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Marita Georgina Knight (née Phillips; formerly Crawley; born 28 May 1954 in London, England) is a British songwriter and author.^[1]^[2]

Her lyrics have been recorded by artists such as Peter Skellern, Demis Roussos, William Lovelady and Art Garfunkel. She has written the libretto for the opera PUSHKIN, based on the lives of her great-great-great-grandfathers, Alexander Pushkin and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia; the music is by Konstantin Boyarsky. The opera was premiered in concert performance by Novaya Opera in Moscow on 4 February 2017.^[3] Its world premiere as a staged performance was at Grange Park Opera in July 2018.

Marita Phillips studied acting at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and ballet at the Nesta Brooking School before training as a mime with Adam Darius, with whom she founded and ran The Mime Centre, London.^[4] She has written the book and lyrics for the children's musicals; The Dream Dealer and Buzz – the story of Glorybee. She has also written the novel The Dream Dealer.

Family

She is the fourth of five children of Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips (1909–1980) and his wife, Georgina Wernher (1919–2011),^[5]^[6] who was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt, by his wife Countess Anastasia de Torby (later Lady Zia Wernher, CBE).^[1]^[5] Her eldest sister is Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn and her youngest sister is Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (a godmother of William, Prince of Wales). Marita and her siblings are close to the British royal family, being distantly related to both Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.^[1]^[7]

In 1982, Marita married Randall Crawley (1950–1988), a son of Aidan Crawley MP and his wife Virginia Cowles, journalist and author. Randall Crawley was killed with his brother Andrew in a private plane crash near Turin in Italy on 10 September 1988,^[8]^[9] leaving issue two sons and one daughter: Aidan Harold Winston Crawley (22 October 1983), Cosima Georgina Crawley (31 May 1985) and Galen Randall George Crawley (13 November 1988). The posthumous younger son Galen Crawley is a godson of Charles III.^[10] In 2006, Marita remarried, to the journalist turned media baron Andrew Knight (born 1939).^[1]

Siblings

Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (born 27 February 1946)
Nicholas Harold Phillips (23 August 1947 – 1 March 1991)
Fiona Mercedes Phillips (born 30 March 1951)
Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (born 8 May 1959)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Lundy, Darryl. "p. 11283". The Peerage.^{[unreliable source]}
^ "Center for Defense Information". Project On Government Oversight. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
^ Macfarquhar, Neil (7 March 2017). "A Descendant's Daring Homage to Pushkin". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
^ Darius, Adam (1984). The Adam Darius Method. London: Latonia. p. 12. ISBN 0-9502707-2-5.
^ ^a ^b Willis, Daniel, The Descendants of King George I of Great Britain, Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, pp. 114, 601–602 ISBN 0-8063-5172-1.
^ Dewar, Peter Beauclerk (2001). Burke' Landed Gentry of Great Britain: Together with Members of the Titled and non-Titled Contemporary Establishment (19 ed.). Burke's Peerage. ISBN 978-0-9711966-0-5.
^ "London tribute to Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum Rabbani honors her contributions to conservation and the arts | BWNS". Bahá’í World News Service. 15 June 2001. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
^ Harriet Crawley, their sister, speaks about the Crawley Gap Year Scholarships in memory of her brothers.[1] Retrieved 18 September 2007.
^ " Ayer's adopted son dies" The Daily Telegraph, 2004. [2] Harriet Crawley lost her husband Julian Ayer, adoptive son of the philosopher Freddie Ayer, in a Sri Lankan flood.
^ "SMA Trust : fondation dédiée aux muscles". SmaTrust Muscu. Retrieved 14 July 2020.

External links

Lines of succession
Preceded by Elizabeth Burnett	Line of succession to the British throne descendant of Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of George II	Succeeded by Aidan Crawley

[thepeerage.com-1] Lundy, Darryl. "p. 11283". The Peerage.^{[unreliable source]}

[2] "Center for Defense Information". Project On Government Oversight. Retrieved 14 July 2020.

[3] Macfarquhar, Neil (7 March 2017). "A Descendant's Daring Homage to Pushkin". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

[Mime_Centre-4] Darius, Adam (1984). The Adam Darius Method. London: Latonia. p. 12. ISBN 0-9502707-2-5.

[willis-5] Willis, Daniel, The Descendants of King George I of Great Britain, Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, pp. 114, 601–602 ISBN 0-8063-5172-1.

[Dewar2001-6] Dewar, Peter Beauclerk (2001). Burke' Landed Gentry of Great Britain: Together with Members of the Titled and non-Titled Contemporary Establishment (19 ed.). Burke's Peerage. ISBN 978-0-9711966-0-5.

