Engagements Announcements 2021

[Biri]

The engagement was announced between Prince Vincenz of Furstenberg (b.15 March 1985) [eldest of three sons of Prince and Landgraf Johannes of Furstenberg (b.1958) and only son by his first wife Veronika Paul (b.1948)] & Georgina Melville, an opera singer (coloratura soprano) fron Staattheater Cottbus, on 3 March.

The groom-to-be has two half-brothers: Ludwig (b.28 December 1997) & Johann-Christian (b.30 April 1999) by his father & his current wife Stephanie, nee Heiden (b.1961)

Source: https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blog...-to-marry.html

Update:
The wedding of Grand Duke George of Russia & Rebecca "Victoria Romanovna" Bettarini will take place in Sankt Petersburg on 1 October.

Sources: future bride's Instagram account.
https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot....n-october.html

[Ceely]

Count Martin Lombard de Buffières de Rambuteau (*1988), middle son of Count Count Emmanuel Lombard de Buffières de Rambuteau (*1954) and his wife Valérie-Charlotte Dolbois (*1958), got engaged to Théodora Pâris de Bollardière (*1987) this year.

Martin's older brother Paul (*1985) married Aude Colas des Francs in 2016, while his younger brother Joachim (*1991) is unmarried.

Source: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French

[Biri]

The engagement was announced 11 March, 2021, between Richard Christian Beaumont [born 27 May, 1989], scion of the Viscounts Allendale, second son of the Hon Hubert Wentworth Beaumont -[born 13 Apr, 1956], of County Kildare, Ireland, and Katherine Emma [Kate] Beaumont [nee Abel Smith, born 11 March, 1961], of Nottinghamshire, and Elizabeth Louise Holland [b 1990], daughter of Michael G. Holland, of Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, and his wife the former Margaret H. Osborne.

Richard Beaumont, a grandson of the late life peer the Baron Beaumont of Whitley [1928-2008] is also a descendant of Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria [1819-1901] > Prince Leopold [1853-84] > Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone [1883-1981] > Lady May Abel Smith [1906-94] > Richard Abel Smith [1933-2004] > Kate Abel Smith [b 1961] > Richard Beaumont [b 1989]

Source: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/202...ngagement.html

[Biri]

Prince Johann-Wenzel of Liechtenstein (b.16 March 1993) [son of Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein (b.1949) & his wife, Princess Marie of France (b.1959)] got engaged to Countess Felicitas von Hartig (b.10 April 1994) [daughter of Count Lukas von Hartig (b.1964) & his wife Claudia, nee Toperczer (b.1965)] this year.

Johann-Wenzel is third of five children, elder son and first one who marries.

Sources: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth...htenstein.html

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Biri

Prince Johann-Wenzel of Liechtenstein (b.16 March 1993) [son of Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein (b.1949) & his wife, Princess Marie of France (b.1959)] got engaged to Countess Felicitas von Hartig (b.10 April 1994) [daughter of Count Lukas von Hartig (b.1964) & his wife Claudia, nee Toperczer (b.1965)] this year.

Johann-Wenzel is third of five children, elder son and first one who marries.

Sources: Descendants of King Louis Philippe I of the French
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth...htenstein.html

Having heard from one of the two people concerned, they are NOT engaged.

[Biri]

Elizabeth Katharine Wemyss (b.1985) [daughter of Charles Michael Wemyss (b.1952) {himself son of David Erskine-Wemyss (1920-2005) {{himself son of Lady Victoria Cavendish-Bentinck (1890-1994) {{{herself daughter of William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland (1857-1943) & his wife Winifred Dallas-Yorke (1863-1954)}}}& her husband Michael John Erskine-Wemyss of Wemyss (1888-1982)}} & his wife Lady Jean Bruce (b.1923)} & his wife Fiona Elizabeth, nee Penn (b.1956)] got engaged to her longtime partner James Gary MacKean (b.1989) this year; they have two children.

Source: Descendants of Willem Bentinck and Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg

[Biri]

The engagement was announced between Prince Louis of Luxemburg (b. 3 August 1986) [third of five children of Grand Duke Henri of Luxemburg (b.1955) & his wife Maria Teresa, nee Mestre y Batista (b.1956)] & Scarlett-Lauren Sirgue (b.8 August 1991) [second of three children of Pierre Sirgue & his wife Scarlett, nee Berrebi] on 6 April.

