SHAKERLEY divorce

According to Richard Kay, Sir Geoffrey Shakerley and his second wife
Lady Elizabeth (nee Anson) are now divorced after about 24 years of
living apart (married 37 years, living apart most of that time). They
had a daughter Fiona, goddaughter of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands,
who is now married to E. Brocas Burrows and has issue. Sir Geoffrey
has two sons by a first marriage to actress Virginia Maskell (d 1968)
and then a daughter by Lady Elizabeth.

He is now reported to be remarrying a third time, to another
Virginia. However the report also mentions a Patricia...

Lady Elizabeth is the sister of the late Earl of Lichfield (whose son
married Lady Henrietta Conyngham in a grand aristocratic marriage
echoing his parents) and granddaughter of Anne Bowes-Lyon (later HH
Princess Georg of Denmark) of the earls of Strathmore & Kinghorne.
Anne was a niece of the Queen Mother and a first cousin of the Queen.

Shinjinee

[extracts from original report]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265764/RICHARD-KAY-New-love-frame-Sir-Geoffrey.html
...
Indeed, at Sir Geoffrey' s previous marriage [his second one], to HM's
party-organiser cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson, the Queen, Princess
Margaret and the Queen Mother were among the guests and Princess Anne
a bridesmaid.
But, sadly, that union did not last and after 37 years of marriage -
the last 24 of which were spent living apart - the couple have finally
acquired a divorce.
Their marriage dissolution comes after Shakerley fell in love again,
at the age of 77, and now he has proposed marriage to Virginia, his
companion of the past year or so.
Father-of-three Sir Geoffrey - he has two sons by his first wife,
actress Virginia Maskell, who died in 1968, and a daughter, Fiona, by
Lady Elizabeth - has been introducing the new Virginia to friends as
the new love of his life.
One chum tells me: 'She is very attractive and looks nearly two
decades younger than him, but they seem very happy. They are planning
to marry this summer, probably in Portugal where Patricia has a villa
in the Algarve.'

[end of extract]

Announcement of Lichfield-Conyngham marriage
27 Jan 2010
http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marriages/27-Jan-2010/27-Jan-2010/all/1/announcement111082.aspx
[the marriage took place in December]

http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/engagements/25-Sep-2009/25-Sep-2009/all~t/1/announcement104839.aspx

September 25th, 2009
THE EARL OF LICHFIELD AND LADY HENRIETTA CONYNGHAM
The engagement is announced between Thomas, son of Patrick, 5th Earl
of Lichfield, and Leonora, Countess of Lichfield, of Cranborne,
Dorset, and Henrietta, eldest daughter of Marquess Conyngham, Slane
Castle, Co Meath, and Juliet, Countess of Mount Charles, of Fonthill
Bishop, Wiltshire.

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Here is an unpublished article on Sir Geoffrey from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Trident13/Shakerley