Games are made.
On June 7, Olivia Henson will marry Hugh Grosvenor, the man whom the
Times
presented in 2020 as the “most prominent bachelor in England”.
“The Duke of Westminster and Miss Olivia Henson are delighted to announce that they have become engaged,” said a spokesperson for the Grosvenor family in a press release published last April.
Both of their families are happy.”
Enough to disappoint certain members of the London elite whose only one question was hanging on their lips for years: who was going to capsize the heart of Hugh Grosvenor (and gain access to a legacy of 9.35 billion pounds)?
The lucky one, the future Duchess of Westminster, would be none other than a commoner, met two years earlier through friends.
Very little information has filtered out about the future duchess, discreet and unknown to the general public.
According to
Vanity Fair
, Olivia Henson studied at Marlborough College, "around the same time as Princess Eugenie."
She then continued her studies with a course in Hispanic and Italian studies at the prestigious Trinity College in Dublin.
Invitation Card
Now aged 30, the young woman works as a Senior Account Manager at Belazu, a London company specializing in the food industry.
According to the British media
Tatler
, she met the Duke of Westminster two years ago thanks to a couple of friends.
They will say “yes” at Chester Cathedral on June 7, surrounded by the British elite.
According to the
Times
, several members of the royal family have already received their invitation cards, like King Charles III, Queen Camilla, but also Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton.
The sole heir to a colossal fortune
By marrying the 7th Duke of Westminster, Olivia Henson joins one of the greatest fortunes in Europe, whose assets are estimated at $11.6 billion, a sum larger than that of the royal family.
Born on January 29, 1991 in London, Hugh Grosvenor, or “Hughie” to his close friends, was born from the union between Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster, and Natalia Phillips, known as Tally, descendant of the Russian poet Pushkin and godmother of Prince William .
The third child of four and only son of the Grosvenor clan, the Duke had a “normal” childhood according to
The Telegraph
.
He attended a state primary school not far from the family mansion of Eaton Hall in Cheshire.
In 2016, when he was 25 years old, Hugh's life changed: his father died of a devastating heart attack at the age of 64.
Due to the old feudal rule of male primogeniture, he inherits the title of “Duke of Westminster” as well as the real estate empire managed by the Grosvenor Group company.
However, “Hughie” is a discreet young man, absent from social networks and rarely gives interviews.
In short, a character trait that he shares with his fiancée, Olivia Henson.