American-born Peaches Golding OBE, 63, has become the first black woman in Britain to become a Lord Lieutenant. The businesswoman will act as the Queen's representative in Bristol.
Peaches Golding was born in North Carolina and is the daughter of Dr Charles Brady Hauser, an American civil rights campaigner and a D-Day veteran who took on a bus company after they tried to force him to sit at the back in South Carolina in 1947.
Golding, who has lived and worked in Bristol for 35 years, was given an OBE in 2009 for services to ethnic minorities.
She said the historic role was a dream come true, adding: “I am thrilled, I am honoured, I am extremely privileged.”
