Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster and godfather of Prince George, suffered a robbery at his home in Cheshire (England) in which watches with a total value of around 50,000 euros were stolen, and he did not notice the looting until weeks later. The duke, 32, who is one of the UK's largest landowners and is believed to own more land than Charles III, discovered the valuable watches were missing about three weeks after the crime when he was looking for one to wear.
Grosvenor, who will marry account manager Olivia Henson on June 7, 2024, had a Cartier London Tank JC wristwatch valued at €35,000 stolen, as well as a Panerai Luminor Marina watch and a Breitling watch, valued at one around 7,000 euros. The robbery occurred when Grosvenor was carrying out renovations at his lavish English countryside property, Eaton Hall, and one of the renovation workers sneaked into his bedroom.
The theft would have taken place during the summer of last year but it would have become known now after the arrest of two men allegedly involved. Last Friday in a Chester court, Matthew Turner, 24, pleaded guilty to the robbery. In the same case, Nathan Elliot, 30, was accused of handling the stolen Cartier, but has pleaded not guilty and will face trial, according to Daily Mail.
The duke, who was not present at the trial, is the third child and only son of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster and his wife, Natalia Grosvenor. The inheritance he received, estimated at more than ten billion euros, made him the richest person under 30 in the world at that time. In Spain, Grosvenor owns La Garganta, a fifteen thousand hectare plot of land located between Ciudad Real and Córdoba, for which he received the Bellaeuropa Award for its environmental management, and also invested in real estate projects in Madrid in 2019.
Quite discreet in the press due to his family's efforts to maintain his privacy, Grosvenor was named in October 2013 the godfather of Prince George, son of the Prince of Wales and, therefore, in the natural line of succession to the British throne. It is a returned favor because when Grosvenor was baptized on June 23, 1991, King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, agreed to be his godfather.
