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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Cecilia Leontine Mary McEwen (Princess Weikersheim) 1937-2019

_. Cecilia Leontine Mary McEwen (Princess Weikersheim), German aristocrat, died 30 March, 2019. She was 81.

She was born in London, 28 October, 1937, Cecilia Gräfin von Weikersheim
daughter of Franz Maria Joseph Antonius Benedicta, Fürst von Weikersheim (1904-83) by his wife Princess Irma zu Windisch-Graetz (1913-84), a cousin of Princess Michael of Kent.

She married in London, 30 June, 1960, Alexander Dundas McEwen (1935-2008), Scottish folk pioneer, art dealer, 6th Laird of Bardochat, scion of the McEwen baronets, by whom she had two sons, Alexander & Hugo, and a daughter, Sophia.

Her husband died 6 Dec, 2008.

The funeral takes place at the Sacred Hearts Church Jesus & Mary, Girvan, 16 April, 2019.

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Saturday, March 30, 2019

George Alexander Copson MacLeod (born 2019)

_. Elena Mary Nadezhda MacLeod (born 1977) scion of the MacLeods of Macleod, wife of Mark Copson, gave birth to a son, George Alexander Copson MacLeod, 17 March, 2019.

Mark Copson is a son of Maj Paul Copson, MBE, & Mrs Mabel Copson, and Elena is a daughter of John MacLeod, The MacLeod of MacLeod, 29th Chief of the Clan MacLeod (1935-2007) by his wife Melita Kolin.

Elena’s father, originally a Wolrige-Gordon by birth, but grandson of Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, DBE, of Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, was recognised in the surname of MacLeod of MacLeod in 1951. He succeeded his grandmother in 1976.
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Edward George Francis Engleheart [born 2019]

_. Rowena Engleheart (nee Mackay), wife of John F. Engleheart, gave birth to a son, Edward George Francis, 29 March, 2019, a brother for Henry and Georgiana.

John Engleheart is a  son of Mr and Mrs Henry Engleheart, of Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, and Rowena is a daughter of Dr and Mrs Bruce Mackay, of Kings Mills, Guernsey

John Francis (b 1981, reg December, Lambeth London) s of Henry Francis Arnold ENGLEHEART (b 1931), head of the gentry family of that name of Stoke Priory, and Victoria (b 1941) d of Maj Ian Maitland PELHAM BURN (1898-1985), scion of that gentry family formerly of Adstock, and of the ORR EWING Bts, and Helen Pamela d of Sir Frederick Terry ROWLATT KBE (1865-1950).

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Friday, March 29, 2019

Angus William James Malcolm [born 2019]


_. Fiona Louise Malcolm [nee Heggie, born 1985] wife of Edward Alexander Humpherus Malcolm [born 1984] scion of the Malcolm baronets, gave birth to a son, Angus William James, 28 March, 2019.

Edward Malcolm is the son and heir of Sir Alexander James Elton Malcolm 13th Baronet [born 1956], by his wife the former Virginia Elizabeth Coxon.

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Diana Mourne Feilding (died 2019)

_.Diana Mourne Feilding, who died 28 March, 2019, was the wife of Peter Rudolf Feilding, scion of the Earls of Denbigh & Desmond.

She was daughter of C C Cox, TD of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. She married in 1968 Peter Rudolph Feilding (b 1941) son of Capt Hon Basil Egerton Feilding (1916-70), scion of the DENBIGH & DESMOND earls, and Rosemary EARDLEY-WILMOT (1920-2009), scion of the Bts of that name, and had a son and a dau.

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Jessica Primrose Berens 1959-2019

_. Jessica Berens, who died 27 March, 2019, aged 59, was a journalist, descended from the Barons Churston, and was a cousin of His Highness the Aga Khan.

Jessica Berens was writer-in-residence at Dartmoor Prison.

She was born in 1959, a daughter of Richard Wilfred Beavoir Berens, journalist, sometime editor of the William Hickey column on the Daily Express, by his wife, the Hon Nicole [known as Araminta] Yarde-Buller [born 1936].

