Amber Augusta Rudd is a former British politician who was Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019. She was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye, first elected in 2010, and left the House in 2019.
Amber Rudd parents: Tony Rudd, Ethne Rudd
Rudd was born in Marylebone, London, on 1 August 1963 as the fourth child of stockbroker Tony Rudd (1924-2017) and magistrate Ethne Fitzgerald (1929-2008), daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald QC (grandson of judge and Liberal politician John FitzGerald, Baron FitzGerald of Kilmarnock) and Christine (daughter of American émigré Augustus Maunsell Bradhurst).
Ethne Fitzgerald and Tony Rudd have been married for 56 years. Rudd is a direct descendant of King Charles II and his lover Barbara Palmer through her mother. Roland, her older brother, is a public relations executive and a staunch Labour supporter.
She was also a director of two Bahamas-based firms, Advanced Asset Allocation Fund and Advanced Asset Allocation Management, between 1998 and 2000.
Rudd assisted in the recruitment of extras for the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which she was listed as the “aristocracy co-ordinator,” and appeared briefly in one of the film’s church sequences.
