It’s
turning into a real month of celebration for the House of Windsor, Buckingham
Palace having confirmed that another member of the family is to wed.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester’s daughter, Lady Rose Windsor, is to
marry
her boyfriend of more than two years, the announcement coming in the
Court Circular on Friday ahead of events marking the far more high
profile union of the Queen and Prince Philip.
The Royal Family, including Lady Rose and her relatives, are preparing to
gather en masse for tomorrow's thanksgiving service at Westminster
Abbey to mark the Diamond Wedding anniversary of Elizabeth and Philip.
While
the Queen's immediate family have suffered many marital woes and not a
few connected scandals, her first cousin has been blessed with a happy marriage,
one which began in relatively low-key circumstances with the wedding of
Prince Richard of Gloucester and Danish-born Birgitte van Deurs at St. Andrew's
Church in Barnwell, Northamptonshire, in July 1972.
Having grown up at Apartment 1 at Kensington
Palace, 27-year-old Lady Rose is the last of the offspring of the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester to officially leave the nest.
Her fiancée is George Gilman, whose father was a director of Leeds United
Football Club.
Lady Rose has previously dated Rupert Young, the brother of Pop Idol
winner Will Young, and as with her elder siblings, we can assume this
will be another very low-key wedding ceremony far from the spotlight
which ultimately caused some of the problems in the marriages
of three of the Queen's children.
