The duke is the chair of the board of trustees of Grosvenor, an international company with rural and urban real estate holdings and investments in food and agricultural technology. He is also the chair of the Westminster Foundation, the family’s charitable arm.

He studied countryside management at Newcastle University in the north of England. The bachelor of science degree blends different subjects, including geography, wildlife conservation and estate management. In his spare time, the duke participates in international skeet shooting competitions.

Henson, who grew up in London and Oxfordshire, attended the same private school – Marlborough College – as the Princess of Wales and Princess Eugenie. Afterward, she studied Hispanic studies and Italian at Trinity College Dublin.

She has maintained a low public profile, and little is known about her beyond what the Grosvenor family’s representatives have shared. Until recently, she worked as an account manager at Belazu, a company that sells food ingredients from the Mediterranean and the Middle East to chefs and home cooks. Henson is on the board of trustees at the Belazu Foundation, which invests in philanthropic projects, including improving food in schools.

At the time of his father’s death eight years ago, the duke was working as an account manager at Bio-bean, a company that has since closed that collected waste coffee grounds from restaurants, factories and cafes, and turned them into biofuels, according to the BBC. Last year, The Sunday Times named him the richest person under 35 in the United Kingdom.

He inherited real estate holdings in Scotland and Spain, as well as about 300 acres in the Belgravia and Mayfair sections of central London, land that his family has owned for more than three centuries and helped develop, according to The Guardian. His ancestor, Sir Thomas Grosvenor, acquired the land in 1677, as part of the dowry of his 12-year-old wife, Mary Davies.

British media reported that Prince Harry, also a close friend of the duke, had declined his invitation to the wedding out of concern that his attendance would cause a distraction because of his rift with the rest of the royal family.

The duke is a godfather to William’s son, George, and Harry’s son, Archie, according to The Independent. The duke’s mother, Natalia Grosvenor, a descendant of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and author Alexander Pushkin, is one of William’s godparents. She owns a vineyard in Portofino, Italy.

The sixth Duke of Westminster gave several frank interviews while he was alive, including one in 2000 in which he discussed having a mental breakdown, and another in 1993 in which he said that his son had been born with “the longest silver spoon anyone can have”. His son appears to – so far, anyway – be keeping much more out of the limelight.

He has carried on some of his father’s gift-giving goals with his family, donating £55 million (about $106 million) to a rehabilitation centre for wounded members of the British armed forces. The sixth Duke of Westminster made a founding gift of £50 million to the centre in 2010 and was an avid advocate for veterans.

Since taking over the Westminster Foundation, the seventh Duke of Westminster has pushed for more efforts that target people under 25.

“Before, our grant-giving was very much haphazard. My father saw a good idea and would like to back it,” he told Town & Country Magazine in May.

For their wedding celebration, the duke and duchess have focused their gifts to the local community on something pretty and something tasty, paying for more than 100,000 flowers to be planted in Chester and for free ice cream to be given to anyone who visited one of three businesses in the city centre on Friday.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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