Catherine and Charles Ommanney Divorcing

Article from DBKP.

In the first episode of Bravo’s newest Real Housewives franchise, Real Housewives of DC, Brit cast member Catherine Ommanney also known as Cat Ommanney talked about her romance with her husband photographer Charles Ommanney, a romance which, according to Catherine, Charles shared with Obama. Catherine talked about her wedding which, sadly Obama didn’t RSVP. Catherine showed her new Real Housewives “girlfriends” a cellphone pic Charles snapped of sexy, suave VP Joe Biden in the back of a limo. But that was then, when Bravo cameras were filming the episode, somewhere in the misty, murky early summer of 2009. A year later Reliable Source reported “Real Housewives of D.C.’s” Catherine Ommanney and husband Charles split, even before show airs.

Reliable Source:

When reality TV entered her life, Ommanney was both extremely new to her marriage and extremely new to Washington. Few in D.C. cocktail culture had heard of the blond, British mother of two when her name surfaced in connection with the show’s taping last year. And it was only in the summer of 2008 that she wed the prizewinning photojournalist, after a brief courtship in England, and followed him to the States.

Sources close to the production have described Ommanney as well-liked by the rest of the cast, and by most indications she hasn’t provided as much drama as, say, her White House-dinner-crashing co-star Michaele Salahi. (Bravo hasn’t officialy unveiled the cast, but other presumed stars include McLean socialite and mom Mary Amons, D.C. real estate agent Stacie Turner and modeling agency owner Lynda Erkiletian.)
Media Life Magazine:

The freshest-feeling member of the group is Catherine Ommanney, a British interior designer and writer who divorced her husband and moved with their two children to the States to marry a fellow Brit who’s a White House photographer. Despite her posh-sounding accent, Cat proves to be the biggest boor of all when she can’t stop bragging about her husband and sharing unwelcome opinions at a little party Stacie throws.

On June 18th the New York Times reported Catherine and Charles’ split occurred after taping ended with the shutters now drawn on the “pretty yellow clapboard house” the Ommanney’s rented, Catherine’s daughters “shipped back to England to live with their father”.

In July of 2006 the Daily Mail published an article about Catherine Ommanney who at the time was Catherine Davies, a divorced 34-yr-old mother of two. Catherine caused a sensation after sharing a night out and a passionate kiss with then 21-yr-old Prince Harry. The following quote is from the Daily Mail article. An article which Catherine, who didn’t want to reveal the “details”, delivered to the press the equivalent of a short story about her night and her kiss with Prince Harry.

Well-spoken Catherine is not the archetypal ‘kiss and tell’ girl. The daughter of an entrepreneur, she was born in Marlborough and educated at private school Dauntsey’s before moving to London and starting her property development and interior design business.

She married in 1997 and had two daughters, Ruby and Jade, now aged six and eight, with husband Stephen. The couple separated two years ago and she now lives in London with their children. It is understood they were being cared for by the nanny during Catherine’s night out.

Her only reason for breaking her silence, she says, is to set the record straight over her encounter with Harry. Rumours that she and the Prince did more than kiss have infuriated her.

“I had no intention of ever saying what happened that night,’ says Catherine. “The only reason I am is because somebody else squealed and I’m being absolutely hounded. Nothing happened and nothing ever is going to happen. We had a great time and a fun evening. I’ve committed no crime and nor has he.”