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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Spencer,_Countess_Spencer
Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer, Countess Spencer, DCVO, OBE (16 August 1897 – 4 December 1972), known as Lady Cynthia Hamilton until her marriage, and from then as Viscountess Althorp until 1922 when her husband inherited his father's title of Earl Spencer, was a British peeress and the paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Life and family
She was the daughter of James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton, later 3rd Duke of Abercorn (30 November 1869 – 12 September 1953) and Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (26 February 1869 – 18 January 1958). Her maternal grandparents were
Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox, a daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lady Caroline Paget.
Cynthia Hamilton married Viscount Althorp on 26 February 1919 at St. James's, Piccadilly, London.[1]
They had two children:
Lady Anne Spencer (born 4 August 1920) who married Christopher Balwin Hughes Wake-Walker, a Captain of the Royal Navy.
Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (24 January 1924 – 29 March 1992).
Countess Spencer was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth in 1937. She continued in the role after Elizabeth became Queen Mother in 1952, and remained in post until her death.[2]
She was the grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Lady Spencer died at the Spencer’s ancestral home, Althorp[3] of a brain tumour, aged 75. She was little known outside court and local circles until, twenty years after her death, Andrew
Morton wrote that the Princess of Wales "believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world
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