Clare Louise Puxley (née Allan, born 1991), wife of John Edward Lavallin (Johnnie) Puxley (born 6 February, 1990), scion of that landed gentry family, gave birth to a son, Rafferty John Lavallin, 7 May, 2026.
Clare is a daughter of Anthony R. Allan (born 1958), of Wandsworth, London, and his wife the former Gillian Patricia Anne Newman (born 1960).
Johnnie Puxley is a son of Charles John Lavallin Puxley, of Easton, Berkshire, by his wife the former Sarah Elizabeth Gamon.
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Alice Elizabeth Hogg (née Ponsonby, born 1988), scion of the Ponsonby baronets, and wife of Andrew A.J. Hogg, gave birth to a daughter, Olive Isabel, 9 April, 2026.
Alice is the only daughter of Sir Charles Ashley Ponsonby, 3rd Baronet [born 10 June, 1951], of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Mary Priscilla Bromley-Davenport [born 13 September, 1951], scion of that landed gentry family.
Andrew Hogg is the younger son of the late [Adam] Ronald Hogg, CBE [1951-2019], and Mrs Jane Hogg, of Chester-le-Street, County Durham.
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Marjorie Ruth Yelverton (née Hall), died 12 March, 2026, aged 97.
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Her husband was a son of Barry Augustus Yelverton (1895-1960), and his wife Margaret Ethel Green (who died 1970), daughter of John Thomas Green, of Christchurch, New Zealand.
She leaves two sons, Kevin Barry Yelverton (born 1949), and Mark Amour Yelverton (born 1961), and was predeceased by daughter, Sharon Anne, in 2023.
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She was the daughter of Ralph Pain, and married 28 June, 1961, Ian Brodie Henderson (born 25 October, 1930), son of Neil Brodie Henderson (1904-1982), and his wife the former Conn Madden (1908-1979), daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, 1st Baronet, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG (1862-1935), who served as the First Sea Lord in the 1920s.
She leaves issue, two sons, Nicholas (born 3 May, 1963), and James (born 30 Dec, 1964), and a daughter, Lavinia (born 9 May, 1962), wife of James Newman Gilbey (born 4 October, 1956), scion of the Gilbey baronets.
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It is Earl Spencer's fourth matrimonial adventure. He married firstly, 16 September, 1989 (div.1997), Catherine Victoria Lockwood; married 2ndly, 15 December, 2001 (div. 2007), Caroline Victoria Hutton; and married 3rdly, 18 June, 2011 (div.), Karen Villeneuve.
Earl Spencer has a son and three daughters with his first wife, a son and a daughter with his second wife, and a daughter with his third wife.
The new countess studied archaeology at the University of Bristol where she received her doctorate degree in 2017, per her bio on her literary agency’s website. Her research focused on the late 9th century Viking Great Army in Derbyshire, England, which she learned about through studying a mass Viking grave site of over 300 people. Her findings later informed the 2019 documentary Britain’s Viking Graveyard and PBS’ The Lost Viking Army. Countess Spencer is an honorary senior research associate at the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the school and the director of the archaeological research unit.
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The engagement was announced 19 May, 2026, between Patrick Frankland Hepburn (born 1989), eldest son of Stuart Frankland Hepburn (born 1954), of Great Canfield, Essex, and his wife the former Alison Bayne, & Georgina Clare Merriam (born 4 February, 1990), daughter of Richard Henry Faber Merriam (born 1957), of Faygate, West Sussex, and his wife the former Penelope J. Gidley-Kitchin (born 1958).
Georgina Merriam is descended from the Marquesses of Ailsa:-
3rd Marquess of Ailsa (1847-1938) > Lady Marjory Kennedy (1898-1988) > Peter Merriam (1922-2004) > Richard Merriam (b 1957) > Georgina Merriam (b 1990)
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Christopher George Peake died 2 April, 2026, aged 74, scion of the Peake family (later Viscounts Ingleby).
He was born 20 May, 1951, third son of Edward Charles Peake (1911-1999), and his wife the former Baroness Maria Santina Franziska Gabriella von Henikstein (1911-1999); and married 1993, Ann Marie O'Rourke, by whom he had a son, Matthew (born 25 September, 2002), and a daughter, Rebecca (born 8 June, 2000).
