The engagement was announced 26 July, 2024, between Jack P. Mitchell, son of Mr and Mrs John Mitchell, of Lincolnshire, & Amanda Belinda (Amber) Morrison (born 1993), scion of the Barons Margadale, daughter of the Hon Hugh (Hughie) Morrison (born 7 November, 1960), and his first wife the former Cecilia Jane Jenks (now Mrs Paul Hearn).
Amber Morrison is a granddaughter paternally of the 2nd Baron Margadale (1930-2003), and niece of the 3rd Baron (born 4 Apr, 1958).
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The engagement was announced 26 July, 2024, between James Jonathan (Jake) Allright (born 1992), son of Jonathan Edward Allright (born 1965) and Mrs Laura Lawrence (nee Laura-Jo Newton), & Joanna Julia Leslie Melville (born 6 July, 1994), scion of the Earls of Leven & Melville, third daughter of the Hon Archibald Ronald (Archie) Leslie Melville (born 15 September, 1957), & his wife the former Julia Mary Greville Fox.
Joanna's father is heir presumptive to his nephew the 17th Earl of Leven & Melville (born 29 Nov, 1984).
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The Hon Harriet Horatia Waldegrave, scion of the Earls Waldegrave, and her husband David Ring have had a son, Cormac Dáithí Ring, 18 July, 2024, a brother for Saoirse Cara, who was born 29 September, 2021.
Harriet Waldegrave (born 1988), is a daughter of the Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC (life peer - born 15 Aug 1946), of Chewton Mendip, Somerset, by his wife the former Caroline Linda Margaret Burrows (born 14 Aug 1952). Her father, Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, as William Waldegrave MP, was a Cabinet minister in the Thatcher and Major administrations between 1990 and 1997.
Harriet Waldegrave is a granddaughter of the 12th Earl Waldegrave, KG, GCVO (1905-95).
David W.R. Ring is a son of Mr and Mrs Dave Ring, of Dublin.
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Daphne Astor, who died 14 July, 2024, aged 74, the artist & poetry editor, was a scion of the Croesus-rich Warburg banking dynasty, and wife of Micky Astor, scion of the English branch of the Astor family.
The American-born British conservationist and farmer worked with literary and visual arts organisations in the UK from 1977. In 2016 she founded and curated Poetry in Aldeburgh, and was the chairperson of C4RD and was a long-term trustee of the Poetry School. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies and magazines including Magma, Finished Creatures and Coast to Coast to Coast. She was also publisher and editor of Hazel Press.
She was born Daphne Warburg in New York, 22 December, 1949, the only daughter of Edward Mortimer Morris 'Eddie' Warburg (1908-1992), of Westport, Conn, USA, a prominent philanthropist, collector and patron of the arts who co-founded the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet, and donated many works to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her paternal grandmother was a Schiff — probably an even wealthier family than the Warburgs. Her mother was Mary Whelan Prue (1908-2009).
She married in 1979, Michael Ramon Langhorne Astor (born 29 September, 1946), son of Major the Hon Sir Jacob Astor, MBE (1918-2000) a grandson of the Virginian-born society hostess Nancy Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), who became the first female MP to take her seat in parliament, and her husband, the 2nd Viscount (1879-1952).
Daphne and Micky adopted three children, Jessica, Luke and Eloise, and settled at Hatley Park, in Cambridgeshire, a Georgian mansion with 1,800 acres of land.
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Alexander Waugh, the writer, critic and journalist, who has died aged 60, was the son of Auberon Waugh and a grandson of the great Evelyn Waugh.
Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh was born 30 December, 1963, the elder son of Auberon Alexander Waugh (1939-2001), and his wife the former Lady Teresa Lorraine Onslow (born 26 February, 1940), daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow (1913-1971).
Among other books, he has written Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (2004), about five generations of his own family, and The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War (2008) about the Wittgenstein family. He is an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, which holds that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real author of the works of William Shakespeare.
Alexander was the brother of Daisy Waugh and the grandson of Evelyn Waugh. He was educated at Taunton School, the University of Manchester and the University of Surrey, where he gained degrees in Music. Alexander Waugh was the chief opera critic of The Mail on Sunday (1990–1991) and of the Evening Standard (1991–1996). His books on music include Classical Music: A New Way of Listening (1995) and Opera: A New Way of Listening (1996).
Waugh's biography Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (2004), written at the suggestion of Sir Vidia Naipaul after his father died, is a portrait of the male relations across five generations in his own family. Described as "breezily irreverent" by John Banville in The New York Review of Books, it formed the basis of a BBC Four television documentary, presented by the author, which was broadcast in 2006. He was the general editor of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh (43 volumes planned), a project which began in 2009 with the first four volumes appearing in 2017 published by the Oxford University Press.
Waugh's biography of the Wittgenstein family (The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War) was published in 2008. Terry Eagleton in a review for The Guardian found it an "eminently readable, meticulously researched account of the Wittgenstein madhouse". Although he thought Waugh wrote less about Ludwig Wittgenstein than he would desire, he "certainly casts some light" on the philosopher's "extraordinary contradictions." Philosopher Ray Monk in his review for Standpoint magazine commented that Waugh, in his account of a substantial portion of the Wittgenstein family fortune ending up with the Nazis, uses "much hitherto unknown documentation" and "Waugh's version is more authoritative and fuller than previous accounts." Monk writes that concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein gains the largest share of the text and much of the book is written from his viewpoint.
His other books include Time: From Microseconds to Millennia; A Search for the Right Time (1999) and God (2002). In Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family, Michael G. Brennan described Time as being "one of the most intriguing books produced by" any of his later family. "Ranging through religious, classical and renaissance scholarship, it blends past beliefs and theories, often in gently subversive ways, with more recent scientific thought."
Waugh was an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, which contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the works of William Shakespeare. He discovered what he claims to be surreptitious allusions embedded in 16th- and 17th-century works revealing that the name William Shakespeare was a pseudonym used by Oxford to write the Shakespeare oeuvre. Of one example which gained coverage in October 2013, Shakespearean scholar Professor Stanley Wells told The Sunday Times: "I’m mystified that an intelligent person like Alexander Waugh can see any significance in this kind of juggling with letters."
Waugh's book, Shakespeare in Court (2014) takes the form of a fictional trial which draws the conclusion that Shakespeare was a front for others but, on this occasion, does not propose another candidate. He was elected chairman of the De Vere Society in spring 2016 for a three-year term.
In late October 2017, The Guardian reported that Waugh believed the title and dedication of the William Aspley edition of Shakespeare's sonnets of 1609 hold encrypted evidence of the final resting place of the author: de Vere's grave in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.
Waugh married 3 November, 1990, Elizabeth Beatrice 'Eliza' Chancellor (born 1964), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of the journalist Alexander Surtees Chancellor (1940-2017), and his wife the former Susanna Elizabeth Debenham (born 20 September, 1943), scion of the Debenham baronets, by whom he had issue, three children, a son, Auberon (born 21 April, 1998), and two daughters, Mary (born 1993), and Sally (born 1995).
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The Hon Christopher Melville McLaren, who died 11 July, 2024, aged 90, was a scion of the Barons Aberconway.
He was born 15 April, 1934, the 3rd son of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, CBE (1879-1953), a barrister 1903; Member of Parliament (Liberal) for West Staffordshire 1906-10 and for Bosworth 1910-22; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade 1906-08 and to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1908-10; and his wife the former Christabel Mary Melville Macnaghten (died 7 Aug 1974), 2nd dau. of Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten CB, by his wife Dora Emily Sanderson, 1st dau. of Rev Canon Robert Edward Sanderson DD, &c; and married 31 Oct 1973, Mrs Jane Elizabeth Field (nee Barrie, born 1939), daughter of James Matthew Barrie (1913-2000), of Highgate Village, London, and his wife the former Nesta Reid (1915-1981), by whom he had issue, a son, Robert Melville (born 1974), and a daughter, Lara Jane Christabel (born 1976).
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Lady Greenaway [born 1986], wife of Sir Thomas Edward Burdick Greenaway, 4th Baronet [born 3 April, 1985], gave birth to a daughter, Charlotte Susan Caroline, 2 July, 2024, a sister for Oliver Burdick Cecil, who was born 28 June, 2022.
Lady Greenaway is the former Claire Gillian Anne Floyd [born 1986], scion of the Floyd baronets, daughter of David Henry Cecil Floyd [born 2 Apr, 1956], of Bowerchalke, co Wiltshire, by his wife the former Caroline Anne Beckly.
Sir Thomas Greenaway, Bt, who succeeded to the baronetcy, 16 March, 2015, is the son of the late Sir John Michael Burdick Greenaway, 3rd Baronet [1944-2015], by his wife the former Susan Margaret Birch.
The 6th Marquess of Exeter > Lady Gillian Cecil > David Floyd > Claire Floyd > Charlotte Greenaway
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Alice Sophie Crawley (nee Rugge-Price, born 22 May, 1985), wife of Aidan Harold Winston Crawley [born 22 October, 1983], gave birth to a son, Alexander Randall (Sasha), 12 July, 2024, a brother for Athena Lyra, who was born 8 October, 2022.
Aidan Crawley is a son of the late Randall Stafford Crawley [1950-88], and his wife the former Marita Georgina Phillips [born 28 May, 1954] [now Mrs Marita Knight].
Alice Crawley, former wife of Archibald David Keswick [born 1980], scion of that landed family, is a daughter of James Keith Alan [Jamie] Rugge-Price [born 10 Oct, 1944], scion of the Rugge-Price baronets, and his former wife Alexa Crookshank [now Mrs Alexa Vere Nicoll].
The infant is descended from the Royal House of Russia, via the Wernher baronets.
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia > Grand Duke Michael of Russia [d 1909] > Grand Duke Michael of Russia [d 1929] > Anastasia [Zia] de Torby > Georgina Wernher > Marita Phillips > Aidan Crawley > Alexander Crawley
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The engagement was announced 22 July, 2024, between Lieutenant James Robert Close-Smith, RN (born 26 July, 1996), scion of the Lords Kinloss, son (twin with sister Isobel) of Christopher Paul Close-Smith (born 6 December, 1962), of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, and his wife the former Charlotte Nina Brace (born 1964), & Xenia Isobel Gravell (born 21 November, 1995), eldest daughter of Humphrey William Gravell (born 1965), of Great Somerford, Wiltshire, & Alexandra Joan (Alicky) Llewellen Palmer (born 1964), scion of that landed gentry family, descended from the extinct Marquesses of Lincolnshire.
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The 15th Baron Dudley died 20 June, 2024, aged 93.
The peer, of Little Grange, Napleton, Kempsey, Worcestershire, was fifteenth holder of the barony in the peerage of England created by writ, 15 Feb 1439/40.
The first baron, Sir John Sutton, KG, carried the Standard at the funeral of King Henry V 1422; WAS Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1428-30; Constable of Clun Castle 1435; in the wars with France; taken prisoner with King Henry VI at the Battle of St Albans 1455; Knight of the Garter 1459; Steward of the Lordship of Montgomery 1459/60; Constable of Wigmore Castle 1460; Constable of the Tower of London 1470-83; & Joint Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth Wydville, consort of King Edward IV.
The 15th Baron was born Jim Anthony Hill Wallace, 9 November, 1930, the eldest son of Guy Raymond Hill Wallace (who died 16 March, 1967), by his wife Barbara Amy Felicity Smith, suo jure the (14th) Baroness Dudley (1907-2002). He succeeded to the barony on his mother's decease, 27 May, 2002.
