Buchan/Zacharia engagement

The engagement was announced 17 June, 2025, between Nicholas Adam Buchan (born 10 February, 1992), scion of the Barons Tweedsmuir, son of the Hon James Ernest Buchan (born 11 June, 1954), of Norfolk, and his late wife the former Lady Evelyn Rose Phipps (1955-2018), scion of the Marquesses of Normanby, & Emma Charlotte Zacharia (born 9 December, 1990), daughter of Mahfouz Zacharia, of London, and his wife the former and Belinda Hillman-Eady.

Nicholas Buchan is a grandson paternally of the 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (1916-2008), and a grandson maternally of the 4th Marquis of Normanby, KG, CBE (1912-1994).

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Biegel/Younger engagement

 The engagement was announced 16 June, 2025, between Thomas Peter Biegel (born 1991), son of the late Col Michael Biegel, OBE, DL (1955-2025), late the Green Howards, and of Mrs Michael Biegel (nee Alison Glasse), of Great Wigborough, Essex, and Rosanna Lucy Younger (born 2 January, 1994), scion of the Viscounts Younger of Leckie, eldest daughter of the Hon Andrew Seymour Robert Younger (born 19 November, 1962), of Bishops Frome, Herefordshire, and his wife the former Hilary Margaret Chalk.

Rosanna Younger is a granddaughter of the late 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, KT, KCVO, TD, PC, FRSGS  (1931-2003).

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Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer, KT, OBE 1940-2025

 Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer, KT, OBE, who died 12 June, 2025, aged 85, was a Jamaican-British academic and human rights activist who was professor emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Universally known as 'Geoff', he was knighted in 2014, and a decade later, in March 2024, His Majesty the King appointed him a Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Scotland's Highest Order of chivalry.

His death leaves one vacancy among the sixteen Knights and Ladies of the order.

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Matthew Francis John Dent (born 2025)

  Megan Dent [nee Kearney], wife of ]Aidan] Michael Congreve Dent [born 1989], gave birth to a son, Matthew Francis John, 4 June, 2025, a brother for Edward Ambrose Congreve, who was born in 2019, and for Rory Thomas Emmett, born 14 September, 2021.

Megan Dent is a daughter of Thomas E. Kearney Jr, of Scotts Valley, California.

Michael Dent is a son of Andrew Congreve Dent [born 1955], and his wife the former Lady Rosanagh Elizabeth Angela Mary Taylour [born 20 January, 1961], daughter of the late 6th Marquess of Headfort [1932-2005].

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Kennerley/Elliott engagement

The engagement was announced 14 June, 2025, between Samuel John Maximilian Kennerley (born 1992), the only son of Peter Dilworth Kennerley, TD (born 1956), of Auchendrane, Ayrshire, and his wife the Hon (Anne Marie) Ghislaine du Roy Galbraith (born 14 December, 1957), and Mhairi Elliott (born 1992), eldest daughter of Stephen Elliott, of Largs, Ayrshire, and Mrs Lorraine Mackenzie White.

Sam Kennerley is a nephew of the 2nd Baron Strathclyde, CH, PC.

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Robert Hugh Thomas Tollemache 1937-2025

 Robert Hugh Thomas Tollemache, who has died aged 88, was a scion of the Tollemache baronets.

He was born 22 February, 1937, the second son of Major General Sir Humphry Thomas Tollemache, 6th Baronet, CB, CBE, DL (1897-1990), and his wife the former Nora Priscilla Taylor (who died 24 Oct, 1990, aged 90); and married 25 August, 1962, Lorraine Frances Lougheed Allen (who died in 2023). He is survived by two adopted children,  a son, William Benjamin Tollemache (born 20 May, 1966), and a daughter, Rosa Frances Laila Tollemache (born 1970).

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Honor Catherine Karina Erskine (born 2025)

 Tess P.H. Erskine (nee Miles), wife of Geordie James Donald Erskine [born 1990], gave birth to a daughter, Honor Catherine Karina, 3 June, 2025, a sister for Matilda Elspeth Patricia, who was born 29 September, 2023.

Geordie is the second son of Major James Malcolm Kenneth Erskine [born 22 November, 1957], of Duncrievie, Perthshire, and his wife the former Jennifer MacLellan/

Tess Erskine is the only daughter of Mr J.D. Miles, of Tredington, Warwickshire, and Mrs K.V. Miles, of London.

The baby is descended paternally from the Lords Cardross [Earls of Buchan], and from the Seymour Marquesses of Hertford, and thus from the Dukes of Somerset.

Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford [1812-84] > Lady Horatia Seymour [1842-1922] > Sir Arthur Erskine [1881-1963] > Donald Erskine [1925-2017] > James Erskine [b 1957] > Geordie Erskine [b 1990] > Honor Erskine (b 2025)

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Hon Alexander Peter Balvaird Murray (born 2025)

 Charlotte Nevling Murray, styled Viscountess Stormont (nee Clune), wife of William Philip David Mungo Murray, styled Viscount Stormont [born 1 November, 1988], gave birth to a son, the Hon Alexander Peter Balvaird Murray, 27 May, 2025, a brother for the Hon Helier Edward David Mungo, born 20 July, 2023, who is styled the Master of Stormont.

Viscount Stormont is the son and heir of the Earl of Mansfield & Mansfield [born 17 Oct, 1956], of Scone Palace, Perthshire, and his wife the former Sophia Mary Veronica Ashbrooke [born 22 Jan, 1959].

Viscountess Stormont is a daughter of Mr Jonathan E. Clune [born 17 Dec, 1952], of West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, and his wife the former Sarah Potter [born 17 Aug, 1950].

Viscountess Stormont is destined to become chatelaine of Scone Palace. There can be few places of interest in Scotland as historically potent as Scone Palace. When you visit the Palace you are walking in the footsteps of Scotland’s ancient founding fathers, both pagan and Christian. It was an important religious gathering place of the Picts, it was the site of an early Christian church and it housed the Stone of Destiny. 

Robert the Bruce was crowned at Scone in 1306, and the last coronation was of Charles II when he accepted the Scottish crown in 1651.

The place of coronation was called Caislean Credi, 'Hill of Credulity', which survives as the present Moot Hill.

Viscount Stormont's father is the 9th Earl of Mansfield, Alexander David Mungo Murray, who succeeded his father in 2015. He is married to Sophia, daughter of Biden Ashbrooke and Veronica Ashbrooke, nee Stourton. Lord Mansfield is also 14th Viscount Stormont and Lord Scone, 12th Lord Balvaird and Hereditary Keeper of Bruce’s Castle of Lochmaben.

In the 9th century, Kenneth MacAlpin established himself as the first true King of Scots. According to legend, he is said to have invited the Pictish King Drostan with all his nobles to banquet with him at Scone. While they were seated, and perhaps taking advantage of their gluttony of both drink and food, the Scots drew out the bolts supporting the boards, whereupon the Picts fell into the hollows below their benches. While caught in some strange contraption up to their knees, they were all slaughtered.

The last coronation in Scotland took place at Scone in 1651 when King Charles II was crowned King of Scots upon the Moot Hill. The Earls following the 3rd Earl all suffered imprisonment, mainly in consequence of their support of the Jacobite cause.

The 4th Viscount Stormont was briefly imprisoned for his part in a fatal duel. The 5th Viscount opposed the Treaty of Union and entertained James Stuart, the Old Pretender, at Scone Palace during the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, for which he was imprisoned.

The 6th Viscount suffered the same fate when his sisters received the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, at Scone during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.

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Julian Bernard Hugh Crandall Hollick 1947-2025

 Julian Hollick, who died at his home in France, 6 June, 2025, aged 77, was brother of the Duchess of Leinster.

Julian Bernard Hugh Crandall Hollick was born in 1947, son of Harry Bernard Hollick (1912-1985), and his wife the former Fiona F.M. Purcell (1917-2003), and was a brother of Fiona Mary Francesca Hollick (born 1953), wife since 1972, of the 9th Duke of Leinster (born 7 April, 1948).

Julian was an award-winning producer and writer of radio documentaries about Islam and Asia, including The World of Islam (1981-84), Passages to India (1985-89), Letters from Jitvapur (1991-92), Apna Street (1994-96), Monsoon (1997) and Sadak Chhap (2002). With over twenty years experience reporting on international affairs and producing radio for NPR and the BBC, he had previously been awarded numerous grants by the NEH, NSF, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, Carnegie Corporation, the UNDP and the Massachusetts Cultural Council for his radio programs. ABC's Peter Jennings has called Julian "the person who taught me about Islam", and by countless Indians (at home and abroad) as "the man who knows more about India than we Indians." (Radio Midday, Mumbai)

          "Time is perhaps the most important element in my programs. I try and live for months on end with the people whose stories I want to tell. And return again and again, deepening earlier friendships. The second ingredient is not to look at them through Western eyes. If you ask Western questions you'll get Western answers. Which may be comforting, but tell you absolutely nothing about another culture. And you have to want to know them, to care about them, and treat them as your equals."

          Educated at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in France (where he also taught), and the London School of Economics (both in International Relations), he also lectured at the Open University and the University of Ulster, before becoming a print and then radio journalist. He wrote on European politics, Islam and India for newspapers, academic journals and magazines, including Smithsonian Magazine and Arabia, throughout the US, Europe, and the Asian and Arab worlds. He worked on a series about how Muslims in a variety of countries actually integrate their faith into their other identities. The series was called Living Islam and was broadcast nationally, starting in New York City, in Fall 2003.

He leaves a widow Martine (nee Crandall) and two children, a son Jerome Francis Crandall Hollick (born 1975), and Margot.

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Jeremy John Bowater Tulk-Hart 1947-2025

Jeremy John Bowater Tulk-Hart died 30 May, 2025. He was 78.

He was born 27 May, 1947, son of Richard Braddyll Tulk-Hart (1913-1996), and his wife the former Pamela Johnsen (1918-2010), a granddaughter of Major Sir Frank Bowater, 1st Baronet (1866-1947); and married 1974, Sally Virginia Lyndall-Alesbury (born 1945), by whom he had issue, a son, Richard (born 1977), and two daughters, Frances (born 1976), and Camilla (born 1980).

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Rosemary Denyse Mary Daniel (née Wilkinson) 1940-2025

Rosemary Denyse Mary Daniel (née Wilkinson), died 28 May, 2025. 

She was born in 1940, daughter of Major James William Wilkinson, by his wife the former Yseult Mary De La Poer, scion of that landed gentry family; and married in November, 1960, Lieutenant-Colonel John Robert Austen Daniel (1933-2004), of Chideock, Dorset, son of Colonel Lee Daniel, of Godalming, Surrey, by whom she had issue, four sons, James (born 1961), Robert (born 1962), Thomas (born 1967), and Christopher.

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Carnegie/St Aubyn marriage

 The marriage took place 7 June, 2025, between the Lord George William Carnegie (born 23 March, 1992), second son of the 4th Duke of Fife (born 3 May, 1961), of Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, Angus, and the Duchess of Fife (nee Caroline Anne Bunting, born 13 Nov, 1961), and Matilda Elizabeth St Aubyn (born 19 January, 1994), scion of the Barons St Levan, the elder daughter of the late Michael Piers St Aubyn (1959-2002), and his wife the former Astrid Elizabeth Lumley (now Mrs James Findlay), of Watership Down, Hampshire.

Lord George is a third cousin once removed of King Charles III.

 Lord George is descended from the Royal House:-

King Edward VII > Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife > Princess Maud of Fife > the 3rd Duke of Fife > 4th Duke of Fife > Lord George Carnegie

Matilda is descended from the Barons St Levan:-

The 1st Baron St Levan > Hon Lionel St Aubyn > Geoffrey St Aubyn > Michael St Aubyn > Matilda St Aubyn

George and Matilda are related thus:-

Matilda Elizabeth St Aubyn → Michael Piers St. Aubyn (her father) → Lt.-Cdr. Geoffrey Piers St. Aubyn (his father) → Lady Mary Theresa Parker (his mother) → Margaret, Countess of Morley (her mother) → Mary Anne Lindsay (her mother) → Anne Lindsay (her mother) → Sir Coutts Trotter, 1st Baronet (her father) → Archibald Trotter (his father) → Jean Steuart (his mother) → Sir Robert Steuart of Allanbank,1st Baronet (her father) → Helen Stewart (his daughter) → Andrew Elliot, of Greenwells (her son) → Agnes Murray Carnegie (his daughter) → Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet (her son) → James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk (his son) → Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk (his son) → Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk (his son) → James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife (his son) → David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife (his son) → Lord George William Carnegie (his son)

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The Baron Freeman, PC 1942-2025

Lord Freeman, who died 2 June, 2025, aged 83, was the least-known of the seven members of John Major’s Cabinet who lost their seats as New Labour swept to power in 1997; he had been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and minister for the public service (effectively Lord High Everything Else) for almost two years.

Roger Norman Freeman, Baron Freeman, was born 27 May 1942 – 2 June 2025),[1] was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major from 1995 to 1997. He was the Conservative MP for Kettering from 1983 to 1997, and was made a life peer in 1997. His peerage was gazetted as Baron Freeman, of Dingley in the County of Northamptonshire. He sat in the House of Lords until his retirement on 1 October 2020.

After an unsuccessful attempt to be elected as MP for Don Valley in 1979, Freeman was finally elected as MP for Kettering in 1983. Before joining the Cabinet, he served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Armed Forces (1986–88), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health (1988–90), and Minister for Public Transport (1990–1995) ranking as Minister of State. In that post he was responsible for steering through the House of Commons the Railways Bill, providing for the privatisation of British Rail and enacted as the Railways Act 1993. At the time he achieved a degree of notoriety with his comment on a "cheap and cheerful" rail service being provided for typists. In the 1993 Birthday Honours, Freeman was sworn of the Privy Council.

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Wright/Floyer-Acland engagement

The engagement was announced 10 June, 2025, between Jack Marshall, eldest son of Mrs Marshall, of Broseley, Shropshire, and the late Mr John Marshall, & Beatrice Rose Floyer-Acland (born 1990), bscion of the Acland baronets, youngest daughter of Richard Stafford Floyer-Acland (born 1 January, 1952), of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, by his wife the former Sarah Margaret Synge (born 9 Aug, 1955).

Beatrice Floyer-Acland is a descendant of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 6th Bt (cr E, 1678), and 10th Bt (cr E, 1644).

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Anthony Francis Anson 1951-2025

 Anthony Francis Anson, who died 6 June, 2025, aged 73, was a scion of the Earls of Lichfield, and a descendant of the 1st Duke of Abercorn.

He was born 4 November, 1951, a son of Francis Richard Anson (1926-1989), and his wife the former Ann Armytage (born 14 Aug, 1928), daughter of Sir John Lionel Armytage, 8th Baronet (1901-1983); and married in 1985, Sally Churton, daughter of Colonel Geoffrey Vardon Churton (1913-2013), and his wife the former Myra Elaine Winterbottom (1923-1973), by whom he had issue, a son, Patrick Francis Anson (born 5 Aug, 1996), and a daughter, Caroline Myra Anson (b 1990).

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