Christopher Peake descends from the 1st Earl of Zetland:-
1st Earl of Zetland (1766-1839) > Hon John Charles Dundas (1808-66) > John Charles Dundas (1845-92) > Evelyn Mary Dundas (1873-1945) > Edward Peake (1911-99) (brother of the 1st Viscount Ingleby) > Christopher Peake (1951-2026)
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The engagement was announced 19 May, 2026, between James Charles Assheton (born 19 March, 1999), scion of the Barons Clitheroe, second son of the Hon John Hotham Assheton (born 12 July, 1964), of Milton, Oxfordshire, and his wife the former Amanda Ellen Freeman (born 1965), & Héloïse Sarah H. Frusher (born 1999), the only daughter of David Michael Frusher (born 1959), of Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, and his wife the former Julia Mary Russell Allen (born 1961).
James Assheton is a grandson of the 2nd Baron Clitheroe (1929-2026).
Héloïse Frusher is descended from the Lords Borthwick:-
19th Lord Borthwick (1813-85) > Hon Mary Frances Harriet Borthwick (1876-1939) > James Borthwick Dowdall (1910-1962) > Anne Pauline Borthwick Dowdall (1933-2024) > Julia Mary Russell Allen (b 1961) > Héloïse Frusher (b 1999)
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Freya Salt, wife (or partner?) of Francis Richard Hornyold-Strickland (born 18 September, 1986), barrister, scion of that landed gentry family, of Sizergh Castle, gave birth to a son, Siegfried Phoenix Hector, at home in Athens, 2 May, 2026, a brother for Cosima and Isolde.
Francis is the son of Robert Francis Michael Hornyold-Strickland (born 31 October, 1954), and his first wife Teresa Mary Fawcett, and a grandson of Thomas Henry Hornyold-Strickland, 7th Count della Catena, DSC (1921-1983).
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Robert Gwynne Cottam died 11 May, 2026.
He was born in 1934, son of Major-General Algernon Edward Cottam, CB, CBE, MC (1894-1964), of Bodiam, Sussex, and his wife the former Margaret Eileen Haselden (1901-1990); and married 7 October, 1967, Morella Cumberland Walker (born 13 April, 1942), scion of the Walker baronets of Sand Hutton, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Gerald Bartholomew Walker (1912-1999), and his wife the former Margaret Cumberland Templeton (1913-1987), by whom he had issue, two sons, Charles (born 1 June, 1969), and Henry (born 4 Oct, 1973), and a daughter, Rosemary (born 22 July, 1971).
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Baroness Lamont of Kerwick, who died 6 May, 2026, aged 79, was the former wife of the Baron Lamont of Lerwick, who as Norman Lamont, MP, PC, was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the administration of John Major.
She was Alice Rosemary White, born in 1946, a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Conrad White (1915-1993), of Hall Farm House, Thorp Arch, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, by his wife the former Marion Winter; and married 1971 (div. 1999), Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont (born 8 May, 1942), son of Daniel Lamont, OBE, of Lerwick, and his wife Helen Irene, by whom she had issue, a son, Hilaire James Lamont (born 1974), and a daughter, Sophie Caroline (born 1978).
Her former husband was Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames 1972 to 1997, served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy 1979-81, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, 1981-1985, Minister of State for Defence Procurement 1985-1986, Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1986-1989, Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1989-90, and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1990-1993, and was raised to the peerage for life in 1998, as Baron Lamont of Lerwick, of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands.
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Major Peter Keith-Murray, who died 12 April, 2026, aged 90, was a scion of the Murray baronets of Ochtertyre, and heir presumptive to that baronetcy, held by his kinsman, Sir Patrick Murray, 12th Baronet.
He was born 12 July, 1935, son of David Keith-Murray (1900-1968), and his wife the former Nancy May Gautschi (1908-2008); & married in 1960, Judith Anne Tinsley (1935-2018), daughter of Wiliam Andrew Tinsley, of Sarnia, Ontatio, Canada, by whom he had issue, a son, David Andrew Keith-Murray (born 7 December, 1965), and a daughter, Leslie Anne (born in 1961).
He served in the Canadian military for 36 years in the RCAF as a Fighter Cop (Scope dope)and then as an Air Weapons Controller which took him and his family all over Canada, USA and while serving with NATO in Germany. He was an avid golfer, who won Super Senior club champion on multiple occasions at Glen Meadows Golf and Country Club and had two holes in one, his first was in Mexico and his last one being just a week before his 90th birthday at Ardmore Golf Course. He volunteered for decades with the Victoria Information Centre and British Columbia Aviation Museum (BCAM) in Sidney. He was a long time member of Probus and the Army, Navy, Air Force Unit 302 in Sidney.
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Timothy Rupert De Zoete died 27 April, 2026, aged 83.
