Hereditary and non-hereditary aristocrats and gentry for UK and Europe Chat

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The Hon Vere Harmsworth, 30, son and heir of the 4th Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, has announced his engagement to Alexandra Wood, 27

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/04/harmsworthwood-engagement.html

The 10th Earl of Hardwicke, 54, is to marry Nicola Osmond-Evans, 52. The peer;s second marriage.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-earl-of-hardwick-to-marry-nicola.html

Zoë, Lady Monk Bretton, widow of the 3rd Lord Monk Bretton, has died at her home near Montreux.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/04/zoe-baroness-monk-bretton.html

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Daily Mail: Duchess of Westminster glows as she's pictured for the first time since announcing her pregnancy on university visit with her husband

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The Dowager Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne, who died at her home 28 April, 2025, aged 92, was the widow of the late 17th Earl of Strathmore, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Countess lived at Glamis, the Forfar seat the Bowes Lyon family and childhood home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

She was the former Mary Pamela McCorquodale, and was born 31 May, 1932, the second daughter of Brigadier Norman Duncan McCorquodale, MC (1898-1971),  scion of that landed gentry family, of King's Head House, Winslow, co. Buckingham, by his wife Barbara Helen de Knoop, 1st daughter of Capt Jersey de Knoop.

She married 10 April, 1956, the then Capt Fergus Michael Claude Bowes Lyon (born 31 December, 1928), the elder son of Capt the Hon Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes Lyon (1893-1953), brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and his wife the former Elizabeth Margaret Cator (1899-1959), scion of that landed family. On 13 Sept, 1972 her husband succeeded his cousin as 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (Scotland, let. pat. 10 Jul 1606;  additional charter 1 Jul 1677), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (United Kingdom, let. pat. 1 Jun 1937), Viscount Lyon (Scotland, let. pat. 1 Jul 1677), Lord Glamis (Scotland, let. pat. 28 Jun 1445), Lord Glamis, Tannadyce, Sidlaw and Strathdichtie (Scotland, let. pat. 1 Jul 1677), Baron Bowes, of Streatlam Castle in the County of Durham and of Lunedale in the County of York (United Kingdom, let. pat. 1 Jul 1887).

The 17th Earl collapsed and died on his grouse moor at Glamis, 18 August, 1987, aged 58.

The Countess leaves two daughters, (1) Lady Elizabeth Leeming (born 23 Dec, 1959), sometime Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II and later a Lady in Waiting to the Princess Royal, and (2) Lady Diana Godfrey-Faussett (born 29 Dec, 1966), and was predeceased by her only son, Michael Fergus Bowes Lyon, the 18th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne, DL (1957-2016).

Her grandson is the 19th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (born 18 June, 1986).

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Lady Clitheroe, wife of the 2nd Baron, of Downham Hall, Lancashire, has died aged 88. She was Juliet Hanbury, scion of that landed gentry family

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-baroness-clitheroe-1936-2025.html

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The 8th Earl of Donoughmore, Irish peer and businessman, has died aged 97, succeeded by his son Viscount Suirdale

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-8th-earl-of-donoughmore-1927-2025.html

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Major General Sir Christopher Airy, KCVO, CBE, sometime commanding officer 1st Battalion the Scots Guards, private secretary to the then Prince & Princess of Wales 1990-91, has died aged 91.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/05/major-general-sir-christopher-john-airy.html

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Sir Ludovic Shaw Stewart, 12th Baronet, descended from the Scottish Kings, engaged to Jennifer Scott

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/05/shaw-stewartscott-marriage.html

Charles Haddock and his wife Caroline (nee Colacicchi) have had a daughter Violet. Caroline Haddock is a sister of the Countess of Arundel & Surrey

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/05/violet-olympia-colacicchi-haddock-born.html

Capt Simon Mann, father of Prince Harry's former 'wingman' Jack Mann, has died suddenly

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/05/capt-simon-francis-mann-1952-2025.html

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