SPENCER-CHURCHILL / STRUTT engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 4 July 2015: Mr A. Spencer-Churchill and Miss S. Strutt - The engagement is announced between Alexander, son of Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill and Jane, Lady Charles Spencer- Churchill, of London, and Scarlett, daughter of Mr Henry Strutt and Mrs Athena Strutt, both of Stutton, Suffolk.

Alexander David (b 1983) s of Lord Charles George William SPENCER-CHURCHILL (b 1940, s of the 10th Duke of MARLBOROUGH) and his 2nd & former w Elizabeth Jane (b 1948) d of Capt Hon Mark Hugh WYNDHAM MC, scion of the LECONFIELD & EGREMONT barons).

Scarlett (b 1985) d of Henry Clavering Tollemache STRUTT (b 1953), scion of the BELPER barons, and his 1st w Athena d of Jeremy MAAS of Suffolk House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham.

[Olivier]

 Alexander Spencer-Churchill is a 7th cousin of a parent of Scarlett Strutt.

    Indeed, William Anne van Keppel, Earl of Albemarle (1702-1754) and his wife Anne Lennox (1703-1789) are at the same time

        ancestors of the 9th generation of Scarlett Strutt

        ancestors of the 8th generation of Alexander Spencer-Churchill

[Shinjinee]

They got married in Suffolk on 14 May 2016.  Among the wedding guests were Lord Frederick Windsor with the former Florence Brudenell-Bruce (now married to Henry St George, a cousin of the Duke of Grafton_).   Sarah, Duchess of York and her royal daughters were invited, but chose to go to the London society wedding of Lord Lovat and Hon Petra Palumbo.

Shinjinee

[G. Willis]

Some minor points: Jeremy Stephen Maas (1928-1997), of Suffolk House, was an art dealer; one of his sons, Rupert, is an expert on paintings for the Antiques Roadshow. J. S. Maas's wife was Antonia Armstrong, dau. of the writer George Anthony Armstrong Willis (pen name Anthony Armstrong), of that family of Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh (also of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, and elsewhere).