He was born 8 May, 1942, son of Rupert Edward De Zoete (1913-1998), descended from Courage LG, and his wife the former Anna Patricia Gibbs (1915-2004), scion of the Barons Aldenham; & married 2 July, 1969, Moyra Jane Dawnay (born 8 April, 1946), scion of the Viscounts Downe, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Dawnay, KCVO, CB, DSC, OStJ (1904-1989), and his wife Lady Angela Christine Rose Montagu Douglas Scott (1906-2000), 5th daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry (1864-1935).
He leaves a daughter, Alexandra Margot (born 18 April, 1973).
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Martin Hugh Pym, MBE, who died 16 May, 2026, aged 99, was a scion of that landed gentry family.
He was born 28 February, 1927, the third son of Major Alexander Ruthven Pym (1891-1971), and his wife the former Violet Helen Marie Warrender (1896-1983), daughter of Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet (1869-1917); and married 3 December, 1960, Phillada Hilary Nunneley (1939-2025), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Robin Michael Charles Nunneley (1911-2005), and his wife the former Patricia May Roylance (1911-1999), by whom he had issue, a son, William (born 17 April, 1968), and three daughters, Lucy (born 24 Sept, 1961), wife of Maj-Gen Sir William Cubitt; Emma (born 25 June, 1963), an Serena (born 26 Feb, 1965), wife of James Jamieson, nephew of the 17th Duke of Norfolk.
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Richard Henry Persse, who died 12 May, 2026, aged 88, was a scion of that Irish landed gentry family.
He was born 22 October, 1937, son of Brigadier (Reginald Barry) Lovaine Persse (1896-1985), and his wife the former Sheelah Patricia Batterby (1897-1979); and married 3 May, 1969, Susan Royle Kennett (born 10 March, 1942), daughter of Commander Anthony Kennett, RN (1909-1994), of Tanners, Wrington, Somerset, & his wife the former Patience Vera Plowden (1915-1998), scion of that landed gentry family, and had issue, two sons, Edward Henry Michael (born 19 March, 1971), and James Alexander Jocelyn (born 1972).
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Comtesse Richard de Pelet, who died 9 May, 2026, aged 84, was a scion of the Cazenove landed gentry family of Cottesbrooke.
Isabel de Lérisson Cazenove was born in 1942, daughter of Brigadier Arnold de Lérisson Cazenove, CBE, MVO, DSO, DL, ADC (1898-1969), and his wife the former Elizabeth Laura Gurney (1914-1994), scion of that landed gentry family; and married 1966, Comte Richard de Pelet, son of Comte and Comtesse Guy de Pelet, by whom she had issue, a son, Charles (born 1970), and a daughter, Sophie (born 1973).
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The engagement was announced 16 May, 2026, between Henry Richard White (born 1998), eldest son of Myles Bernard White (born 1963), of Wadhurst, East Sussex, and his wife the former Jo-Anne Day (born 1967), and Zara Rose Catherine Trower (born 27 April, 1998), second daughter of Christopher James Walter Trower (born 1965), of Elmdon, Essex, and his wife the former Charlotte Lavinia Frances Salt (born 13 January, 1967), fourth daughter of Sir Anthony Houlton Salt, 6th Baronet (1931-1991).
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The engagement was announced 16 May, 2026, between Tobias Robin C. Lewis (born 1993), a son of Beryn Charles Martin Lewis [born 1958], of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, by his wife the former Tamzin Marjorie Soames [born 1958], scion of that landed gentry family, & Claudia Anne Whittaker (born 1999), daughter of Mr Neil Whittaker, of Holt, North Wales, and Miss Caroline Platt, of Rossett, North Wales.
Tobias Lewis is descended from the Cayley baronets, and the Marquesses of Conyngham, &c.
3rd Marquess Conyngham > Lady Constance Conyngham > Marjorie Combe > Robert Soames > Tamzin Soames > Tobias Lewis
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Emily Kate L. Dodd-Noble [nee Rowlinson, born 1984], wife of Harry Thomas B. Dodd-Noble [born 1985], gave birth to a son, Blue Orlando Benjamin, 22 April, 2026, a brother for Bertie-Fox Burlington Leo, born 14 August, 2021, and for Cosmo Balthazar Patrick, born 6 April, 2023.
