A QVD engagement: Carnegie - St Aubyn

  

Lord George William Carnegie is the second of three sons of David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife, and his wife, Caroline Anne Bunting.  Lord George was born in Edinburgh on March 3, 1991.

He attended Harrow before heading to Bristol University, earning a Bachelor's degree in finance and accounting.  Lord George worked for Saffrey Champness, a London accounting firm for six years  He left the firm in October 2021 to become the head of finance for his family's business.

In March 2016, Lord George became a trustee of the Fife Charitable Trust.  The other two trustees are the Duke of Fife and his sister, Lady Alexandra Etherington.  He has an older brother, Charles, who is styled as the Earl of Southesk, who is married and the father of a young daughter, and a younger brother,  Lord Hugh Carnegie.

The family is Kinnaird Castle in Brechin.

https://kinnairdcastle.co.uk/

Matilda Elizabeth St Aubyn was born in Oxford on January 19, 1994, the second of three children of Michael Piers St Aubyn and Astrid Elizabeth Lumley.  She has an older brother Thomas Piers Lumley and a younger sister, Isabella Astrid.  In 2023, Thomas became engaged to the Hon Emily Evelyn Younger, daughter of the 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie. 

Matilda's engagement is the second this year for her family as her younger sister, Isabella and Bill Jenks's engagement was announced in January.   Bill Jenk's sister, Daisy is married to Charlie van Straubenzee.

She is known to friends and family as Tilly.  From 2005-2013, Matilda attended St. Mary's School, Ascot.  She attended the University of Bristol, graduating in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in politics and international relations.  Earlier this year, she received a Master's in Psychotherapy from Regent's University in London.

Matilda is a BACP Psychotherapist at Headstrong Counselling and she also works as an Integrative Psychotherapist in training with Children and Adults Therapy services.

Integrative Psychotherapist in training

The late Michael St. Aubyn is a descendant of the 1st Baron Saint Levan of Saint Michael's Mount through his sixth son  Hon. Lionel Michael St Aubyn, who married Lady Mary Theresa Parker, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Morley.  Their second son, Geoffrey Piers St Aubyn married Valerie Elizabeth Hare.  

On February 29, 1964, Geoffry and Valerie St Aubyn were among 83 people who lost their lives when a  British Eagle airplane crashed in the Glungzeger mountain near Innsbruck, Austria.  They were survived by their three children: Michael (1959-2002), Camilla (1961) and Rupert (1963).

Michael died on November 17, 2002 after a "valiant fight against cancer."    Astrid married James Findlay in July 2013.

In 2021 the Duchess of Rutland interviewed Lord George's mother, Caroline.

https://www.duchessthepodcast.com/episodes/the-duchess-of-fife-of-kinnaird-castle

After their marriage -- the date has not been announced -- Matilda will be styled as the Lady George Carnegie.  She will not be Lady Matilda Carnegie as she is not the daughter of a duke, marquess or an earl.

Lord George and Matilda St Aubyn are ninth cousins through Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (1665-1726) and Lady Mary Feiling (1668-1697).    Mathilda is a descendant of the Duke's eldest daughter, Lady Mary who married the British diplomat Edward Wortley-Montagu. Lord George's ancestor is the Duke's third daughter, Lady Evelyn, the wife of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower.

Lord George is a descendant of two British sovereigns:  King William IV and Queen Victoria.

William (through his mistress Dorothea Jordan)   - Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence (m 18th Earl of Erroll) - Lady Agnes Hay (m 5th Earl of Fife)  - Alexander, 1st Duke of Fife (m Princess Louise, Princess Royal) -  Maud (m 11th Earl of Southesk) - James, 3rd Duke of Fife - David, 4th Duke of Fife - Lord George Carnegie

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 Victoria - Edward VII  - Louise - Maud - James -David -George

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