Jemma Kidd

Lady Douro is the daughter of the businessman and former showjumper Johnny Kidd. She is the granddaughter of The Honourable Janet Gladys Aitken. One of Kidd's maternal great-grandfathers was the Canadian press baron Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook.^[1] Kidd's mother, Wendy Madeleine Kidd (née Hodge), is one of the three daughters of Sir John Rowland Hodge, 2nd Baronet,^[1] and runs the Holders Festival on Barbados.^[2] Kidd's aunt is the model Vicki Hodge.^[1]

Lady Douro was a fashion model before becoming a make-up artist.^[when?] In 2003, she opened her own "Make-up School" in London.

She was a director of the Jemma Kidd Make-up Limited, which was incorporated in 2005, Ghislaine Maxwell was also a director.^[3] The company launched a cosmetics range in 2006, which was available in the UK (in Boots), America, Australia, Hong Kong, and Canada.

Her book Jemma Kidd Make-up Masterclass was published in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Jemma Kidd Make-up went into administration in October 2012.^[4] The business was dissolved in January 2020.^[3]

Kidd married Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, son of Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington and Princess Antonia of Prussia, on 4 June 2005 at St James Church in Holetown, Barbados.

The couple has twins and a younger son:^[5]

• Lady Mae Madeleine Wellesley (born 4 January 2010 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London)
• (Arthur) Darcy Wellesley, Earl of Mornington (born 4 January 2010)
• Lord Alfred Wellesley (born 10 December 2014)

In 2021, Lady Douro divorced from Lord Douro.^[6]