Her maternal grandfather, the fourth Baron Churston [1910-91] bore one of the Golden Spurs at the Coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II.

Her aunts include Joan, wife successively of Loel Guinness, the Aly Khan, and the 2nd Viscount Camrose; Denise, wife of the 5th Baron Ebury; & Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, sometime wife of the 13th Duke.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Denaro/Kuhnke engagement

_. The engagement was announced 27 March, 2019, between George Tancred Roney Denaro, younger son of Major-General Arthur George Denaro, CBE (born 23 March, 1948)  by his wife the former Margaret Roney Acworth & Kristina Louise Kuhnke, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Karl Kuhnke, of Hergswil, Switzerland.

Maj-Gen Denaro is an Extra Equerry to HRH The Prince of Wales, sometime chairman, Prince’s Trust Volunteers, and commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

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Palmer/Prud’homme engagement

_. The engagement was announced 27 March, 2019, between the Hon George Gordon Nottage Palmer (born 17 Nov, 1985), second son of the 4th Baron Palmer (born 8 Oct, 1951), of Duns, Berwickshire, by his former wife the former Cornelia Dorothy Katharine Wadham, also of Berwickshire, and Laura Elisabeth Marie Prud’homme, daughter of M and Mme Bruno Martin-Prud’homme, of Blanzaguet-Saint-Cybard, France.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Wilkins/Fitzgerald engagement

_. The engagement has been announced between Eric Arthur Wilkins (born 1987), youngest son of Barry Wilkins (born 1957),  by his wife the former Helen Slyomovics, & Atalanta Rose Fitzgerald (born 1992), younger daughter of Edward Hamilton Fitzgerald CBE, QC (born 1953), by his wife the former Rebecca Rose Fraser (born 1957) scion of the Lords Lovat, daughter of the Rt Hon Sir Hugh Fraser, MBE (1918-84), by his wife the writer Lady Antonia Pakenham (born 1933), daughter of the 7th Earl of Longford, KG, PC (1905-2001).

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Monday, March 25, 2019

The alleged dispute between the Duchess of Cambridge and the Marchioness of Cholmondeley: some background information

_. The Press report rumours of a rift between the Duchess of Cambridge and her Norfolk neighbour the Marchioness of Cholmondeley.

The Marchioness, formerly the model Rose Hanbury, 35, has family ties and numerous links to the Royal House of Windsor.

(Sarah) Rose Hanbury was born 15 March, 1984, a daughter of Timothy James Hanbury (born 26 September, 1952) of Wembury, Devon, and his wife, the former Emma Longman (who was born in 1959).

Rose’s father, a member of the Hanbury landed gentry family, is a cousin of the Queen, albeit several times removed, in his descent from his great-great-great-grandfather, Abel Smith, of Woodhall Park, Hertfordshire. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was a descendant of Abel Smith.

The Marchioness of Cholmondeley is also closely linked to the beautiful Freda Dudley Ward, for many years the mistress of the Duke of Cambridge’s great-great uncle, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor. Rose’s grandmother was the former Sarah Birkin, a cousin of Freda Dudley Ward, who was so cruelly dumped by the heir to the throne in the early 1930s after an affair which had lasted since the closing days of the First World War.

Rose’s mother Emma Longman is a younger sister of Caroline Longman, a goddaughter of the Queen, and was romantically linked, if only in the tabloid press, with the young Prince Charles, in the early 1970s.

The Longman girls were daughters of publisher Mark Longman, who died in 1972, and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Mary Lambart (1924-2016), a goddaughter of Queen Mary and the late Princess Royal, and a childhood playmate of the young Princess Elizabeth and one of her bridesmaids on her marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947.

The Royal Family’s close links with the Lambart family goes back a century. Lady Elizabeth’s father, the 10th Earl of Cavan, was Chief of Staff to the Duke of York (later King George VI) on his tour of Australia in 1927. Cavan’s wife, the former Hon Hester Joan Mulholland, was Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, and Princess Royal from 1918-22, and then was Lady-in-Waiting to the the young Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) from 1923. The Countess of Cavan accompanied the Duchess of York to Australia as her Lady-in-Waiting in 1927.