Harry Dodd-Noble, a descendant of the Merrie Monarch Charles II, is a son of (Simon) Thomas Antony (Tom) Dodd-Noble (b 17 Feb, 1955), of Oxfordshire, by his former wife the former Carolyn A. Botting (now Mrs Carrie Stewart, of London), and is a grandson of Adrian Dodd-Noble (1922-2013) (a grandson maternally of the Baron Kirkley). by his 1st wife the former Lady Elizabeth Theresa Boyle (1920-81), sister of the 13th & 14th Earls of Cork & Orrery.
Emily Dodd-Noble is a daughter of Mr Stephen R. Rowlinson, of East Sussex, by his wife the former Kathleen A. McGowan.
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Rosanna Sophie Hudson [nee Littleton, born 1989], wife of Toby V. Hudson, gave birth to a second son, Harry Basil Broadway, 25 April, 2026, a brother for Benjamin Westby Vavasour, who was born 8 October, 2022.
Toby is a son of Mr Andrew Hudson, of Bedale, Yorkshire, by his former wife the former Georgina Ticey [now Lady Horlick, of Newbury, Berkshire, wife of Sir James Horlick, 6th Baronet].
Rosanna is a daughter of Antony Robin Welhouse Westby Littleton [previously Percevall descended from the Barons Hatherton], of Hannington, Hampshire, by his wife the former Hon Aileen Mary Fitzherbert [born 29 March, 1953], daughter of the 14th Baron Stafford [1926-1986].
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Michael Richard Sefi, LVO, who died 9 May, 2026, aged 82, was a philatelist, Keeper of the Royal Stamp Collection to HM Queen Elizabeth II, from 2003 until his retirement in 2018.
He was born 11 December, 1943, son of Antony Sefi and his wife the former Judith Hull; and married 29 June, 1968, Harriet Mary Davidson (born 28 November, 1942), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Keppel Davidson, CIE, OBE (1895-1943), and his wife Lady Mary Rachel Fitzalan Howard (1905-1992), daughter of the 15th Duke of Norfolk, KG, GCVO (1847-1917).
Sefi was appointed LVO in 2013.
He is survived by his wife and son, Charles (born 23 Aug, 1974), and two daughters, Clare (born 9 Feb, 1970), and Laura (born 31 Mar, 1972)
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Dr Peter Cannon-Brookes, who died 3 May, 2026, aged 87, was a Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, & co-authored the book Baroque Churches, with his wife Caroline.
He was born in 1938, son of Victor Montgomery Cannon-Brookes (1911-2004), and his wife the former Nancy Margaret Markham Carter (1913-1994); and married 13 April, 1966, Caroline Aylmer Christie-Miller (born 4 February, 1942), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Aylmer Christie-Miller, CBE, TD (1911-2007), and his wife the former Bridget Wilbraham Dixon (1918-1992), scion of the Dixon baronets, by whom he had a son, Stephen (born 12 Aug, 1966), and a daughter, Emma (born 16 February, 1968).
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Michael Anthony Hanbury-Williams, who died 8 May, 2026, aged 64. He was a scion of that landed gentry family.
He was born 28 June, 1961, the third son of John Michael Anthony Hanbury-Williams (born 7 July, 1933), and his wife the former Diane Hartley (born 28 August, 1936); and married September, 1987, Alexandra Marjorie Ringrose-Voase (born 13 August, 1962), scion of that landed gentry family, second daughter of Lt-Cdr Christopher John Ringrose-Voase, RN (1929-1990), and his his wife the former Patricia Anne Bushe (who died 2025), by whom he had issue, a son, Christopher John (born May, 1991), and a daughter, Katya Alexandra (born 5 January, 1994).
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The engagement was announced 12 May, 2026, between Hugo Gervaise Cameron Cooke (born February, 1987), scion of that Irish landed gentry family, son of Cdr Jonathan Gervaise Fitzpatrick Cooke, RN (born 26 March, 1943), and his wife the former Henrietta Loraine Deschamps Chamier (born circa 1949), and Rebecca Wald, daughter of Dr Christian Wald and Dr Astrid Wichmann-Hesse of Munich, Bavaria.
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Eric de Bellaigue, died 6 May, 2026. He was 95.
He was a son of Pierre de Bellaigue, of New York, United States, and married 1stly, 5 May, 1962, the Hon Sylvia Corisande Rodney (1930- d Feb1985), second daughter of the 8th Baron Rodney (1891-1973), and his wife Lady Marjorie Lowther (1895-1968), second daughter of the 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867-1953). He married 2nd;y, in June, 1985, Nike Kent Taylor.
From his first marriage he leaves 2 sons, Nicholas (born 15 January, 1966), and the author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue (born 23 September, 1971).