Lord Dudley married 16 Jun 1962, Nicola Jane Dunsterville, daughter of Lt Col Philip William Edward Leslie Dunsterville, by whom he had issue, two sons, Jeremy and Nicholas. The elder son, the Hon Jeremy William Guilford Wallace (born 12 Sept, 1964), succeeds as 16th Baron Dudley.
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Imogene, Lady Wolseley, who died 11 July, 2024, aged 80, was the widow of Sir Charles Wolseley, 11th Baronet.
She was the former Imogene (Jeannie) May, of Dayton, Ohio, USA, and married in 1984, as Mrs Imogene E. Brown, Sir Charles Garnet Richard Mark Wolseley, 11th Baronet (born 16 June, 1944), son of Stephen Garnet Hubert Francis Wolseley (1918- killed in action 31 Aug, 1944), by his wife the former Pamela Barry (who died 16 Nov, 2002), and was a grandson of Sir Edric Wolseley, 10th Baronet (1886-1954). Sir Charles Wolseley, Bt, who succeeded his grandfather, 17 September, 1954, died 5 March, 2018.
Jeannie, Lady Wolseley, leaves a daughter, Janet, from her first marriage to ____Brown.
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The Hon Mrs Nigel Parker, who died 4 July, 2024, aged 86, was widow of the Hon Nigel Parker, scion of the Earls of Morley, and a scion of the Devitt baronets.
Georgina Jane Devitt was born 6 October, 1937, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Col Sir Thomas Gordon Devitt, 2nd Baronet (1902-1995), and his second wife the former Lydia Mary Beloe (1909-1995); and married 23 April, 1965, the Hon Nigel Geoffrey Parker (1931-2019), third son of the Hon John Holford Parker (1886-1955), and his wife the former Hon Marjory Katharine Elizabeth Alexandra St Aubyn (1893-1987), scion of the Barons St Levan, and was a younger brother of the 6th Earl of Morley (1923-2015). She leaves issue, a son, Edward (born 15 Oct, 1967), and a daughter, Theresa (born 5 March, 1966).
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Rupert Ivo Charles Gladitz, who died 10 July, 2024, at his home in Brazil, aged 54, was descended from the Bellville landed gentry family; born 10 December, 1969, son of Alfred Charles Gladitz (1922-2014), and his wife the former Patricia Barbara Bellville (1931-2015). He leaves a husband, Israel.
Mr Gladitz was descended from the 19th Baron Stourton :-
19th Baron Stourton (1802-72) > Hon Albert Stourton (1835-1902) > Maj Herbert Stourton (1873-1932) > Barbara Stourton (1900-80) > Patricia Bellville (1931-2015) > Rupert Gladitz (1969-2024)
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Nicholas J. Wilson, elder son of Mr Michael Wilson of Brisbane, Queensland and Mrs Sally Wilson of The Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, and Rosie Charlotte May Vavasour (born 5 August, 1993), scion of the Vavasour baronets, elder daughter of Dr Simon Mark Andrew Vavasour (born 12 May, 1966), of Norwich, and Mrs Sarah Lucy Vavasour (nee Jacques), of Kensington.
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Archibald William Boverton Thomson (born 1995), eldest son of Capt Patrick MacDonald Thomson (born 1967), of Brewham, Somerset, and his wife the former Anna Kathryn Redwood (born 6 January, 1967), and Emma Grace H. Irving (born 1995), daughter of David Irving, of the Isle of Bute, and his wife the former Karen Hollingsworth.
Archibald Thomson is descended from the Redwood baronets:-
Sir Peter Redwood, 3rd Baronet (born 1937) > Anna Redwood (b 1967) > Archibald Thomson (b 1995)
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Mr E.J.Ralph Melhuish, son of the late Jeremy Melhuish and Mrs Melhuish, of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and Fenella Kate Moore (born 14 May, 1993), third daughter of Sir Richard William Moore, 4th Baronet (born 8 May, 1955), of Barton St David, Somerset, and his wife the former Karyn L. Furness (born 1959).
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The marriage has taken place between the Hon Valentine Guy Bryan Guinness (born 9 March, 1959), second son of the 3rd Baron Moyne (born 16 March, 1930), and his first wife the former Ingrid Olivia Georgia Wyndham (later Baroness Kelvedon) (1931-2009), scion of the Barons Leconfield, & Vanya Eadie, an actress (born circa 1966).
Valentine Guiness is heir to his father's peerage (Peerage of the UK, cr 1932), and married firstly, in 1986 (div 2013), Lucinda Jane Rivett-Carnac (born 29 May, 1960 (the handbag designer 'Lulu Guinness') by whom he has issue, two daughters, Tara Victoria (born 29 Nov, 1991), and Madeleine Rose (born 16 January, 1997).
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The engagement was announced 20 July, 2024, between Trevor S. Guile, elder son of Eric and Sheila Guile, of Halifax, Canada, & Lucy Arabella Frances Tress Barry (born 1987), scion of the Barry baronets, elder daughter of Nicholas Mark Francis Tress Barry (born 22 October, 1957), of Hothfield, Kent, and his wife the former Fiona Mary Rankin (born 1957).
Lucy Barry is a granddaughter of Maj Sir Rupert Rodney Francis Tress Barry, 4th Baronet (1910-1977).
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The Hon Oliver Walston, who died 14 July, 2024, aged 83, was born 11 June, 1941, son of Henry Walston, later the life peer, the Baron Walston, CVO (1912-1991), a farmer turned politician, first for Labour and then the Social Democratic Party, who originated from a New York Jewish family called Waldstein.
His mother was Catherine Macdonald Crompton (1916-1978), a glamorous American who embarked on a 13-year affair with the novelist Graham Greene during Oliver’s childhood.
Oliver Walston had a brief first marriage in 1966 (div), to Leslie, daughter of Milton Gordon, of Manhattan, New York, and married 2ndly, in 1969, Anne Lowell Dunbar, daughter of William Dunbar, of Washington DC, by whom he had a son and two daughters.
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The engagement was announced 19 July, 2024, between Jack Chaplin (born 1995), scion of the Viscounts Chaplin, youngest son of Mervyn Henry Chaplin (born 1 March, 1958), of East Carlton, Leicestershire, and his wife the former Nicola E. Copeman, & Tamara Mary-Ann Rowan Hamilton (born 17 August, 1995), scion of that Irish landed gentry family, daughter of Hamish Rowan Hamilton (born 5 May, 1961), of Somerset, and Mrs Venetia Rowan Hamilton (nee Carter, born 1961), of Hertfordshire.
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The engagement was announced 19 July, 2024, between the Hon Archard Hugh (Archie) Boscawen (born 10 June, 1998), a younger son of the 10th Viscount Falmouth (born 13 May, 1955), of Tregothnan, Cornwall, and his 2nd wife the former Katharine Helen Maley, & Katie Megan Rossitter (born 1996), daughter of Dr David A. Rossitter (born 1963), of Eltisley, Cambridgeshire, and his wife the former Susan J. Walker.
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The engagement was announced 19 July, 2024, between John Simon B. Elsmore Dodsworth (born 1988), son of Simon Dodsworth and his wife Felicity Elsmore (born 1950), of North Walsham, Norfolk, and the Hon Clio Catherine V. Carew Chartres (born 1993), scion of that landed gentry family, younger daughter of the life peer the Rt Rev Baron Chartres, GCVO, former Bishop of London (born 11 July, 1947), of Wilton, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Caroline Mary McLintock, scion of the baronets of that name.
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Katharine Elizabeth (Katie) Henderson (nee Grimshaw, born 1986), wife of George Ian Henry Hope Henderson (born 1987), scion of the Barons Faringdon, gave birth to a son, Sidney Bernard Hope, 14 July, 2024, a brother for Percy Ewing Hope (born 21 February, 2020), and Merlin Ian Hope (born 9 March, 2022).
George Henderson is the third son of Ian Ramsay Hope Henderson (born 6 January, 1949), a scion of the Barons Faringdon, by his wife the former Virginia Phyllis Theresa Freeman (born 24 Oct, 1949), descended from the Dukes of Norfolk.
The 15th Duke of Norfolk (1847-1917) > Lady Winefride Fitzalan-Howard (1914-2006) > Virginia Freeman (b 1949) > George Henderson (b 1987) > Sidney Henderson (b 2024)
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Caroline Angela Elaine Strang Steel (née Carter), who died 14 July, 2024, aged 87, was the widow of Robert Stanley Strang Steel (1934-2011), scion of the baronets of that name; born in 1938, a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel (William) Hugh Carter, of Tain, Ross-shire; she married Robert Strang Steel, 26 April, 1958, by whom she had issue, two sons, David (born 24 Oct, 1961), and Richard (b 28 Aug, 1963). Her husband who died 20 April, 2011, was the fourth son of Sir Samuel Strang Steel, 1st Baronet (1882-1961).
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The Baroness Howard De Walden, who died 13 July, 2024, aged 88, was a peeress in her own right, the 10th holder of the peerage, created by Queen Elizabeth I in 1597.
The barony of Howard de Walden was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, the Honourable Margaret Audley, daughter of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden. The title was reputedly granted for the admiral's role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
The 10th holder of the peerage was born (Mary) Hazel Caridwen Scott-Ellis, 12th August, 1935, the eldest of the four daughter of the 9th Baron Howard de Walden, and 5th Baron Seaford (1912-1999), by his wife Countess Irene Maria Rosario Pauline von Harrach of Rohrau and Thannhausen (who died 1975), 5th daughter of Count Hans-Albrecht von Harrach of Rohrau and Thannhausen by his wife Countess Helene von Arco-Zinneberg.
Her father, a renowned racehorse owner, died 9 July, 1999, when his Barony of Howard de Walden (created by Writ) fell into abeyance between his four daughters, Hazel, Susan, Jessica and Camilla, and the Barony of Seaford (Peerage of the UK, cr 1826) passed to a male heir.
On 25 June, 2004, the Barony of Howard de Walden was called out of abeyance in favour of the 9th Baron's eldest daughter.
Lady Howard de Walden married 20 Nov, 1957, Count Joseph Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1924-2015), only son of Count Franz Joseph Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1878-1963), by whom she had issue, one son, Peter, and five daughters, Charlotte, Henrietta, Alexandra, Philippa and Isabelle. Her only son, the Hon Peter John Joseph Czernin, (Count Czernin von und zu Chudenitz), who was born 1 January, 1966, now succeeds as the 11th Baron Howard De Walden.
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Charles Henry Thomas James, who died 5 July, 2024, aged 47, was a scion of the Barons Northbourne.
He was born 16 October, 1976, the second son of Antony Nigel James (1944-2016), of North Balwyn, Victoria, Australia, and his wife the former Therese McCormack.
Walter James, 2nd Baron Northbourne (1846-1923) > Lt-Col Hon Cuthbert James (1872-1930) > Maj Thomas James (1906-1976) > Antony James (1944-2016) > Charles James (1976-2024)
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Andrew John Faviell Pace, who died 24 June, 2024, aged 75, was descended from the Russell baronets.
He was born 15 December, 1948, the elder son of Capt Lawrence Noel George Pace (1918-1993), of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, by his wife the former Sheila Helen Russell (1921-1994), scion of the Russell baronets; and married 10 February, 1973, (Elizabeth) Jane Bunting, daughter of Roger Michael Hartley Bunting (1917-1995), and his wife the former Valerie Dennison (1918-1990), by whom he had three sons, James Andrew Faviell (born 1973), Dominic Henry Faviell (born 1976), and Hugo Alexander Faviell (born 1980).
