Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish LVO (1926 - 2018)

Born 24 Apr 1926 in England

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Died Sep 2018 at age 92 in England

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Biography

Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish LVO was a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and was the mistress, companion and carer of the poet Sir John Betjeman.

Background

She was born on 24 April 1926 and was three days younger than the future Queen Elizabeth II. She was a childhood friend of the then Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose of York. She was the second, but eldest surviving daughter of the 10th Duke of Devonshire by his wife the former Lady Mary Gascoyne-Cecil GCVO, who served the Queen as Mistress of the Robes (senior Lady-in-Waiting) from the Coronation in 1953 until 1966.

Her brother, Andrew, was 11th Duke of Devonshire KG, who died in 2004. Another brother, William, Marquess of Hartington, married Kathleen Kennedy, sister of the future US President, and was killed in the Second World War. A younger sister, Lady Anne Tree, died in 2010.

Lady-in-Waiting

She was a long serving Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret, and it was at Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's Chelsea home in 1958 that the princess met the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who two years later became her husband.

Death

She died in September 2018, aged 92.

Sources

The Peerage News, by Michael Rhodes [1]