Heiress reveals her wedding – in Schroders annual report!
- As an excuse to miss a meeting, this isn’t a bad one
As an excuse to miss a meeting, this isn’t a bad excuse.
The annual report of fund manager Schroders contains the remarkable sentence that a director was unable to attend a board meeting ‘due to her honeymoon’.
The director in question is heiress Leonie Schroder, once called “arguably Britain’s most eligible woman” and worth an estimated £3.9 billion.
Her engagement to Guy Blakeney, a management consultant at Old Etonian, was announced in July 2022, but there has been no news of their wedding so far.
Leonie Schroder was once called ‘perhaps Britain’s most eligible woman’
After her father Bruno died in 2019, she inherited a stake in Schroders and a seat on the board.
She represents the Schroder family’s interests in the boardroom alongside Claire Fitzalan Howard. Both women are descendants of John Henry Schroder, who co-founded the asset manager in 1804.
Schroders has grown to become the UK’s largest asset manager, now managing more than £750bn of funds. Its CEO Peter Harrison plans to retire next year after eight years in the top job.
In 2023 he earned £6.2m, up almost a third on the previous year, but not enough to enter the top 20 highest-paid FTSE 100 bosses.
A replacement for Harrison is currently being sought.
It has been a turbulent time for Leonie Schroder. In addition to her second wedding, which is believed to have been a modest ceremony, she also turned 50 earlier this year.
Her ex-husband, Nicholas Fane, died shortly after their divorce, about ten years ago.
Since graduating from St Andrews University, she has held a number of board positions, including on her father’s 18,500-acre Dunlossit Estate on the Scottish island of Islay and on her own 1,200-acre Hurstbourne Park estate in Hampshire.
Schroders declined to comment.
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