HOOD/Nikkah engagement (Hon. Peregrine Hood)

[Shinjinee]

Hon. Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood (b. 1974), aged 37, son of Alexander, 4th Viscount Bridgport and his 1st wife
 the former Linda Jacqueline Paravicini, now the  Countess of Suffolk & Wiltshire (her 2nd marriage) has announced his engagement
to 28-year old Serena Nikkah, daughter of an Iranian father and American mother.   The bride-to-be is a PR executive for Armani.

The wedding is planned for next year at Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, home of the groom's mother
the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire (and that of her two daughters Ladies Philippa and Natasha Howard).

Time now for the stepbrother Viscount Andover to also marry?

Information on the groom's father a Geneva-based financier; the Hoods married 1972, divorced 1979 and remarried.
He has since divorced again (a 2nd son by the 2nd wife), while Lady Suffolk is still married to her Earl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hood,_4th_Viscount_Bridport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Park,_Wiltshire (home of the Suffolks)

http://peeragenews.blogspot.in/

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Viscount Bridport's heir to wed

The engagement was announced 21 April, 2012, between the Hon Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood (b 30 Aug 1974), son and heir of the 4th Viscount Bridport (b 17 Mar, 1948), by his former wife the former Linda Jacqueline Paravicini (now Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire) (b 1950, descended from the Swinnerton-Dyer Baronets) &amp);   &  Serena Nikkhah, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs Shahrokh Nikkhah, of London.

Article on the wedding by Richard Kay

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133706/RICHARD-KAY-Nine-lives-Princess-Katarina-.html
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Hood’s cracker of a proposal

Nearly two years after meeting during a family holiday in Mustique, Peregrine Hood, the Old Etonian son of Viscount Bridport, has delighted his family by announcing his engagement to dark-haired beauty Serena Nikkhah.

Handsome Peregrine, 37, a foreign exchange dealer for Morgan Stanley, planned his proposal with precision after buying a diamond on holiday in southern Africa.

‘It’s being set now so I expect the actual ring he proposed with was something out of a cracker,’ says proud father Alex Bridport. Serena, 28, whose father is Iranian and mother American, is a PR executive in London for Armani.

The couple plan to marry in June next year at Charlton Park, in Malmesbury, Wilts, home of Peregrine’s mother Linda, now the Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire. ‘We are all thrilled,’ says Geneva-based financier Bridport. ‘We were on holiday with them the week before last in Namibia. I thought something was up, but Peregrine told me to wait and see.’

[marquess]

No mention of the dukedom of Bronte surely as heir to the duke, the Hon Peregrine would be entitled to some kind of courtesy title, or doesn't the dukedom have one?

[Chuck]

The Hon Peregrine is British and therefore can't use a Sicilian title without the consent of the Queen---and those warrants are extremely rare.  Also, AFAIK, only British and English titles carry *courtesy* titles--its a purely English custom.  The dukedom of Bronté is a Sicilian title. If he's entitled to use any title because of that peerage it would probably be Duke---as the son of a duke and not because he's the heir.

Chuck  

[marquess]

You don't need a foreign Titles licence to use a foreign title unofficially, and courtesy titles are not just a British thing, see  French  titles Spanish, and Sicilian ones too, the Leopard written by a Sicilian prince, the heir to the Prince of Salina is styled the duke of Cacherra (phonetic spelling).

 I only mentioned the Bronte dukedom because of it famous antecedence an antecedence which far greater than that of the UK Viscountcy-- also the dukedom is a reminder that the Hon Peregrine is perhaps the closest representatives of Britain's most celebrated admiral, being descended from the daughter of the first earl. See the comments made under the entry for Nelson in the Complete Peerage. Therefore the dukedom of Bronte because of it's fame would want no official warrant to made use of socially, courtesy titles in themselves are just that, and only the peer him of herself is possessed of any title officially.

PS only the one of the countess Bentick listed in Debretts under Portland (b 1916 from memory), is still able to benefit from a foreign titles license, as I believe they were all revoked as of 1936 or so, only the the then holder plus his heir would have their titles recognised. 

On Friday, 27 April 2012 22:36:33 UTC+7, Shinjinee wrote: