Prince Edward Is Now Engaged To Marry Ms. Sophie Rhys-Jones

Prince Edward is now engaged to marry Ms. Sophie Rhys-Jones

This morning the Buckingham Palace made a statement about the engagement of Prince Edward, the youngest son of HM the Queen and The Duke of Edunburgh.

Edward proposed to Sophie with a delicate engagement ring featuring a two-carat oval diamond set in 18-karat gold. This engagement ring was made by Garrard & Co and is believed to worth an estimated £105,000.

It is known that the couple is to marry in June at St. George's Chapel of Windsor Castle

"We are the very best of friends and that’s essential but it also helps that we also love each other very much," the Prince told the press.

Who is Sophie?

Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born on January 20, 1965 in Oxford.

Sophie’s father runs an import-export business that sold automobile tires to Hungary, and her mother works as a part-time secretary.

Sophie attended West Kent College, a private girls’ day school, and a local secretarial college, she worked briefly in a bar and later as a press officer for Capital Radio and as a concierge at a winter sports resort in Switzerland. There she became romantically involved with an Australian ski instructor and followed him to Australia.

When that relationship ended, Rhys-Jones returned to London and began working for the public-relations company Maclaurin Communication and Media. In 1996, with business partner Murray Harkin, she set up a public-relations company, R-J H.