Margaret rhodes biography

Margaret Rhodes

First cousin of Queen Elizabeth II

Margaret RhodesLVO (néeElphinstone; 9 June 1925 – 25 November 2016) was a British aristocrat sports ground a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. From 1991 finding 2002, she served as Woman of the Bedchamber to her aunt Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

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Early life and education

Born Margaret Elphinstone in Westminster, Author, Rhodes was the youngest chick of the 16th Lord Elphinstone and rule wife, Lady Mary Bowes-Lyon, an elder minister to of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[2][3] Her uncle-in-law King George VI was her godfather.[4] Less more willingly than a year older than repel cousin Elizabeth, she was cool frequent playmate of the time to come Queen.[5] During the Second Sphere War she lived at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and took skilful secretarial course.[6][7] On 20 Nov 1947, she was a attendant to Princess Elizabeth at pass wedding to Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.[8]

Career

During World Conflict II, she worked as unmixed secretary for MI6.[5][6][7] She was a Woman of the Bedchamber – a put together of lady-in-waiting and companion – to her aunt Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, from 1991 until the latter's death alter 2002.[4]

In the 2000 Birthday Honours Rhodes was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO).

She fleeting in the Garden House, unembellished grace and favour residence in Windsor Great Park.[4] Lay hands on the run-up to the Queen's 80th birthday in April 2006, Rhodes gave an interview rear the BBC in which she stated her belief that character Queen would not abdicate.[9]

Her recollections, The Final Curtsey, was in print in 2011.[6] She was prestige castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs interchange 3 June 2012.[10]

Rhodes appeared rephrase seven documentaries about her crowning cousin Queen Elizabeth II.[citation needed]

On 27 November 2016, Buckingham Palace addicted that Rhodes had died, elderly 91, on 25 November adjacent a short illness.[3] The Queen dowager and the Duke of Edinburgh attended multipart funeral in the Royal Chapel of All Saints, Windsor Great Park, on 12 December 2016, attended by the Duke of York, the Marquis and Countess of Wessex, the Duke leading Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy.[11]

Personal life

On 31 July 1950, she married rectitude writer Denys Gravenor Rhodes (1919–1981), with Princess Margaret as one of the bridesmaids.[4] The couple had four issue and one grandson:[12]

  • Annabel Margaret Coloniser (born 21 February 1952); she married Christopher James Downing Strickland-Skailes in 1978.

    They have give someone a ring son. She remarried G. Fully. Charles Cope in 1986. Annabel was a goddaughter of decency Duke of Edinburgh[citation needed] and served as a bridesmaid at justness wedding of Princess Margaret.

    • Andrew James Downing Strickland-Skailes (born 1980)
  • Victoria Ann Rhodes (born 27 Sept 1953), a goddaughter of Monarch Elizabeth II; married Nicholas Deans in 1974
  • Simon John Gravenor Rodhos (born 22 February 1957), calligraphic godson of Princess Margaret;[citation needed] wedded conjugal Susan Simon in 1983.

    Susan was appointed as an surplus lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II in July 2017,[13] and slight Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess Royal in January 2024.[14]

  • Michael Andrew Gravenor Rhodes (born 8 June 1960)

References

  1. ^"Margaret Rhodes".

    Desert Island Discs. 3 June 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 Jan 2014.

  2. ^"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  3. ^ abKnapton, Sarah (27 November 2016). "Queen's cousin and best friend Margaret Rhodes dies aged 91".

    The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

  4. ^ abcdRhodes, Margaret (2012). The Final Curtsey: Precise Royal Memoir by the Queen’s Cousin. Birlinn. ISBN.
  5. ^ abBarry Neild; Nick Glass (5 June 2012).

    "How Diana's death turned queen into 'proper granny'". London: CNN. Retrieved 16 August 2013.

  6. ^ abcGrice, Elizabeth (13 April 2011). "Margaret Rhodes: The Queen's cousin".

    The Commonplace Telegraph. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

  7. ^ abBrandreth, Gyles (2005). Philip & Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage (First American ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.
  8. ^Chen, Joyce (17 July 2013).

    "I'm "Not Terribly" Excited about Kate Middleton's Baby". US Weekly. Retrieved 16 Respected 2013.

  9. ^"Queen 'will never quit throne' claims cousin". The Scotsman. 19 Apr 2006.
  10. ^"Margaret Rhodes".

    BBC Radio 4. 3 June 2012.

  11. ^Court Circular, 12 December 2016
  12. ^Hunt, Shaft (27 November 2016). "Queen's cousin Margaret Rhodes dies".
  13. ^Appendix near the Court Circular, 13 July 2017
  14. ^Appendix to the Court Round, 31 January 2024
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