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Lord George Carnegie and Matilda St Aubyn were married on June 7 at St. Paul’s Church in Ashford Hill, Berkshire. Lord George is the second of three sons of the Duke and Duchess of Fife.
The new Lady George is wearing the Fife Fringe tiara, which is usually displayed at Kensington Palace. The tiara was a gift from the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to their eldest daughter, Princess Louise, when she married Alexander Duff, 6th Earl of Fife, in July 1889.
Louise’s grandmother, Queen Victoria, at the wedding breakfast, created Lord Fife as the 1st Duke of Fife. This is not the same as the Fife Tiara, which is given to the nation in lieu of taxes. Both tiaras are on display at Kensington Palace. The Duke of Fife has loaned the Fringe tiara to the palace. Both tiaras can be used by members of the Fife family.
Please see Court Jeweller’s excellent article for more information about Princess Louise’s tiaras.
In 2020, Camille Ascoli wore the Fife Fringe tiara when she married the Earl of Southesk, Lord George’s older brother.
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| Fife Fringe Tiara @Marlene Eilers Koenig |
https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-earl-of-southesk-gets-married.html
https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-qvd-engagement-carnegie-st-aubyn.html
Lady George, known as Tilly, is a BACP psychotherapist in London.
On August 30, 2025, the Duke and Duchess of Fife’s youngest son, Lord Hugh, will marry Catherine Morgan. She, too, may wear the Fife Fringe tiara.
Victoria – Edward VII – Louise – Maud – James – David – George
In Italy on June 7, HRH Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia married Freiherr Leonard von Stenglin. Wilhelmine “Mimi” Auguste Donata Maria Armgard is the daughter of HRH Prince Oskar of Prussia and his wife, Auguste Zimmerman von Siefart. She was born in Munich on July 7, 1995.
Leonard Louis William Christian Freiherr von Stenglin is the son of Freiherr Stephan von Stenglin and Elisabeth von Warburg. He was born on January 5, 1991, in Arlington, Virginia. In the early 1990s, his father was a Senior Advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., and is now President of the Regional Administration of the Deutsche Bundesbank (Bremen, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
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After earning degrees from the University of Passau and the University of St. Andrews, the latter with a master’s in management, Leo is currently a part of eBay with their Strategy and Operations department in Berlin.
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Princess Wilhelmine received a BA in Social Sciences from Humboldt University in Berlin and a master’s in Security and Diplomacy from Tel Aviv University. She worked for the German Parliament for two years as spokesperson for Alexander Graf von Lambsdorff, then a member of Parliament.
The princess is now the security and defense editor at Table Media. Before this position, she interned with Politico.
https://www.politico.eu/staff/wilhelmine-von-preussen/
Princess Wilhelmine and Freiherr Leonard are third cousins through the marriage of Count Karl von Bassewitz-Levetzow (1855-192) and Margarete von der Schulenburg (1864-1940).
Leo is the great-grandson of their eldest daughter, Countess Alexandrine von Bassewitz (1886-1967) and Freiherr von Stenglin (1877-1957). Their son, Freiherr Christian von Stenglin (1914-2002) and his wife, (1919-2005) were the parents of Freiherr Stephan von Stenglin (1956), who married Elisabeth von Warburg (1957-2023).
The death notice for Leonard’s mother, who died in 2023.
Princess Wilhelmine is a great-granddaughter of Countess Alexandrine’s younger sister, Countess Ina-Marie von Bassewitz (1888-1973), who married HRH Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888-1958).
Prince Oskar was the fifth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Oskar and Ina-Marie’s youngest child, Prince Wilhelm Karl Wilhelm Karl (1922-2007) married Armgard von Veltheim (1926-2019). Wilhelm Karl and Armgard’s youngest son, Prince Oskar (1959) and his wife, Auguste (1962) are the parents of Princess Wilhelmine.
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| The marriage in 1992 of Auguste Zimmerman von Siefart and HRH Prince Oskar of Prussia @HRH Prince Wilhelm Karl of Prussia |
Victoria – Victoria – Wilhelm II – Oskar – Wilhelm Karl – Oskar – Wilhelmine
Lady Violet Manners will marry Viscount Garnock later this month, most likely on June 21st, as Belvoir Castle will be closed from the 16th through the 23rd.
