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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).
- Rebecca Cope
Nov 16, 2020 · Lady Fermoy, Diana's maternal grandmother and the Queen Mother's Woman of the Bedchamber, did not support her marriage to Charles and warned her against it. She was not on speaking terms with Diana when she died in 1993.
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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...
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.
- Rebecca Cope
Jul 6, 1993 · Ruth Sylvia Roche was the wife of Edmund Maurice Burke, 4th Baron Fermoy, and a lifelong confidante of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. She was buried at St. Mary Magdalene Churchyard in Sandringham, Norfolk, England.
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).
