Frances Campbell-Preston

Dame Frances Olivia Campbell-Preston (; 2 September 1918 – 22 November 2022) was a British courtier and author who served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother from 1965 to 2002.

Family and education Frances Olivia Grenfell was the daughter of Arthur Morton Grenfell (1873–1958), a grandson of the businessman Pascoe St Leger Grenfell, and his second wife, Hilda Margaret Lyttleton (1886–1972) (daughter of The Hon. Sir Neville Lyttelton), and her uncles included the politician Cecil Alfred Grenfell and the soldier Francis Octavius Grenfell. She was the sister-in-law of the actress and comedian Joyce Grenfell and aunt of the politician William Waldegrave, and her brother-in-law was Lord Ballantrae, Governor-General of New Zealand. Patrick, an officer in the Black Watch at the time of their marriage, was an equerry to Lord Tweedsmuir during the 1930s and was later imprisoned at Colditz Castle during the Second World War. He died in a car crash in 1960, after he and Frances had had four children.

Publications Campbell-Preston was the author of two books: