The title then passed to his son, Hugh. [3], His ancestral country estate in Cheshire, the 54-bedroom Eaton Hall, consisted of 11,000 acres (45 km2) of parkland, gardens and stables. when he [the Duke of Westminster] added that Hitler knew after all that we were his best friends, he set off the powder-magazine. 20 December 1979), married Edward van Cutsem (son of, Jake Louis Hannibal van Cutsem (b. As a nineteen year old, he briefly attended a French boarding school run by the Count de Mauny, who was rumoured to have made sexual advances towards some of its pupils. He was the son of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, and Lady Sibell Lumley, the daughter of the 9th Earl of Scarborough. Whilst attached to the Cheshire Yeomanry he developed a prototype Rolls-Royce Armoured Car for their use. [1], From his childhood and during his adult life he was known within family circles as "Bendor",[2] which was also the name of the racehorse Bend Or owned by his grandfather the first Duke, which won The Derby in 1880, the year following his grandson's birth. [16] However, in October 2013, he was named a godfather to Prince George of Cambridge. The house is surrounded by its own formal gardens, parkland, farmland and woodland. The Duke was Grand Prior of the Priory of England of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, 1995–2001. [11] The war ended in May 1902. [33], The Duke died on 9 August 2016 at Royal Preston Hospital in Preston, Lancashire, after suffering a heart attack at his Abbeystead Estate. On 26 November 1920, the Duke became the second husband of Violet Mary Nelson (1891–1983). 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[14] An illustration of both Westminster’s extravagance and orchestrated technique in the courting of women has endured in the form of various apocryphal stories. In 1925, he was introduced to Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel after a party in Monte Carlo and pursued her. Harriet Tomlinson and the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor via The Daily Mail Widely thought to be the ‘most eligible bachelor in the land’ , the as yet unmarried Duke – known as ‘Hughie’ – is hot property, with his wealth estimated at a staggering … [23] Work started on the £300m project in April 2016,[24] and was completed in 2018 to replace those at Headley Court. She outlived him by fifty years.[1]. Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor is a descendant of the Hetman of Ukraine Petro Doroshenko through Natalia Nikolayevna Goncharova. His early education was in Northern Ireland before he was sent at age 7 to boarding school at Sunningdale, followed by Harrow. The first substantial house was built in the 17th century. 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