The Sunday Times Rich List 2021

On the 23rd May the Sunday Times Rich List was released. I have made one of my own that lists all the Royalty, Princes and Princess, Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Barons and Baronesses, Baronets, Dames, Knights and Ladies within the Sunday Times Rich List for 2021.

Position	Position in the Sunday Time Rich List 2021	Person/Family	Worth according to the Sunday Time Rich List 2021
1	1	Sir Leonard Blavatnik	£23bn
2	4	Sir James Dyson and Family	£16.3bn
3	12	The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family	£10.054bn
4	22	Sir Henry Keswick and Family	£6.471bn
5	24	Earl Cadogan and family	£6.37bn
6	25	Sir Jim Ratcliffe	£6.33bn
7	38	Lord Bamford and family	£4.595bn
8	45	Sir Richard Branson and family	£3.79bn
9	46	Baroness Howard de Walden and family	£3.722bn
10	50	Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman	£3.5bn
11	64	Sir Chris Hohn	£2.5bn
12	70	Alejandro Santo Domingo and Lady Charlotte Wellesley	£2.4bn
13	77	Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and family	£2.175bn
14	82	Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani	£2bn
15	82	Robert Miller and Princess Marie-Chantal and family	£2bn
16	82	Lord Paul and family	£2bn
17	82	Viscount Portman and family	£2bn
18	90	Sir Ian Wood and family	£1.819bn
19	93	Sir David McMurtry	£1.78bn
20	104	Sir Dennis and Lady Gillings	£1.557bn
21	107	Sir Michael Hintze	£1.5bn
22	125	Sir Anwar Pervez and family	£1.364bn
23	127	Lord and Lady Cruddas	£1.321bn
24	132	Lord Ashcroft and family	£1.257bn
25	135	Lady Ballyedmond and family	£1.247bn
26	136	Sir Terry Matthews	£1.24bn
27	138	Lord Sugar	£1.2bn
28	138	Lord Grantchester and the Moores family	£1.2bn
29	138	Sir Cameron Mackintosh	£1.2bn
30	138	Lord Spencer	£1.2bn
31	151	Lady Philomena Clark and family	£1.141bn
32	152	Lord Kirkham and family	£1.14bn
33	160	Viscount Rothermere and family	£1.08bn
34	161	Lord Rothschild and family	£1.052bn
35	175	The Earl of Iveagh and the Guinness family	£934m
36	177	Sir Philip Green and Lady Green	£910m
37	180	Sir Roger and Peter de Haan	£900m
38	181	Lord Edmiston	£897m
39	182	The Duke of Devonshire	£895m
40	196	Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell	£820m
41	198	Sir Peter Wood	£815m
42	205	Duke of Bedford	£787m
43	205	Lord Laidlaw	£787m
44	209	Prince Jonathan and Princess Gesine Doria Pamphilj	£775m
45	209	Sir Charles Dunstone	£775m
46	209	Sir Peter, James and Steve Rigby	£775m
47	221	Sir Tom Hunter	£729m
48	223	Sir Lloyd Dorfman and family	£720m
49	225	Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild	£702m
50	231	Sir Martin Franklin	£680m
51	235	Sir Brian Souter and Dame Ann Gloag DBE	£650m
52	239	Sir Paul Marshall	£645m
53	244	Lord Choudrey and family	£633m

Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York is Pregnant

Today Buckingham Palace announced that Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are expecting a baby, due to be born in the autumn of this year.

Princess Beatrice is the eldest child of His Royal Highness The Duke of York and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York. She is also the second eldest granddaughter of Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.

Princess Beatrice and Edoardo were married on the 17th July 2020 in a private ceremony at Royal Chapel of All Saints in the grounds of her fathers home, Royal Lodge in Windsor.

Her Majesty the Queen and both of the couples families are said to be delighted with the news.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Cheshire

David Briggs CVO MBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Cheshire.

Mr Mark Gerald Ellis
His Honour Judge Steven George Everett
Mr Christopher John Purslow
Ms Zoe Louise Sheppard
Ms Katherine Meriel Whitaker JP

New Deputy Lieutenants of Essex

Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst, Lord-Lieutenant of Essex has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Essex.

Mr Keith Donald Attwood
Ms Julie Ann Rogers

New Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire

Sir John Peace, Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire.

Mr Nicholas Ebbs
Mrs Sandeep Mahal
Mr Mark Onyett
Mrs Alexandra Peace-Gadsby
Professor Shearer West

New Deputy Lieutenants of Gloucestershire

Edward William Gillespie OBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Gloucestershire.

