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By India McTaggart The Duke of Westminster has plans to settle down into the farming life of a country gentleman after his wedding, according to friends. Next week Hugh Grosvenor, the seventh Duke, will wed duchess-to-be Olivia Henson in Chester Cathedral, Cheshire, with the Prince of Wales as an usher . Following the nuptials, Chester is where the couple "want to lay down the foundations of their future", and where the Duke will nurture his love of "nature, sustainability and farming," a source close to them has said.

READ MORE: William and Kate pay tribute to ex-footballer Rob Burrows following his death Friends of the Duke, 33, have described him as having "a genuine love of the land" that is fitting for one of the UK's largest landowners who studied countryside management at university. He is also president of the Country Trust, a charity that encourages children from disadvantaged backgrounds to connect with "the land that sustains us all" through visits to farms across the country, including the Duke's Grosvenor Farms on his Eaton Estate in Cheshire. READ MORE: Rupert Murdoch married for the fifth time at 93 Jill Attenborough, CEO of the Country Trust, described him as a "very authentic person" who is "genuinely inspired by the land and so enjoys having the opportunity to bring that to children".



She said she had originally asked him to become president of the charity "not because it's something his father did, but because I knew that he also had a genuine love of th.

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