Caroline Faber
Noblewoman; daughter of Harold Macmillan and Lady Dorothy Cavendish
About Caroline Faber
Lived 1923 – 2016 (aged 93). Caroline Faber was a British and English aristocrat and ambulance driver.
Lady Ann Caroline Faber (née Macmillan; 29 August 1923 – 14 September 2016) was an English aristocrat, political campaigner and philanthropist. She was the daughter of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Biography Ann Caroline Macmillan was born on 1923 at 14 Chester Square, Belgravia, London.
Macmillan attended West Heath Girls' School, where she was offered a place to study medicine at the University of Oxford. She declined the offer but served as an ambulance driver in World War II, during which time she met her future husband, insurance executive Julian Tufnell Faber. He was then an officer in the Welsh Guards.
They were married from 1944 until Faber's death in January 2002. They had five children:
Anne Christine Adriane Faber (1944 – 28 November 2002). In 1970, she married firstly to British broadcaster and journalist Michael Roger Lewis Cockerell (b. 1940), son of Hugh Anthony Lewis Cockerell and Fanny Jochelman. They had a son and a daughter before divorcing in 1980. In 1995, she married secondly to Hon. David Sidney Bernstein, son of British businessman and media executive Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Baron Bernstein and his wife Sandra Alexandra Malone, by whom she had no further issue. Michael David Tufnell Faber (born 1945). Married, to Catherine Feber) and has issue. Mark James Julian Faber ((15 August 1950 – 10 December 1991), a Sussex cricketer. Married Ann Griffith, and had issue. David James Christian Faber (born 7 July 1961), Conservative politician and a former committee member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. He married firstly to Sally Gilbert and secondly to Sophie Amanda Hedley. James Edwin Charles Faber (born 1964).
The family lived at Birch Grove, the Macmillan home in East Sussex and at Chester Square in London.
Caroline disliked politics but supported the political campaigns of her family members, and her funeral was held at Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk, London later that month.
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Who was Caroline Faber?
noblewoman; daughter of Harold Macmillan and Lady Dorothy Cavendish
When was Caroline Faber born?
Caroline Faber was born on 29 August 1923.
When did Caroline Faber die?
Caroline Faber died on 14 September 2016 in Sussex.
What was Caroline Faber's occupation?
Caroline Faber was an aristocrat and ambulance driver.
What nationality was Caroline Faber?
Caroline Faber was British and English.
Sources & further reading
· DBpedia: Lady Caroline Faber
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