Last weekend,The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosted close friends in their country home Anmer Hall in Norfolk to kick off Kate’s early birthday celebrations.
On their guest list was Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley and her husband David, the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley whose friendship goes way back to William and Kate’s wedding in 2011 and both couples teamed up to host a gala dinner in support of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices’ nook appeal at David and Rose’s home Houghton Hall, in King’s Lynn, in 2016.
Rose Hanbury’s royal connection is also linked to her paternal grandmother Lady Rose Lambert who was a bridesmaid at the Queen’s wedding to Prince Philip in 1947. Her husband, David, 59, inherited an estimated £112million estate in 1990, which includes Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire.
The Marchioness also sat next to Prince Harry at the Spanish state dinner at Buckingham Palace in 2017 and attended the banquet the Queen hosted for US President Trump last year.
In June 2009 David and Rose announced their engagement in June 2009. The following day it was revealed that they were pregnant and they tied the knot a day later. The couple have twin boys, Alexander, Earl of Rocksavage, 10 and Oliver, Lord Cholmondeley,10, and Lady Iris,3, their only daughter and last child.
Rose worked as a model for the agency that discovered Kate Moss and was shot by Storm Models. She also had a shot in parliament as a researcher for Conservative MP Michael Gove.
She currently lives with her husband and children at the Palladian Houghton Hall in Norfolk, just over three miles away from Kate and William’s country home Anmer Hall.
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