Marriages Announcements 2018


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Princess Elena of Yugoslavia (b.12 March 1963) [daughter of late Prince Aleksander of Yugoslavia (1924-2016) & his first wife, Princess Maria Pia of Savoy (b.1934)] married religiously, as her second husband, Stanislas Fougeron (b.1975) at the Saint Etienne de Janville church in Janville, France, on 15 September; their civil wedding took place at the town hall of the VIII district of Paris on the day of the bride's 55th birthday.

She was previously married (only civilly) to Thierry Gaubert (b.1951) by whom she has three children: Milena (8-7-1988), Nastasia (22-2-1991) & Leopold (19-7-1997); her firstborn daughter married Jonathan Elio Namias (b.1980) last year.

Source: https://www.gettyimages.de/search/2/image?editorialproducts=royalty&events=775226512&family=editorial&sort=best#license
https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2018-genealogical-information
https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2018-royal-news
http://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2018/09/princess-helene-of-yugoslavia-and.html
(Thanks, iceflower!)

Duchess Sophie of Württemberg (b.15 January 1994) [daughter of Prince Philipp of Württemberg (b.1964) & his wife Marie Caroline, nee Princess of Bavaria (b.1969)] married civilly marry Maximilien d'Andigne (b.1989) [son of Herve d'Andigne & his wife Marie Adelaide, nee de la Barre de Nanteuil] in Altshausen on 15 September.

Sophie is the eldest of four children and first one who marries.

Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2018-royal-news
https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2018-genealogical-information

Philippa Neuschäffer (b.1987) [daughter of Countess Anne of Waldburg of Wolfegg and Waldsee (b.1954) & her husband Hubertus Neuschäffer (b.1944)] married Hans-Georg von Engelbrechten-Ilow this year.

Philippa is fourth of five children and reportedly first one who marries.

Source: http://heinbruins.nl/Bavaria.html
 
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Johannes Wilms (b.1980) [firstborn son of Countess Maria Theresia von Goess (b.1953) & her husband Hayo Wilms (b.1947)] married Sofia Elisa Grivet Brancot (b.1989) this year.

From his three siblings only Anna Sophie is single.

Source: Descendants of Archduke Johann of Austria
 
The marriage took place 30 April, 2018, at the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Badminton, Gloucestershire, between Henry John Fitzroy Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort (born 22 May, 1952), of Badminton House, eldest son of the late 11th Duke of Beaufort (1928-2017), by his first wife the former Lady Caroline Jane Thynne (1928-95), scion of the Marquesses of Bath, & Miss Georgia Powell (born 18 Feb, 1969), scion of the Powell landed family, daughter Tristram Roger Dymoke Powell (b 1940), descended from the Earls of Longford, by his wife the former Virginia Beatrice Lucas, scion of the Lucas landed family, of Oakash.

The Duke of Beaufort married firstly, 13 June, 1987, in the presence of the Princess of Wales and Duchess of York, Tracy Louise Ward (b 22 Dec 1958), scion of the Earls of Dudley, daughter of the Hon Peter Ward by his wife the former Claire Leonora Baring, by which marriage he had two sons and a daughter.

The new Duchess of Beaufort is a granddaughter of Anthony Dymoke Powell, the great author, by his wife the former Lady Violet Georgiana Pakenham, third daughter of the 5th Earl of Longford (1864-1915), by his wife the former Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers, daughter of the 7th Earl of Jersey. She married firstly, in 1996, Tobias Coke, by whom she has a son and a daughter.

Sources: Peerage News: Duke of Beaufort marries Georgia Powell
Beaufort

Princess Sophie von Schoenaich-Carolath (b.8 June 1988) [daughter of Prince Sebastian von Schoenaich-Carolath (b.1957) & his wife Manuela-Franziska, nee Countess von Walderdorff (b.1959] married Rudolf Henkell von Ribbentrop (b.1989) [son of Countess Christiane von und zu Eltz genannt Faust von Stromberg (b.1951) {herself daughter of Baroness Ladislaja Mayr von Melnhof (*1920) & her second husband Jakob, Count von und zu Eltz genannt Faust von Stromberg (1921-2006)} & her current husband Adolf Henkell von Ribbentrop (b.1935) {himself son of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945 (1893-1946) & his wife Anna Elisabeth "Anelise" Henkell (1896-1973)} on 8 September.