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The engagement was announced 11 May, 2026, between Marcus Seymour Gibson (born 1989), son of Mr Martin C Gibson, of Manaton, Devon, and Mrs Joanna L Gibson (nee Boswell), of Great Swinburn, Northumberland, and Laura Felicity Hamilton Wills (born 1996), scion of the Barons Dulverton, daughter of Christopher Aubrey Hamilton Wills (born 21 February, 1953), of Litchfield Down, Hampshire, and his wife the former Lady Katharine Anne Meade (born 10 Aug, 1959), fifth daughter of the 6th Earl of Clanwilliam (1914-1989).
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Derek Edward Glenister died 3 May, 2026, aged 87.
He was born in 1939, son of Sydney William Glenister (1912-1989) and his wife Ada Florence Benge (1911-1994); and married 31 August, 1964, Clothilde Muriel Frances (Chloe) Nightingale (born 7 September, 1939), second daughter of Sir Charles Athelstan Nightingale, 16th Baronet (1902-1977), and his wife the former Evelyn Nadine Frances Diggens (1908-1995), by whom he had issue, two daughters, Frances (born 23 May, 1966), and Clare (born 4 March, 1968)
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Martin Wreford Woodnutt, died 26 April, 2026, aged 79.
He was born in 1946, son of Harold Frederick Martin (Mark) Woodnutt, MP (1918-1974), Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight, and his wife Gwynneth Alice Lovely (1925-1986); and married in 1975, Susannah Harrison (1946-2019), daughter of William Herbert Harrison (1909-1975), and his wife Elcha Cecilia Hore-Ruthven (1912-1996), scion of the Lords Ruthven of Freeland (Peerage of Scotland, cr 1651), by whom he had issue, a son, Piers (born 1977), in remainder to the Lordship of Freeland, and a daughter, Emily (born 1979), also in remainder to the Scottish peerage.
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The engagement was announced 9 May, 2026, between Matthew George Pugh (born 1996), son of the late Charles A. Pugh, of Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and his wife the former Allison J. Francombe (born 1965), and Madeleine Louise Fairbairn (born 24 January, 1998), scion of the Fairbairn baronets, eldest daughter of the late James Andrew Fairbairn (1967-2020), of Lurgashall, West Sussex, and his wife the former Samantha Jane Hardwicke.
Madeleine Fairbairn is a great-granddaughter of Sir William Fairbairn, 5th Baronet (1902-1972).
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The engagement was announced 9 May, 2026, between Thomas William Armstrong-Wilson (born July, 1987), son of Robert Paul Fitzroy Armstrong-Wilson (born Aug, 1959), of Langholm, Dumfriesshire, and his wife the former Shona Gillian Gray (born 1963), & Rose Elizabeth Jean Vestey (born 5 February, 1996), second daughter of Robin John Henry Vestey (born 14 April, 1968), of Little Thurlow, Suffolk, scion of the Vestey baronets, and Mrs Victoria Eileen Herbert Vestey (nee Waddell), of Newmarket, Suffolk.
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Baroness Emily Anne Sweerts De Landas Wyborgh (born 1989, nee Jack), wife of Baron Arthur Sweerts De Landas Wyborgh, gave birth to a second daughter, Baroness Clementine Alice Grietje, 5 May, 2026, a sister for Tiggy, who was born in 2025.
Emily is the Hon Emily Jack, daughter of the life peer the Baron Jack of Courance, KBE, DL (born 7 July, 1963), who as Alister Jack, MP, served as Secretary of State for Scotland 2019-2024, and of Baroness Jack of Courance (nee Ann Hodgson).
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Patrick Gault De Courcy-Ireland, CVO, who died 2 May, 2026, aged 92, was a scion of that landed gentry family.
He was late of HM Diplomatic Service (retired), sometime director of marketing and consultant to the Rezayat Group (formerly the Alireza Group of Companies).
He was born 19 August, 1933, son of Lawrence Kilmain De Courcy-Ireland (1897-1968), and his wife Elizabeth Pentland Gault (1901-1977); and married 1stly, 1957, Margaret Gallop; & married 2ndly, 2018, Marie-Antoinette Engelhard, and leaves issue from his first marriage, a son, Jonathan, and three daughters, Kiki, Joanna and Gail.
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The engagement was announced 8 May, 2026, between Alexander George Teague (born 1999), only son of Richard John Teague (born June, 1966), of Haywards Heath, Sussex, and his wife Natalie Helen Sutton (born November, 1966), & Sophie Louise Hulton-Harrop (born 1999), the only daughter of David Michael de Lacy Hulton-Harrop (born 24 March, 1962), of Battlefield, Shropshire, head of that landed gentry family, and his wife Julia M. Warren.
