Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech
British aristocrat
About Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech
Beatrice Edith Mildred Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech (née Gascoyne-Cecil; 10 August 1891 – 3 December 1980) was an English courtier who served as Woman of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen of the United Kingdom.
Lady Beatrice was born in London, the daughter of Viscount Cranborne, later the Marquess of Salisbury, and his wife, Lady Cicely Alice Gore, daughter of the 5th Earl of Arran.
She married William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech at Westminster Abbey on 12 April 1913.
She was created Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1947 Birthday Honours.
Lady Harlech died at her home in Ladbroke Grove, London, aged 89.
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British aristocrat (1891-1980)
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Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech died in 1980.
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