[7] "London tribute to Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum Rabbani honors her contributions to conservation and the arts | BWNS". Bahá’í World News Service. 15 June 2001. Retrieved 14 July 2020.

[8] Harriet Crawley, their sister, speaks about the Crawley Gap Year Scholarships in memory of her brothers.[1] Retrieved 18 September 2007.

[9] " Ayer's adopted son dies" The Daily Telegraph, 2004. [2] Harriet Crawley lost her husband Julian Ayer, adoptive son of the philosopher Freddie Ayer, in a Sri Lankan flood.

[10] "SMA Trust : fondation dédiée aux muscles". SmaTrust Muscu. Retrieved 14 July 2020.

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+'''Marita Georgina Knight''' (''née'' '''Phillips'''; formerly '''Crawley'''; born 28 May 1954 in [[London]], [[England]]) is a British songwriter and author.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pogo.org/center-for-defense-information/|title=Center for Defense Information|website=Project On Government Oversight|accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref>
-'''Marita Georgina Phillips''' (born 28 May 1954 in [[London]], [[England]]), a British songwriter and author,<ref name="thepeerage.com"/><ref>[http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3620.html CDI Library Russia List]</ref> was born the third daughter of Lt.-Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips and his wife, [[Georgina Kennard|Georgina Wernher]], who was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt, by his wife Countess [[Anastasia de Torby]] (later Lady Zia Wernher, [[CBE]]).<ref name="thepeerage.com">{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p11283.htm |title=p. 11283<!-- Bot generated title --> |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]--></ref><ref name=willis>Willis, Daniel, ''The Descendants of King George I of Great Britain, Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, pp. 114, 601–602 {{ISBN|0-8063-5172-1}}.</ref>
-Her lyrics have been recorded by artists such as [[Peter Skellern]], [[Demis Roussos]], William Lovelady and [[Art Garfunkel]]. She has written the libretto for the opera "Poet and Tsar", based on the lives of her great-great-great-grandfathers, [[Alexander Pushkin]] and Tsar [[Nicholas I of Russia]].<ref>[http://home.the-wire.com/~steph/rfrr/rfyahoonews.html The Wire Pushkin gets a makeover in the west]</ref>
+Her lyrics have been recorded by artists such as [[Peter Skellern]], [[Demis Roussos]], William Lovelady and [[Art Garfunkel]]. She has written the libretto for the opera ''PUSHKIN'', based on the lives of her great-great-great-grandfathers, [[Alexander Pushkin]] and Tsar [[Nicholas I of Russia]]; the music is by Konstantin Boyarsky.  The opera was premiered in concert performance by Novaya Opera in Moscow on 4 February 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/arts/music/a-descendants-daring-homage-to-pushkin.html|title=A Descendant's Daring Homage to Pushkin|last=Macfarquhar|first=Neil|date=2017-03-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-07-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Its world premiere as a staged performance was at Grange Park Opera in July 2018.
-Marita Phillips studied acting at [[The Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] and ballet at the Nesta Brooking School before training as a [[mime]] with [[Adam Darius]], with whom she founded and ran [http://mimecentre.com The Mime Centre], London.<ref name="Mime Centre">{{cite book|last=Darius|first=Adam|title=The Adam Darius Method|year=1984|publisher=Latonia|location=London|isbn=0-9502707-2-5|pages=12}}</ref> She has written the book and lyrics for the children's musicals; "[[The Dream Dealer]]" and "[http://www.buzz-the%20musical.com Buzz – the story of Glorybee]". She has also written the novel "[http://www.the%20dreamdealer.co.uk The Dream Dealer]".
+Marita Phillips studied acting at [[The Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] and ballet at the Nesta Brooking School before training as a [[mime]] with [[Adam Darius]], with whom she founded and ran The Mime Centre, London.<ref name="Mime Centre">{{cite book|last=Darius|first=Adam|title=The Adam Darius Method|year=1984|publisher=Latonia|location=London|isbn=0-9502707-2-5|pages=12}}</ref> She has written the book and lyrics for the children's musicals; ''[[The Dream Dealer]]'' and ''Buzz – the story of Glorybee''. She has also written the novel ''The Dream Dealer''.
-==Royal ancestry==
+==Family==
