Oona Chaplin: I was forced out of ballet because of the size of my backside "I am delighted, of course, but we haven't managed to set a date yet, as a lot of our friends are getting married this summer," says Chadwyck-Healey, who works as a cider and beer buyer for a supermarket chain. We will be taking our notebooks. Ginny, the daughter of Lord Strathalmond, is also, I fancy, likely to have picked up a few ideas, too, from the royal wedding, which she attended last year. End of an era Twelve years after his son and heir, Lord Balgonie, was killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, the Earl of Leven and Melville has died suddenly, at the age of 87. The earl, who was known as Sandy, served as a captain in the Coldstream Guards during the Second World War, when he was wounded. After the war, he became aide-de-camp to the governor-general of New Zealand. He was president of the British Ski and Snowboard Federation. His son, David Balgonie, 53, was skiing off piste near Verbier when he was caught in an avalanche. He had taken over his father's Scottish estate, Glenferness House, near Nairn. The earldom, which is one of Scotland's oldest, will now pass to David's son, Alexander Balgonie, who is 27. The earl lived at his family's seat at Grantown-on-Spey with his wife, the Countess of Leven and Melville. His ancestor, the third earl of Leven, was one of the appointed commissioners who negotiated the Union of Scotland and England.