For Prince Louis it will be second marriage; he was previously married (from 2006 to 2019) to Tessy Antony (b.28 October 1985) [third of four living children of François Antony & his wife Régine Anne, nee Heidemann] by whom he has two sons Gabriel (b.12 March 2006) & Noah (b. 27 September 2007).
His former wife is currently engaged to Frank Floessel (also a divorced man, father of one daughter) and is currently expecting his child.

Source: https://monarchie.lu/fr/actualites/f...-lauren-sirgue

[Biri]

Princess Shirin bint Mired (born 19 May 1993) [daughter of Prince Mired bin Ra'ad of Jordan (b.1965) & his wife Dina Mohammad Khalifeh (b.1965)] got engaged to Jafar Nabelsi recently.

Shirin is the eldest of three children, only daughter and first one who marries.
Her brothers Rakan (b.20 November 1995) & Jafar (b.4 November 2002) are single.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNc18RNhX-D/

[Biri]

The engagement was announced 10 April, 2021, between Capt James Oliver Stirling Home Drummond-Moray [born 1992], Scots Guards, scion of that landed family, of Abercairny, son of Capt David Maurice Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray [born 6 March, 1945], late the Scots Guards, of Crieff, Perthshire, and his wife the former Iona Barber, & Annabel Flora Edwards [born 1993], daughter of Nicholas Edwards, of Hawkhurst, Kent, and his wife [nee Macleod].

Capt James Drummond-Moray is a descendant of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry:-

6th Duke of Buccleuch [1831-1914] > Lord George Montagu Douglas Scott [1866-1947] > Jeanetta Montagu Douglas Scott [1906-97] > David Stirling Home Drummond Moray [b 1945] > James Stirling Home Drummond Moray [b 1992].

Source: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/202...ayedwards.html

[Ceely]

Jonkvrouw Idalie de Hemptinne (*1993) of the Counts de Hemptinne, older daughter of Jonkheer Frédéric de Hemptinne (*1963) (who is the son of Princess Maria of Sapieha-Kodenska and her husband Jonkheer Maximilien de Hemptinne) and his wife Jonkvrouw Muriel de Failly (*1970), is engaged to Amaury Botton, they will marry in 2022.

Source: Descendants of Prince Ladislaw Sapieha-Kodenski

[Somebody]

So, Idalie's grandmother was the youngest sister of queen Mathilde's grandmother; meaning the bride is Mathilde's second cousin.

[Ceely]

Hester Bulmer (*1990), eldest child of Lady Marcia Leveson-Gower (1961-2005) of the Earls of Granville, and her husband Jonathan Bulmer (*1944), is engaged to Thomas Arnall (*1987).

Hester is a first cousin twice removed of Queen Elizabeth through their Bowes-Lyon ancestry. She has three younger siblings, James (*1992), Hector (*1993), and Lara (*1995) and is the first to get engaged.

Source: https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/7G566SpRpYY
Descendants of Sir Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

[Ceely]

Nicholas Brandram (*1982), son of Paul Brandram (1948-2020), who was the son of Princess Katherine of Greece (1913-2007) and her husband Richard Brandram (1911-1994), and his first wife Jennifer Steele (*1951), is engaged to Sophie Ferguson (*1992).

He was married to Katrina Davis from 2011 until their divorce in 2014. His sisters Sophie (*1981) and Alexia (*1985) are both married with children.

Source: Royal Musings: Nicholas Brandram to marry
Descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark

[Biri]

The engagement was announced 15 May, 2021, between Hamish Stephen Eggins [born 1991], son of Stephen Charles Eggins, and his former wife the former Priscilla Constance Rowan-Hamilton [born 10 May, 1951], & Caroline Georgina Colthurst [born 1991], scion of the Colthurst baronets, younger daughter of Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst [born 1959], and his wife the former Sophia Selina Ireme Hervey-Bathurst [born 1961], daughter of Sir Frederick John Charles Gordon Hervey-Bathurst, 7th Baronet [1934-2011].