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/carolath.html

Prince Albrecht of Auersperg-Trautson (b.1989) [son of Prince Gobert of Auersperg-Trautson (b.1956) & his wife Ladislaja, nee Countess Hoyos, Freiin zu Stichsenstein (b.1957)] married Alix von Leeb reportedly in Frohnleiten, Austria, on 22 September.

Albrecht is the youngest of four children and last one who marries.

Source: https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2018-genealogical-information

Lord Ivar Mountbatten, 55 year-old cousin of the Queen has married his male partner, James Coyle.

Lord Ivar married in the presence of his first wife, Penny, and his three daughters, Ella, Alexandra and Louise Mountbatten, in Devon, on 22 September, 2018.

Lord Ivar Alexander Michael Mountbatten (born 9 March, 1963), is perhaps the first of Queen Victoria's descendants to enter into a same-sex marriage.

Lord Ivar is the second son of the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919-70), who was best man for Prince Philip when he married the then Princess Elizabeth in 1947. The 3rd Marquess, who collapsed and died in a London railway station, aged 51, married as his second wife, Janet Mercedes Bryce, who is Lord Ivar's mother.

Lord Ivar's great-grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, was created Marquess of Milford Haven in 1917 on the renunciation of German styles and titles by the family of King George V. The 1st Marquess was the father of Prince Philip's mother, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece, and was father of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Lord Ivar married firstly, in 1994, in the presence of Princess Margaret, and other royals, Penelope Anne Vere Thompson (b 1966), daughter of Colin Thompson, and Mrs Rosemary Walker.

Source: http://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2018/09/lord-ivar-mountbatten-marries-james.html
 
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Countess Anne Therese von Arco-Zinneberg (b.28 December 1981) [daughter of Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria (b.1954) & her husband Count Riprand von Arco-Zinneberg (b.1955)] married Colin McKenzie (b.1976) in Basilika Niederalteich in Niederalteich (Bavaria) on 29 September.

Anna Theresa Marie is the oldest of six daughters and first one who marries.

Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2018-genealogical-information
http://heinbruins.nl/FraKa.html
https://www.pnp.de/lokales/landkrei...eberg-heiratet-in-Basilika-Niederalteich.html
https://www.pnp.de/foto/fotostrecke...arocker-Basilika.html?em_art=gallery&em_gal=1
http://www.thepeerage.com/p4430.htm

Nicholas Medforth-Mills (b.1 April 1985) [son of Princess Elena of Romania (b.1950) & her late first husband Robin Medforth-Mills (1942-2002)] married religiously Alina Maria Binder (b.26 January 1988) [daughter of Heinz Binder & his wife Rodica, nee Iancu] in Biserica Sfântul Ilie in Sinaia (Romania) on 30 September; on 6 October they will celebrate the first anniversary of their civil wedding.

Source: their wedding thread in this forum.
 
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Princess Maria Concetta Reuss (b.1988) [daughter of Prince Heinrich XII Reuss (b.1950) & his second former wife Countess Henriette von Seilern und Aspang (b.1961)] married Colin D. Hanna (b.1989) this year.

Source: Descendants of King Willem I of the Netherlands

Laura zu Solms-Laubach (b.1989) [daughter of Countess Anna Margareta of Solms-Laubach (b.1960); father unknown] married Count Nikolaus von Hardenberg (b.1990) [son of Count Christian-Burghard von Hardenberg (b.1957) & his wife Elisabeth, nee Plesch (b.1958) this year.

Sources: Descendants of Prince Christian Heinrich of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Countess Charlotte of Leiningen-Westerburg
Descendants of Franz von Cramm

Fernando Fitz James Stuart
y de Solis, Duke of Huescar (b.14 September 1990) [older of two sons of Carlos Martinez de Irujo y Fitzjames-Stuart, Duke of Alba (b.1949) & his former wife Matilda de Solis y Martinez de Campos (b.1963)] married Sofia Palazuelo (aged 28) [daughter of Fernando Palazuelo Baldasúa & his former wife Sofía Barroso] at the chapel of Liria Palace (Madrid) on 6 October.

Sources: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bol5f9HhktH/?taken-by=holacom (first photo of just married)
https://www.hola.com/actualidad/

Georges Achache (b.1980) [older of two sons of Princess Victoria of Prussia (b.1952) {herself daughter of Prince Friedrich of Prussia (1911-1966)& his wife Brigid, nee Lady Guinness (1920-1995)} & her husband Philippe Achache (b.1948)] married Alexandrine Pen this year.

His only brother Francis (b.1982) is married to Alice Suzanne Colling (b.1984).

Source: http://heinbruins.nl/Wilhelm.html

Hereditary Count Constantin of Starhemberg (b.17 September 1992) [third of four children and older son of Georg-Adam, Prince of Starhemberg (b.1961) & his wife Nadejda, nee Countess non Abensperg und Traun (b.1961)] married Countess Elena of Trauttmannsdorff-Weinsberg (28 June 1993) [third of five children and only daughter of Count Johannes of Trauttmannsdorff-Weinsberg (b.1960) & his wife Natalie, nee Countee von Hartig (b.1966)] this year.

Source: http://heinbruins.nl/Meran.html
 
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Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York (b.23 March 1990) [younger of two daughters of Prince Andrew, Duke of York (b.1960) & his former wife Sarah Margaret Ferguson (b.1959) scion of the Fergusons of Dummer] married Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank (b.3 May 1986) [elder of two sons of George Edward Hugh Brooksbank (b.1949) & his wife Nicola, nee Newton (b.1953)] in St. George's chapel in Windsor (England) on 12 October.

Eugenie and Jack are closely related ~ Jack is descended from the Coke Earls of Leicester, as is Sarah Duchess of York, and the late Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy.

Jack is a great-great grandson of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.

Source: their wedding thread in this forum.

Francisco Franco y de Suelves (b.30 November 1982) [older of two sons together of FranciscoFranco y Martínez-Bordíu, Señor de Meirás (b.1954) {himself grandson of Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco y Bahamonde, ruler of Spain 1938-1973} & his first wife Maria de Suelves y Figueroa (b.1957)] married Lia Lay Fournier in the family estate named Valdefuentes, in the municipality of Arroyomolinos (south of Madrid), on 12 October.

Source: https://www.hola.com/novias/20181013131234/boda-francis-franco-suelves-lia-fournier/ (Thanks, An Ard Ri!)
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/franco.html
 
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Eugenie and Jack are closely related ~ Jack is descended from the Coke Earls of Leicester, as is Sarah Duchess of York, and the late Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy.

To be exact, Eugenie and Jack are third cousins twice removed. This is their closest connection.
 
Princess Anna von Altenburg (b.1977) [younger child and only daughter of Prince Nikolaus von Altenburg (b.1942) {himself eighth of nine children of Archduke Clemens Salvator of Austria, became Prince Clemens Salvator von Altenburg in 1949 (1904-1974) & his morganatic wife, Countess Elisabeth Rességuier de Miremont (1906-2000)} & his first wife Suzanne Robinow (b.1946)] married her longtime partner and father of her children Pierre Reboul (b.1973) this year.
Their children are Elie (b.2003), Emma (b.2007) & Lily (DOB unknown).

Anna's only brother Florian (b.1974) is married to Maika Pollack (b.1976) since 2007.

