The engagement was announced 25 April, 2025, between Capt. Stuart Alexander Fairlie Kaye, MVO, The Life Guards (born 1993), younger son of (Richard Wilfrid) Mark Kaye (born 1951), of East Woodlands, Somerset, and his late wife the former Philippa S. (Pippy) Checketts (1959-2024), & Rose Edith Lygon Scrope (born 7 November, 1994), scion of the ancient house of Scrope of Danby, daughter of Adrian Richard Scrope (born 8 August, 1949), of New Hayward, Berkshire and Mrs Sarah Patricia Scrope (nee Ward, born 3 February, 1968), of Chilton Foliat, Berkshire, scion of the Earls of Dudley.
Capt. Kaye, who has been Equerry to the Princess Royal since 2022, was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order, in the personal gift of the King, in the New Years Honours 2025. He is a grandson maternally of Squadron Leader Sir David Checketts, KCVO, RAF (born 23 Aug, 1930), former Private Secretary to HM The King (when Prince of Wales) and an Equerry to the late Duke of Edinburgh and to the King (when P of W).
Rose Scrope is a granddaughter maternally of Gerald John Ward, CBE, DL (1938-2008), Berkshire landowner, a great friend of HM The King, Old Etonian, Royal Horse Guards officer, godfather of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, & a scion of the Earls of Dudley, by his 1st wife the former Rosalind Elizabeth Lygon (1946-2020), scion of the extinct Earls Beauchamp.
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