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Funeral chief set to remarry

THE aristocrat who was in charge of the Queen’s funeral is set to marry again following his divorce earlier this year,

The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Edward Fitzalan-Howard, Duke of Norfolk is understood to have proposed to his girlfriend Francesca ‘Chica’ Herbert while they were on holiday in Italy last month.

She is the ex-wife of Henry Herbert, son of the late 7th Earl of Carnarvon, the Queen’s racing manager who owned Highclere Castle, where Downton Abbey was filmed.

As Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk is also responsible for King Charles’s Coronation. While busy preparing for that ceremony, for which no date has yet been set, he is also planning his wedding for November.

Earlier this year, the 65-year-old, Britain’s most senior lay Catholic, told this newspaper he was ‘just terribly sad’ after divorcing his wife of 34 years, Georgina. He said: ‘By God we tried… [but] it proved completely impossible and we had to move on.’

When Chica, 59, becomes the new Duchess of Norfolk, she will have to share her title and land with Georgina, 60.

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