Even before the Queen celebrates her diamond wedding anniversary on Tuesday, Mandrake hears that courtiers are busying themselves with the arrangements for another marriage in the family.
I can disclose that Lady Rose Windsor, the 27-year-old daughter of Her Majesty's cousin the Duke of Gloucester, has become engaged to George Gilman, the son of a controversial former director of Leeds United Football Club. Buckingham Palace confirmed the news last night but declined to comment further. The reticence on the part of Her Majesty's spokesman is, perhaps, understandable....
Lady Rose has been romanced by George, 25, for several years. In 2005 he was listed among those who attended a service of thanksgiving for the life of Rose's grandmother, Princess Alice. George, who lives in Maida Vale, west London, went to Leeds Metropolitan University after Repton, the public school in Derbyshire....
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