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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.
May 31, 2020 · Ruth Sylvia Gill (2 Oct 1908-6 July 1993) was the daughter of Col. William Gill and Ruth Littlejohn She married Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, son of James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy and Frances Ellen Work, on 17 September 1931. She was styled as Baroness Fermoy on 17 September 1931. [1]
- Female
- October 2, 1908
- Edmund Maurice Burke Roche
- July 6, 1993
Nov 11, 2020 · Born Ruth Sylvia Gill on 2 October 1908, she was the daughter of wealthy Scottish landowners, Colonel William Smith Gill and his wife, Ruth. It is through Lady Fermoy that Diana has some Armenian and Indian heritage. Her great-grandmother, Kitty Forbes, was the daughter of Theodore Forbes and Indian-Armenian Eliza Kewark.
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Jul 6, 1993 · Ruth Sylvia Gill Roche Famous memorial Birth 2 Oct 1908. Bieldside, Aberdeen City, Scotland Death 6 Jul 1993 (aged 84) Belgravia, Royal Borough of Kensington and ...
Jul 8, 1993 · She was 84. The palace said that Lady Fermoy had been ill for a brief period but offered no further details. Lady Fermoy was born Ruth Sylvia Gill, daughter of a Scottish landowner. She had been a ...
Lady Fermoy was born Ruth Sylvia Gill on 2 October 1908 at her father's house, Dalhebity, Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, the daughter of Colonel William Smith Gill and his wife Ruth (née Littlejohn). She showed early promise as a pianist and studied under Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1920s.
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Ruth Sylvia Gill, concert pianist and courtier: born 2 October 1908; JP 1944; founder of the King's Lynn Festival 1951; OBE 1952; Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ...