Henrietta Brooke-Carter

Henrietta Brooke-Carter (Born 17 February 1991) is a British/Italian Athlete, Jewellery Designer and Documentary maker who has represented Great Britain at both junior and senior levels. She has competed in the FIBA world championships as well as many international festivals. She opened jewellery design company "HattiBeads" in January 2008 which was sold to a conglomerate for £1.2m in 2009 before going into administration in February 2010. Her designs were displayed at London and New York fashion weeks and HattiBeads worked as a outsourced design company for major fashion houses. Aspects of her designs have been used by several high street fashion chains.
Brooke-Carter is currently a medical student at Cambridge University
Career
Brooke-Carter played at county level in several sports as a junior. She was heavily involved in the Taunton Tennis Academy still coaches the juniors there on occasion.
As a professional she played basketball for the Bristol Flyers , Taunton Tigers and Brixton TopCats basketball teams, but is currently unattached. At international level for basketball she played as a Junior, including captaining the U16 team to the FIBA junior championships and has made appearances on several occasions for Great Britain. Her normal position is in defence although she has played centre in a number of international matches. She was awarded "Most improved player of 2009".
She raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup until 2008 when she retired from racing . In this period she won 4 races, Came second in 2 and placed third three times but after a heavy crash in the 2008 season it was deemed too dangerous for her to compete again. She now tests for the Aston Martin Le Mans . She also teaches people to track drive and does free-lance motor journalism, previously being published in The Times and the Guardian .
Brooke-Carter set up HattiBeads in January 2008 which prospered during its first year of training. It employed 50 people when it was bought out in 2009 for £1.2m. However, poor handling of the takeover and uncontrolled expansion post takeover led to the company going into administration in February 2010. At the takeover there was a no competition agreement validated for three years which is still enforced despite the collapse of HattiBeads. Brooke-Carter has been quoted as saying that she will set up a new company with the profits from the takeover as soon as the non competition agreement is over. Her designs both through HattiBeads and through the major fashion houses were influential and original with many high street fashion chains such as Top Shop and New Look publishing similar designs post London fashion week. Some of Brooke-Carter's limited edition works are now fetching prices in the region of £2000.
In 2008 Brooke-Carter began to turn a filmmaking hobby into a professional enterprise when she joined a film crew making a documentary about illegal immigrants in Calais for the BBC. Since then she has made and been involved in many documentaries, recently filming in Dallas, Texas (unemployment); Kenya (Kibira and environmental degradation); Moscow (corruption); New York (Social issues); and the Maldives (The effects of climate change) with most of her work on divisions within society caused by conflict, corruption and environmental degradation.
She has worked on documentaries for the BBC, ITV and several independent film companies.
She has also worked with several charities such as WaterAid , UNHCR and Christian Aid to produce appeal films. Some of these have been shown on national television through events such as the BBC's comic and Sport Relief. She received a mayoral recognition for her charitable work in 2009.
Personal life
Brooke-Carter was born on a boat travelling between Egypt and Plymouth although her official place of birth is Plymouth. She attended several local state primary schools and then private secondary schools. She has two elder sisters, Emily and Joanna. Joanna is a netballer and summit manager and Emily is a civil servant. Her father is international personal injury lawyer, mediator and businessman Jonathan founder of the Civil Mediation Council.
One of her grandfathers is J.T.Dingle, Scientific life fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, president of Hughes Hall, Cambridge 1993-1998, Director of Strangeways research laboratory and president of Cambridge University Rugby Club. [http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/d/15811/John%20Thomas+DINGLE.aspx]
There have been many controversies surrounding Brooke-Carter's family.
On 4 February 2006 the Daily Mail printed an expose on another family member, J.T.Dingle's son Tim, headmaster at RGS High Wycombe. In it there were several allegations made and he was sacked, as well as having a prospective new job offer in Argentina retracted.
In 2006 Kathleen Dobson, Brooke-Carter's aunt travelled to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland and committed suicide without telling one of her sons. The Sunday Express broke the story in April 2010, including some of the controversial circumstances around her death.

Brooke-Carter got engaged to Robierto Warren-Edgerton, a British/Italian investment banker and socialite in February 2010 and they are expected to marry in July 2011. They live together with his young daughter Ella Louise Rose in Cambridge but they also have houses in Southern France, Milan, Los Angeles, New York and London. Ella was born in September 2009 to Lisa Cole, a waitress. This followed Cole selling her story to the Daily Mail which alleged that Warren-Edgerton was a serial philanderer.

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