The engagement was announced 13 March, 2025, between Patrick William Edmund Massey (born 1983), son of William Grevile Sale Massey (born 31 Aug, 1953), of Beanacre, Wiltshire, and his wife the former Cecilia D'Oyly Awdry (born 4 Aug, 1954), scion of that landed gentry family, and Rosie May Brunel-Cohen (born 1991), fifth daughter of Mark Patrick Brunel-Cohen (born 8 August, 1949), of Sherborne, Dorset, and his wife the former Sally Joan Culham.
Rosie Brunel-Cohen is descended from the Samuel baronets:-
Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, 1st Baronet, MP (1856-1926) > Vera Evelyn Samuel > George Stuart Brunel-Cohen (1918-80) > Mark Brunel-Cohen (b 1949) > Rosie Brunel-Cohen
The Samuel family founded the merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. Sir Stuart, the 1st Bt, was a nephew of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1832-1911).
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