The descent of Hamish Eggins from the Earls of Strathmore:-

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore [1824-1904] > Lady Constance Bowes-Lyon [1865-1951] > Phyllis Blackburn > Angus Rowan-Hamilton [1919-78] > Priscilla Rowan-Hamilton [b 1951] > Hamish Eggins [b 1991]

Source: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/202...ngagement.html

[Biri]

They got engaged two years ago but they are getting married only now:

Princess Maria Annunciata of Liechtenstein (b.12 May 1985) [eldest of three living children of Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (b.1947) & his wife Princess Margaretha of Luxemburg (b.1957)] will marry civilly Carlo Emanuele Musini (b.1979) [son of late Niccolo Musini (died 2005) & his wife Monica Taglio] in Tenuta di Fassia (Italy) on 26 June (bride's younger sister's 34th birthday); their religious wedding will take place later in Vienna.

Maria Annunziata is the first child of her parents who marries; her sister Marie-Astrid got engaged to Ralph Worthington in 2019.
Her brother Josef-Emmanuel (b.7 May 1989) is single.
Her parents' first child, Leopold, was stillborn on 20 May 1984.

Sources: https://gothanjou.blog/2021/06/13/fi...mpression=true
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/umbria/l...o-6015981.html (Thanks, MAfan & JR76!)

[Biri]

Update:

Duke of Noto & Charlotte Lindsay-Bethune will marry in Palermo Cathedral on 25 September:

https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencial...andro_3135459/ (Thanks, Blog Real!)

Also his distant cousin Leandro de Borbón y Mora (b.1973) [youngest of seven children of late Leandro Alfonso de Borbón y Ruiz-Moragas (1929-2016) {himself out of wedlock son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) & Carmen Ruiz y Moragas (1896-1936)} and only by his second wife, María de la Concepción (Conchín) de Mora y Ruiz (*1940)] will marry, as his second wife, Rosalía García Sanz-Cruzado, in Madrid on 3 July.

Source: the same.

[Biri]

Kelly Knatchbull (b.1988) [daughter of Michael John Knatchbull (b.1950) (who is a first cousin once removed of the late Duke of Edinburgh) & his first wife Melissa, nee Owen (b.1960)] got engaged to Alexander Cook (b.1984) this year.

Source: Descendants of Princess Julie von Battenberg

[Biri]

Princess Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma (b.8 July 1993) [daughter of Prince Charles Emanuel of Bourbon-Parma (b.1961) & his wife Constance, nee Baroness de Ravinel (b.1970)] got engaged to Javier Valladares Urruela this year.

Charlotte is second of four children, eldest daughter and first one who marries.

Sources: Descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/parma.html

Constanza Riesle de Habsbourg-Lorraine (b.1989) [daughter of Archduchess Alexandra of Austria (b.1952) & her husband Hector Riesle Contreras (b.1942)] got engaged to Sebastián Prieto Donoso this year.

Constanza is the youngest of three children, younger daughter and last one who marries.

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

Countess Isabelle von Goess-Enzenberg (b.1993) [daughter of Count Michael von Goess, who became Count Michael von Goess-Enzenberg (b.1961) & his wife Sophie, nee Baroness von Haerdtl (b.1964)] got engaged to Baron Richard von Haymerle this year.

Isabelle is the eldest of three children, elder daughter and first one who marries.

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

[Biri]

The engagement was announced between Dr Isabella Frances Stopford (b.1992) [scion of the Earls of Courtown, daughter of Brigadier James Richard Hugh Stopford (b.1961) of Warminster, Wilts, & his wife Michelle, nee Reeves (b.1963)] & John Lang [son of the late Mr David Lang & Lady Smith, stepson of Sir Lockwood Smith, of Matakohe, New Zealand] on 2 July.

Sources: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/202...ngagement.html
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/goth.../courtown.html

[Biri]

Côme d'Harcourt (b.28 July 1990) [son and heir of Geoffroy, Duke of Harcourt (b.1952) & his wife Hélène, nee de Nicolay (b.1962)] got engaged to Axelle de Cremiers [daughter of Michel de Cremiers & his wife Véronique] recently.

Côme is the eldest of three children and first one who marries; his siblings are Grégoire (b.15 November 1992) & Ombeline (b.6 March 19994).

Source: https://gothanjou.blog/2021/07/03/fi...che-dharcourt/