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Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (née Gill; 2 October 1908 – 6 July 1993) was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was one of the Queen Mother's ladies-in-waiting.
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Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baronessa Fermoy, DCVO, OBE (nata Gill;...
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She was born Frances Ruth Roche at Park House, on the royal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk, on 20 January 1936. Her birth was on the same day as the death of George V. Her father was Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, a friend of George VI and the elder son of the American heiress Frances Ellen Work and her first husband, the 3rd Baron Fermoy. Her mo...
On 1 June 1954, she married John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (later the 8th Earl Spencer), at Westminster Abbey. Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family attended the wedding ceremony.She was 18 years old and became the youngest woman wed in Westminster Abbey since 1893. They had five children: 1. Lady Sarah McCorquodale (born 19 Marc...
Her marriage to Viscount Althorp was not a happy one and, in 1967, she left him to be with Peter Shand Kydd, an heir to a wallpaper fortune in Australia, whom she had met the year before. His half-brother was the former champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd (1937–2014), who was the brother-in-law of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan. Frances liv...
In 1996, she was banned from driving after being convicted of drunk driving, but denied she had a problem with alcohol. She and Diana quarreled in May 1997, after she told Hello! magazine that Diana was happy to lose her title of "Royal Highness" following her controversial divorce from Prince Charles. She was reportedly not on speaking terms with ...
Frances died at her home in Scotland at the age of 68 on June 3, 2004, following a long illness that included Parkinson's disease and brain cancer. Her funeral at St Columba's Cathedral in Oban on 10 June was attended by her children, sister and grandchildren, including princes William (who gave a reading) and Harry. Their father, her former son-in...
In 2001, Maxine Riddington published a biographical book about her, entitled Frances: The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Mother.
11 nov 2020 · In 1931, she married the much older Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, going on to have three children with him, including Lady Diana's mother, Frances. It is not known if Lady Fermoy did give Diana 'royal lessons' as shown in The Crown, but she was certainly in a position to give her pointers.
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6 lug 1993 · Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE ( née Gill; 2 October 1908 – 6 July 1993) was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was one of the Queen Mother's ladies-in-waiting.
15 nov 2020 · Ruth Roche, the Lady Fermoy, was Princess Diana's maternal grandmother and lady-in-waiting and friend to The Queen Mother. She married Maurice Roche, the 4th Baron Fermoy, in 1931 and...
