Shiloh Silva Pownall [born 2016]

_. Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Pownall (b 1989), scion of the Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe Baronets (Bt, cr UK, 1929), wife of Alan Pownall [born circa 1986], gave birth to a second son, Shiloh Silva, in 2016, a brother for Sasha Blue, who was born 3 February, 2014.

Gabriella Zanna Vanessa  Pownall, nee Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe is a daughter of John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (b 14 Jul, 1947), by his 2nd wife, the former Vanessa Mary Theresa Hubbard (descended from the Dukes of Norfolk, &c), and is known as Gabriella Wild, model turned actress &c. Her father's 1st wife, Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, is mother of the Duke of Sussex's former girlfriend Cressida Bonas.

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Eliza Fiona Henderson (born 2016)

Katherine Elizabeth Henderson (nee Barclay), wife of David Brodie Henderson (born 16 November, 1970), scion on the Barons Faringdon, gave birth to a daughter, Eliza Fiona, in 2016.

David Henderson is the son of Capt Alan Brodie Henderson (born 30 July, 1933), The Welsh Guards, by his second wife Dame Fiona Douglas Henderson, DCVO (nee Pilkington) (1941-2006), sometime Lady-in-Waiting to HRH The Duchess of Kent, GCVO, and later to HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Katherine Henderson is a daughter of David William Barclay (born 29 November, 1942), head of that landed gentry family, of Higham, and his wife the former Celia Helen Cairns (1944-2021), scion of the Earls Cairns.

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Elphinstone/Davies marriage

 The marriage took place in 2016 between the Hon Fergus David Elphinstone (born 1985), scion of the Lords Elphinstone, third son of the late 18th Lord Elphinstone (1953-1994), and his wife the former Willa Mary Gabriel Chetwode (born 25 May, 1954), scion of the Barons Chetwode, & Rosie Davies, daughter of _________.

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Hon Hermione Sarah Townshend (born 2016)

 Octavia Christina Townshend, styled Viscountess Raynham (born 1980), wife of Thomas Charles Townshend, styled Viscount Raynham (b 2 Nov 1977), gave birth to a daughter, the Hon Hermione Sarah Townshend, in 2016, a sister for the Hon Rafe Thomas Townshend, who was born 7 April, 2014.

Viscount Raynham is the son and heir of the 8th Marquess Townshend (born 26 September, 1945) of Raynham Hall, Fakenham, Norfolk, by his late wife, the former Hermione Ponsonby (1945-1985), scion of the Earls of Bessborough.

Viscountess Raynham is the daughter of Christopher David Legge (born 1943), and his wife the former Sarah Gilmour Marshall (born 1948), daughter of Major Philip Donald Howitt Marshall (1915-1996), and his wife the former Doris Pamela Yvonne Gilmour (1914-2008), scion of the Gilmour baronets.

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Lady Hester Florence Montagu Douglas Scott [born 2016]

  The Countess of Dalkeith [nee Elizabeth Honor Cobbe, born 1986], wife of Walter John Francis Scott, formerly Montagu Douglas Scott, styled Earl of Dalkeith (b 8 Aug, 1984), gave birth to a daughter, Lady Hester Florence, in 2016, twin with a brother, Willoughby, styled Viscount of Nith.

Lord Dalkeith is the elder son and heir of the 10th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, KBE, DL (b 1954), by his wife the former Lady Elizabeth Marian Frances Kerr (b 1954), scion of the Marquesses of Lothian, 

Lady Dalkeith is a sion of that Irish gentry family of Newbridge House, Dublinounger younger daughter of Mr Hugh Michael Thomas Cobbe (b 1942), of East Woodhay, Hampshire, by his wife the former Katherine Elizabeth Chichester, dau of Charles Chichester. 

The Cobbe forebears include Frankland baronets, Arbuthnots and John Jay (1745-1829), one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers -- co-author of the "Federalist Papers" and first chief justice of the United States. 

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Son for the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith

 The Countess of Dalkeith [nee Elizabeth Honor Cobbe, born 1986], wife of Walter John Francis Scott, formerly Montagu Douglas Scott, styled Earl of Dalkeith (b 8 Aug, 1984), gave birth to a son, and heir, Willoughby Ralph, styled Viscount of Nith, in 2016, twin with a sister, Lady Hester Florence.

