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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.
Nov 11, 2020 · Instead, it falls upon Diana's grandmother, the formidable Baroness Fermoy, a close confidante of the Queen Mother, with a lifetime of experience at court, to instruct her granddaughter in the ways of the Windsors.
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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 had three children – one of whom was Frances Shand Kydd, Diana's mother. According to the Independent's obituary of Lady Fermoy, she testified against her own daughte...
Scottish actress Georgie Glen, who is best known for her roles in Waterloo Road, Little Britain and Call the Midwife, plays Lady Fermoy in The Crown's fourth season. She is introduced as Diana's formidable grandmother and close friend of The Queen Mother, who accompanies Diana (Emma Corrin) on her dates with Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) before th...
While it is unknown whether Lady Fermoy did in fact give Diana royal lessons, many would assume that Fermoy would have given her advice considering her closeness to the Royal Family. However, the close companion of The Queen Mother had apparently discouraged Diana from marrying into the Royal Family according to Diana's biographer Andrew Morton, wh...
Lady Fermoy was the maternal grandmother of Princess Diana and a friend of the Queen Mother. She was a concert pianist, a lady-in-waiting and a controversial figure in the Royal Family.
Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE 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.
Jul 6, 1993 · Ruth Sylvia. Gill. Roche. British Nobility. She was Lady Fermoy, Dame of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 1931, became the wife of Edmund Maurice Burke, 4th Baron Fermoy. The couple had three children. She was a lifelong confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Her mother, Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, a daughter of Colonel William Smith Gill, was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother). Since birth, she held the style of The Honourable as the daughter of a baron .
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Jul 6, 1993 · Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy DCVO OBE was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
