The Most Recent QVD Engagement: Benjamin Sewell, Descendant of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Is Affianced To Alice Hobden

[NOTE: A massive thank you to Michael Rhodes of Peerage News for posting this news originally.]

On Friday, 24 January 2020, the engagement was announced between Benjamin Leopold Sewell (b.1990) a descendant of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Alice S. Hobden.

Benjamin Sewell is the son of Charles Percy Sewell (b.1958) and his wife Alice Louise Huntington-Whiteley (b.1961). Alice Hobden is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hobden.

The following is the descent of Benjamin Sewell (b.1990) from his ancestress Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901):

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819 - 1901); 

married in 1840 to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819 - 1861)

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Prince Leopold, 1st Duke of Albany, with Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince Leopold, 1st Duke of Albany (1853 - 1884); 

married in 1882 to Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861 - 1922)

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Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with Viktoria Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg  

Prince Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884 - 1954); 

married in 1905 to Princess Viktoria Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1885 - 1970)

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Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with Count Friedrich-Wolfgang zu Castell-Rudenhausen

Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1912 - 1983); 

married in 1931 (divorced in 1938) Count Friedrich-Wolfgang zu Castell-Rudenhausen (1906 - 1940)

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Countess Viktoria Adelheid zu Castell-Rudenhausen (b.1935); 

married in 1960 to Sir John Miles Huntington-Whiteley, 4th Baronet (1929 - 2019)

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Alice Louise Huntington-Whiteley (b.1961); 

married in 1985 to Charles Percy Sewell (b.1958)

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Benjamin Sewell (b.1990); 

engaged in 2020 to Alice Hobden 

Thank you again to Michael Rhodes of the Peerage News for this information.

Source: Sewell/Hobden engagement