Lord Dalkeith is the elder son and heir of the 10th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, KBE, DL (b 1954), by his wife the former Lady Elizabeth Marian Frances Kerr (b 1954), scion of the Marquesses of Lothian, 

Lady Dalkeith is a sion of that Irish gentry family of Newbridge House, Dublinounger younger daughter of Mr Hugh Michael Thomas Cobbe (b 1942), of East Woodhay, Hampshire, by his wife the former Katherine Elizabeth Chichester, dau of Charles Chichester. 

The Cobbe forebears include Frankland baronets, Arbuthnots and John Jay (1745-1829), one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers -- co-author of the "Federalist Papers" and first chief justice of the United States. 

The infant will use as a courtesy title one of the many peerages of his grandfather. They include that of the Viscount of Nith, Tortholwald and Ross, Lord Scott of Buccleuch, Lord Scott of Whitchester and Eskdaill, Baron Scott of Tindale, or Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock.

It is likely that the Lordship of Eskdaill will be used.

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Alexander Cedd Cummings [born 2016]

_. Mary Elizabeth Lalage Cummings [nee Wakefield, born 1975], scion of the Wakefield baronets, wife of Dominic McKenzie Cummings [born 25 November, 1971], gave birth to a son, Alexander Cedd, in 2016.

Dominic Cummings is the son of Robert A. Cummings, of North Lodge, Durham, by his wife the former Morag Laws [b 1949].

Mary Wakefield is a daughter of Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Baronet [born 11 July, 1936], of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, by his 3rd wife the Hon Katherine Mary Alice Baring [born 30 March, 1936], daughter of the 1st Baron Howick of Glendale [1903-73].

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Haworth/Turnball marriage

 The marriage took place in 2016 between Joseph Anthony Haworth (born 12 December, 1985), scion of the Lords Kinloss, son of Peter Haworth and his wife the former Hester Josephine Anne Freeman-Grenville (born 9 May, 1960), and Kathryn Turnball.

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Obituary: Brigadier John Woodroffe

The 80th birthday of HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy, KG, GCVO

 HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy KG, GCVO, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, celebrates her 80th birthday today.

She was born on Christmas Day 1936, at 3, Belgrave Square, London, the town house of her parents, named Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel. At the time of her birth she was sixth in line of succession to the throne, She is the second child of  HRH The Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, 1st Duke of Kent, KG KT GCMG GCVO PC (1902-1942), and his wife HRH Princess Marina of Greece & Denmark, CI, GCVO, GBE (1906-68), and was a granddaughter of King George V & Queen Mary. She was a niece of King Edward VIII, and King George VI. Her mother was a cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and in the web of royal inter-connections is both a second cousin and a first cousin once removed of the Prince of Wales.

Princess Alexandra was christened in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace on 9 February 1937, and her godparents were her uncle King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the aunt by marriage, the Queen of Norway (her great-aunt); Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (her maternal grandmother); Princess Olga of Yugoslavia (her maternal aunt); the Princess Beatrice (her paternal great-great-aunt); the Earl of Athlone (her paternal great-uncle); and Count Karl Theodor of Törring-Jettenbach (her maternal uncle by marriage). Of her godparents, only the King and Queen and the Earl of Athlone were present.

On 25 August, 1942, her father was killed in a flying accident in Caithness whilst on active service. Her elder brother, HRH Prince Edward (born 9 Oct, 1935), succeeded as 2nd Duke of Kent (Peerage of the UK, cr 1934). Alexandra was followed by a younger brother, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, born just a few weeks before their father's tragic death.

Princess Alexandra was the first British princess to attend a boarding school, at Heathfield, near Ascot, and was later educated in Paris.

From the late1950s, Princess Alexandra carried out an extensive programme of engagements in support of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, both in the United Kingdom and overseas. Taking part in roughly 120 engagements each year, She was one of the most active members of the royal family. She carried out 110 engagements in 2012. However, in April 2013, she cancelled her engagements due to polymyalgia rheumatica. In 2022, she was still listed as a working member of the royal family, attending numerous ceremonial and charitable engagements.

In 1959, she carried out an extensive tour of Australia, and attended the Queensland Centenary Celebrations. In 1961, HRH visited Hong Kong and made a visit to Aberdeen Fish Market, Lok Ma Chau police station and So Uk Estate, a public housing complex.The princess returned to Australia in 1967 for a private holiday, but also carried out engagements in Canberra and Melbourne. The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane is named in her honour. She represented the Queen when Nigeria gained its independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960, and opened the first Parliament on 3 October. Later overseas tours included visits to Canada, Italy, Oman, Hungary, Norway, Japan, Thailand, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. She launched the New Zealand Leander-class frigate HMNZS Waikato at Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1965. Princess Alexandra opened the Victoria-to-Brixton section of London Underground's Victoria line, and in May 1973 she was introduced to both teams and presented the Scottish Cup to winners  in the 1973 Scottish Cup Final. She again represented the Queen at the celebrations of independence from the United Kingdom of Saint Lucia in 1979. The princess opened the new hospital in Harlow, Essex, named in her honour on 27 April 1965.

