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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).
Her mother, Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, a daughter of Colonel William Smith Gill, was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother). Since birth, she held the style of The Honourable as the daughter of a baron .
Jul 6, 1993 · Ruth Sylvia. Gill. Roche. British Nobility. She was Lady Fermoy, Dame of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 1931, became the wife of Edmund Maurice Burke, 4th Baron Fermoy. The couple had three children. She was a lifelong confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Nov 16, 2020 · In season four of The Crown, Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, is depicted as a very stern old woman who impresses on Diana how important her match to Prince Charles is for their Family. She later...
Nov 15, 2020 · 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...
Jul 6, 1993 · Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy DCVO OBE was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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.
Photograph of half length portrait of Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy (1908-93) standing, holding her daughter Mary Cynthia Roche (b.1934). The sitters face halfway to the left and gaze ahead, away from the camera.
Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE 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.