Sir Alec Charles Russell, 2nd Baronet (1894-1938) > Sheila Helen Russell (1921-94) > Andrew Pace (1948-2024)
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Nicholas Anthony William Mancroft Garthwaite, who died 30 June, 2024, aged 72, was a scion of the Garthwaite baronets.
He was born 26 March, 1952, the son of Anthony William Garthwaite (1917-1972), and his wife the Hon Waveney Mancroft Samuel (1916-1986), scion of the Barons Mancroft; and married in 1982, Caroline C. Willbourne, daughter of Thomas William Willbourne and his wife the former Nellie Adams, by whom he had three sons, Oliver Julian (born 1986), Felix Sebastian (born 1987), and Piers Marcus (born 1990).
Nicholas Garthwaite was a grandson of Sir William Garthwaite, 1st Baronet (cr 1919) (1874-1956), and a grandson of the 1st Baron Mancroft (1872-1942).
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Caroline Anne Romaine Dennistoun (nee Long), died 30 June, 2024. She was 78. She was descended from the Marling baronets.
She was born 4 April, 1946, daughter of Commander Richard Oliver Bruce Long (1914-1982), and his wife the former Marion Charlotte Marling (1915-1978), scion of the Marling baronets; and married 11 November, 1983, Christopher John Dennistoun (born 1949), son of Major John Dennistoun, MBE, and his wife the former Nancy Mary Court (1909-1990), by whom she had issue, a daughter, Felicity Helen (born 21 September, 1985).
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The engagement was announced 15 July, 2024, between Archibald Edward Graham-Watson (born 1990), scion of that landed gentry family, only son of Hugh Colin Graham-Watson (born 1961), of Reswallie, Angus, and his late wife the former Alexandra Mary Scott (1965-2001), & Pollyanna Victoria Edsell (born 1992), only daughter of David Malcolm E.L. Edsell (born 1945), of Worton, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Lucy Elizabeth Armstrong-Payn (born 1952).
Archibald is a descendant of the Barons Spens:
The 1st Baron Spens (1885-1973) > Capt Hon Robert Richard Patrick Spens, MC (1916-1942) > Charmian Helen Spens (b 5 Oct, 1940) > Alexandra Scott (1965-2001) > Archibald Graham-Watson (b 1990)
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The marriage took place 15 July, 2024, between Joseph William Vincent Ellingworth (born 2 December, 1992), descended from the Earls Mountbatten of Burma, the second son of Charles Vincent Ellingworth (born 7 February, 1957), and his wife the former Lady Amanda Patricia Victoria Knatchbull (born 26 June, 1957), & Bridie Anne Riley (born 1991), daughter of Peter Riley and Margaret Andrews.
HM Queen Victoria > Princess Alice > Princess Victoria of Hesse > Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma > Patricia, Countess Mountbatten of Burma > Lady Amanda Knatchbull > Joseph Ellingworth
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The engagement was announced 13 July, 2024, between Charles Roderick Ralli (born 20 July, 1998), scion of the Ralli baronets, elder son of Luke Robert Charles Ralli (born 8 July, 1969), of Cretingham, Suffolk, and his wife the former Alice Walker, & Eleanor Frances M. Revill (born 1998), daughter of David Edward Revill (born 1966), of Little Witley, Worcestershire, and his wife the former Sara Dawn Noott.
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The engagement was announced 10 July, 2024, between 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 Lumey (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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(Mary) Felicity Gladstone, who died 25 June, 2024, aged 98, was a scion of the Gladstone baronets and a great-granddaughter of the Victorian prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone.
She was born 24 March, 1926, the elder daughter of Stephen Deiniol Gladstone (1891-1965), and his wife the former Mary St Claire Davidson (1892-1976), and was unmarried.
She had siblings, Stephen Charles Gladstone (1924-2006), Anne Robson (1928-2015), & John Neville Gladstone (born 24 July, 1932).
Sir John Gladstone, 1st Bt > William Gladstone > Rev Stephen Gladstone > Stephen Deiniol Gladstone > Felicity Gladstone
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Dr Christopher David Drewe, who died 30 June, 2024, aged 81, was head of that landed gentry family formerly of Castle Drogo, Devon.
Drewe, together with his father, donated the Castle Drogo estate to the National Trust in 1974. Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it was the last castle to be built in England. The client was Julius Drewe, the hugely successful founder of the Home and Colonial Stores. Drewe chose the site in the belief that it formed part of the lands of his supposed medieval ancestor, Drogo de Teigne. The architect he chose to realise his dream was Sir Edwin Lutyens, then at the height of his career. Lutyens lamented Drewe's determination to have a castle but nevertheless produced one of his finest buildings. The architectural critic Christopher Hussey described the result: "The ultimate justification of Drogo is that it does not pretend to be a castle. It is a castle, as a castle is built, of granite, on a mountain, in the twentieth century".
The castle was given to the National Trust in 1974, the first building constructed in the twentieth century that the Trust acquired.
The Old Etonian was born 16 August, 1942, son of Major Anthony Haselden Drewe, MC (1920-1991), and his wife the former Margaret Emma Lindsay (1916-2002). He qualified as a doctor in 1968.
His only sibling is a sister, Ruth (known as Bunny), born 24 December, 1945, wife of Patrick R.C. Johnstone.
Christopher Drewe married in 1998, as her second husband, Cicely Elizabeth Theodosia Hesketh-Prichard (1942-2016), formerly wife of Martin Charles Jacoby, and daughter of Major Michael Hesketh-Prichard (1909-1988), and his wife the former Venetia Alice Green (1915-1992).
He leaves a step-son, Charles Jacoby, and step-daughter, Katherine.
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Georgia Rose E. Buchanan (born 28 February, 1993, nee Rothman), wife of Rory Alexander Hamilton Buchanan (born 30 June, 1992), scion of the Carrick-Buchanan landed gentry family, gave birth to a daughter, Nell Rose Susan, 27 June, 2024, at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi.
Georgia is a daughter of James D.H.B. Rothman, and his wife the former Lucy V. Middlemas.
Rory is the elder son of Alexander David Hamilton Buchanan (born 3 April, 1961), and his wife the former Emma Susan Kottler (born March, 1964).
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The engagement has been announced between William James Lindesay-Bethune, styled Viscount Garnock [born 30 Dec, 1990], son and heir of the 16th Earl of Lindsay [born 19 Nov 1955], of Lahill, Upper Largo, Fife, and his wife the Countess of Lindsay [nee Diana Mary Chamberlayne-Macdonald, born 12 September, 1961], scion of that landed gentry family, & the Lady Violet Diana Louise Manners [born 18 August, 1993], eldest daughter of the 11th Duke of Rutland [born 8 May, 1959], of Belvoir Castle, and the Duchess of Rutland [nee Emma Louise Watkins, born 2 September, 1963].
Bill Garnock is destined to become Earl of Lindsay [Peerage of Scotland, cr 1633], Viscount Garnock [Peerage of Scotland cr 1703], Lord Lindsay of the Byres [ Scotland 1445], Lord Parbroath [cr 1633], and Lord Kilbirnie, Kingsburn and Drumry [Scot. 1703]
Lady Violet has younger sisters, Lady Alice (born 1995), and Lady Eliza (born 1997), and two brothers, Charles, styled Marquis of Granby (born 1999), heir to the dukedom, and Lord Hugo Manners (born 2003).
Viscount Garnock's siblings are: a brother, the Hon David Lindesay-Bethune (born 12 May, 1993), and three sisters, Lady Frances Gabinsky (born 1986), Lady Alexandra Coleman (born 1988), and Lady Charlotte (born 12 May, 1993 twin with her brother David) now HRH The Duchess of Noto, wife of His Royal Highness Prince Jaime of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Noto [born at Madrid, 26 June, 1992], eldest son of HRH Prince Pedro Juan Maria Alejo Saturnino y todos los Santos, Duke of Calabria (born Madrid, 16 October, 1968), by his wife HRH The Duchess of Calabria [nee Sofia Landaluce y Melgarejo, born Madrid, 23 Nov, 1973].
Both Viscount Garnock and Lady Violet have numerous ties of blood in that vast aristocratic web, and are descended in a direct legitimate line from the founder of the Royal House of Tudor King Henry VII. The couple also have a descent from The ‘Merrie Monarch’ King Charles II, via his illegitimate offspring. They are sixth cousins once removed, both are descended from Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (1721-1803).
Lady Violet’s ancestor, the 8th Duke of Rutland, married Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay, scion of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres, kinsmen of the Earls of Lindsay.
William Garnock’s ancestor, the 13th Earl of Lindsay [1872-1943] married in 1900, US heiress Ethel Tucker [who died in 1942], daughter of William Austin Tucker [1850-1931], banker of New York and Boston.
Unions between the top aristocratic families are few and far between these days. The current Duke of Roxburghe married, and then divorced, a daughter of Lord Beaverbrook. The Earl of Lichfield married a daughter of the Marquess Conyngham. Viscount Grimston, heir to the Earl of Verulam, married the Duke of Roxburghe’s sister Lady Rosanagh Innes-Ker.
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The engagement was announced 6 July, 2024, berween Augustus William Malcolm (Gus) Stephenson (born 1994), eldest son of Oliver George Stephenson (born 6 Oct, 1962), of Middleton-by-Youlgreave, Derbyshire, and his wife the former Fiona Alice Jane Malcolm (born 4 Aug, 1962), scion of the Malcolm baronets, & Sophia Rose Aspinall (born July, 1993), daughter of Martin Mark Charles Aspinall (born April, 1951), of Pendleton, Lancashire, and his late wife the former Annette Katerina Taylor (1954-2011).
Gus Stephenson is a grandson of Sir David Peter Michael Malcolm of Balbedie, 11th Baronet (1919-1995)
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Fenella Maria Urmetzer [born 1982, nee Boyle], wife of Dr Florian T. Urmetzer, gave birth to a son, Frederick David Ludwig, 15 May, 2024, a brother for Leonora Rose, who was born 23 March, 2021.
Florian Urmetzer is a son of Mr & Mrs Ludwig Urmetzer, of Bad Krozingen, Germany.
Fenella Urmetzer is a scion of the Earls of Shannon, daughter of David Spencer Boyle [born 23 April, 1942], of Duns Tew, Oxfordshire, by his wife the former Melanie Georgiana Foster. Fenella is a great-great granddaughter of Henry Bentinck Boyle, 5th Earl of Shannon [1833-1890].
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Mr Richard Simon Hermer KC (born Sept, 1968), has been appointed Attorney General. He is a barrister with an impressive legal career. He has been involved in many high-profile cases heard by the English Courts over the past two decades. As a renowned practitioner in public law, he handles significant human rights and civil liberties cases in the UK. On his appointed as Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland, he will receive a life peerage, yet to be gazetted. His expertise spans both domestic and international spheres, making him a key figure in legal matters1.
Sir Patrick John Thompson Vallance, KCB (born 17 March, 1960), has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The new life peer (born 17 March 1960[2]) is a physician, scientist, and clinical pharmacologist. He served as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of the United Kingdom from 2018 to 2023. On stepping down, he became chair of the Natural History Museum in London.
The Rt Hon Jacqui Smith (Jacqueline Jill Smith, born 3 November 1962) is a British broadcaster, political commentator and Labour Party politician, has been appointed a Minister of State in the Department for Education. She served as Labour MP for Redditch from 1997 to 2010. She served as Home Secretary under Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2009 and was the first woman to hold the position.
