Noel/van Cutsem engagement...

[Michael Rhodes]

The engagement was announced 23 February, 2005, between the Hon Henry
Robert Anthony (Harry) Noel (b. 1 July, 1977), only son of Viscount
Campden (b. 16 January, 1950), by his wife, the former Sarah Rose
Winnington (of the Winnington Baronets), and Miss Zara van Cutsem (b.
1978), younger daughter of Geoffrey Neil van Cutsem (b. 1944) and Mrs
Sally van Cutsem (nee Sally McCorquodale, scion of that BLG family).

Harry Noel's father is heir apparent to the 5th Earl of Gainsborough.
The bride-to-be is a granddaughter of Bernard Henry Richard van Cutsem
by his wife Mary Compton, scion of the Marquesses of Northampton; and
is a niece of Hugh van Cutsem (b. 1941), and a cousin of Edward van
Cutsem who recently married Lady Tamara Grosvenor.

Source: The Times 23 Feb, 2005

[Shinjinee]

And isn't the bride-to-be's maternal uncle one Neil McCorquodale who is
married to Lady Sarah Spencer (maternal aunt of Princes William and
Harry)?

Shinjinee

[Shinjinee]

And isn't the bride-to-be's maternal uncle one Neil McCorquodale who is
married to Lady Sarah Spencer (maternal aunt of Princes William and
Harry)?

And also, Zara's half-cousin Lady Laura Fortescue-Gore (daughter of the
former Eleanor van Cutsem, now Countess of Arran) is married to a
Duckworth-Chad. Small world, isn't it?

Shinjinee

[Michael Rhodes]

Yep. The van Cutsems seem to be doing very well for themselves!