VON PREUSSEN / Johnson engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 27 July 2020: Prince Frederick von Preussen and Miss M. Johnson - The engagement is announced between Fritzi, son of Prince Nicholas von Preussen and Victoria, Princess von Preussen, and Mathilda, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Rupert Johnson.

Prince Frederick (Fritzi) Nicholas Stormont (b 1990) s of Prince (Frederick) Nicholas VON PREUSSEN (b 1946, German royal family, descendant of Queen VICTORIA) and his 1st w Hon Victoria Lucinda MANCROFT (b 1952) d of 2nd Baron MANCROFT (1914-87) and (as her 2nd h) Diana Elizabeth (1917-99) d of Lt-Col Horace LLOYD DSO (1882-1957) of Ferne, Highclere, Hampshire, by his c1913 m (reg Q1 London) Margaret Jessica GODDARD (1888-1941).

Mathilda Noel (b 1989 reg Q3 London) d of Rupert C F JOHNSON by his 1986 m (reg Q3 London) to Simonetta D F BARBER.

[www.maltagenealogy.com]

Just one question, the style of Prince for Frederick, when his parents were not acknowledge by the head of the Royal House as an equal marriage. Secondly the title is not not recognised in England..

Only uses the surname of von Preussen with no style of Prince. 

[Richard R]

I agree with you the titles SHOULD NOT be used - but other posters will take the opposite view. I have simply followed the 'styles' the family have used in the engagement announcement. I note Debrett gives the style of Prince to the father but not to his children. His youngest dau is styled Hon Mrs James Tollemache

[Patricia Light]

(Prince) Frederick von Preussen & Matilda Johnson have a daughter:

ESME HOPE B2024 GRO REG. Q1 LAMBETH

(mother's name JOHNSON)

sOURCE: gro