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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 · Baroness Fermoy, Diana's maternal grandmother, was in the Queen Mother's inner circle, and as such was always rumoured to have played matchmaker for her granddaughter and Charles (something she denied - the reverse seems to actually have been true).
Nov 16, 2020 · In season four of The Crown, Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, is depicted as a very stern old woman who impresses on Diana how important her match to Prince Charles is for their Family. She later...
Nov 15, 2020 · 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...
Mar 22, 2021 · He shares his memories of his late grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, who is seen sternly instructing a young Lady Diana Spencer (played by Emma Corrin) in royal etiquette, after a serious faux pas involving interrupting Princess Margaret and curtseying in the wrong order to the family members.
Jul 6, 1993 · 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.
Mar 2, 2023 · She was closely connected to the Royal Family as the daughter of Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, who was a friend of King George VI, and Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, a confidante and lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother (then Queen Elizabeth).