Source: Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
 
Duchess Sophie of Württemberg (b.15 January 1994) [daughter of Prince Philipp of Württemberg (b.1964) & his wife Marie Caroline, nee Princess of Bavaria (b.1969)] married religiously Maximilien d'Andigne (b.1989) [son of Herve d'Andigne & his wife Marie Adelaide, nee de la Barre de Nanteuil] in Saint Quirin Church in Tegernsee on 20 October.

Their civil wedding took place in Altshausen on 15 September.

Sophie is the eldest of four children and first one who marries.

Source: https://www.gettyimages.de/search/2...=775240427&family=editorial&sort=best#license (Thanks, iceflower!)

Countess Savina de Lannoy (b.10 May 1994) [daughter of Count Francois-Xavier de Lannoy (b.1962) & his wife Sabine, nee Prioux de Caundry de Baudimont (b.1964)] married Aurelien de Bauw [son of Christian de Bauw & his wife] on 20 October.

Savina is third of six children and first one who marries; next will probably be her oldest sister Sibylle (b.1990), who is engaged to Baron Harold Bonaert since 9 January.
Other siblings are:Severine (b.1992), Carole (b.1996), Charles (b.2000) & Cedric (b.2002).


Sources: https://sites.google.com/site/myroyalworld/2018-genealogical-information
https://geneall.net/en/name/1029244/savina-countess-of-lannoy/
 
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Princess Ayako of Japan (b.15 September 1990) [youngest of three daughters of late Norihito, Prince Takamado (1954-2002) & his wife Hisako, nee Tottori (b.1953)] married Kei Moriya (born reportedly 1985 or 1986) at the Meiji Jingu Shrine, Tokyo, Japan.

Ayako is second daughter who marries; her sister Noriko (b.22 July 1988) & her husband Kunimaro Senge celebrated their 4th Wedding Anniversary on 5 October.
The oldest sister Tsuguko (b.8 March 1986) is single.

Source: Engagement & Wedding of Princess Ayako and Kei Moriya 2018
 
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Countess Margarita of Solms-Laubach (b.4 August 1989) [daughter of Count Friedrich-Ernst of Solms-Laubach (b.1940) & his wife Sylvia, nee Freiin von Podewils (b.1952)] married David Schroeder somewhere in Germany on 14 July.

Margarita is the youngest of four children and second one who marries; her oldest brother Moritz (b.26 September 1980) married Clarita Stachels in 2014.
Other siblings are Angelina (1-10-1983) & Philipp (23-9-1983).

Source: https://www.nettyroyal.nl/en/non_pro/news_marriages_2018.html
https://geneall.net/de/name/388104/margarita-sylvia-elisabeth-alexandra-graefin-zu-solms-laubach/
 
Angelica Siedlecki [daughter of Donna Jacobella Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona (b.1956) {herself daughter of Countess Sophie of Aldenburg Bentinck (b.1924) & her former husband Count Don Enrico Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona (b.1926)} & her husband Alexander M. Siedlecki (b.1955)] married Curzio Aloisi this year.

Angelica is second of three children and first one who marries; her siblings are Namsal (b.1986) and Gabriele.

Source: Descendants of Willem Bentinck and Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg
 
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Philipp Studt (b.1987) [older son of late Countess Marie-Valerie of Stolberg-Stolberg (1958-2013) & her husband Albert Studt (b.1953)] married Claudia Kral this year.

Philipp has a brother named Franz (b.1988)

Source: Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

Donna Flavia Porcari Li Destri (b.1990) [daughter of Donna Domitilla Ruffo di Calabria (b.1965) [niece of Queen Paola of Belgium] & her late husband Don Giovanni [dei baroni] Porcari Li Destri (1957-1995)] married Dorsan Eyben this year; the previous year their daughter Alice was born.

Flavia has a brother named Filippo (b.1995).

Source: http://heinbruins.nl/Rignon.html
 
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Maximilien Collignon (b.1993) [only son together of Alexandra Mouriau de Meulenacker (b.1964) {herself daughter of late Countess Guillemette de Limburg Stirum (1933-2016) & her husband Pierre Mouriau de Meulenacker (b.1932)} & her former husband Stanislas Collignon] married Roxane Gallou this year.