HRH served as chancellor of Lancaster University from its foundation in 1964 until she relinquished the post in 2004 (when she also accepted an honorary degree in Music). She also served as the first chancellor of the University of Mauritius. She is also an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Faculty of Anæsthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Royal College of Physicians. She is also the president of Alexandra Rose Day, which was founded in honour of her great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra. She was also patron of The Royal School, Hampstead. She was president of WWF-UK until 2011.

Until it was abolished in 2013, Princess Alexandra received £225,000 per year from the Civil List to cover the cost of official expenses, although as with the other members of the royal family (except the Duke of Edinburgh) the Queen repaid this amount to HM Treasury. Princess Alexandra lives at Thatched House Lodge in Richmond, London, a Crown property purchased on a 150-year lease from the Crown Estate Commissioners by the Hon Angus Ogilvy after their wedding in 1963. She also has use of a grace-and-favour apartment at St James's Palace in London.

Princess Alexandra is the patron of the Blackie Foundation Trust, a charity dedicated to the promotion of research and education in homoeopathy. She is also a patron of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals; the English National Opera; the London Philharmonic Choir; the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Wigmore Hall; the Florence Nightingale Foundation; the not-for-profit housing association Anchor; the charity Independent Age; St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, England; Core, a National charity in London dedicated to funding research into digestive diseases and which also publishes information leaflets on the most common diseases of the gut and liver; the Nature in Art Trust; and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), the oldest drama school in the English-speaking world. She has been the patron of the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital in Brighton since 1954 and of Alzheimer's Society since 1990. She is also the royal patron of Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB),[56] a charity dedicated to reuniting children who have been separated from their families. She is patron of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, which received its royal style in 2012 during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. In her role as president of Sightsavers UK, she visited Washington D.C. in October 2016 to attend the Neglected Tropical Diseases NGDO Network conference partnership reception. In November 2016, one month ahead of Alexandra's 80th birthday, the Queen held a reception at Buckingham Palace in honour of the work of her charities.

Princess Alexandra's military appointments:

Canada 1960–2010: Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, Canada 1977: Colonel-in-Chief, The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's), United Kingdom 1955: Patron, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, United Kingdom 1998: Lady Sponsor, of HMS Kent, United Kingdom 1957–1968: Colonel-in-Chief, of Durham Light Infantry, United Kingdom 1968–2002: Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, of Light Infantry, United Kingdom 1977–2006: Colonel-in-Chief, of King's Own Royal Border Regiment, United Kingdom 2002–2007: Colonel-in-Chief, of Light Infantry United Kingdom 1967: Honorary Colonel, of the North Irish Horse, United Kingdom 1975: Royal Honorary Colonel, of The Royal Yeomanry, United Kingdom 1992: Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, of The Queen's Royal Lancers, United Kingdom 2007: Royal Colonel, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, United Kingdom 1966: Patron and Air Chief Commandant, of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, United Kingdom 2000–2013: Honorary Air Commodore, of RAF Cottesmore.

Princess Alexandra married at Westminster Abbey, 24 April, 1963, the Hon Angus James Robert Bruce Ogilvy (born 14 September, 1928), a younger son of David Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, MC (1893-1968), Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and his wife the former Lady Alexandra Marie Bridget Coke (who died 1984), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Leicester, GCVO, CMG (1848-1941).

Her husband was knighted in 1988, and sworn of the Privy Council, 31 Dec, 1996, a rare honour for a junior member of the Royal Family. Sir Angus died 26 December, 2004.

From her birth until her marriage in 1963 she was styled HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent, and from 1963 until 1988, styled HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Mrs Angus Ogilvy, and from 1988 HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy.

She was invested GCVO, on her 24th birthday, Christmas Day, 1960, and appointed a Lady of the Most Noble of Order of the Garter, on St George's Day 23 April, 2003.

