Aberdeen / Haddo / Gordon

[William]

Is George Ian Alastair Gordon, Earl of Haddo was born on 4 May 1983
married?

[Richard R]

Yes, Michael posted his engagement in April 2009:
The engagement was announced 3 Apr 2009 between George Ian
Alastair Gordon, styled Earl of Haddo (b 4 May 1983), eldest son of
the 7th Marquess of Aberdeen & Temair (b 31 Mar 1955), of House of
Formartine, Aberdeenshire, b y his wife the former Joanna Clodagh
Houldsworth (descended from the Earls of Morton), and
Isabelle Coaten, younger daughter of Mr David Coaten, of London, W8,
and Mrs Sacha Coaten, of London, SW1.
http://groups.google.com/group/peerage-news/browse_thread/thread/4de2149ba3bb084d/a339807b2804d5cc?lnk=gst&q=coaten#a339807b2804d5cc

and they were m later that year. No issue that I know of as yet.

[Richard R]

Isabelle Anna N COATEN was b Sep 1984 (reg Westminster) and her
parents David G COATEN (?b 1959 Doncaster) & Sacha REKELJ m 1982 (reg
Q3 Kensington)

On Aug 13, 12:42 pm, Richard R <r_rut...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, Michael posted his engagement in April 2009:
> The engagement was announced 3 Apr 2009 between George Ian
> Alastair Gordon, styled Earl of Haddo (b 4 May 1983), eldest son of
> the 7th Marquess of Aberdeen & Temair (b 31 Mar 1955), of House of
> Formartine, Aberdeenshire, b y his wife the former Joanna Clodagh
> Houldsworth (descended from the Earls of Morton), and
> Isabelle Coaten, younger daughter of Mr David Coaten, of London, W8,

> and Mrs Sacha Coaten, of London, SW1.http://groups.google.com/group/peerage-news/browse_thread/thread/4de2...

[Richard R]

I'm sorry I keep coming back to this!

Lord Haddo was styled Viscount Formartine during his gf's lifetime and
before his f succ as Marquess in 2002. A future son of this m may be
so styled. The Gordon viscountcy is also available but they may not
want to use that as there's a Baron Gordon of Strathblane who is
commonly styled Lord Gordon.

[Shinjinee]

As Richard R posted earlier this year, they have had issue since then two sons
 (I only found one on peerage.com and forgot to check the group!) and one daughter

 "Ivo Alexander Ninian Gordon, Viscount Formantine was born on 18 July 2012" per www.peerage.com.

So, there is once again a Marquess of Aberdeen, an earl of Haddo, and a viscount Formantine.

On the bride, now Countess of Haddo:

Isabelle was a debutante aged 17 (source: Electric Scotland) and was a makeup artist. According to a 

gossip forum, her elder sister Stephanie went to St Andrews, with Prince William and Kate Middleton.  

Isabelle herself is a very close friend of Lady Natasha Rufus-Isaacs, now Finch.
Lots of pictures on the usual society sites.

Her divorced mother Sacha Coaten lives/lived in a rent-free mews house provided by her friend the
Duke of Westminster, per Mandrake on the forthcoming marriage (2009).  Mrs Sacha Coaten, Yugoslav-
born, met the Duke in her teens, and they have remained friends since then (article from 2002, about her
daughter's success as a debutante). 

{Source: Nigel Dempster 28 April 2002 Daily Mail)

Incidentally the Marchioness of Aberdeen is the daughter of Ian Houldsworth, grandson maternally
of Lady Laura Fitzwilliam (1869-1936) sister of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam and daughter of a Beauclerk
 mother.  There is also descent from the earls of Morton.

I was checking out the Houldsworth relatives, and found Clare Heywood-Lonsdale (wife of a cousin
once removed of the new earl of Leven, and second in line to that title).  Yes, she is a distant relative
(second cousin once removed) of the Duchess of Devonshire. It's a small world.

Shinjinee