The woman in uniform adjacent to Queen Camilla is Beatrice Grant, the Lord-Lieutenant of Worcester. She was appointed by Charles III. The Birmingham Mail noted she broke "the ultimate glass ceiling by becoming the first woman to hold a prestigious role in nearly 500 years. Beatrice and Bishop Inge welcomed the Queen to Worcester Cathedral for the Royal Maundy Service. Camilla represented the King, who is undergoing cancer treatment.
Her selection was announced in December 2022 and she took up her position in March 2023 when the previous Lord-Lieutenant Patrick Holcroft retired at 75.
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| @Worcestershire County Council |
Beatrice Grant and her husband, Andrew live in Bransford Manor in Worcester. She was "chosen for the position after a long process and was picked for her long and extensive charity work."
As the Lord-Lieutenant for Worcester, Beatrice was invited to King Charles III's Coronation.
Now here comes the fun fact. Beatrice Grant and King Charles III are fourth cousins, as both are descendants of Queen Victoria.
Victoria - Edward - George - George - Elizabeth - Charles
Victoria - Leopold - Carl Eduard - Caroline Mathilde - Victoria Adelheid - Beatrice
Beatrice Irene Helen Victoria is the second of three children of H Ill H Countess Victoria Adelheid Clementine Luise of Castell-Rüdenhausen and Sir John Miles Huntington-Whiteley, 4th Baronet. Her parents were married on June 20, 1960, at the Queen's Chapel, St. James's Palace, London.
She is also the great-granddaughter of former British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin.
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| Times June 21, 1960 |
Beatrice was born September 6, 1962, at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Her birth was announced in the Court Circular.
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| Times September 11, 1962 |
She married Andrew William Grant on April 26, 1995, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in London.
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| Beatrice and Andrew's wedding @Catherine Moubray) |
The couple have two sons, Frederik (1999) and Ludovic (2002).
May I ask, what does QVD stand for? My Google-fu failed me. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteQueen Victoria’s Descebdanr I coined QED back in the 80s when I was writing my first of three books on Queen Victoria’sdescendants
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteAll related wow .
ReplyDeleteMaybe William and Catherine too?
Or in Sweden Carl Philip and Sofia are related?
Happy easter.
Greetings to Harper and Fleur.
Andrea
I doubt Carl Philip and Sofia are related, but as I said before nearly all English people are descended from Edward III. Harry and Meghan (who has English ancestry) are descendants of Edward III's son, Lionel, Duke of Clarence.
ReplyDeleteWilliam and Catherine are fourteenth cousins once removed through his mother and fifteenth cousins through his father through Sir William Gascoigne (died 1487) and his wife, Lady Margaret Percy, 4th and youngest daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. Catherine is also a Kate is also an eighth cousin seven times removed to George Washington, first President of the United States
I'm having captcha problems (it keeps freezing or expiring), so I hope this doesn't post twice. I love your QVD posts. My (now not so) secret wish is a post listing the most surprising/weird professions and life situations.
ReplyDeleteIn the article about her mother's Victoria Adelheid marriage, I was surprised neither of her Schnirring sisters were bridesmaids. Do you know how Victoria Adelheid ended up in England, living with Princess Alice? Her siblings seem to have not been connected with their British connections and wasn't her mother's life somewhat scandalous.
ReplyDeleteShe was taken under Alice's wing. After her first divorce, Calma lived in chile for a bit - she was imprisoned in the late 50s ...so I expect VA had little contact with her half sisters
ReplyDeleteImprisoned, wow. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteActually, googling what you and KM were referring to (the prison part, I haven't found the Chile part yet) brought me to exactly the kind of stuff that I would have included in my "secret QVD wish post" that I was referrring to above - but definitely not a situation that had even occured to me as potentially being a part of this: serving a prison sentence because you tried to abort your lover's child that he had with a ... child herself at age 15 and then because the abortion was unsafe the 15 year old dies on your kitchen table... wasn't what I could have even imagined for a QVD. Then again: we have the crazy ashrams, the drug addicts, so I should have expected this massively more awful situation. My mind is blown. Thank you for that!
ReplyDeleteDid Calma's older brother Johann Leopold serve time in prison too? I saw it on Wikipedia, not sure how reliable that is.
ReplyDeleteI've found the original article now - I am assuming links are not allowed in comments, but you can find it if you search Dorsten lexikon and "Prinzessin Caroline saß 1956 im Dorstener Amtsgerichtsgefängnis" (author of the article: Wolf Stegemann). Calma most likely only spent a single day and night in prison for her role in abetting the unsafe abortion of Calma's boyfriend's 15 year old victim. That was November 27, 1956 ("Sie war sicher die prominenteste Gefangene, die jemals im Dorstener Amtsgerichtsgefängnis eingesessen hatte – auch wenn dies am 27. November 1956 nur einen Tag und eine Nacht lang gewesen war. Vielleicht auch etwas länger."). Both Calma and her boyfriend received a suspended prison sentence of 6 months ("auf Bewährung" - meaning: had they been found guilty of a second crime later they would have had to go to prison). Several other royal websites mistranslated the German to say that she did actually spend half a year in jail. The article also says that Calma's boyfriend had actually sexual relations not just with one underage girl who he had power over (they were his employees in his factory), but with two. Only one became pregnant. And I've found what you were referring to re: Chile now as well - she lived in Chile with Max Schnirring in 1938/1939 as Max was training Chilean fighter pilots there.
ReplyDeleteHow did Calma's daughter Calma Schnirring end up in the United States given that her siblings Michael and Dagmar lived in Germany? Do you know by any chance?
Yes, I have a copy of the Dorsten article ... Calma married an American soldier -- she gave to their son before they married.
ReplyDeleteYes, Johann Leopold served time in prison.
ReplyDeleteCalma's daughter Victoria Adelheid seems lucky to have been taken in by Princess Alice, by what is said here about her mother. In the articles you posted about Victoria Adelheid's wedding there is no mention of mother attending her wedding in 1960. In your QVD you had a nice picture of Calma and her children, so I assumed the Castells and Schnirrings may have had better relations.
ReplyDeleteCalma did not attend her daughter's wedding
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