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The engagement was announced 8 May, 2026, between Edward Henry Arnold Wills (born 15 June, 1994), scion of the Wills baronets, son of Richard Arnold Wills (born 5 March, 1962), of Middleton, Hampshire, and his wife the former Netta Morris, & Avril Helen S. Roberts (born 1997), daughter of Charles Roberts, of Stretham, Cambridge, and Mrs Roberts (nee McBryde).
Edward Wills is a cousin of the King via his Bowes Lyon ancestry:-
The 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne
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Lady Mary Bowes Lyon
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Hon Jean Constance Elphinstone
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Andrew Wills
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Richard Wills
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Edward Wills
Count Richard Beaumont Melchior Gurowski died 1 May, 2026, aged 86.
He was born in Salisbury in 1939, a son of Capt Count Richard Dudley Melchior Gurowski (1910-1940), and his wife Angela Mary Haig-Thomas, a granddaughter of the 4th Earl of Normanton; and he married 2 September, 1964, Rosanna FitzGerald (1945-2021), daughter of Maj Sir George Peter Maurice FitzGerald, 5th Baronet (1917-2001), and his wife Angela Dora Mitchell (1917-2009), by whom he had issue, two daughters, Iona (born 22 July, 1967), and Anya (born 9 July, 1970).
Richard Gurowski was a descendant of the Merrie Monarch, King Charles II.
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The engagement was announced 7 May, 2026, between Edward John Robin Stanley, styled Lord Stanley (born 21 April, 1998), elder son and heir of the 19th Earl of Derby, DL (born 10 Oct, 1962), of Knowsley Hall, Prescot, Merseyside, and the Countess of Derby (nee the Hon Caroline Neville, born 28 Dec, 1963, scion of the Barons Braybrooke), and Jonkvrouw Victoria Jooris (born 1999), only daughter of Dominique, Baron Jooris (born 1969), of Brussels, Belgium, and Mrs Sophie Tornel (born 1972), of Brussels, Belgium.
Lord Stanley was a Page of Honour to HM Queen Elizabeth II.
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The engagement was announced 7 May, 2026, between George Euan D. Cozens (born February 1999), son of Charles Edmund Gillery Cozens (born March, 1960), of Horley Manor, Banbury, Oxfordshire, and his former wife Mrs Emma Jane D. Cozens (nee Smith) of Honington, Warwickshire, and Louisa R. Molson (born 1996), daughter of Robert Ian Molson, of Kingham, Oxfordshire, and Mrs Verena Molson (nee Cayzer, born 8 February, 1961), of Chelsea, London, scion of the Barons Rotherwick.
Louisa Molson is a great-granddaughter of the 1st Baron Rotherwick.
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The engagement was announce 6 May, 2026, between Charles Nelson (Charlie) Cazalet (born 1987), son of (Charles) Julian Cazalet (born November, 1947), of Holland Park, London, and his wife the former Jennifer C (Jenny) Little, & Marie Hanes, daughter of Mr and Mrs Patrick Hanes, of Timisoara, Romania.
The Cazalet family were Huguenots who originated from Sumène in the Cevennes region of southern France. Charlie is a descendant of Estienne Cazalet (1659-1721) who migrated to settle among the Huguenot community of Spitalfields in London; a distant cousin also descended from Estienne was Peter Cazalet, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s racehorse trainer and P G Wodehouse’s son-in-law.
William Cazalet 1749-95
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Peter Grenville Cazalet 1813-1862
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Grenville William Cazalet 1860-1947
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Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Grenville Lyon Cazalet KBE CB DSO DSC 1899-1982 = Beatrice Elise Winterbotham 1908-1997
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Charlie Cazalet 1987-
Isabel Margaret Bickmore, who died 26 April, 2026, aged 75, was a scion of the Dukes of Norfolk.
She was born Isabel Margaret Fitzalan Howard, 30 January, 1951, daughter of Major-General Lord Michael Fitzalan Howard, GCVO, CB, CBE, MC (1916-2007), and his second wife Jane Margaret Newman (who died 25 December, 1995). She married in 1975, Peter Christopher Bickmore (born 1943), son of Lt-Col Lawrence Bickmore, OBE, and his wife Anne Drummond (1911-1985), scion of the Viscounts Strathallan, and a granddaughter maternally of the 4th Marquess of Ormonde.