The Rt Hon Sir David George Hanson (born 5 July 1957, an MP from 1992 to 2019 and a Minister of State from 2005 to 2010) is now a Minister of State in the Home Office.
Mr James Timpson OBE (born 17 September, 1971), has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice. A member of the Timpson shoe family, he is known for advocating the employment of former prisoners, he was the Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Re-offending (EFFRR) until 2016, and became Chair of the Prison Reform Trust that same year. He also founded the Employment Advisory Board network across the prison estate, which links prisons with employers to improve the employment opportunities for ex-offenders upon release.
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Sir Patrick Salt, 7th Baronet, of Langham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, died 12 June, 2024. He was 91.
Sir Patrick, whose baronetcy, created in 1869, descends from Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Patrick Macdonnell Salt was born 25 September, 1932, the third son of Sir John William Titus Salt, 4th Baronet (1884-1953), and his wife the former Stella Houlton Jackson (who died 2 Aug, 1974); and was a younger brother of Sir David Salt, 5th Bt (1930-78), and Sir Anthony Salt, 6th Bt (1931-91), and succeeded to the baronetcy on his brother's death, in 1991.
He was educated at Summer Fields, Oxford and Stowe School; and was a Director of Cassidy Davis Members Agency Ltd 1983-92. His home was at Hillwatering Farmhouse, Langham, Suffolk.
Sir Patrick married in 1976, Ann Elizabeth Mary Kilham Roberts, widow of Denys Kilham Roberts, OBE, and daughter of Thomas Kay Maclachlan, and his wife the former Sarah Hodgson Nelson.
The baronet was childless and the baronetcy now passes to his third cousin once removed, Daniel Alexander Salt (born 15 Aug, 1943).
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Former prime minister Theresa May has been given a life peerage in the dissolution honours list released by prime minister Rishi Sunak. The honours, which came out in the hour before polls closed in the General Election, also featured Mr Sunak's right-hand man Liam Booth-Smith, who was given a peerage.
Booth-Smith had been Mr Sunak’s chief of staff in Downing Street. Ex-Cabinet minister Chris Grayling, former chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady and Mrs May will also take seats in the House of Lords.
Former deputy speaker Dame Eleanor Laing and ex-MP Craig Mackinlay, who has battled sepsis which cost him his hands and feet, have also been given peerages. Former Cop26 president and Cabinet minister Sir Alok Sharma has also been made a peer.
Labour veterans Dame Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman and Dame Margaret Hodge will also take seats in the House of Lords. Sir Keir Starmer’s nominations in the dissolution honours include former Parliamentary Labour party chairman John Cryer.
There are also peerages for former minister Kevan Jones, who has played a prominent role in campaigning for justice for sub-postmasters caught up in the Horizon scandal, former deputy speaker Dame Rosie Winterton and veteran ex-whip John Spellar.
Nominations from the Leader of the Conservative Party:-
The Rt Hon Sir Graham Stuart Brady PC b 20 May 1967 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Altrincham and Sale West, and Chairman of the 1922 Committee.
The Rt Hon Christopher Stephen Grayling PC b 1 Apr 1962 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell, and former Secretary of State for Transport, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and Leader of the House of Commons.
The Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Laing DBE PC b 1 Feb 1958 div - Lately Member of Parliament for Epping Forest, lately Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.
Craig Mackinley JP b 7 Oct 1966 m - Lately Member of Parliament for South Thanet.
The Rt Hon Theresa Mary May PC b 1 Oct 1956 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Maidenhead, former Prime Minister and Home Secretary.
The Rt Hon Sir Alok Kumar Sharma KCMG PC b 7 Sep 1967 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Reading West and former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Secretary of State for International Development and President for COP26.
Liam Booth-Smith b 1987 m - Lately No10 Downing Street Chief of Staff.
Nominations from the Leader of the Labour Party
The Rt Hon Dame Margaret Mary Beckett GBE PC b 15 Jan 1943 w - Former Foreign Secretary and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
John Robert Cryer b 11 Apr 1964 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead.
The Rt Hon Harriet Ruth Harman KC PC b 30 Jul 1950 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, and formerly Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
The Rt Hon Dame Margaret Eve Hodge DBE PC b 8 Sep 1944 w - Lately Member of Parliament for Barking and former Minister of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
The Rt Hon Kevan David Jones PC b 25 Apr 1964 - Lately Member of Parliament for North Durham and former Minister for Veterans at the Ministry of Defence.
Barbara Mary Keeley b 26 Mar 1952 m - Lately Member of Parliament for Worsley and Eccles South and formerly Shadow Minister for Music and Tourism.
The Rt Hon John Francis Spellar PC b 5 Aug 1947 w - Lately Member of Parliament for Warley and formerly Comptroller of the Household in the Whips’ Office.
The Rt Hon Dame Rosie [Rosalie] Winterton DBE PC b 10 Aug 1958 - Lately Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central and former Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons.
Nominations from the Liberal Democrat Party
Caroline Valerie Pidgeon MBE b 29 Sep 1972 m - Lately Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly.
Nominations from the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Thomas Elliott MLA b 11 Dec 1963 - Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.
Nominations for Crossbench Peerages
Minette Bridget Batters b 28 May 1967 div - Former President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales.
Dr Hilary Dawn Cass OBE FRCN FRCGP b 19 Feb 1958 - Former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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The Earl of Rosebery, DL, who died 30 June, 2024, aged 95, was the 7th earl in the peerage of Scotland, and was a grandson of the Victorian prime minister, the 5th Earl.
Lord Rosebery, of Dalmeny House, South Queensferry, West Lothian, was a deputy lieutenant for Midlothian from 1960. His grandfather, the 5th Earl, KG, KT, PC, was the Liberal statesman and prime minister, 1894-95, who married the heiress Baroness Hannah de Rothschild, and inherited the vast estate at Mentmore, Buckinghamshire.
Neil Archibald Primrose was born 11 February, 1929, son of then then Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, styled Lord Primrose (born 8 Jan, 1882), and his second wife the former Hon Eva Isabel Marian Strutt, DBE (1892-1987), former wife of the Hon Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper, and scion of the Barons Aberdare. Neil's father succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, 21 May, 1929, and was 2nd Lieut, Grenadier Guards; Member of Parliament (Liberal) for Midlothian 1906-10; assistant Military Secretary to Lord Allenby in World War I 1914-17; MC 1916; DSO 1918; Lord Lieutenant of Midlothian 1929-64; Ensign, Royal Company of Archers 1936-45, Lieutenant 1945-74 and Captain 1948-74; Regional Commissioner for Scotland 1941-45; Secretary of State for Scotland 1945; Privy Councillor 1945; Knight of the Thistle 1947.
He married 22 January, 1955, Alison Mary Deirdre Reid (born 1931), 1st daughter of Ronald William Reid (1910-94), of Crepping Hall, Wakes Colne, co. Essex, and his wife the former Elinor Mary Stuart, a descendant of the Chaytor baronets.
Neil Primrose, was styled Lord Primrose from 11 Nov 1931 until the death of his father, 31 May, 1974, when he succeeded as 7th Earl of Rosebery (Scotland, let. pat. 10 Apr 1703), 3rd Earl of Midlothian (United Kingdom, let. pat. 3 Jul 1911), 7th Viscount of Rosebery (Scotland, let. pat. 1 Apr 1700), 7th Viscount of Inverkeithing (Scotland, let. pat. 10 Apr 1703), 3rd Viscount Mentmore, of Mentmore in the County of Buckingham (United Kingdom, let. pat. 3 Jul 1911), 7th Lord Primrose and Dalmeny (Scotland, let. pat. 1 Apr 1700), 7th Lord Dalmeny and Primrose (Scotland, let. pat. 10 Apr 1703), 4th Baron Rosebery (United Kingdom, let. pat. 26 Jan 1828), 3rd Baron Epsom, of Epsom in the County of Surrey, (United Kingdom, let. pat. 3 Jul 1911),9th Baronet, styled "of Carrington" (Nova Scotia, let. pat. 1 Aug 1651), Chief of the Name and Arms of Primrose.
The 7th Earl leaves issue, a son Harry, and four daughters, Lady Lucy (born 1955), Lady Jane (born 1960), Lady Emma (born 1962), and Lady Caroline (born 1964). The only son, Harry Ronald Neil Primrose, styled Lord Dalmeny (from 1974), now succeeds to the peerages and baronetcy and chief of the name and arms of Primrose. He was born 20 November, 1967.
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The engagement was announced 3 July, 2024, between Wessie B. Du Toit, younger son of Dr Pieter and Susanne Du Toit of Crowthorne, Berkshire, & Lydia Iona Morris-Jones (born 1991), second daughter of Nigel Morris-Jones (born 1959), of Liverpool, Merseyside, and his wife the Hon Jane Elizabeth Stirling Howard (born 23 January, 1955), daughter of the 4th Baron Strathcona & Mount Royal (1923-2018).
The bride-to-be-Royal descent:-
King James II > Henrietta FitzJames > James, 1st Earl Waldegrave > John, 3rd Earl Waldegrave >George, 4th Earl Waldegrave > William, 8th Earl Waldegrave > William, Viscount Chewton > 11th Earl Waldegrave > Geoffrey, 12th Earl Waldegrave > Lady Jane Waldegrave > Hon Jane Howard > Lydia Morris-Jones
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Claire Godfrey-Faussett, who died 30 May, 2024, aged 93, was a scion of that landed gentry family, formerly of Heppington; born 4 June, 1930, the only daughter of Brigadier Bryan Trevor Godfrey-Faussett, CB, DSO, OBE, MC (1896-1970), of The Old Rectory, Badlesmere, Faversham, Kent, sometime ADC to HM King George VI, by his wife the former Katherine Monica Paterson (1899-1987). She was unm.
Her great-uncle, Capt Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett, GCVO, CMG, RN (1863-1945), was Equerry-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales 1901-10, and to King George V 1910-36, & Extra Equerry to King Edward VIII 1936.
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Lady Louise Windsor, 20, has officially made a sparkling debut at the Sandringham Horse Driving Trials, racing her way to a silver medal as the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh watched on – alongside a close university friend, Felix Robert da Silva-Clamp, 19.
Kensington-born Felix (his birth was registered in Aug 2004, in Kensington & Chelsea), is the son of Kensington solicitor, Jonathan Charles William da Silva-Clamp (born February 1971), who has also served as a Conservative councillor.
Felix's father married 2 Oct 1998, an Australian Kendall Anne Searle (born Aug 1971).
Felix's paternal grandfather Robert I. Clamp (born 1935), married at Kensington in 1963, Maria E.P.P. da Silva. His great-grandparents were Robert J. Clamp (born 21 Dec, 1911, died 1967), and his wife Nessie Hood (1914-2007).
Twenty-year-old Lady Louise is a skilful carriage driver, having inherited a love of the sport from her late grandfather, Prince Phillip, who bequeathed her his own carriage after his death in 2021. Indeed, the trials at Sandringham were established in 1982 by Prince Philip himself after the Prince found himself unable to play polo as he entered his 50s. In a touching tribute to her grandmother, Lady Louise competed in the dressage event with one of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s horses.
The talented young royal was in high spirits as she was joined in her carriage by Felix da Silva-Clamp, with whom it appears she has fostered a firm friendship as they both continue their studies at St Andrews University in Scotland. Felix was driven to the event by Lady Louise Windsor’s mother, the Duchess of Edinburgh, and the two were seen enjoying some relaxed conversation as they watched the races at Norfolk.
Lady Louise and Felix performed together in a play _Dragon Fever_ the first student-written play to be performed by the Byre Theatre at St Andrews. The plot was an ambitious cross between an Agatha Christie mystery and Tolkien’s The Hobbit; a story of nine strangers on a quest to slay a dragon, that unfolds into a murder mystery full of riddles, twists, and love affairs. 'Louise Mountbatten-Windsor' as she was cast played Rigeon, a Don Quixote and Don Juan-like figure. Lady Louise, we are told, displayed impressive physicality and gave a compelling performance. Standout performances came from Rupert Carter and Felix Da Silva-Clamp as Mr Owl and Grant, both of whom had plenty of stage presence and performed convincingly, despite the over-the-top natures of their characters.
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Peter Scawen Blunt, who died 23 June, 2024, aged 87, was a scion of that landed gentry family, of Crabbet Park, the only son of Brigadier Jasper Scawen Blunt (1898-1968), of Frittenden, Kent, and his wife the former Doreen Marguerite Parsons (1903-1978), descended from the Macnaghten baronets; and married in 1964, Belinda Sara Usborne Archer, daughter of Kenyon James Archer (1908-97), of Pershore, Worcestershire, by his wife the former Margaret Frances Usborne Moore (1908-84), by whom he had issue, sons, Henry, Samuel, and Adam.
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The Hon Moyra Jean Campbell, who died 18 June, 2024, aged 99, was a scion of the Barons Stratheden.
Moyra was one of the last Wrens of the highly secret Y-Service who in the Second World War listened to German VHF voice messages in the North Sea and fed coded HF transmissions to Bletchley Park...Fluent in German, she listened to enemy VHF voice messages in the North Sea, and fed coded HF transmissions to Bletchley Park ...in later years she worked for Moët et Chandon.
She was born 14 July, 1924, the eldest of the three daughters of the 4th Baron Stratheden, CBE, JP (1899-1981), and his first wife the former Jean Helen St Clair Anstruther-Gray, CBE (1901-1956), scion of the Anstruther baronets. She had younger sisters, (2) the Hon Clayre Campbell (1927-2015), who was wife of (1) the Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley, PC, scion of the Viscount Ridley (he was later Baron Ridley of Liddesdale 1929-1993), a Conservative MP and government minister, and (2) Capt Lord Richard Charles Percy (1921-89), 3rd son of the 8th Duke of Northumberland; and (2) the Hon Fiona Campbell (born 4 Feb, 1932).
She was unmarried.
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Nicholas Anthony Gray, who died 24 June, 2024, aged 90, was a scion of the Gray baronets (cr UK, 1917); born 21 June, 1934, the second son of Sir William Gray, 2nd Baronet (1895-1978), and his first wife the former Josephine Eveleigh (1904-1943); and married 29 June, 1956, Amanda Edwards, daughter of Harold William Edwards, of Newbury, Berkshire, by whom he had issue, a daughter, Daisy (born 1970).
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Melanie Fiona Louisa Black (née Lowson), who died 23 June, 2024, aged 84, was a scion of the Lowson baronets, a daughter of Sir Denys Lowson, 1st Baronet (1906-1975), Lord Mayor of London, 1950-51.
She was born 12 June, 1940, the younger daughter of Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson, and his wife the former Hon Ann Patricia Macpherson (1919-2003), daughter of the 1st Baron Strathcarron (1880-1937); her elder sister, Gay (1938-2016), was wife of the 15th Earl of Kinnoull (1935-2013).
She married 17 September, 1964, Charles Archibald Adam Black (1937-2013), son of Archibald Adam Gordon Black (1907-1990), and his wife the former Violet Rosamund Hyde Villiers (1911-1985), scion of the Earls of Clarendon, by whom she had issue, a son, Adam Sebastian Black (born 25 Aug, 1965), and a daughter, Holly Patricia Black (born 27 January, 1968).
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Antonia Grace Henley [nee Magor, born 1990], wife of Richard James Henley [born 1989], scion of the Barons Henley, gave birth to a daughter, Minna Alexa, 19 June, 2024, a sister for Oscar Robert Charles, who was born 12 January, 2022.
Antonia is a daughter of Philip Magor, of Stype, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Alexa Catherine Vaughan-Lee, scion of that landed gentry family.
Richard is a son of Robert Anthony Nigel Henley [born 23 August, 1942], of Boldre, Hampshire, and his wife the former Anne Beadle.
Robert, 2nd Baron Henley > Rev Hon Robert Henley > Capt Charles Beauclerk Henley > Robert Stephen Henley > Robert Anthony Nigel Henley > Richard James Henley '> Minna Henley
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The engagement was announced 27 June, 2024, between Alexander William Malise Fraser (born 5 July, 1990), the only son of Capt Mark Malise Nicolson (born 24 Sept, 1954), of Cairnbulg Castle, Fraserburgh, by his wife the Hon Katharine Ingrid Mary Fraser (born 11 Oct, 1957), eldest daughter and heir presumtpive to the 21st Lady Saltoun (born 18 October, 1930), and Chloe S. Gillespie, 27, the only daughter of Mr John Davies Gillespie, of Harrison, New York, and Ms Andrea Varrell Borden, of Barrington, Rhode Island.
Alexander Fraser, a future Lord Saltoun, is a descendant of Queen Victoria:-
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) > Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) > Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886-1974) > Capt Alexander Ramsay of Mar (1919-2000) > Hon Katharine Fraser (b 1957) > Alexander Fraser (b 1990)
The bride-to-be's mother, Andrea Varrell Borden, married John Davies Gillespie, on 18 June, 1989, at North Stonington, Connecticut. Mr Gillespie is a son of George J. Gillespie III, a US lawyer. They divorced in 2019.
The estimated net worth of John Davies Gillespie is at least $91 Million dollars as of 2024-06-27. John Davies Gillespie is the Director of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd and owns about 51,698 shares of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd (WTM) stock worth over $91 Million.
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Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon have been found guilty of concealing birth of their baby daughter and perverting the course of justice.
The baby of wealthy aristocrat Marten, 36, and Gordon, 49, named Victoria died after they went off-grid on the South Downs.
The couple had fled authorities last January in an attempt to keep their newborn child after four other children were taken into care, the trial heard.
They were arrested in Brighton last February 27, two days before Victoria’s decomposed body was found inside a Lidl bag in a disused allotment shed.
The cause of the child’s death could not be established.
Marten had claimed her daughter died by accident when she fell asleep holding her under her jacket the day after pitching a tent.
But the prosecution suggested that Victoria could have died after being exposed to cold conditions with inadequate clothes.
Perverting the course of justice carries a maximum term of life imprisonment, with the average sentence being between a community order and seven years in custody.
Miss Marten is a great-granddaughter of the 3rd Baron Alington.
The couple abandoned their burning car on the hard shoulder of the M61 and fled – an aristocrat, a sex offender, and their baby, born just one or two days before. From the inferno near Bolton, thought to have destroyed all their belongings, they travelled first to Liverpool, then to Harwich in Essex, to Colchester and on to East Ham station in east London, over the course of two days.
That blurry CCTV footage from 7 January, 2023, is the last confirmed sighting of 35-year-old Constance Marten, the heiress’s face wrapped in a red scarf, her baby swaddled inside her coat. Alongside her is 48-year-old convicted rapist Mark Gordon, his head covered and bowed away from the camera. Police, concerned for the health of the baby, have been searching for the couple, but they are thought to have with them a large amount of cash, allowing them to stay off the grid.
So just how did Marten, whose father was a page of honour to Queen Elizabeth II, go from gracing the pages of society bible Tatler to being on the run with a man who, after burgling and raping a woman as a teenager, spent 20 years imprisoned in Florida before being deported to Britain?
Marten’s father, Napier Anthony Sturt Marten (born 28 March, 1959) points to an estrangement that began when his daughter met Gordon, tearing her away from family and friends to embark on an itinerant life. Making a heartfelt plea to Constance through The Independent newspaper, Napier – his voice wavering with emotion – told his daughter: “Darling Constance, even though we remain estranged at the moment, I stand by, as I have always done and as the family has always done, to do whatever is necessary for your safe return to us.
Constance is a granddaughter of the Hon Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Marten, OBE, (nee Sturt), who died at Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset, 18 January, 2010, aged 80. She was a a scion of the extinct Barons Alington (dau of the 3rd Baron), & was a goddaughter of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother & was a close friend of the Queen & Duke of Edinburgh; she was born in London 12 September, 1929, as the Hon Mary Anna Sturt, dau of the 3rd Baron Alington (1896-1940), by his wife the former Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper, dau of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, KP,GCVO, sometime Lord Steward to the Household of King George V & Queen Mary, by his wife Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor (d 1957), a great friend of Queen Mary, dau of Earl Grosvenor, and sister of Bendor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, &c. Her marriage to Lieutenant-Commander George Gosselin Marten, MVO, DSC, RN, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Marten, KBE, CB, CMG, CVO, took place at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, 25 Nov 1949. He was an equerry to King George VI, and the marriage was attended by King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and Major-General the Earl of Athlone. The Hon Mrs Marten was High Sheriff of Dorset in 1989.
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The King’s new Family Order has been worn for the first time by the Queen at the state banquet for the Emperor of Japan this evening.
Queen Camilla stepped out wearing the diamond-encased miniature portrait of her husband topped with a tiny gold and enamel Tudor crown and suspended on a pale blue silk bow on her left shoulder for the glittering event in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
The unveiling of the new King Charles III’s Family Order comes nearly two years after the King's accession.
Family Orders badges are worn at formal evening occasions by female members of the royal family and personally bestowed by the sovereign, and are a sign of the importance of the wearer within the royal household.
The King will have privately presented the Order to his “darling wife” and Queen consort, Camilla – whom he praised in his first televised address as monarch for her “steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much”.
The couple faced the challenge together this year of the King being diagnosed with cancer and having ongoing treatment, with the Queen urging her husband to take it easy but revealing he “won’t slow down and won’t do what he’s told”.
More than one Family Order can be worn at the same time and Queen Camilla was also wearing the late Queen Elizabeth II’s which is mounted on a chartreuse yellow ribbon, below that of the King’s.
King George IV started the tradition of presenting Family Orders – miniature portraits of the sovereign set in diamonds suspended from a ribbon – to female members of the family more than 200 years ago.
But the King has modernised some of the elements of his own, while keeping to the traditional appearance. His miniature portrait is painted on a synthetic material called polymin, rather than on ivory as was the tradition, and the diamonds are spare ones – existing loose jewels from the Royal Collection rather than newly acquired.
Polymin is a translucent treated plastic sheet similar in texture to ivorine, which is a synthetic ivory made from cellulose nitrate.
The diamonds are brilliant-cut and have a total weight of 10.41 carats – and the Order, designed by the Crown Jeweller Mark Appleby, was crafted in 18 carat white and yellow gold which was already in royal possession.
The King personally selected the pale blue colour of the ribbon which is based on the bow on the Family Order of his great-grandfather King George V.
Sovereigns presenting jewelled portraits of themselves have tended to use different-coloured ribbon from other monarchs.
King George V’s was pale blue, George VI’s was rose pink, and Queen Elizabeth II’s was chartreuse yellow.
The painting of the King – depicting the monarch wearing the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, the Sash of the Royal Victorian Order, the Garter Star and Thistle Star and the Garter Collar and Neck Orders of the Order of the Bath and the Royal Victorian Order – was by portrait miniaturist Elizabeth Meek.
Meek previously painted a miniature portrait of the King when Prince of Wales in 2005, and the new image was based on a photographic portrait by Hugo Burnand, taken in 2023.
