However, Charles's coronation will be just eight months after his mother's death He admitted the offence, but his team attempted to avoid the ban due to 'exceptional hardship' and claims he needed his licence in order to arrange the King's upcoming coronation.Ī friend of the duke told the Mail on Sunday at the time: ‘Eddie acknowledges that his attempt to avoid a driving ban went haywire and feels very sorry to have displeased the King.Įvery coronation since 1838 has taken place a year or so following the accession of the monarch. Weeks after the Queen's funeral took place, the duke was banned from driving for using his phone while driving in Battersea, south-west London on April 7. His ex-wife still lives nearby at Angmering Park House and has 100 acres of the estate - just a small part of the 16,000 acres the duke owns across the South Downs.Įddie is a major landowner, worth more than £100 million after he ran a bottled gas company and joiner business.Īlongside his royal responsibilities, he throws game shoots at his 1,000-year-old ancestral home. But the couple chose to live on a cosier farmhouse nearby instead. Prior to his second marriage, the duke lived in his ancestral seat of Arundel Castle in West Sussex. In November, the pair married at a registry office in West London. Weeks after revealing the marriage was over, however, the duke had fallen in love with another woman - Francesca, known as Chica, Herbert.Ĭhicha is the former wife of Harry Herbert, son of the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, who was the Queen's racing manager and close friend. It proved completely impossible, and we had to move on.' For the sake of the family, and because we are Catholic, we really, really tried everything. The Duke told the Mail on Sunday following the split: 'By God we tried. It was reported at the time that the Queen was saddened that the couple ‘were unable to mend the marriage’. The late Queen, who was a close friend of the Duke and Duchess, was said to have been delighted by their reunion.īut despite their attempts to salvage their marriage, for the sake of their children and their Catholicism, the pair divorced in August. The couple initially called it quits and separated in 2011, a split so bitter they both failed to attend the Royal Wedding of William and Kate because they could not be in the same room as one another.īy 2016, however, they were back together, just in time for the marriage of their eldest son Henry who will one day become the 19th Duke of Norfolk. The couple, who married in 1987, made their divorce final in August last year, after years of being on-and-off again with his wife. He has five children, Henry, Earl of Arundel, Lady Rachel, Lord Thomas and Lady Isabel which he had with his now ex-wife, Georgina, Duchess of Norfolk. The duke formerly lived in his ancestral seat of Arundel Castle in West Sussex, but today he lives with his new wife in a nearby farmhouse
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In his younger days he was a racing driver and a keen skier. Historically, the Duke of Norfolk has always been Catholic, with the current duke being the most senior lay member of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain.Īs a result, it was a Catholic who oversaw the Queen's funeral at Westminster Abbey, the committal at Windsor Castle and the Coronation, which is a religious and spiritual occasion.Įddie, as he is known to friends, was born on Decemand went on to study at Ampleforth College, a boarding school in York, before later studying at Lincoln College, Oxford.
The Duke of Norfolk shares a common ancestor with King Charles, as both their families are descendants of Edward I - the Fitzalan-Howards also claim ancestors in two of Henry VIII's wives. The peer's grandfather, Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, was the 16th Duke of Norfolk and was responsible for organising the late Queen's coronation in 1953, the state funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965 and the investiture of Charles as the Prince of Wales in 1969.
Their divorce was finalised in AugustĮdward William Fitzalan-Howard, 66, inherited England's most senior peerage, becoming the 18th Duke of Norfolk following the death of his father Miles in 2002.Īs a result, he also inherits the ancient office of Earl Marshal, making him responsible for overseeing major royal events, a tradition that has been handed down through the family's generations for 350 years. The Duke married Georgina, Duchess of Norfolk in 1987.
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