She was a niece of the late 17th Duke of Norfolk, KG, GCVO, CB, MC (1915-2002), and a first cousin of the 18th Duke of Norfolk, GCVO (born 1956).
She leaves two sons, Andrew and Rupert, and a daughter Fiona.
Nicholas Timothy Houssemayne du Boulay, who died 23 Apri, 2026, aged 77, was a scion of that landed gentry family.
He was born 12 July, 1948, fourth son of Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Hardinge Houssemayne du Boulay, MC (1912-1984), of The Gordon Highlanders, and his wife the former Eleanor Jean Drysdale Henderson (who died 29 December, 2005).
He was educated at Harrow and was a teacher, a Housemaster at Strathallan School, Perthshire.
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The Daily Mail reports that Jemima Khan (nee Goldsmith) is to marry Cameron O'Reilly, a multi-millionaire Irish-Australian financier.
Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith was born 30 January, 1974, daughter of the late Sir James Goldsmith (1933-1997), and his wife Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1934-2025), daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry (1902-1955.
Jemima married firstly, in London, 20 June, 1995 (following a ceremony in Paris, 16 May), Imran Khan (born 25 November, 1952), a Pakistani former cricketer, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022, by whom she has two sons, Sulaiman (born 17 Nov, 1996), and Kasim (born 10 April, 1999).
The Khans were divorced in 2004.
(Anthony) Cameron O'Reilly (born 28 April, 1964), is a Dublin-born businessman with Irish and Australian citizenship, the son of an Irish father, media magnate Tony O'Reilly and an Australian mother, Susan Cameron. Having managed one of Australia's largest press groups, he is currently managing director of Landis+Gyr, formerly the Bayard Group, which includes the world's largest electricity metering supplier, and has revenues of over US$1.2 billion.
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HRH Princess Eugenie is pregnant with her third child. The Princess and her husband Jack Brooksbank are “very pleased” to be expecting a baby due this summer, Buckingham Palace said. The couple already have two sons, August, five, and Ernest, two. The baby will be the third child for the princess, 36, and husband Jack Brooksbank, 40, and a fifth grandchild for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson.
The baby will be fifteenth in line of succession to the throne, pushing Eugenie's uncle the Duke of Edinburgh into sixteenth place.
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank married at St George's Chapel, Windsor, 12 October, 2018.
Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank (born 3 May, 1986), is a scion of the Brooksbank baronets of Healaugh, Tadcaster, the elder son of the late Mr George Edward Hugh Brooksbank (1949-2021), by his wife the former Nicola J Newton (b 1953).
HRH Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York (b 23 March, 1990), is the younger daughter the former Prince Andrew (born 19 February, 1960), by his former wife Sarah Margaret Ferguson [born 15 Oct, 1959], scion of the Ferguson landed gentry family, of Dummer, Hampshire.
Order of Succession to the Throne:
1.HRH The Prince of Wales
2. HRH Prince George of Wales
3. HRH Princess Charlotte of Wales
4. HRH Prince Louis of Wales
5. HRH The Duke of Sussex
6. Prince Archie of Sussex
7. Princess Lilibet of Sussex
8. Mr Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
9. HRH Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
10. Sienna Mapelli Mozzi
11. Athena Mapelli Mozzi
12. HRH Princess Eugenie Mrs Jack Brooksbank
13. August Brooksbank
14. Ernest Brooksbank
15. The Brooksbank Baby
16. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
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Dorothy Sarah Cooper, who died 4 April, 2026, aged 69, was a scion of the Delmar-Morgan landed gentry family.
She was born 14 May, 1956, daughter of Curtis Delmar-Morgan (1908-1987), and his wife Susan Henrietta Hargreaves Brown (1914-2007), scion of the Brown, later Pigott-Brown baronets; and married in 1979, Peter S. Cooper, by whom she had issue, a son, Robert (born 1989), and a daughter, Elizabeth (born 1987).
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Annette Rosemary Macarthur-Onslow, who died at Camden, Sydney, New South Wales, 25 April, 2026, aged 93, was a scion of the Earls of Onslow.
She was born 21 March, 1933, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Macarthur-Onslow, DSO (1909-1980), and his wife Winifred Hall Owen (who died in 1987).
She became a recognised writer, illustrator and artist who was best known for the story of Uhu - a small tawny owl - for which she was awarded the 1970 Childrens Book of the Year Award.
She was unmarried.
