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Sonia Rosemary Cubitt, OBE ( née Keppel, previously The Hon. Mrs. Cubitt; 24 May 1900 – 16 August 1986) was a British socialite, author and aristocrat. She was the first wife of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe and, through her only daughter Rosalind, was the maternal grandmother of Queen Camilla.
Apr 26, 2022 · August 16, 1986 (86) London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Immediate Family: Daughter of Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom and Alice Frederica Keppel. Ex-wife of Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron of Ashcombe. Mother of Rosalind Shand; Henry Edward Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe and Hon Jeremy John Cubitt.
When Sonia Rosemary Keppel was born on 24 May 1900, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Keppel, was 34 and her mother, Alice Frederica Edmonston, was 32. She married Roland Calvert Cubitt 3rd Baron Ashcombe on 16 November 1920.
- Female
- Roland Calvert Cubitt 3rd Baron Ashcombe
Sep 16, 2022 · Sonia Rosemary Cubitt, OBE, DStJ (née Keppel; 24 May 1900 – 16 August 1986) was the first wife of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe and, through her only daughter the Hon. Rosalind Maud Cubitt, maternal grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
- Female
- May 24, 1900
- Roland Calvert Cubitt
- August 16, 1986
Rosalind's mother Sonia was the youngest daughter of George Keppel and his wife, Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone). Rosalind had two younger siblings: Henry Cubitt, who succeeded his father as the 4th Baron Ashcombe, and Jeremy Cubitt, who died in 1958 at the age of 30.
Sonia Rosemary Cubitt, Baroness Ashcombe OBE DStJ was the daughter of The Hon. George Keppel and his wife, Alice and the grandmother of the Duchess of Cornwall. Violet Trefusis was her sister. On 16 November 1920, she married Hon. Roland Cubitt, at the Guards Chapel of Wellington Barracks in London.
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Violet and Sonia were Alice Keppel’s daughters. Raised in Portman Square, London, they enjoyed an unusual childhood, watching aristocrats and politicians coming in and out of the house, as well as ‘Kingy’, their pet-name for King Edward VII.