Rose Hanbury married in 2009, David George Philip Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and they have twin sons, Alexander, styled Earl of Rocksavage, and Lord Oliver Cholmondeley, who were born 12 October, 2009, and a daughter, Lady Iris Cholmondeley, who was born in 2016.

The Marquess of Cholmondeley is the Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, acting for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and is to be seen every year greeting Her Majesty when she arrives at the State Opening of Parliament.

The Marquess also has blood ties to the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex. George, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley, grandfather of the current peer, was a cousin, several times removed of Cynthia, Countess Spencer, grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and both families will have met socially on many occasions down the years.

Both David Cholmondeley and Prince William have a common ancestor in the 6th Earl of Cardigan.

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Albert Hiscox (born 2019)

_. Elizabeth Sarah Hiscox (born 1987, nee Stott) wife of Milo Edmund Hiscox (born 1987), gave birth to a son, Albert, 21 March, 2019.

Milo Hiscox is a son of Robert Ralph Scrymgeour Hiscox (b 1956 )and Lady Julia Elizabeth Meade (b 1953) d of 6th Earl of Clanwilliam (1914-89) and Catherine (1923-2014) d of Arthur Thomas Loyd OBE (1882-1944) sometime head of the gentry family of that name of Lockinge. 

 Elizabeth Hiscox is a  daughter of James F Stott and Susan J Haworth.

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Hughes—D’aeth/Quilliam engagement

-.The engagement was announced 23 March, 2019, between Wyndham James Hughes-D’Aeth (born 1990) scion of that landed gentry family, eldest son of (Wyndham) Jonathan Hughes-D’aeth (born 1955) by his wife the former Fiona J. McKenzie (born 1964), & Miss Candice Quilliam, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs David Quilliam, of Johannesburg.

The Hughes-D’aeth family descend from the Knatchbull baronets (later Barons Brabourne, and Earls Mountbatten of Burma)
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Rev Sir Timothy Forbes Adam, 4th Baronet 1923-2019

_. The Rev Sir Timothy Forbes Adam, 4th Baronet, died 22 March, 2019. He was 95.

Stephen Timothy Beilby Forbes Adam was born 19 November, 1923, eldest son of Colin Gurdon Forbes Adam, sometime Chairman of Yorkshire Post Newspapers, by his wife the former Hon Irene Constance Lawley, a daughter of the 3rd Baron Wenlock, PC, GCSI, GCIE.

He was ordained a priest in 1962, and began his ministry at Barton-in-Fabis, Nottinghamshire. He lived latterly at Escrick, near York.

He succeeded to the baronetcy, created in 1917, on the death of his cousin, Sir Christopher Forbes Adam, 3rd Baronet, 17 January, 2009.

He married 28 September, 1954, Penelope, daughter of George Campbell Munday, MC, of Leverington Hall, Wisbech, by whom he had four daughters, Anna, Catherine, Teresa, and Sonia. The youngest daughter, Sonia, was wife of the actor James Nesbitt.

Sir Timothy is succeeded by his younger brother, Nigel, who was born in 1930.

The funeral takes place in Yorkshire, 13 April, 2019.

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Baroness Warnock, CH, DBE 1924-2019

_. The Baroness Warnock, CH, DBE, philosopher, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge 1985-91, died 20 March, 2019. She was 94.

She was born Helen Mary Wilson, 14 April, 1924, daughter of Archibald Edward Wilson, and married in 1949, Sir Geoffrey Warnock (1923-95), Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, with whom she had two sons and three daughters.

She was appointed DBE in 1984, and created a life peer as Baroness WARNOCK, of Weeke, in the City of Winchester in 1985.

Baroness Warnock sat in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher, and retired from the House in 2015.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Milne-Watson/Reynolds engagement

_. The engagement was announced 20 March, 2019 between Oliver Milne-Watson (born 1985) son of Sir Andrew Milne-Watson, 4th Baronet (born 1944) by his wife the former Gisella Tisdall (b 1948), and Frances Reynolds daughter of the late Mr Ian Reynolds.




