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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.
Nov 11, 2020 · Instead, it falls upon Diana's grandmother, the formidable Baroness Fermoy, a close confidante of the Queen Mother, with a lifetime of experience at court, to instruct her granddaughter in the ways of the Windsors.
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 Baron...
Nov 16, 2020 · Lady Fermoy, Diana's maternal grandmother and the Queen Mother's Woman of the Bedchamber, did not support her marriage to Charles and warned her against it. She was not on speaking terms with Diana when she died in 1993.
Jul 6, 1993 · "Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE, (2 October 1908 – 6 July 1993) was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the maternal grandmother of Lady Diana Spencer, later Princess of Wales."
Mar 2, 2023 · She was closely connected to the Royal Family as the daughter of Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, who was a friend of King George VI, and Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, a confidante and lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother (then Queen Elizabeth).
Jul 6, 1993 · Ruth Sylvia Roche was the wife of Edmund Maurice Burke, 4th Baron Fermoy, and a lifelong confidante of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. She was buried at St. Mary Magdalene Churchyard in Sandringham, Norfolk, England.
