Melissa Percy
Lady Melissa Jane Trafelet (née Percy, later van Straubenzee; born 20 May 1987) is an English fashion designer and former professional tennis player.
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Melissa Percy
- Name
- Lady Melissa Trafelet
- Birth Name
- Melissa Jane Percy
- Born
- 20 May 1987
- Occupation
- Fashion designer, tennis player
- Full name
- Melissa Jane Percy.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom.
- Education
- Millfield.
- Languages
- English.
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Lady Melissa Jane Trafelet (née Percy, later van Straubenzee; born 20 May 1987) is an English fashion designer and former professional tennis player.
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• Name — Lady Melissa Trafelet • Birth Name — Melissa Jane Percy • Born — 20 May 1987 • Other Names — Missy Percy • Occupation — Fashion designer, tennis player • Issue — Bluebell Rose Trafelet Percy Dean Trafelet Alfred Ralph Trafelet Ivy Trafelet • Noble Family — Percy • Father — Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland • Mother — Jane Richard
Early life and education
Early life and education
Melissa Jane Percy was born on 20 May 1987. She is the daughter of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland, and the former Jane Richard. She is the younger sister of Lady Katie Percy and George Percy, Earl Percy, and the elder sister of Lord Max Percy. Lady Melissa grew up at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. She attended Mowden Hall School, Northumberland before moving to Millfield at the age of 13, but left school when she was fourteen years old to pursue a professional tennis career, moving to the United States to attend a tennis academy. Later she completed a course at Prue Leith's cookery school.
Tennis
Tennis
After graduating from the Cliff Drysdale Tennis Academy in the United States, she played professionally for a few years on the Women's Tennis Association circuit. When she was twenty one years old, she retired and moved back to England, coaching tennis at the Harbour Club and the Queen's Club.
Fashion
Fashion
In 2016 Lady Melissa started her own women's clothing brand, Mistamina, which was incorporated in November of that year. The brand, which specialises in country living, athletic-ware, and outdoor-ware for riding, shooting, and hunting, was launched in September 2017. The brand has two collections. The second collection was launched in the summer of 2018.
Personal life
Personal life
Lady Melissa married Thomas van Straubenzee at St Michael's Church, Alnwick, on 22 June 2013. In 2014 the couple were subjects of a painting by Christian Furr. They divorced in March 2016 on the grounds of van Straubenzee's "unreasonable behaviour". Lady Melissa began dating billionaire financier Remy White Trafelet in 2016. They married at Mercer Mill Plantation in Oakfield, Georgia, on 19 December 2019. On 19 February 2020 she gave birth to a daughter, named Bluebell Rose Trafelet. On 22 February 2023, she gave birth to twin sons, Percy Dean and Alfred Ralph. On 3 January 2025, she gave birth to a daughter, Ivy, in Florida.
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Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Melissa van Straubenzee, Lady Melissa Jane van Straubenzee, Melissa Jane van Straubenzee, Lady Melissa Trafelet and Melissa Jane Percy.
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1987
Melissa Percy born.
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Melissa Percy is recorded as tennis player, fashion designer, aristocrat and tennis coach. Recorded at birth as Melissa Jane Percy.
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