Mr Guy Fraser Disney MBE
Ms Susan Penelope Hewson-Lowe
Dr Shanta Nair
Ms Sybil Ruscoe
Ms Daphne Gail Russell-Thomas
Ms Lavinia Jane Sidgwick
The Rev’d Canon Paul Rhys Williams

New Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk

The Lady Dannatt MBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk.

Mr Ian Lonsdale

New Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight

Susie Sheldon JP, Lord-Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight.

Mrs Caroline Peel

New Deputy Lieutenant of West Glamorgan

Louise Fleet JP, Lord-Lieutenant of the West Glamorgan has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of West Glamorgan.

Mr Alan Brayley

New Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire

Elizabeth Fothergill CBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire.

Dr John Richard Forkin
Mr James Adam Stafford
Mr Peter John Ellse
Mrs Ruchita Shaikh

GCVO for The New Lord Chamberlain

The Right Honourable The Lord Parker of Minsmere KCB has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) following his appointment as Lord Chamberlain.

Queen Honours Former Lord Chamberlain

Her Majesty the Queen invested The Right Honourable The Earl Peel GCVO PC DL with the Royal Victorian Chain for his service as Lord Chamberlain of the Household. 

The Royal Victorian Chain is a personal award from the monarch there are currently only 9 living recipients following the recent passing of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Worcestershire

Lt Col Patrick Holcroft LVO OBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Worcestershire.

Professor David Mino Allen Green CBE
Dr. The Honourable Gilbert Greenall CBE
Sir Nicholas Anthony Hungerford Lechmere Bt
Mr Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley

Former Lord Chamberlain made a Permanent Lord in Waiting

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed The Rt Hon. The Earl Peel GCVO PC DL to the position of Permanent Lord in Waiting to Her Majesty the Queen.

A Lord in Waiting is someone who helps the Sovereign with various duties a notably one being meeting visiting foreign heads of state as they arrived into the UK.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Shropshire

Mrs Anna Turner JP, Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Shropshire.

Dr Josh Dixey
Mrs Katherine Garnier
Miss Gill Hamer
Mrs Nichola Peers
Mr Martin Stevens
Sir Edward Tate Bt

New Deputy Lieutenants of West Midlands

John Crabtree OBE, Lord-Lieutenant of West Midlands commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of West Midlands.

Ms Fiona Jean Sutcliffe Allan
Professor Stuart John Croft
Mr Wade Cleone Lyn CBE CD
Ms Katharine Merry

High Sheriff for 2021/22 in the Duchy of Cornwall

The Prince of Wales in his position as Duke of Cornwall has appointed the following High Sheriff within the Duchy of Cornwall.

Duchy of Cornwall

For the County of Cornwall
2021/2022: Mr David Mark Thomas

High Sheriffs of England and Wales for 2021/22

The following people have been appointed High Sheriff for the Counties of England and Wales for 2021/2022 with the exception of Cornwall, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire who are appointed by the Dukes of Cornwall and Lancaster.

England

For the County of Bedfordshire
2021/2022: Mr Eric Masih

For the Royal County of Berkshire
2021/2022: Mr Robin Derek Hartley Russell MVO

For the County of Buckinghamshire
2021/2022: Mr George Rupert Anson

For the County of Cambridgeshire
2021/2022: Mrs Caroline Laura Elizabeth Margaret Bewes

For the County of Cheshire
2021/2022: Mr Robert James Mee

For the City of Bristol
2021/2022: Mrs Susan Joan Davies BEM

For the County of Cumbria
2021/2022: Mr David George Beeby

For the County of Derbyshire
2021/2022: Mrs Louise Telford Potter

For the County of Devon
2021/2022: Lady Studholme

For the County of Dorset
2021/2022: Mr Michael Matthew Patrick Dooley

For the County of Durham
2021/2022: Mr John Robert Harle

For the County of East Riding of Yorkshire
2021/2022: Mr Edward Richard Shepherdson

For the County of East Sussex
2021/2022: Mr Miles Anthony Jenner

For the County of Essex
2021/2022: Mr Simon Robert Brice

For the County of Gloucestershire
2021/2022: Mrs Rosina Jane Tufnell

For Greater London
2021/2022: Mrs Lynn Alexandra Cooper

For the County of Hampshire
2021/2022: Mr Phillip Rodney Sykes

For the County of Herefordshire
2021/2022: Mrs Joanna Phyllis Hilditch

For the County of Hertfordshire
2021/2022: Mr Lionel Colin Wallace

For the County of Isle of Wight
2021/2022: Mr James Robert Woodward Attrill

For the County of Kent
2021/2022: Mr John Charles Harold Weir

For the County of Leicestershire
2021/2022: Mr Ian Thomas Mattioli MBE

For the County of Lincolnshire
2021/2022: Mrs Claire Victoria Birch

For the County of Norfolk
2021/2022: Mr Michael Anthony James Gurney

For the County of Northamptonshire
2021/2022: The Hon. Mrs Amanda Ursula Georgina Lowther

For the County of Northumberland
2021/2022: Mrs Joanna Lucy Riddell

For the County of North Yorkshire
2021/2022: Mrs Venetia Anne Wrigley

For the County of Nottinghamshire
2021/2022: Professor Harminder Singh Dua

For the County of Oxfordshire
2021/2022: Mr Imam Monawar Hussain MBE

For the County of Rutland
2021/2022: Mr Roger David Wood

For the County of Shropshire
2021/2022: Mr Robert Anthony Morris-Eyton

For the County of Somerset
2021/2022: Mr William Henry Thomas Sheppard

For the County of South Yorkshire
2021/2022: Mr Martin James Claude McKervey

For the County of Staffordshire
2021/2022: Mr James Irvine Hinchliffe Friend

For the County of Suffolk
2021/2022: Mr Edward George Creasy

For the County of Surrey
2021/2022: Dr Julie Anne Llewelyn

For the County of Tyne and Wear
2021/2022: Mr Farooq Hakim

For the County of Warwickshire
2021/2022: The Lady Willoughby de Broke

For the County of West Midlands
2021/2022: Mrs Louise Diane Bennett OBE

For the County of West Sussex
2021/2022: Mr John Neil Hart

For the County of West Yorkshire
2021/2022: Mr Clive Roland Lloyd

For the County of Wiltshire
2021/2022: Sir Charles Hobhouse Bt

For the County of Worcestershire
2021/2022: Mr Richard John Amphlett

Wales

For the County of Clwyd
2021/2022: Mr John Stephen Thomas

For the County of Dyfed
2021/2022: Mr Jonathan Thomas Gravell

For the County of Gwent
2021/2022: Mr Phillip Martyn Alderman

For the County of Gwynedd
2021/2022: Mr Gwyn Peredur Owen

For the County of Mid Glamorgan
2021/2022: Mr Jeffrey Edwards MBE

For the County of Powys
2021/2022: Mr Peter Ronald James MBE

For the County of South Glamorgan
2021/2022: Mr Peter Richard Dewey

For the County of West Glamorgan
2021/2022: Mrs Joanna Lewis Jenkins MBE

HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021)

Friday 9th April 2021

Today Her Majesty announced the passing of her beloved husband His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh who passed away peacefully in the morning at Windsor Castle, aged ninety nine.

The Government has announced that all official flags, including the Union Flag, are to be flown half-masted on all UK government buildings until 8am on the day following His Royal Highness’s funeral.

In light of the ongoing situation with Covid-19, the Royal Household has asked that people not gather at Royal Residences and lay floral tributes.

An online book of condolence has been opened on the royal family website because it was thought inappropriate to have physical books of condolence because of Covid-19. Link here:https://www.royal.uk/condolence 

Tomorrow Saturday, 10th April at midday, a Gun Salute will be fired at locations across the United Kingdom and Gibraltar and onboard Her Majesty’s Ships (HMS). The Gun Salutes will be broadcast online and on television, members of the public are encouraged to watch from home because of Covid-19.

Prince Philip’s titles Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich now pass to his eldest son HRH The Prince of Wales.

HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh is survived by his wife, Her Majesty The Queen.

His four children: HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH The Princess Royal, HRH The Duke of York and HRH The Earl of Wessex and Forfar.

His eight grandchildren: Mr Peter Phillips, Mrs Zara Tindall, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, HRH The Duke of Sussex, HRH Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, HRH Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank, Lady Louise Windsor and James,Viscount Severn.

Finally his ten great-grandchildren: Miss Savannah Phillips, Miss Isla Phillips, HRH Prince George of Cambridge, Miss Mia Tindall, HRH Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, HRH Prince Louis of Cambridge, Miss Lena Tindall, Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, Master August Brooksbank, Master Lucas Tindall.