The bridegrrom has a younger half-sister Manon Criquellion- fruit of his mother's relationship with Patrick Criquellion.

Source: Descendants of Count Thierry de Limburg Stirum and Countess Marie Th?r?se de Thiennes, Leyenburg et de Rumbeke
 
Fürst Otto zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (born 31-05-1985 as first child and first son of Fürst Johann Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen and his wife Maria, born Gräfin zu Schönborn-Wiesentheid) married his bride Sophia, born as Sophia Mautner von Markhof (born 01-05-1989) yesterday (29-12-2018) in Rüdenhausen. The religious wedding is planned to take place on 15-06-2019 in Vienna.

Source: https://www.ruedenhausen.de/aktuell...-Haube---Hochzeit-Jahres-in-Ruedenhausen.html
 
An update of my post:

Hereditary Count Constantin of Starhemberg (b.17 September 1992) [third of four children and older son of Georg-Adam, Prince of Starhemberg (b.1961) & his wife Nadejda, nee Countess non Abensperg und Traun (b.1961)] will marry Countess Elena of Trauttmannsdorff-Weinsberg (28 June 1993) [third of five children and only daughter of Count Johannes of Trauttmannsdorff-Weinsberg (b.1960) & his wife Natalie, nee Countee von Hartig (b.1966)] in Neulengbach, Austria on 4 May.

Source: Descendants of Archduke Johann of Austria

https://www.nettyroyal.nl/en/non_pro/news_future.html

Sultan Muhammad V (b.6 October 1969), the 15th and the current Yang di-Pertuan Agong (head of state) of Malaysia and the Sultan of Kelantan [son of former Sultan Ismail Petra Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra (b. 1949) & his first wife, Tengku Anis Binti Tengku Abdul Hamid] married, as his second wife, Rihana Oxana Gorbatenko [Cik Rihana binti Abdullah] (born as Oksana Andreievna Gorbatenko on 20 January 1994, known as Oksana Voevodina) from Russia, a 2015 Miss Moscow beauty pageant winner, in Barvikha, Moscow Oblast, [the elder daughter of Dr. Andrei Ivanovich Gorbatenko, of Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, orthopaedic surgeon and traumatologist, sometime Assistant of the Department of Traumatology & Orthopedics of the Rostov State Medical University, originally from Astrakhan, by his wife, Lyudmila, née Voevodina, concert pianist] at the Barvikha Concert Hall, Barvikha, Russia, on 22 November.

He was previously married to Tengku Zubaidah binti Tengku Norudin bin Tengku Muda (née Kangsadal Pipitpakdee), member of the Pattani royal family from 2004 to 2008; they divorced and didn't have children.

Sources: https://www.nettyroyal.nl/en/non_pro/news_marriages_2018.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_V_of_Kelantan#Personal_life


Update: The civil wedding of Prince Dushan Paul of Yugoslavia (b. 25 September 1977) & Valerie Anne Demuzio (b.1971) took place in New York on 3 July.

Source: https://www.nettyroyal.nl/en/non_pro/news_marriages_2018.html
 
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Benedikt Leigh (b.1988) [third of six children and eldest son of Mary Goodman (b.1959) {herself eldest of five daughters of Countess Sophia Kleinmichel (b.1930) & her husband Philip Goodman (b.1931)} & her husband Edward Leigh (b.1950)] married Claudia Tobin last year.

He is the first of his siblings who marries, although his sister Marina (b.1990) became a mother of a daughter named Sophie in 2017.

Source: Descendants of Duke Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg
 
Enzio Müller-von Saalfeld (b.1969) [son of Baroness Maleen von Saalfeld (B.1937) & her late second husband Hans Wolfgang Müller (1907-1991)] married, as his second wife, Silvia Herbst last year.