Before 1820, the sovereign’s portrait set in a jewelled frame had been worn by both ladies and gentlemen at Court, but especially by female members of the royal family.
Queen Camilla was given the late Queen’s Family Order by her mother-in-law on her 60th birthday in July 2007.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother used to wear the Orders of both her daughter and late husband King George VI, while Queen Elizabeth II wore George VI’s Order and George V’s Order together.
The silk bow was made by the milliner Philip Treacy.
The Order’s reverse, in yellow gold, has an engine-turned ground engraved with a sunray pattern, superimposed with the King’s crowned cipher.
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His Majesty the King has appointed the Emperor of Japan to be a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
The Emperor and Empress of Japan arrived in London today at the start of their State Visit to the United Kingdom. At the state banquet at Buckingham Palace this evening, Emperor Naruhito wore the Garter star and sash for the first time. New members join the Order, England's highest order of chivalry, at the sole discretion of the sovereign.
The Garter Star, which signifies membership in the Order of the Garter, is "worn on full dress uniforms, court dress, morning coat, full evening dress coat, or dinner jacket," per the Journal of Heraldry, and it was first introduced by King Charles I in 1629. "At first, the star was embroidered, but fairly soon it was made of silver and enamel, and in some cases acquired diamonds and rubies. In 1946 the original Stuart shape was re-introduced," the Journal notes. On Garter Day, which takes place every June, members wear their insignia as they parade from Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel.
Emperor Naruhito joins four other Japanese emperors to have received the Garter; his father, Emperor Akihito, was appointed to the Order, the 985th member, by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. King George V appointed two different Emperors to the Garter—Emperor Hirohito, in 1929, and Emperor Yoshihito, in 1912—and King Edward VII appointed Emperor Meiji (Naruhito's great-great-grandfather) in 1905.
Emperor Naruhito is the 1,022nd individual to be appointed to the order since the creation of the order by King Edward III, and the seventh knight to be created in the reign on King Charles III.
Also today, Emperor Naruhito presented the King with the Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, the highest honor in Japan. (He was awarded it back in October 1971, but had yet to formally receive the Collar.)
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Sarah Scoular, who died 16 June, 2024, aged 87, was a scion of the Spencer-Nairn baronets.
Sarah Ursula Spencer-Nairn was born 13 June, 1937, elder daughter of Major Michael Alastair Spencer-Nairn, TD (1909-2002), and his wife the former Ursula Helen Devitt (1912-2011), scion of the Devitt baronets; and was a granddaughter of Maj Sir Robert Spencer-Nairn, 1st Baronet (1880-1960); and married 28 April, 1967, John Richard Scoular (1931-2020), son of the Rev John Greenshields Scoular, by whom she had issue, a son, Alastair (born 24 Dec, 1972), and a daughter, Anys (born 1978).
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Sir Andrew Milne-Watson, 4th Baronet, died 20 June, 2024. He was 79.
He was proprietor of A.D.R. Associates Ltd from 1993; sales and management trainee, Sidney Flavel and Co Ltd 1965-68; management trainee East Midlands Gas Board 1968-69; with Ogilvy & Mather, 1969; Account Manager, 1970; Account Director 1973-79; Managing and Client Service Director, Mathers Advertising Ltd 1979-82; Phoenix Advertising Ltd 1982-84; Deputy Chairman, Lewis Broadbent Advertising Ltd 1984-87; founded: Minerva Publications Ltd 1987-89; MW Communications Ltd 1989-90; Director of Advertising and Marketing, Inc Publications 1990-1993; Liveryman, Grocers' Co.
Andrew Michael Milne-Watson was born 10 November, 1944, son of Sir Michael Milne-Watson, 3rd Baronet, CBE (1910-1999), and his wife the former Mary Lynette Gunion Bagnall (1914-1993), and succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death, 27 April, 1999.
The baronetcy was created in 1937 for his grandfather David Milne-Watson, DL (1869-1945), 'gas industrialist'.
Andrew Milne-Watson married firstly, 3 April, 1970 (div 1981) Beverley Jane Gabrielle Cotton, daughter of Philip Cotton, of Majorca; and married 2ndly, 1983, as her second husband, Gisella Tisdall (born 1948), daughter of Hans John K. Tisdall (1910-1997), and his wife the former Isabel C.A. Gallegos (1911-2007).
Sir Andrew leaves issue from both marriages. His son from his first marriage, David Alastair Milne-Watson (born 24 August, 1971), now succeeds as the fifth baronet.
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Captain Sir David Younger, KCVO, who died 14 June, 2024, aged 85, was Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale from 1994 to 2014. He retired on reaching the age of seventy-five.
(John) David Bingham Younger was born 20 May, 1939, son of Maj Oswald Bingham Younger, MC, and his wife the former Dorothea Elizabeth Hobbs, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He married in 1962, Anne Rosaleen Logan, by whom he had a son and a daughter.
Younger was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1959, and served in Borneo and Singapore before joining the Directorate of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defence in 1967. He retired from the Army in 1969 and was with Scottish and Newcastle Breweries from 1969 to 1979 before becoming one of the founding partners of the Broughton Brewery in 1979.
In 1969 he became a member of the Royal Company of Archers, which is the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, and was its Secretary from 1993 to 2007. He was vice-president of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland in 1994, and became Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale in 1992, before becoming Lord Lieutenant in 1994.
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Alexandra Heriot-Maitland [born 1989], scion of the Earls of Lauderdale, wife [?] of Calum Jewell, gave birth to a son, Fergus Brodie Maitland, 13 May, 2024.
Alexandra is a 5 x gt-granddaughter of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale [who died in 1744], and is the third daughter of Mr Patrick Richard Heriot-Maitland [born 23 April, 1947], of Dunning, Perthshire, by his wife the former Marilyn Lois Grant.
Calum Jewell is the younger son of Mr Stanley Jewell, and Mrs Ann McKinsley, both of Dunfermline.
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The Hon Mrs David Erskine, who died 12 June, 2024, aged 96, was a scion of the Earls of Harewood, a daughter of Sir Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles.
The former Caroline Mary Lascelles was born 15 February, 1928, the younger daughter of the Rt Hon Sir Alan Frederick 'Tommy' Lascelles, PC, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC (1887-1981), & his wife the former Hon Joan Frances Vere Thesiger (1895-1971), daughter of the 1st Viscount Chelmsford.
Her father, the formidable Tommy Lascelles, served as assistant private secretary to King George V, 1935, and to King George VI 1936-43, Private Secretary to King George VI 1943-52, Keeper of the King's Archives 1943-52, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II 1952-53, Keeper of the Queen's Archives 1952-53, &c.
Sher married firstly, 20 May, 1949, the Hon Antony Alfred Lyttelton (born 23 Oct, 1920), son of the 1st Viscount Chandos (1893-1972), and his wife the former Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne (1892-1976), daughter of the 10th Duke of Leeds (1862-1927). Her 1st husband succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Chandos, 21 January, 1972, and died 28 November, 1980.
As Caroline, Viscountess Chandos, she married 2ndly, in 1985, as his second wife, the Hon David Hervery Erskine (born 5 November, 1924), scion of the Earls of Mar & Kellie, 3rd son of Major Lord Erskine (1895-1953), by his wife the former Lady Marjorie Hervey (1898-1967), daughter of the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951), and a yr brother of the 13th Earl of Mar & Kellie (1921-93).
Caroline Erskine leaves issue from her first marriage to Viscount Chandos, two sons, Thomas and Matthew, and two daughters, Laura and Deborah. Her elder son is the 3rd Viscount Chandos.
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Venetia Hind (nee Trotter, born 1991), wife of Capt Edward John M. Hind [born 1992], of the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, gave birth to a daughter, Amelia Rosemary, 23 May, 2024.
Capt Hind is a son of Mr Michael C. Hind, of Denbighshire, by his wife the former Angela Marshall.
Venetia Hind is a daughter of Mr Peter M.H. Trotter, of Aldsworth, Gloucestershire, and Mrs Janet Trotter [nee Buchanan-Dunlop, scion of that landed gentry family], of Andoversford, Gloucestershire.
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Mrs Richard Wellesley, who died 11 June, 2024, aged 96, was the widow of Major Richard Wellesley, scion of the Dukes of Wellington.
She was born in 1927, as Jill Vivienne Burton, daughter of Group Capt Eric Burton, RAF, and his wife the former Jessie Vivienne Freeman; and married in 1970, as his second wife, Major Richard Wellesley (born 22 June, 1920), son of Wing Commander Lord George Wellesley (1889-1967), and his first wife the former Louise Nesta Pamela FitzGerald (1889-1946), scion of the FitzGerald baronets, knights of Kerry. Her husband, a grandson of the 4th Duke of Wellington, died 27 April, 1984, aged 63. No issue.
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The King and Queen, the Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family have taken part in the annual Garter Day service at Windsor Castle today, 17 June, 2024 - but despite her appearance at the Trooping the Colour, the Princess of Wales was absent from the ceremony.
The celebration commemorating the ancient Order of the Garter traditionally takes place on the Monday after the Birthday Parade and on the day before the commencement of Royal Ascot week, as the busy royal summer period begins in earnest.
Today, members of the royal family who are Ladies and Knights of the Order of the Garter – the country's oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry – processed down the hill from the Berkshire castle's State Apartments to St George's Chapel, dressed in white ostrich feather plumed hats and dark blue velvet robes. They include the Duke of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, and the Duke of Gloucester.
The procession was watched by crowds of onlookers, which included the Duchess of Edinburgh, who in other years has been joined by the Princess of Wales. After the ceremony, the King and Queen Camilla and members of the royal family departed by carriage and returned to the castle.
The Duchess of Gloucester was invested today as a Royal Lady of the Garter. The former Birgitte van Deurs, 77, has been a member of the Royal Family since marrying Prince Richard, King George V's youngest grandson, in 1972.
Lord Lloyd-Webber, the composer and impresario, Lord Kakkar, emeritus professor of surgery at University College London and Air Chief Marshal the Lord Peach, were installed as Knight Companion. Founded in 1348 by King Edward III, the Order of the Garter is awarded by the sovereign for outstanding public service and achievement.
It is limited to 24 Knights or Ladies Companion, in addition to the King and the Prince of Wales and several "supernumerary members", including some foreign monarchs such as the Emperor of Japan, the King of Spain, the King of Norway, the King of Sweden, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, her son, the King of the Netherlands and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. Recipients of the honour are chosen because they have held public office, contributed to national life or served the sovereign personally.
The appointment of Knights and Ladies of the Garter is the King's gift and is made without consulting ministers. The investing of new companions with the Order's Insignia is a key feature of the annual ceremony and is done by the monarch.
The Pages of Honour in attendance on the King and Queen were the Hon Guy Aylmer George Tryon, son and heir of the 4th Baron Tryon, and Charles Hugh Valentine van Cutsem.
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Julia Mary Budworth (nee Bowles), who died 19 May, 2024, aged 92, was part-owner of The Lady magazine.
Julia Mary Bowles was born in March, 1932, daughter of George Frederic Stewart Bowles, and his wife the former Madeline Mary Tobin, and was a cousin of the famed 'Mitford Sisters', Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah.
She married in 1952, David Dutton Budworth (1920-1974), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Major-General Charles Edward Dutton Budworth, CB, CMG, MVO (1869-1921), and his 2nd wife the former Helen Blewitt.
She leaves issue, four sons, Ben, Richard, Adam and William. Another son, Alexander, pre-deceased her.
