It’s only chivalry to let Catherine be a knight
SHE might be the wife of The Affair star Dominic West, but Catherine FitzGerald has her mind set on a much more elevated role.
The daughter of the last Knight of Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, Catherine claims that changes could be made to the law dictating she cannot inherit her late father’s title owing to her gender.
‘I wasn’t angry that it didn’t pass to me, but it’s a romantic title so it’s sad that it dies,’ says Catherine, 48, who has four children with Dominic and runs her ancestral home, Glin Castle, in Ireland.
‘It adds a lot of colour to our family. It could change, and a lot of people are keen for things to change when something dies off and there’s no male to inherit. Let’s see, I could be a knight yet!’
Would that make Dominic a Lady?