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Sebag-Montefiore/Ede engagement

The engagement was announced 16 December, 2016, between Archibald Edward Charles Sebag-Montefiore (born 27 May, 1987),  scion of that lande gentry family, son of Charles Adam Laurie Sebag-Montefiore (born 25 October, 1949), of Putney, and his wife the former Pamela Mary Diana Tennant (born 5 June, 1953), scion of the Barons Glenconner, & Antonia Charlotte Ede (born 1989), daughter of James Edward Ede (born 1949), of Wiltshire, and Mrs Sarah Ann Ede (nee Wilson), of Hampshire.

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Hazlerigg/Braithwaite engagement

--.The engagement was announced 5 Nov, 2016 between the Hon Arthur William Grey Hazlerigg (b 13 May 1987), son and heir of the 3rd Baron Hazlerigg (b 1951), of Noseley, Leicestershire, by his former wife, Laura Dugdale, of Notting Hill, scion of the Dugdale baronets, & Kate S. Braithwaite, daughter of Mr & Mrs Antony Braithwaite, of Haughton, Northumberland.

Raine Countess Spencer 1929-2016

She was d of Capt Alexander (Sachie) George McCORQUODALE (1897-1964), scion of the gentry family of that name, and his 1st w the novelist Dame (Mary) Barbara Hamilton CARTLAND DBE (1901-2000). She m 1st 1948 (div 1976) the 9th Earl of DARTMOUTH (1924-97) and had three sons and a dau, including the present 10th Earl. She m 2nd the 8th Earl SPENCER (1924-92). She m 3rd 1993 (div 1995) Jean-Francois de Chambrun COUNT DE CHAMBRUN. She resumed the style Countess Spencer after her 2nd divorce.

Telegraph obit 22 October 2016: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/10/21/raine-countess-spencer--obituary/
EXTRACT
She was born Raine McCorquodale on September 9 1929, the daughter of Alexander “Sachie” McCorquodale, whose family had made a fortune out of printing, and of Barbara Cartland, who had then hardly embarked upon her career as a romantic novelist.
“What a lovely fat baby,” Princess Elizabeth (born in 1926) is supposed to have observed on seeing the infant Raine...
And so to the Season. “Eternally smiling” and an excellent dancer, Raine was voted Debutante of the Year in 1947. If she was not a flawless beauty, she gave an excellent impression of one. And when she met Gerald Legge, presumptive heir to the Earldom of Dartmouth, on a mountain in Switzerland, she immediately declared herself in love. They were married in 1948 and installed in a large house in Belgravia, with a staff of five...
As late as 1972 Lady Dartmouth was still telling journalists that her husband was “the Rock of Gibraltar and divine; so steady and strong and yet such humour”. A cousin of this paragon, however, observed that in private she was “beastly to him”.
But few read anything into Lady Dartmouth’s appointment of Johnny Spencer (deserted by his wife in 1967) as chairman of the Youth Panel for European Architectural Year. In fact, she had become infatuated with him.
Raine Dartmouth more or less moved into Althorp in 1975, after Spencer succeeded as 8th Earl, and endured as best she could the hostility of his children. In unguarded moments she was less restrained: “I could have them all for breakfast if I wanted to.” She was divorced from Dartmouth in 1976, and shortly afterwards married Spencer....
Raine Spencer’s connection with Althorp was abruptly ended by the death of her husband in March 1992. The new Earl immediately took steps to eradicate her influence.
It was reported, moreover, that when her maid packed her clothes into suitcases bearing the Spencer emblem, the Princess of Wales ordered that they should be removed and put into black bin liners instead.
But Raine Spencer was never one to repine. She had been left very well off, and in May 1993 announced her engagement to a French count, Jean-François de Chambrun...
Within two months the new Contesse de Chambrun was obliged to deny rumours that she was separating from her husband; and within three years the rumours were denied no longer. The parting, it transpired, had been “very amicable”....

Diana Ccountess of Wilton 1931-2016

From the Telegraph and Times of 1 November 2016: WILTON  Diana, Countess of Wilton, aged 85, on the 27th October 2016, at Felley Priory, Nottinghamshire. Widow of the 7th Earl of Wilton and a much loved mother and grandmother. Requiem Mass at the Little Oratory, Brompton Road, London SW7 2RP at 11.30am on the 7th December 2016.

She was d of Roy GALWAY of Berkshire. She m 1st 1953 (div 1961) Alick David Yorke NAYLOR-LEYLAND LVO, scion of the Bts of that name, and had a son and a dau. She m 2nd 1962 7th Earl of WILTON (1921-99), no further issue.

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