From the Times 17 June 2024: Julia Budworth took enormous pride in her role as the grande dame of The Lady and fought a vocal and very public battle to uphold the magazine’s traditional standards against the tide of modernisation. The Lady was founded in 1885 as “a journal for gentlewomen” by her grandfather Thomas Gibson Bowles. She was born in the flat above the magazine’s offices in Covent Garden and grew up immersed in the code of good manners and proper behaviour that it championed in its pages.
The magazine was where the aristocracy advertised for maids, nannies and other domestic servants. A typical ad read: “Titled Sir and Lady, without children, require a butler and housekeeper for a couple position in a beautiful country house on their estate in Yorkshire. The suitable couple will be responsible for the smooth running of the house, chauffeuring when required, care of fine antiques, fabrics and furniture, and must be knowledgeable in laundering full clothing and care of silver.”
When Budworth was growing up, The Lady’s contributors included her cousin Nancy Mitford…
[Her son] Ben appointed Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris, as the magazine’s editor. Over the previous 125 years, The Lady had steered a serene and stately path under only eight editors, but the ninth came in with a mission to shake up the magazine and make a noise…
…The daughter of Madeleine (née Tobin) and George Frederic Stewart Bowles, she was born Julia Mary Bowles in London in 1932. Her father had taken over The Lady on the death of his father in 1922 and nursed the magazine through the 1929 crash and the Depression. “He kept it going and they lived over the shop because they had very little money,” Budworth said…
…As a child she escaped the smoke in the company of her cousin Debo, the youngest of the six Mitford sisters and whose father, David Mitford, Baron Redesdale, had at one time been general manager of The Lady. Debo, the future Duchess of Devonshire and chatelaine of Chatsworth, was 12 years older and pushed her cousin’s pram when she was an infant. Later she taught her to ride and to milk a cow on the Hebridean island of Inch Kenneth, which the Mitford family owned.
They were together on the island in 1939 when the Second World War was declared. At the time, Debo’s sister Unity was in Munich under Hitler’s patronage and another sister, Diana, was about to be interned with her husband Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British fascists…
…Julia herself married David Budworth, who ran an engineering company, in 1952. He died in 1974 when the plane he was piloting crashed due to a technical fault. She is survived by their four sons, Ben, Richard and Adam, both barristers, and William, who works in security. A fifth son Alexander predeceased her…
Julia Budworth, magazine part-owner, was born in March 1932. She died of old age on May 19, 2024, aged 92
Charlotte Elizabeth Mitchell-Innes [born 1985, née Groves], wife of Peter Stewart Mitchell-Innes [born 1985], scion of that landed family, gave birth to a son, Albie Stewart Richard, 10 June, 2024, a brother for Jasper William David, who was born 8 February, 2017, and for Lyla Diana Helen, born 13 December, 2019.
Peter is a son of Ian Stewart Mitchell-Innes [born 1947] by his wife the former Diana Brooke Dean.
Charlotte is a daughter of Richard William Lewis Groves [born 1957], by his wife the former Helen Mary Keppel Charteris [born 1956], scion of the Earls of Wemyss & March.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Robin James Stirling Bullock-Webster, OBE, who has died aged 79, was a career soldier who spent almost 30 years in the Irish Guards. He was head of the Bullock-Webster landed gentry family.
He was born 22 November, 1944, the only son of Capt Sandro Ansell George Stuart Bullock-Webster, RM (1919-2007), and his wife the former Joan Stirling Joll (1921-2012), descended from the Stirling baronets. He married 1stly, 1971, Susan Nicola Darby (1948-1979), daughter of Peter James Darby (1917-2008), and his wife the former Pamela Joan Poyer Lewis (1919-2010), scion of that Welsh landed gentry family; married 2ndly, 1980, Maria, Countess Cowley (nee Maria Della Buenaño), widow of the 6th Earl Cowley (1946-1975), and daughter of Enrique Buenaño.
His only son, James Richard Henry Llewelyn Bullock-Webster (born 21 Apr, 1981), succeeds as head of the landed gentry family.
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Isabella Louise MacHale (nee Kerr-Smiley, born 19 February, 1990), wife of Thomas E. MacHale, gave birth to a daughter, Clara Amélie, 2 June, 2024, a sister for Clementine Thea, who was born 4 May, 2023.
Thomas MacHale is the younger son of Mr & Mrs Joseph MacHale, of Wonston, Hampshire.
Isabella MacHale is a scion of the Smiley baronets, elder daughter of Mark Alexander Kerr-Smiley [born 30 March, 1961], of Kensington, London, and his wife the former Manuela Maria Raquez.
Sir Hugh Smiley 1st Bt-->Peter Kerr-Smiley [1879-1943]-->Cyril Kerr-Smiley [1906-80]-->Peter Kerr-Smiley [b 1934]-->Mark Kerr-Smiley [b 1961]-->Isabella Kerr-Smiley [b 1990] > Clara MacHale [b 2024].
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Serena Louise Chastel de Boinville [nee Cookson, born 1986], wife of Nicolai (Nico) Chastel de Boinville, gave birth to a son, Dexter Reuben, 1 June, 2024, a brother for Antigoni Shaunagh, born 3 July, 2019, and for Iola Angela, born 24 June, 2021.
Nico Chastel de Boinville, jockey, is a scion of that landed family, of Walkern Hall, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, son of Mr Simon Murdoch Chastel de Boinville, of Baughurst, Hampshire, and the late Mrs Shaunagh Chastel de Boinville (d 2016).
Serena Chastel de Boinville is descended from the Barons Hemphill, daughter of Robert Edwin Cookson (descended from the Viscounts Falmouth), by his wife the former Hon Angela Mary Martyn Hemphill (b 1953), daughter of the 5th Baron Hemphill.
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Rosanna [Posie] Scrope [nee Staveley] wife of [Simon] Harry Richard Scrope [born 1974], head of the landed gentry family of Scrope of Danby, has given birth to a third son, Algernon Wilfred Cornell (Algie), 27 May, 2024, a brother Maximus Simon Parkinson, born 30 April, 2022, and for Henry Miles Titus 'Milo', born 28 August, 2023.
Harry is the only son of the late Simon Egerton Scrope [1934-2010], of Danby on Yore, and his wife the former Jennifer Jane Parkinson, descended from the extinct Barons Bingley.
Rosanna Lorna Scrope [born 1988], scion of the Staveley landed gentry family, is a daughter of the late Simon Henry Staveley [1949-98], and his wife the former Judy O. Willis Fleming [b 28 June, 1954], scion of that landed gentry family, of Willis Fleming, of Stoneham.
Harry Scrope is a grandson maternally of the late Sir Kenneth Parkinson, Kt [1908-81], sometime chairman of Yorkshire Post Newspapers, and his wife the former Hon Dorothy Lane Fox [1909-80], a daughter of the 1st and last Baron Bingley [1870-1947].
The Scrope family (pronounced "Scroop") are seated at Danby, the family's 1,500-acre estate in North Yorkshire. The family descend from one of Edward the Confessor's Norman favourites, and were thus already settled in England at the time of the Conquest. The family motto, Devant si je puis (Forward if I am able), is a sardonic allusion to their name,which means "crab" in the Norman dialect. Establishing themselves in Wensleydale in the 12th century, Scropes distinguished themselves on the Crusades and in the Hundred Years War, were regularly summoned to medieval parliaments as barons, and have produced five Garter knights, and an Archbishop of York.
The Scrope coat of arms, Azure a bend or, was one of the earliest to be adopted and, to amateurs of heraldry, is a celebrated curiosity. Campaigning in Scotland in 1385, Richard, Lord Scrope of Bolton, was aghast to see it borne by a fellow knight, Sir Richard le Grosvenor. The matter was tried in the Court of Chivalry – John of Gaunt, Harry "Hotspur" and Geoffrey Chaucer all giving evidence on Scrope's behalf.
Depositions were conveniently heard in York Minster, the family burial place, where the Scrope arms were prominently on display, as they were – in glass, alabaster and stone – in more than 40 other churches in Yorkshire. The court's decision in favour of Scrope has long rankled with the Grosvenors. Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, was to name his famous racehorse (the 1880 Derby winner) Bend Or, and it was also his nickname for his grandson, the 2nd Duke, whose chestnut hair reminded him of the horse. For their part, the proud Scropes sport a distinctive family tie, based on their arms, of blue with diagonal gold stripes.
Harry Scrope descends from a junior branch of the family which succeeded to the headship in 1630. Christopher Scrope was by that time a convicted recusant and knew better than to press his claim to the titles and estates. Christopher's son seated himself at Danby-on-Yore, in the heart of the Scrope country, which the family had acquired through an heiress in 1576. Largely rebuilt in the 16th century, Danby Hall incorporates one of the most southerly examples of a peel tower, dating from the early 14th century. A small chamber at the top of the "old Tower" served as a chapel, the only place of Catholic worship for miles around. In the early 1800s a capacious priest's hole was rediscovered at the back of a fireplace. Generations of Scropes were barred, as Catholics, from public office. Their sons were sent abroad, with false identities, for their schooling. Forbidden to own any horse worth more than £5, they depended on kindly Protestant neighbours to hold them in their own names. The Scrope who bred Danby Cade, a famous 18th-century racehorse, was not his legal owner. "Penal times" ended with the passing of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829. Scrope of Danby petitioned in vain for the earldom of Wiltshire, but retained the heraldic supporters (a pair of Cornish choughs) that the family claim by prescription – supporters being an honour usually afforded only to peers and knights grand cross under Royal Warrant.
Rosanna Scrope is a granddaughter of Capt [William Arthur] Miles Staveley [1913-81], scion of the Staveleys of North Stainley Hall, Ripon, and his wife the former Nancy Constance Cail [1914-2007].
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The Lady Iona Margaret Sophia Spink (nee Murray, born 13 March, 1992), wife of Capt Barnaby Frederick J Spink (born 1992), gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Veronica Sophia, 31 May, 2024.
Capt Spink is a son of [Andrew David] Jonathan Spink [born Oct 1960], of Kimbolton, and his wife the former Kathryn Anne Armstrong [born 1963].
Lady Iona is a daughter of the 8th (and ninth) Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (born 17 October, 1956) of Scone Palace, Perthshire, and the Countess of Mansfield (nee Sophia Mary Veronica Ashbrooke (born 22 January, 1959).
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His Majesty The King has appointed Lord Ashton of Hyde, PC, to succeed Lord De Mauley as Master of the Horse.
The Master of the Horse was once an important official of the sovereign's household, though the role is largely ceremonial today. The master of the horse is the third dignitary of the court, and was always a member of the ministry (before 1782 the office was of cabinet rank), a peer and a privy councillor. All matters connected with the horses and formerly also the hounds of the sovereign, as well as the stables and coachhouses, the stud, mews and previously the kennels, are within his jurisdiction.
Lord Ashton of Hyde, a former Conservative chief whip in the Lords, is a Gloucestershire neighbour of the King, living at Moreton-in-the-Marsh, half an hour's drive from Highgrove.
Thomas Henry Ashton was born 18 July, 1958, son of the 3rd Baron (1926-2008), and his wife the former Pauline Brackenbury (who died 4 Nov, 2014). He married 31 Oct, 1987, Emma Louise Allinson, by whom he has issue, four daughters, Harriet, Isobel, Flora and Matilda.
Lord Ashton of Hyde will replace the serving Master of the Horse, the 7th Baron de Mauley (born 30 June, 1957) , whose final major duty will be to ride in this weekend’s Trooping the Colour ceremony as holders of the post are present when the Royal Mews supports state occasions.