-She is the fourth of five children of [[Lieutenant-Colonel|Lt.-Col.]] Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips (1909–1980) and his wife, [[Georgina Kennard|Georgina Wernher]] (1919–2011).<ref name=willis/><ref name=Dewar2001>{{Cite book|last=Dewar|first=Peter Beauclerk|year=2001|title=Burke' Landed Gentry of Great Britain: Together with Members of the Titled and non-Titled Contemporary Establishment|edition=19|publisher=[[Burke's Peerage]]|isbn=978-0-9711966-0-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEFuRPsYHwwC|}}</ref> Her eldest sister is [[Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn]] and her youngest sister is [[Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster]] (a godmother of [[Prince William, Duke of Cambridge]]). Marita and her siblings are close to the [[British Royal Family]], being distantly related to both [[Elizabeth II]] and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]].<ref name="thepeerage.com"/><ref>[http://news.bahai.org/story/124 London tribute to honor contributions to conservation and the arts]</ref> They are also descendants, through non-Catholic marriages, of [[Sophia, Electress of Hanover]], in whose Protestant descendants is vested the right of [[line of succession to the British throne#Descendants of Princess Louise (1724–1751)|succession to the British throne]] according to the [[Act of Settlement 1701]].
+She is the fourth of five children of [[Lieutenant colonel|Lt.-Col.]] [[Harold Phillips (British Army officer)|Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips]] (1909–1980) and his wife, [[Georgina Kennard|Georgina Wernher]] (1919–2011),<ref name=willis/><ref name=Dewar2001>{{Cite book|last=Dewar|first=Peter Beauclerk|year=2001|title=Burke' Landed Gentry of Great Britain: Together with Members of the Titled and non-Titled Contemporary Establishment|edition=19|publisher=[[Burke's Peerage]]|isbn=978-0-9711966-0-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEFuRPsYHwwC}}</ref> who was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt, by his wife Countess [[Anastasia de Torby]] (later Lady Zia Wernher, [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]).<ref name="thepeerage.com">{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p11283.htm |title=p. 11283<!-- Bot generated title --> |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]--></ref><ref name=willis>Willis, Daniel, ''The Descendants of King George I of Great Britain, Clearfield Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, pp. 114, 601–602 {{ISBN|0-8063-5172-1}}.</ref> Her eldest sister is [[Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn]] and her youngest sister is [[Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster]] (a godmother of [[William, Prince of Wales]]). Marita and her siblings are close to the [[British royal family]], being distantly related to both [[Elizabeth II]] and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]].<ref name="thepeerage.com"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.bahai.org/story/124/|title=London tribute to Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum Rabbani honors her contributions to conservation and the arts &#124; BWNS|date=15 June 2001|website=Bahá’í World News Service|accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref>
+In 1982, Marita married Randall Crawley (1950–1988), a son of [[Aidan Crawley]] MP and his wife [[Virginia Cowles]], journalist and author. Randall Crawley was killed with his brother Andrew in a private plane crash near Turin in Italy on 10 September 1988,<ref>Harriet Crawley, their sister, speaks about the Crawley Gap Year Scholarships in memory of her brothers.[http://www.harrowassociation.com/html/crawley/about/] Retrieved 18 September 2007.</ref><ref>" Ayer's adopted son dies" The Daily Telegraph, 2004. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080208083723/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/31/wvic331.xml] Harriet Crawley lost her husband Julian Ayer, adoptive son of the philosopher Freddie Ayer, in a Sri Lankan flood.</ref> leaving issue two sons and one daughter: Aidan Harold Winston Crawley (22 October 1983), Cosima Georgina Crawley (31 May 1985) and Galen Randall George Crawley (13 November 1988). The posthumous younger son Galen Crawley is a godson of [[Charles III]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smatrustmuscu.com/|title=SMA Trust : fondation dédiée aux muscles|website=SmaTrust Muscu|accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref> In 2006, Marita remarried, to the journalist turned media baron [[Andrew Knight (journalist)|Andrew Knight]] (born 1939).<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>
-They also descend from Russia's most renowned author and nobleman [[Alexander Pushkin]], and thus from his African great-grandfather, [[Abram Petrovich Gannibal]], the youth believed to have belonged to a family of [[tribal chief]]tains who became a [[protégé]] of [[Peter the Great]]. The sisters' maternal grandmother was born [[Anastasia de Torby|Countess Anastasia de Torby]] (later Lady "Zia" Wernher), younger [[morganatic marriage|morganatic]] daughter of [[Grand Duke Michael Mihailovich of Russia]] (a grandson of Emperor [[Nicholas I of Russia]]) by his wife [[Sophie of Merenberg|Countess Sophie von Merenberg]], morganatic daughter of [[Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau|Prince Nikolaus of Nassau]] (himself brother of [[Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]) by his wife Natalya Aleksandrovna, Pushkin's younger daughter.<ref name=willis/>
