The Honourable Frances Ruth Burke Roche

1936 - 2004  (68 years)

• Name	Frances Ruth Burke Roche
  Prefix	The Honourable
  Birth Registration	Between 1 Jan 1936 and 31 Mar 1936	Freebridge Lynn Registration District, Norfolk, England
  	Vol. 4b, p. 344
  	Frances R Roche, mother maiden name Gill, was born.
  Born	20 Jan 1936	Sandringham, Norfolk, England
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	LVKW-PHK
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LVKW-PHK
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	8875847
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8875847
  Group	Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
  	DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran
  Group	Head of Line - Elder John Strong
  	Descendants of Elder John Stong
  Died	3 Jun 2004	Seil, Argyll, Scotland
  Buried	Aft 3 Jun 2004	Pennyfuir Cemetery, Oban, Argyll, Scotland
  Person ID	I22619	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	6 May 2023

  
  

  Father	Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy,   b. 15 May 1885, Chelsea, Middlesex, England ,   d. 8 Jul 1955, Sandringham, Norfolk, England  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Ruth Sylvia Gill, Lady Fermoy,   b. 2 Oct 1908, Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ,   d. 6 Jul 1993, Belgravia, Middlesex, England  (Age 84 years)
  Married	17 Sep 1931	Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F10746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edward John Spencer, Eighth Earl Spencer of Althorp,   b. 24 Jan 1924, Bayswater, Westminster, Middlesex, England ,   d. 29 Mar 1992, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 68 years)
  Marriage Registration	Between 1 Apr 1954 and 30 Jun 1954	Westminster Registration District, Middlesex, England
  	Vol. 5c, p. 585
  	(Viscount) Althorp/Edward J Spencer and Frances R B Roche were married.
  Married	1 Jun 1954	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
  Divorced	Apr 1969
  Marriage Status	Divorced
  Children	1. Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales,   b. 1 Jul 1961, Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England ,   d. 31 Aug 1997, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France  (Age 36 years)
  Last Modified	6 May 2023
  Family ID	F10747	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 20 Jan 1936 - Sandringham, Norfolk, England Marriage Registration - Vol. 5c, p. 585 - Between 1 Apr 1954 and 30 Jun 1954 - Westminster Registration District, Middlesex, England Married - 1 Jun 1954 - Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England Buried - Aft 3 Jun 2004 - Pennyfuir Cemetery, Oban, Argyll, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Badges

  Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier Descendant

  
  

• Notes

  From FindaGrave: English Nobility. The mother of Princess Diana Spencer, she was born Frances Ruth Burke Roche in Sandringham England and was the daughter of the Fourth Baron Fermoy. Her mother, Lady Ruth Fermoy, was a confidante and lady in waiting to the late Queen Mother. Shand Kydd married Edward John Spencer, 12 years her senior, in 1954 at Westminster Abbey. They had three daughters —  Diana was the youngest —  and two sons. The marriage foundered in 1967 when she fell in love with Peter Shand Kydd, a married wallpaper heir, and the couple divorced in 1969. Shand Kydd remarried in 1969 when the future princess was 6 years old. Shand-Kydd is survived by son, Charles, Earl Spencer and daughters Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McQuorquodale. Her stepson, Adam Shand Kydd, 49, died from an overdose of sleeping pills in Cambodia in April 2004. Bio by: Just another taphophile