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The King has appointed the first female Chancellor of the Order of the Garter in history, the former head of MI5 Baroness Manningham-Buller.
The Order of the Garter, which was founded by King Edward III in 1348, is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry, with members appointed personally by the monarch for their contribution to public life.
Baroness Manningham-Buller, LG, DCB (born 14 July, 1948), was made a Lady Companion of the Garter by the late Queen Elizabeth II in April 2014. She became Director General of the MI5 in October 2002 and, in that capacity, led the Security Service's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Following her retirement in April 2007, she became a crossbench life peer in 2008.
Buckingham Palace said the King has been “graciously pleased” to appoint Baroness Manningham-Buller to the office on the retirement of the 5th Duke of Abercorn, KG (born 4 July, 1934), who has held the office since 2012.
Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller is a daughter of the 1st Viscount Dilhorne (1905-80), sometime Lord Chancellor, and his wife, Lady Mary Lilian Lindsay (1910-2004), daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres (1871-1940). She is the first female Chancellor since the office’s inception in 1475. The role was held by the bishops of Salisbury and Oxford for nearly 500 years, before changing in 1937 to be someone selected from the existing Knights Companion of the Order.
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The marriage took place, 8 June, 2024, at Biggar Kirk, Lanarkshire, between Capt Thomas Edmund Horatio Fortescue, Coldstream Guards (born 30 July, 1993), scion of the Earls Fortescue, the elder son of John Andrew Francis Fortescue (born 27 March, 1955), of Wincombe, Dorset, and his wife the former Phoebe Anne Cecilia Burridge (born 25 July, 1959), & Louisa A.R. MacDonald, daughter of Lt Col and Mrs Angus MacDonald, of Muirburn, Peeblesshire.
Capt Tom Fortescue's father is heir pres to the 8th Earl Fortescue (born 10 May, 1951)
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Sir Martin Jacomb, who has died aged 94, was a barrister and merchant banker who became founder chairman of BZW, the investment banking arm of Barclays, and a key adviser to the government on the privatisation of British Telecom; he went on to be chairman of Prudential, Canary Wharf and the British Council.
Martin Wakefield Jacomb was born 11 November, 1929, son of Hilary Jacomb and his wife Felice, and was educated at Eton and Worcester College, Oxford.
At various times he was a member of the court of the Bank of England, an adviser to the US Federal Reserve, deputy chairman of Commercial Union and a director of Marks & Spencer, British Gas, RTZ, Christian Salvesen and The Telegraph. He served on the boards of the Royal Opera House, the OUP, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and was Chancellor of Buckingham University. He was knighted in 1985.
In later years he occasionally contributed to the business pages of The Spectator – and to Daily Telegraph obituaries. Into his nineties, though notably stooped, he remained active in City and political debate. He voted Remain in the EU referendum, “but only because the EU will collapse unless reformed, and I would like the UK to lead the reformation”.
He married 30 Apr, 1960, Evelyn Helen Heathcoat Amory (born 4 June, 1939), scion of the baronets of that name, elder daughter of Richard Frank Heathcoat Amory (1903-57), and his wife the former Hon Margaret Irene Gaenor Scott-Ellis (1919-2002), daughter of the 8th Baron Howard De Walden (1880-1946), by whom he had issue, a daughter Emma (born 15 May, 1961), and two sons, Matthew (born 11 June, 1963), and Thomas (1964-2023).
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The engagement was announced 7 June, 2024, between Orlando William F. Lloyd (born 12 Jan, 1992), younger son of Mr Peregrine M.A. Lloyd (born c. 1956), of Kingston Lisle, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Annabel Cynthia Higgins (born 1958), & Cecily Katherine Offord (born 1992), younger daughter of Peter Nicholas Offord (born 1949), of Bickleigh, Devonshire, and his wife the former Elizabeth Laura Gascoigne (born 31 July, 1958), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Crispin Gascoigne (1929-2001), and his wife the Hon Elizabeth Ann Harcourt (1932-2020), daughter of the 2nd (and last) Viscount Harcourt (1908-1979).
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The Duke of Westminster is marrying Olivia Henson today at Chester Cathedral. The Prince of Wales is acting as one of the duke’s ushers.
Crowds lined the streets of Chester to cheer the arrival of the duke, his bride with her father, and the Prince of Wales. Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank is one of the 400 guests.
The bride looked magnificent in a gown by London-based designer Emma Victoria Payne and she completed her bridal look with the Faberge Myrtle Leaf Tiara, one that Grosvenor brides wear on their wedding day. Olivia was wearing blue velvet shoes - 'something borrowed and something blue'.
A spokesman for the duke said: “The Duke and Miss Henson have taken a great deal of care in planning the wedding, putting their own personal stamp on all the arrangements and have made a conscious effort to involve local and regional suppliers in several aspects of the day.”
While the Prince of Wales is playing a key role in today's event, the majority of the Royal Family will miss the big day. The King and Queen have been in Normandy for the events surrounding 80th anniversary of D-Day. His brother the Duke of Sussex is not in Chester, with mixed reporting on whether he actually got an invitation or not. The wedding comes amid a long-running rift between the princes.
The Duke is one of Britain’s wealthiest men, with his calculated wealth of just over £9.7 billion putting him 13th on the 2022 Sunday Times Rich List. Once considered one of the country's most eligible bachelors.
The couple are surprisingly low-key, and have released just one photograph of themselves together - until now. On 7 May, exactly one month before the nuptials took place, the duke and his bride-to-be visited a number of charities in Chester to see the projects that his organisation, the Westminster Foundation, is funding.
The young duke is a fourth cousin once removed of the King. They both have Romanov blood, the duke via his mother Natalia, and the King via the late Prince Philip's Romanov descent.
A spokesperson for the Duke and Miss Henson said: “The couple have chosen the cathedral for both its beauty and long association with the Grosvenor family, including to the Duke personally. Cheshire is the Grosvenor family’s ancestral home and as Miss Henson’s connection to the region continues to grow, they are keen to plan their wedding there.”
The duke's parents, the 6th Duke and Natalia Phillips married at Chester Cathedral, 7 October, 1978, and the Royal Family were there to celebrate the union of one of Britain's wealthiest men and Natalia, daughter of one of Queen Elizabeth II's great friends, the former Georgina Wernher. The duke's aunt, Lady Leonora Grosvenor, married the late 5th Earl of Lichfield at the cathedral, 8 March, 1975, and another aunt, Lady Jane Grosvenor married the 10th Duke of Roxburghe there, 10 September, 1977.
"The Duke and Miss Henson became engaged at Eaton Hall in April 2023, and have been incredibly grateful for the warm messages of congratulations they have received since then."
One of Britain’s wealthiest men, certainly our richest duke, 33, is godfather to Prince George of Wales, and a close confidante of the Prince and Princess of Wales. He was born 29 January, 1991, the only son of the 6th duke (1951-2016).
Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, the 7th duke, inherited the Eaton Hall estate near Chester, and large land holdings in London, Lancashire, Scotland, and in Canada, on the death of his late father, who died suddenly on his Abbeystead estate in Lancashire, 9 August 2016. The Westminster fortune is estimated to stand at 9.46 billion.
The duke’s mother, the former Natalia Ayesha Phillips (born 8 May 1959), descended from the Russia tsars and from Pushkin, is a granddaughter of Lady Zia Wernher, of Luton Hoo, a great friend of the late Queen Elizabeth II. It was at Luton Hoo where the late Queen and her consort spent many wedding anniversaries in the lifetime of Lady Zia, who died in 1977, and her husband Harold, who died in 1973.
The Duke was present at the Coronation of the King and Queen in May last year, and he carried a standard in the procession into Westminster Abbey.
The duke has three sisters, Lady Tamara van Cutsem (born 20 Dec 1979), wife of another of the King’s godsons, Edward van Cutsem, and Lady Edwina Snow (born 4 Nov, 1981), a criminologist, wife of historian and broadcaster Dan Snow, and Lady Viola Roberts (born 9 Oct, 1992), wife of Dragoon Guards officer, Angus Roberts.
Their is no heir to the dukedom, and a son and heir would secure the peerage and the vast Grosvenor inheritance.
The dukedom of Westminster was the last dukedom to be given outside the confines of the royal family, and was created by Queen Victoria in 1874.
The new duchess (born 1 Sept, 1992), is a senior account manager with Belazu, an ethical food company, in London. She is extremely well connected, with lines of descent from the Hoare banking dynasty, the Marquesses of Britsol, of Ickworth, Suffolk, and the Dukes of Rutland, of Belvoir Castle. She is the elder daughter of Mr Rupert Cornelius Brooke Henson (born 7 September, 1962), of Longworth, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Caroline Belinda Frisby (born 17 August, 1963), scion of that landed gentry family, descended from the Hoare banking family and the Marquesses of Bristol. Olivia’s uncle, Charles Wolrige Gordon, is the Grand Master of Scottish freemasons, Scotland’s senior freemason. Olivia’s mother is the twin sister of Charles’s wife, Angela Clare Wolrige Gordon.
Olivia has a brother Jasper (born 1994), who announced his engagement last year to the Spanish aristocrat Isabel Rodriguez-Legorburu Cabrera Kabana, and a sister, Emilia (born 1997).
Olivia is a granddaughter paternally of Thomas John Brooke Henson, MC (1931-2024), and his first wife the former Jennifer Caswell Cornelius (born 1938), daughter of Leonard Raymond Cornelius (1907-88), and his wife the former Betty Kathleen Caswell (1916-2010). Her grandparents divorced and in 1983 Mrs Jennifer Henson married Robert Christopher Thoroton Hildyard (1912-86), scion of a Yorkshire landed gentry family, descended from the Foljambe Earls of Liverpool.
The Romanov link:-
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (1796-1855) > Grand Duke Michael of Russia (1832-1909) > Grand Duke Michael of Russia (1861-1929) > Lady Zia Wernher (1892-1977) > Georgina Wernher (1919-2011) > Natalia Ayesha Phillips (b 1959), The 7th Duke of Westminster (b 1991)
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (1796-1855) > Grand Duke Constantine of Russia (1827-1892) > Grand Duchess Olga of Russia (1851-1926) > Prince Andrew of Greece (1882-1944) > Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) > King Charles III (b 1948)
Olivia is also descended from the Dukes of Rutland :-
The 5th Duke of Rutland > Lady Katherine Manners > Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey > Lady Geraldine Mariana Hervey > Angela Beryl Hoare > Simon Rollo Frisby > Caroline Belinda Frisby > Olivia Grace Henson
Olivia's descent from the Marquesses of Bristol-
Frederick, 2nd Marquess of Bristol > Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey >Lady Geraldine Hervey > Angela Beryl Hoare > Simon Frisby . Caroline Frisby > Olivia Grace Henson
The Duke and Olivia are both 6x great grandchildren of the 5th Earl of Carlisle (making them 7th cousins) and 7x great grandchildren of the 4th Duke of Beaufort (making them 8th cousins).
Olivia is a great-great granddaughter of Henry Hoare (1866-1956), partner in the eponymous family concern - Hoare's Bank, of Ellisfield Manor, Basingstoke, White Wings, Angmering, Sussex, and La Lucretola, Lago di Como, Italy. The Old Etonian died 29 July, 1956.
Olivia's descent from the Arbuthnot baronets:--
Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1766-1829) > John Alves Arbuthnot (1802-75) > William Arbuthnot (1833-96) > Alice Arbuthnot (b 1869) > Capt William Herbert Fox (1901-40) > Sara Fox (d 2018) > Caroline Frisby (b 1963) > Olivia Henson (b 1992)