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The engagement was announced 2 May, 2026, between Nicholas Richard John Harrington (born 1997), daughter of David William Ronald Harrington (born 1960), if Weeley, Essex, and his wife Isabella Anne Palmer (born 27 August, 1962), scion of the Palmer baronets, & Dulcie Rose Pearson (born 1996), daughter of John M. Pearson, of Tunbridge Wells, and his former wife Janet Sylvia Davey (born 1955, now Mrs David Austin, of St Just-in-Roseland, Cornwall).
Nicholas Harrington is a grandson of Sir Geoffrey Christopher John Palmer, 12th Baronet (born 30 June, 1936).
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John Malcolm Agnew Wallace, of Lochryan House, Stranraer, died 26 April, 2926. He was 98.
He was born in 1928, son of Major John Alexander Agnew Wallace, MC, of Lochryan House, and married 26 February, 1955, Louise Arden Haworth-Booth (1933-2021), scion of that landed gentry family, a daughter (twin) of Michael Haworth-Booth (1896-1986), head of that landed family, and his wife the former Mabel Arden Bagot (1896-1965), scion of the Barons Bagot, by whom he had issue, a son, John Benjamin Agnew Wallace (born 24 May, 1958), and two daughters, Nicola (b 22 July, 1956), and Jonica (b 10 June, 1963).
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(Sara) Norina Marie Bowlby (nee Stewart Clark) who died 29 April, 2026, aged 94, was a scion of the Stewart Clark baronets.
She was born 25 April, 1932, daughter of Sir Stewart Stewart-Clark, 2nd Baronet (1904-1971), and his wife Jane Pamela Clarke (died 1993): and married 23 September, 1961, Colonel Thomas Patrick Salvin Bowlby (1931-2020), scion of that landed gentry family, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edward Salvin Bowlby, MC (1904-1983), and his wife Joan Catherine Trotter (1903-1958), scion of the Trotters of Mortonhall, and a granddaughter of the 15th Earl of Eglinton (1848-1919), by whom she had issue, two sons, Anthony and Michael, and a daughter, Karina-Jane.
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The engagement was announced 2 May, 2026, between Lt Harry Patrick Lane Fox (born 1998), scion of that landed gentry family, of Bramham Park, fourth son of Capt (George Charles) Nicholas Lane Fox (born 25 December, 1963), of Bramham Park, Wetherby, and his wife the Hon Rachel Monica Baring (born 29 June, 1967), eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 30 Dec, 1937), & Dr Lily Joy E. St. John (born 1998), daughter of John St. John, of Hildenborough, Kent, and his wife the former Melanie Mary Ramsay, daughter of Major Neil Ramsay, of St Anns, Alyth, Perthshire.
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Hugh Robert Myddelton, who died 13 April, 2026, aged 87, was a scion of that landed gentry family, of Chirk Castle.
He was born 17 October, 1938, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Ririd Myddelton, LVO, DL (1902-1988), of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, and his wife the Lady Mary Margaret Elizabeth Petty-Fitzmaurice (1910-2003), sister of the 8th Marquess of Lansdowne (1912-1999).
He was twice married, firstly, 27 July, 1967 (div), the Hon Sarah Cecily Allsopp (1944-2009), daughter of the 5th Baron Hindlip (1912-1993), and his wife Cecily Valentine Jane Borwick (1910-2000), and married 2ndly, in 1994, Mrs Gaia Servadio Mostyn-Owen, former wife of William Mostyn-Owen (1929-2011), and daughter of Luxardo Servadio (1938-2021), and his wife Bianca Prinzi.
In 2001 he is reported to have assmed the surname of Myddelton Biddulph in lieu of his patronymic.
Gaia Myddelton, a writer, was sometime mother-in-law of the Rt Hon Boris Johnson, PC, Prime Minister, 2019-2022, who married her daughter Allegra Mostyn-Owen.
Hugh Myddelton leaves issue from his first marriage, a son, Alexander (born 7 March, 1969), and a daughter, Claerwen (born 1972).
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His Honour Judge Paul Everard Justus Focke, KC, died 22 April, 2026, aged 88.
He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn , 1964 (Bencher 1992); appointed QC (1982), and was a Circuit Judge from 1997. Also Called to the Bar, NSW and to the New Zealand, 1982; QC, NSW, 1984, &c.
He was born 14 May, 1937, son of Frederick Justus Focke (1898-1959), and his wife Muriel Fisher (1904-1995); and married in 1973, the Lady Tana Marie Alexander (born 2 May, 1945), daughter of the late 6th Earl of Caledon (1920-1980), and his first wife Ghislaine Dresselhuys (1922-2000), by whom he had two daughters, Diana (born 1974), and Victoria (born 1976).
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