First same-sex wedding for member of the aristocracy
THE 28-year-old daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair is set to become the first member of the aristocracy to have a same-sex wedding.
Lady Anna Gordon, a business development manager at the Prince of Wales’s charity, The Prince’s Trust, is celebrating after proposing to her partner Sarah McChesney, 29, from the Isle of Man.
She earlier announced the news on social media in a posting in which she remarked: “What a weekend, asked the love of my life to marry me and she said Yes – phew!”
The engagement has now been formally announced on the Court and Social page of
It follows the news in September of this year that Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of the Queen, could become the first member of the wider royal family to marry someone of the same sex.
The great-nephew of Earl Mountbatten of Burma – and great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria – spoke of his happiness with his new partner, James Coyle, an airline cabin services director. Asked if he had any plans to marry or form a civil partnership, the divorced father of three told a Sunday newspaper: “Now it’s out there, anything is possible.”
The possibility of a gay royal wedding was envisaged in the legislation put before Parliament four years ago legalising same-sex marriage.
It not only rules out a future King or Prince of Wales who marry a man passing on the title of Queen or Princess of Wales but also prevents men with aristocratic titles making their husbands Duchess, Countess or Lady.