Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech DCVO (née Gascoyne-Cecil; 10 August 1891 – 3 December 1980) was an English courtier who served as Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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Lady Beatrice was born in London, the daughter of Viscount Cranborne, later the Marquess of Salisbury, and his wife, Lady Cicely Alice Gore, daughter of the 5th Earl of Arran.[1]
She married William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech at Westminster Abbey on 12 April 1913.[2]
She was created Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1947 Birthday Honours.[3]
Lady Harlech died at her home in Ladbroke Grove, London, aged 89.[4]
References
edit- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 959. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ "Lady Beatrice Cecil's Wedding". The Times. 14 April 1913. p. 8.
- ^ "No. 37977". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1947. p. 2577.
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. 5 December 1980. p. 32.