Edward Lacy George Nightingale 1938-2019

_. Edward Lacy George Nightingale, who died at Minehead, 18 March, 2019, aged 80, was a scion of the Nightingale baronets and heir presumptive to the baronetcy.

He was born 11 May, 1938, son of Manners Percy Nightingale [1908-74], by his wife the former Mary Ursula Gilbert [died 1983]. He was unmarried.

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The 3rd Baron Wardington 1925-2019

_. Lord Wardington, the third Baron, died 19 March, 2019. He was 93.

William Simon Pease was born 15 October, 1925, a younger son of the 1st Baron Wardington (1869-1950), by his wife the former Hon Dorothy Charlotte Forster (1891-1983), a daughter of the 1st and last Baron Forster, and a granddaughter maternally of the 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu.

He married in 1962, the Hon Elizabeth Jane Ormsby-Gore (1929-2004), a daughter of the 4th Baron Harlech (1885-1964) by his wife the former Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred Gascoyne-Cecil (1891-1980), daughter of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. No children of the marriage.

William Simon Pease succeeded to the peerage, created in 1936, on the death of his elder brother, 5 July, 2005.

The peerage now becomes extinct.

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Belinda Mary (Min) Murray Threipland (1942-2019)

_. Belinda Mary (Min) Murray Threipland, who died 19 March, 2019, at Salisbury, aged 76, was a socialite, former wife of John Aspinall, and descended from the Merrie Monarch, Charles II.

The former Min Musker, daughter of Major Anthony Musker, she was born 27 November, 1942.

Her mother was the Hon Mary Angela FitzRoy, scion of the Viscounts Daventry, a granddaughter of Edward FitzRoy, Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War. The FitzRoys descend from the Dukes of Grafton, illegitimate descendants of the Stuart King.

She wed firstly, 1966, John Aspinall, friend of Lord Lucan. The marriage ended in divorce. She married secondly, in 1972, Stuart Murray Threipland, by whom she had issue.

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Beatrice Maria Bond (born 2019)

_.Fabiana Bond (nee Marenghi Vaselli, born Rome 16 Jan, 1982), wife of Harry Piers S. Bond (b 1976), descended from the Earls Fitzwilliam (extinct 1979), gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Maria, 19 March, 2019, a sister for Philip (b 15 March, 2013) and for Nicholas (who was b 18 Dec, 2014).

Harry is the elder son of Ian Robin Stanley Bond (b 1940), by his wife the former Caroline Louise Faber, and Fabiana is a daughter of il Conte Marco Fabio Marenghi Vaselli,Conte di Gorgascura (b Rome, 18 Nov, 1953) and Donna Patrizia dei principi Ruspoli Memmo, of Rome.

Harry Bond's sister, Candida, is Viscountess Petersham, wife of the Earl of Harrington's heir.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Harriet Alice Jemima Carnegy (born 2019)

_.Veronica Lucy Margaret Carnegy (nee Evans, born 1982), wife of Francis Henry Carnegy (born 1981) scion of the Earls of Northesk, gave birth to a third daughter, Harriet Alice Jemima, 18 March, 2019, a sister for Matilda and Florence.

Francis Carnegy is the third son of Hon Colin David Carnegy (b 1942) heir presumptive to his brother the 15th Earl of Northesk (born 1940).

 Francis wed in 2013, Veronica Lucy Margaret, daughter of Dr Charles William Evans (b 1942), scion of the WHITE Bts of Boulge Hall, and Christina Mary (b 1948) d of Maj Allan John CAMERON (1917-2011), scion of the Scots gentry family of Lochiel, and Mary Elizabeth VAUGHAN-LEE (b 1915), sometime head of that gentry family which became CAMERON of Dillington.

Veronica Carnegy shares with the Prime Minister David CAMERON (b 1966) a common descent from John McEwen CAMERON of Lochiel, 18th Chief of Clan Cameron (d c 1748), making them 8th cousins.

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