Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank (born 3 May 1986) is a British marketing executive and a member of the British royal family who is married to Princess Eugenie, a niece of King Charles III.
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Early life and family
Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank was born on 3 May 1986 at St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, London, the first son of George Edward Hugh Brooksbank (1949–2021), a company director and chartered accountant, and his wife Nicola (née Newton; born 1953), great-granddaughter of Sir Frederick Charlton Meyrick, 2nd Baronet. He was christened at Guards' Chapel in Wellington Barracks. He is in remainder to the Brooksbank baronetcy. Jack has a younger brother, Thomas.
A half-third cousin twice-removed of Princess Eugenie through Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Brooksbank's great-grandfather was Sir John (Jack) Spencer Coke, a Gentleman Usher to King George VI and Extra Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth II, and his great-uncle was the 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell.
Education and career
Brooksbank was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, and the University of Bristol, which he left without earning a degree. His first job in the bar industry was as a bartender, before becoming the general manager of Mahiki, a nightclub in Mayfair that was often visited by his wife's cousins Prince William and Prince Harry in their youth. He later worked as a brand ambassador for Casamigos tequila. He was also reported to have his own wine wholesale business. In 2022, he began working in marketing, sales and promotion for property developer Michael Meldman's Discovery Land Company in Portugal.