By his first wife, named Marion, with whom he divorced, he has two sons Moritz and Claudius.

Source: Descendants of Queen Victoria's siblings
 
Prince Pedro Carlos of Orleans and Braganza (b.31 October 1945) [firstborn son of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orleans and Braganza (1913-2007) & his wife Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon (1914-2005)] married, as his third wife, Patrícia Alvim Rodrigues last year.

He is twice-widowed: his first wife Rony Kuhn de Souza died aged nearly 41 on 14 January 1979 after just four years, four months and twelve days of marriage, two days after giving birth to their only son Pedro Thiago.
Two years, six months and two days later he married his second wife, then very young (nearly 18 and eight months) Patrícia Alexandra Branscombe by whom he had another son Felipe Rodrigo (b.31 December 1982; she died on 20 November 2009, two days before her 47th birthday.

His younger son also made him a grandfather last year.

Sources: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French
Brazil
 
Maria-Aparecida Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança (b.1985) [youngest of eight children of Archduchess Walburga of Austria (b.1942) & her husband Baron Carlos Taxis von Bordogna und Valnigra, who became Carlos Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança in 1951 (b.1931)] married Grégoire Andrieu-Guitrancourt (b.1980) last year.

Source: Descendants of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
 
Count Jakob of Castell-Castell (b.30 January 1984) [son of Count Georg of Castell-Castell (b.1956) & his former wife Franziska Greuner (b.1961)] married Margherita Allorio last year.

Jakob is the eldest of five children and second one who marries; his sister Johanna (b.1985) married Anton Waitz (b.1981) in 2012: they have two children.
Anton (b.1988), Franz (b.1991) & Emilie (b.1995) are reportedly single.

Source: Descendants of Duke Wilhelm of Nassau
Castell
 
Alix de la Fage (b.1994) [daughter of Josèphe Varboki (b.1968) {herself daughter of Madeleine Reibell de Saint Firmin (b.1937) & her late husband Etienne Varboki (1931-2007)} & her husband Christophe de la Fage (b.1962)] married Benoit de Malleray last year.

Alix is the eldest of four childtren and first one who marries.

Source: Descendants of Joseph Fouch? and Bonne-Jeanne Coiquaud
 
Count Egbert von Plettenberg (b.17 March 1987) [third of five children and second son of Count Egbert von Plettenberg (b.1953) & his wife Diana, nee Gärtner (b.1955)] married civilly Countess Victoria of Dohna-Schlodien (b.9 March 1989) [youngest of three children of Count Ludwig of Dohna-Schlodien (b.1945) & his first wife, Christine Dreyer (b.1954)] last year.

Egbert is the second one who marries; his only sister Sophie (b.1985) married Count Antonius of Stolberg-Stolberg (b.1982) in 2012; they have two daughters: Feodora (b.2014) & Eleonore (b.2014).

Brothers Falk-Albrecht (b.1983, Justus (b.1989) & Carl-Anton (b.1991) are reportedly single.

Victoria has a sister Katherine (b.1980) and a brother York (b.1982).

Sources: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French
Dohna
https://geneall.net/en/name/389746/egbert-count-of-plettenberg/
 
Celiane Marie Micheline Aldee Audiffret-Pasquier (b.7 February 1986) [older of two children and only daughter of late Etienne, 4th Duke of Audiffret-Pasquier (1951-2001) & his wife Emmeline, nee Beau (b.1953)] married John Royall on 23 June last year.

Her only brother, Xavier Denis Marie Gaston, 5th Duke of Audiffret-Pasquier (b.16 March 1988) married Alizee Dassonville on 17 June 2017, their son Etienne, Marquis d’Audiffret-Pasquier was born on13 September last year.

Source: Audiffret-Pasquier
 
Hello, Count Egbert von Plettenberg ( 1987) and wife were married civilly at Bad Kreuznach on 7 June 2018 and religiously at Bad Kreuznach on 9 June 2018.

Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch Grafliche Hauser Band 9 2019 p.235


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