Model great-granddaughter of Earl Mountbatten splits with her DJ husband and plans to marry Canadian welder she met on eight-hour flight

• Maddison May Brudenell, 29, is now engaged to welder Bret Kapetanov
• In 2015 she secretly ran off to be married to DJ Olaoluwa Modupe-Ojo

Earl Mountbatten’s model great-granddaughter is planning to marry a Canadian welder she met on an eight-hour flight after splitting from her DJ husband. 

Maddison May Brudenell, 29, who is also the granddaughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, is engaged to Bret Kapetanov and he has moved to the UK.  

Society had been transfixed when Maddison secretly ran off to be married to DJ Olaoluwa Modupe-Ojo in 2015. However, the couple have since separated.

Maddison said: ‘I’m engaged to my love and he makes me so happy,’ while confirming Kapetanov ‘has moved to the UK and put a ring on it’. The pair met on an eight-hour flight.

‘Bret is a really nice guy and is good for her,’ one of her friends said, adding: ‘She and Ola had been growing apart for some time and are now supporting each-other as co-parents.’

Maddison May Brudenell, 29, the granddaughter of Lady Pamela Hicks, is engaged to Bret Kapetanov (pictured together on June 11)

Society had been transfixed when Maddison secretly ran off to be married to DJ Olaoluwa Modupe-Ojo in 2015 (pictured together). However, the couple have since separated

Maddison, the daughter of actor Jeremy Brudenell and Edwina Hicks, has three children, aged seven, five and two with Modupe-Ojo, 31, whose stage name is Jazz Purple. She married the DJ, whose parents are from Nigeria, in 2015.

Her great-grandfather was King Charles’s beloved great-uncle, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.  

She explained that she bonded with Modupe-Ojo, who grew up in Manchester, through music. 

‘I fell in love with his work, and I started attending concerts, but it wasn’t until a year later that we got together,’ she said. 

‘We ran away and eloped in a small family wedding. Our children are blessed to have the most wonderful dual heritage.’

She had followed her mother’s footsteps into the fashion business when she was signed as a model by the agency Storm at the age of 16. She has worked for the likes of Ralph Lauren and Belstaff.

Now a ‘well-being’ advocate, she says entering the business so young affected her mental health. 

Maddison said: ‘I’m engaged to my love and he makes me so happy,’ while confirming Kapetanov ‘has moved to the UK and put a ring on it’

‘I was depressed, anxious, feeling pressure in the industry to keep my weight down, to party,’ she said. ‘I was addicted to drugs and battling an eating disorder.’

Maddison attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth last year. Her grandmother, Lord Mountbatten’s daughter Lady Pamela, is one of the Queen’s two surviving bridesmaids and a former lady-in-waiting.

Maddison has fond memories of the Queen Mother, whom she stood next to on the Buckingham Palace balcony after watching Trooping the Colour.

‘I’d not had such an awesome experience before,’ she recalled. ‘I remember her turning to me and saying, “There are a lot of horses, aren’t there? How many do you think?” I was sort of gobsmacked, I guess, I just replied, “I don’t know”.’

Maddison added: ‘I was always told to regard our family with importance.’

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