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Personal data Hon. Viscountess Frances Ruth Roche 

Source 1
  • She was born on January 20, 1936 in Sandringham, Norfolk, England.
    Park House, Sandringham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England
  • She died on June 3, 2004 in Seil, Slate Islands, Argyll and Bute Cnty, Scotland, she was 68 years old.
    Oorzaak: degenerative brain disease
    Died in her home, an 18-th century farmhouse called Ardencaple, 10 km from Oban, Scotland

Household of Hon. Viscountess Frances Ruth Roche

(1) She is married to Edward John Spencer.

They got married on June 1, 1954 at London, Middlesex, England, she was 18 years old.

Westminster Abbey

Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)
  2. (Not public)
  3. John Spencer  1960-1960
  4. Diana Frances Spencer  1961-1997 
  5. (Not public)

The couple were divorced on between January 1969 and May 1969.

Frances had affair with Peter Shand Kydd, and re-married to him on 2 May 1969


(2) She is married to Peter Shand Kydd.

They got married on May 2, 1969, she was 33 years old.

The couple were divorced in 1990.

Spouse: Frances Ruth Burke Shand Kydd (born Roche)

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Frances Ruth Roche

Frances Ruth Roche
1936-2004

(1) 1954

Edward John Spencer
1924-1992

(Not public)
(Not public)
John Spencer
1960-1960
Diana Frances Spencer
1961-1997
(Not public)
(2) 1969

Peter Shand Kydd
1925-2006


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  1. WikiTree, via https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Roche-27...
    Early life She was born Frances Ruth Roche in Park House, on the royal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk, on 20 January 1936. Her father was Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder son of the American heiress Frances Ellen Work and her first husband, the 3rd Baron Fermoy. Her mother, Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, 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. Marriage and issue On 1 June 1954, she married John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (later the 8th Earl Spencer), at Westminster Abbey. Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family attended the wedding ceremony. She was 18 years old and became the youngest woman wed in Westminster Abbey in the last five decades. They had five children: Lady Sarah McCorquodale (born 19 March 1955), who married Neil Edmund McCorquodale, a 2nd cousin once removed of Raine, Countess Spencer. Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes (born 11 February 1957), who married Baron Fellowes. The Honourable John Spencer, who died within 10 hours after his birth on 12 January 1960. Diana, Princess of Wales (1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (born 20 May 1964), who married Victoria Lockwood, then Caroline Freud (née Hutton and former wife of Matthew Freud). Charles is now married to his third wife, Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer. Divorce and remarriage Ardencaple house Her marriage to Viscount Althorp was not a happy one and, in 1967, she left him to be with Peter Shand Kydd, an heir to a wallpaper fortune in Australia whom she had met the year before. His half-brother was the former champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd (1937–2014), who was the brother-in-law of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan. Subsequently, she was named "the other woman" in Janet Shand Kydd's divorce action against her husband. Frances and Peter Shand Kydd were married on 2 May 1969 and lived on the Scottish island of Seil, where they bought an 18th-century farmhouse called Ardencaple, just 10 kilometres from Oban. She divided her time between London, Seil and another sheep farm in Yass, New South Wales. Although she lived a quiet life, she was forced into public view following the engagement of her daughter Diana to Prince Charles on 24 February 1981. Later years On 14 July 1976, the 8th Earl Spencer married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, daughter of the novelist Dame Barbara Cartland. He eventually won a bitter custody battle over his children. Shand Kydd and her second husband separated in June 1988, after he left her for a younger woman. She blamed the pressure of media attention for the breakdown of the marriage. In 1996, she was banned from driving after being convicted of drunk-driving, but denied she had a problem with alcohol. She and Diana quarrelled in May 1997, after she told Hello! magazine that Diana was happy to lose her style of "Royal Highness" following her controversial divorce from Prince Charles. She was reportedly not on speaking terms with her daughter by the time of Diana's death. She spent her later years in solitude on Seil. She became a Roman Catholic and devoted herself to Catholic charities. She eventually became involved with the Handicapped Children's Trust, the Royal National Mission for Deep Sea Fishermen, the Mallaig and Northwest Fishermen's Association, and the National Search and Rescue Dogs Association. In October 2002, when Shand Kydd left her Scottish home to give testimony at the trial of Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, burglars targeted her house and stole her jewellery. Death and burial Shand Kydd died in at her home in Scotland at the age of 68 on 3 June 2004, following a long illness that included Parkinson's disease and brain cancer. Her funeral at the Roman Catholic cathedral in Oban on 10 June was attended by many of her children and grandchildren, including Princes William (who gave a reading) and Harry. Their father, her former son-in-law, Charles, Prince of Wales, did not attend because he was on the way to another funeral—going to Washington to lead the British delegation at the state funeral of the former US President Ronald Reagan the following day. Shand Kydd was buried in the local graveyard on the outskirts of Oban in Argyll. Titles and styles 20 January 1936 – 1 June 1954: The Honourable Frances Roche 1 June 1954 – 15 April 1969: Viscountess Althorp 15 April 1969 – 2 May 1969: Frances, Viscountess Althorp 2 May 1969 – 3 Jun 2004: The Honourable Frances Shand Kydd Biography In 2004, Maxine Riddington published a biographical book about her, entitled Frances: The Remarkable Story of Princess Diana's Mother.
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Historical events

Birthday January 20, 1936

  • The average temperature on January 20, 1936 was 5.2 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
    • January 8 » Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
    • April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
    • August 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Spanish Republic.
    • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
    • August 24 » The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
    • December 7 » Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.

Day of marriage May 2, 1969

  • The temperature on May 2, 1969 was between 7.9 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
    • May 10 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
    • June 23 » Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
    • July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
    • September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
    • October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
    • October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

Day of death June 3, 2004

  • The temperature on June 3, 2004 was between 11.3 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
    • January 1 » In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
    • January 4 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
    • May 1 » Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
    • June 5 » Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.
    • October 14 » Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.
    • November 22 » The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.


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