Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech DCVO (née Gascoyne-Cecil; 10 August 1891 – 3 December 1980) was an English courtier who served as Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Lady Beatrice was born in London, the daughter of Viscount Cranborne, later the Marquess of Salisbury, and his wife, Lady Cicely Alice Gore, daughter of the 5th Earl of Arran.[1]

She married William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech at Westminster Abbey on 12 April 1913.[2]

She was created Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1947 Birthday Honours.[3]

Lady Harlech died at her home in Ladbroke Grove, London, aged 89.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 959. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Lady Beatrice Cecil's Wedding". The Times. 14 April 1913. p. 8.
  3. ↑ "No. 37977". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1947. p. 2577.
  4. ↑ "Deaths". The Times. 5 December 1980. p. 32.


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