-Lady Zia's sister [[Nadezhda de Torby|Countess Nadezhda de Torby]] (or "Nada") was the wife of Prince George of [[Battenberg family|Battenberg]] (later [[George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven]]), elder maternal uncle of the [[Duke of Edinburgh]]. The Torby sisters were third cousins of the prince through their common ancestor, Tsar Nicholas I.<ref name=willis/> Marita's paternal grandparents were Col. Joseph Harold John Phillips and his wife Mary Mercedes Bryce, whose niece Janet Mercedes Bryce (daughter of Major Francis [[John Pablo Bryce|Bryce]] of [[Hamilton, Bermuda]]) married [[David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven]], Nada Mountbatten's son.
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-In 1982, Marita married Randall Crawley (1950–1988), a son of [[Aidan Crawley]] MP and his wife [[Virginia Cowles]], journalist and author. Randall Crawley was killed with his brother Andrew in a private plane crash near Turin in Italy on 10 September 1988,<ref>Harriet Crawley, their sister, speaks about the Crawley Gap Year Scholarships in memory of her brothers.[http://www.harrowassociation.com/html/crawley/about/] Retrieved 18 September 2007.</ref><ref>" Ayer's adopted son dies" The Daily Telegraph, 2004. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/31/wvic331.xml] Harriet Crawley lost her husband Julian Ayer, adoptive son of the philosopher Freddie Ayer, in a Sri Lankan flood.</ref> leaving issue two sons and one daughter: Aidan Harold Winston Crawley (22 October 1983), Cosima Georgina Crawley (31 May 1985) and Galen Randall George Crawley (13 November 1988). The posthumous younger son Galen Crawley is a godson of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|The Prince of Wales]].<ref>[http://www.smatrust.org/index.php?id=21 Work of the SMA Trust]</ref> In 2006, Marita remarried, her second husband being the journalist turned media baron, [[Andrew Knight (journalist)|Andrew Knight]] (b. 1939).<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>
-She is currently 1536th in line for the British throne.
 ==Siblings==
-*[[Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn]] (born 27 February 1946)
+* [[Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn]] (born 27 February 1946)
-*[[Nicholas Harold Phillips]] (23 August 1947 – 1 March 1991)
+* Nicholas Harold Phillips (23 August 1947&nbsp;– 1 March 1991)
-*Fiona Mercedes Phillips (born 30 March 1951)
+* Fiona Mercedes Phillips (born 30 March 1951)
-*[[Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster]] (born 8 May 1959)
+* [[Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster]] (born 8 May 1959)
 ==References==
-{{Reflist|2}}
+{{Reflist}}
-*{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p11283.htm |title=p. 11283<!-- Bot generated title --> |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}<!--Lundy is not a reliable source so cite Lundy's reliable source See [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUREADIT]]-->
-*[http://www.smatrust.org/index.php?id=21 Work of the SMA Trust]
-*[http://news.bahai.org/story/124 London tribute to honor contributions to conservation and the arts]
-*[http://home.the-wire.com/~steph/rfrr/rfyahoonews.html The Wire Pushkin gets a makeover in the west]
-*[http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3620.html CDI Library Russia List]
+==External links==
-{{S-start}}
+* [http://www.smatrust.org/index.php?id=21 Work of the SMA Trust]
-{{Succession box| title=[[Line of succession to the British throne]] | before=Eliza Burnett | after=Aidan Crawley | years=}}
+* [http://news.bahai.org/story/124 London tribute to honor contributions to conservation and the arts]
-{{S-end}}
+* [http://home.the-wire.com/~steph/rfrr/rfyahoonews.html The Wire Pushkin gets a makeover in the west]
+* [http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3620.html CDI Library Russia List]
+{{s-start}}
+{{S-other|line}}
+{{S-bef
+| before = Elizabeth Burnett
+}}
+{{S-ttl
+| title = [[Line of succession to the British throne]]<!--NO position numbers after Chatto-->
+| creation = descendant of [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]], son of [[George II of Great Britain|George II]]
+}}
+{{S-aft
+| after = Aidan Crawley
+}}
+{{s-end}}
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-[[Category:English songwriters]]
+[[Category:English women songwriters]]
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+[[Category:Wernher family|Marita]]
+[[Category:People from Central Bedfordshire District]]