King George V’s great-great-granddaughter marries girlfriend

The Royal household celebrated its first lesbian wedding ceremony after King George V‘s great-great-granddaughter married her Australian girlfriend in a fun-filled outside ceremony set in New South Wales, Australia.

Aristocrat Ellen Lascelles, 39, made historical past as she tied the knot with Channtel McPherson, referred to as ‘Chan’, in a ceremony held in Byron Bay Hinterland this week.

Ellen, who’s the the niece of David Lascelles, eighth and present Earl of Harewood, exchanged vows along with her associate and sealed their union with a kiss in entrance of a pleasant handmade celebratory banner saying ‘Here Come The Brides’.

The newlyweds, who dwell Down Under, will develop into a blended household of 5 as Ellen, has a son, Jack, and daughter, Penny, along with her Australian ex-boyfriend, whereas Chan, the proprietor of a design firm, has a daughter, Raff.

When Ellen’s grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Harewood, had been married, the reception was held at St James’s Palace and attended by George VI and his spouse, Queen Elizabeth.

Ellen Lascelles, nonetheless, selected a quite totally different wedding ceremony, outdoor within the Australian gem which boasts an Elysium of rolling inexperienced hills, beautiful vistas, lush rainforest and waterfalls. 

‘Channtel and I surrounded ourselves with virtually all of our favorite individuals on the planet and had the funniest, hottest, most love-filled day I might ever think about,’ mentioned Ellen, the elder daughter of David Lascelles’ youngest brother, Jeremy.

Ellen’s son, Jack, wrote ‘an incredible Acknowledgement of Country’ to precise his gratitude and respect to the the to the Arakwal individuals whose Bundjalung land, Ellen mentioned, ‘we had been fortunate sufficient to be married on’. 

She added: ‘And Penny and Raff had been simply a few little dream ladies wearing white.’

Prior to the landmark wedding ceremony, Ellen had been joyfully alerting buddies about their engagement by posting the information on-line.

‘On New Year’s Day, Chan requested me to marry her, and turned what was an unbelievable 2022 into an much more unbelievable 2023,’ mentioned Ellen.

‘Two proposals in sooner or later, plus a cat ring to seal the deal till we get an actual engagement ring made,’ provides occasions supervisor Ellen.

A playful character, she has described herself as a ‘left-handed free spirit and full-time dreamer’ and, elsewhere, as a ‘sun-chasing vegan snack queen’.

She and her equally glamorous youthful sister, Amy, as soon as dolled themselves up in spoof tiaras and supplied health courses which culminated in lifting a 10kg dumb-bell (‘the load of a median royal corgi’) earlier than Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding ceremony.

But Ellen was fully severe about Chan’s proposal, saying she is ‘floating on a love cloud’. 

To show the purpose, she’s posted a snap of herself with Chan — beforehand supervisor of Bang-On T-Shirts — wanting radiant as they get pleasure from seashore time collectively.

Theirs is just not the primary identical -sex marriage inside the wider Royal Family. That milestone was notched up by Lord Ivar Mountbatten – great-nephew of Lord (‘Dickie’) Mountbatten.

In 2018, seven years after divorcing Penny Thompson, with whom he has three daughters, Ivar married James Coyle, a Glaswegian airline cabin providers director.

Ivar and Penny remained good buddies, with the royal’s former partner even giving him away at his wedding ceremony.