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Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, LG, DBE, FRSL (née Spencer Churchill; 15 September 1922 – 31 May 2014) was an English author.The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, [1] she worked for public organisations including the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from 1939 to 1941, and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941.
RMS Queen Mary [3] is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [4] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York.
Sir Edgar Britten KB RD RNR (1874 – October 28, 1936) was a Cunard Line captain remembered primarily for being the first captain of the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary in 1936. Born in Bradford, England, he began his career as a cabin boy. [1]
Sir Edward William Spencer Ford GCVO KCB ERD DL FRSA (24 July 1910 – 19 November 2006) was a courtier in the Royal Households of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II.He is perhaps best known for writing to Elizabeth II’s private secretary regarding the 40th year of her reign, having hoped that the Queen would experience an annus mirabilis but instead finding 1992 an annus horribilis.
Her mother was Mary nee Churchill, the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill. She is a sister of Lord Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative Minister of Defence under Sir John Major . Education
Mary reportedly had a haemorrhage on 24 March 1953. [5] A bulletin released at Marlborough House at 11:40 am announced that there were concerns for her health condition. [3] A second bulletin at 1:40 pm stated that her condition had "become more grave" and there was "a serious weakening of the heart action". [3]
Mary was not styled "Her Royal Highness" from birth, only gaining that style in 1898 by letters patent granted by her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. [56] After Victoria's death in January 1901, Mary was known as Princess Mary of Cornwall and York, until her father's creation as Prince of Wales in November of that year, when she assumed the ...
Through his eldest daughter, Lady Sarah (who inherited the bulk of his mother's estate upon her death in 1965), [25] he was a grandfather of four: Serena Mary Churchill Russell (b. 1944) (who married Neil Balfour), Consuelo Sarah Russell (b. 1946), Alexandra Brenda Russell (b. 1949), and Jacqueline Russell (b. 1958). [citation needed]