's Day, the

patron saint of Ireland.

In addition, the

Guinness Book of Records

is linked to this family because Sir Hugh Weaver, CEO of the distillery, was one of its founders in 1954. Today, this company produces

more than 60,000 cans per hour

and four million pints. daily.

In the wake of the

recent death of

19-year-old

Honor Uloth,

granddaughter of Benjamin Guinness, III Earl Iveagh and president of the beer empire until his death in 1992, LOC discovers the

biggest misfortunes of this

family

saga

.

Of the 21 children he had with wealthy heiress Olivia Whitmore,

only 10 survived,

giving way to other generations who suffered in different ways from the incredible family wealth.

For example, three of his grandchildren were

alcoholics and died poor,

two ended up in a

mental hospital

and another was

accidentally

poisoned

.

At the end of the 19th century, Queen Victoria awarded some of its members with different

titles of nobility,

which allowed them even more to frequent the restricted circle of

English high society.

For this reason, Bryan Guinness married in 1929 one of the famous and aristocratic Mitford sisters, Diana, later married to a British fascist with whom he frequented the philonazi circles of the Dukes of Windsor.

Honor Uloth, Guinness heir, recently deceased.

In those roaring 20s, Maureen, Aileen, and Oonagh were dubbed the

Golden Guinness Girls for their beauty and tremendous wealth.

They married aristocrats and lived in magnificent castles until they passed away at a fairly old age.

Starting in the first third of the 20th century, misfortunes raged on the Guinness dynasty.

The First Lord Moyne, British Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Middle East, was

assassinated

in Cairo by the terrorist group The Stern Gang in 1944. A few weeks before the end of World War II,

Arthur Guinnesss

(Viscount Eldeven) was

killed in combat.

at 33 years old.

Patrick Guinness, a

close friend of John Lennon and Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, died in 1966 when

his car crashed

into a van.

Following this event, the former Beatle wrote the tribute song

A Day in the Life

.

That same year

Prince Frederick of Prussia, married to Lady Brigid Guinness

, drowned

.

The year 1978 was as black as its own beer.

Lady Henrietta - Honor's great aunt -

committed suicide in 1978 by

jumping from a Roman aqueduct after eloping with a truck driver.

That same year, three other misfortunes struck the family.

Peter Guinness,

4, was killed

in a car accident and Denys Guinness and Lady Dufferin's teenage granddaughter died of

drugs

.

In 1986, Olivia Channon, Rupert Guinness's great-granddaughter, also died of a

drug

overdose

.

Around that time, the banker's wife John Guinness was

kidnapped

and two years later, he died after falling down a mountain.

A year later, Sebastian - son of banker Jonathan Guinness - spent

four months in jail

for a drug affair that led to the death of his second cousin Olivia Channon.

In 2005, an explosive combination of alcohol, cocaine and heroin ended the life of Robert Hesketh, husband of Catherine Guinness

Fortunately, not all Guinness have been on the dark side of history.

The luckiest ones

have started businesses with some success like Lulu, a handbag designer;

Jasmine, model and also designer and the most mediatic and scandalous of all,

Daphne

, a failed actress, designer without apparent success and great art collector who was

married to Spyros Niarchos,

son of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos and grandson of the also millionaire ship owner Hellenic Stavros Livanos.

In New York, Lady Gaga has copied all of his tattoos and several years ago captured the attention of the tabloid press for having an

affair with French philosopher Bernar-Henri Lévy

while he was still married to actress Arielle Dombasle.

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