| 词条 | Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy |
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lady Fermoy | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|DCVO|OBE}} | image = | image_size = | caption = Portrait by Anthony Devas | birth_name = Ruth Sylvia Gill | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1908|10|2}} | birth_place = Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1993|7|6|1908|10|2}} | death_place = 36 Eaton Square, London, England | nationality = British | occupation = Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | education = Paris Conservatoire | spouse = Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy | children = Mary Cynthia Roche Frances Shand Kydd Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy | known_for = Maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales | relatives = Diana, Princess of Wales (granddaughter) | parents = William Smith Gill Ruth Littlejohn }} Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|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. BiographyLady Fermoy was born Ruth Sylvia Gill at her father's house, Dalhebity, Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, the daughter of Colonel William Smith Gill and his wife, Ruth (née Littlejohn).[1] She showed early promise as a pianist and studied under Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1920s.[2] Her musical career was cut short when she met the wealthy and much older Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy. They married on 17 September 1931 at St. Devenick's Church in Bieldside, Aberdeenshire. Lord and Lady Fermoy had three children, including Frances, who would become the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Lady Fermoy did play the piano in public occasionally after her marriage, most notably with Josef Krips at the Royal Albert Hall in 1950, and with Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra at King's Lynn in 1966.[3] She founded the King's Lynn Festival in 1951 and remained closely involved with the Festival for 25 years, persuading Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to become its patron.[4] In 1956, the Queen Mother appointed Lady Fermoy an Extra Woman of the Bedchamber. The Queen Mother, being a widow herself, showed a preference for appointing widows to her household, and four years later Lady Fermoy was promoted to Woman of the Bedchamber, a post she held for the next 33 years.[5] Lady Fermoy was a firm believer in the sanctity of marriage. In 1969, her daughter Frances and John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, divorced after Frances left her husband for Peter Shand Kydd. Lady Fermoy testified against her daughter, which allowed Viscount Althorp to retain custody of Diana.[2] The Queen Mother and Lady Fermoy became confidantes, and it was assumed by many that the two women engineered the match between their grandchildren, the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. However, when asked about it, Lady Fermoy remarked: "You can say that if you like – but it simply wouldn't be true".[6] She was also said to have counselled her granddaughter against the marriage, saying: "Darling, you must understand that their sense of humour and their lifestyle are different, and I don't think it will suit you."[7] Lady Fermoy died at her home at 36 Eaton Square, London, on 6 July 1993,[8] aged 84.[9] It was reported that she was not on speaking terms with Diana when she died.[2] AncestryLady Fermoy's great-grandmother, Kitty Forbes, was the daughter of Scotsman Theodore Forbes and Indian-Armenian Eliza Kewark. Eliza's father, Hakob Kevork or Kevorkian, was Armenian; her Indian mother was likely to have been Muslim.[10][11] {{ahnentafel|collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy |2= 2. William Smith Gill |3= 3. Ruth Littlejohn |4= 4. Alexander Ogston Gill |5= 5. Barbara Smith Marr |6= 6. David Littlejohn |7= 7. Jane Crombie |8= 8. David Gill |9= 9. Sarah Ogston |10= 10. William Smith Marr |11= 11. Helen Bean |12=12. William Littlejohn |13= 13. Janet Bentley |14= 14. James Crombie |15= 15. Katharine Scott Forbes |16= 16. John Gill |17= 17. Isabel Nicol |18= 18. Alexander Ogston |19= 19. Helen Milne |20=20. John Marr |21= 21. Barbara Smith |22=22. George Bean |23= |24=24. James Littlejohn |25=25. Jean Chalmers |26=26. James Bentley |27=27. Isobel Dingwall Fordyce |28=28. John Crombie |29=29. Catherine Harvey |30= 30. Theodore Forbes |31= 31. Eliza Kewark }} References1. ^Williamson, D The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer In: Genealogist’s Magazine, 1981; vol. 20 (no. 6) pp. 192–199 and vol. 20 (no. 8) pp. 281–282 {{Diana, Princess of Wales}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fermoy, Ruth Roche, Baroness}}2. ^1 2 The Times (London), Thursday, 8 July 1993; p. 4 col. D and p. 19 col. A 3. ^{{cite book|last=Vickers|first=Hugo|title=Elizabeth: The Queen Mother|publisher=Arrow Books/Random House|year=2006|isbn= 978-0-09-947662-7|page=337 }} 4. ^History of the King's Lynn Festival {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518040430/http://www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/pages/history-amp-hall-of-fame.php |date=18 May 2011 }} 5. ^Mosley, C (ed.) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage and Gentry LLC, 2004) vol. I p. 1414 6. ^The Associated Press, 7 July 1993 7. ^Morton, Andrew, Diana: Her True Story (BCA, 1992) p. 55 8. ^Who's Who, 1980 (Adam and Charles Black, London) p. 837 9. ^{{cite news|title=The Dowager Lady Fermoy; Diana's Grandmother, 84|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/08/obituaries/the-dowager-lady-fermoy-diana-s-grandmother-84.html|accessdate=9 June 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 July 1993}} 10. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130621/jsp/frontpage/story_17032045.jsp#.Ut0Aukhwa00|title=On the elusive trail of Eliza Kewark|work=The Telegraph (Calcutta)|date=21 June 2013|accessdate=20 Jan 2014}} 11. ^{{cite news|author=Mario Ledwith|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341437/Williams-Indian-ancestry-DNA-tests-future-monarch-clear-genetic-line-country-mothers-side.html|title=William's Indian ancestry: DNA tests show future monarch has clear genetic line to the country from his mother's side|work=Daily Mail|date=14 June 2013|accessdate=21 July 2013}} 13 : 1908 births|1993 deaths|British ladies-in-waiting|People from Aberdeen|People from London|British people of Armenian descent|British people of Indian descent|British people of Scottish descent|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order|Disease-related deaths in England|20th-century British women|20th-century British people |
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