The engagement was announced 10 March, 2025, between Jack Joseph Hanbury Severn (born 4 October, 1995), the eldest son of Ross Joseph Severn (born 13 April, 1965), of London, and his former wife Zahra Patricia Anne Hanbury (born 10 April, 1971, now Mrs William Lucas), of Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, scion of the Hanbury Landed gentry family, and Melissa Jane Thornton (born 1997), daughter of Russell Peter Thornton (born 1964), of Sale, Cheshire, and his wife the former Dawn Hughes.
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