Olga Polizzi

{{Short description|Hotelier and interior designer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|GBR|size=100%|CBE}} | birth_name = Olga Forte | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{Marriage|Alessandro Polizzi|1966|1980|reason=d}} * {{Marriage|William Shawcross|1993}} }} | children = 2, including Alex Polizzi | father = Charles Forte | relatives = {{Plainlist| * Rocco Forte (brother) * Oliver Peyton (son-in-law) }} | political_party = Conservative | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1946|02}} }} '''Olga Polizzi, Lady Shawcross''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} ({{née|'''Forte'''}}; born February 1946) is a British hotelier and interior designer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-secret-life-olga-polizzi-designer-hotelier-806739.html|title=My secret life: Olga Polizzi, Designer & hotelier|author=|date=2008-04-12|website=independent.co.uk|accessdate=2018-03-21}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web|last=Odone|first=Cristina|date=2013-12-16|title=Alex Polizzi: 'I couldn't weep or grieve. I just worked'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/10517248/Alex-Polizzi-I-couldnt-weep-or-grieve.-I-just-worked.html|website=The Telegraph|publisher=|via=|accessdate=2018-03-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/jun/22/shopping.homes|title=Interiors: Call the Polizzi|first=Dominic|last=Lutyens|date=2003-06-22|website=the Guardian|accessdate=2018-03-21}}</ref> She is a former Westminster City Council councillor, representing Lancaster Gate ward for the Conservative Party.

==Family== Polizzi is the mother of the broadcaster and ''The Hotel Inspector'' presenter Alex Polizzi<ref name="auto"/> and Charlotte, who is married to Oliver Peyton.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/relative-values-olga-polizzi-and-her-daughter-alexandra-gzf25glvtk8|title=Relative Values: Olga Polizzi and her daughter Alexandra|newspaper=The Times|date=2007-07-01}}</ref> Her brother is Sir Rocco Forte, and their father was Charles Forte, Baron Forte. She is married to William Shawcross (m. 1993), following her former marriage to Alessandro Polizzi (m. 1966–1980) until his death.

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