Margaret Rhodes
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Margaret Rhodes
Early life and education
Born Margaret Elphinstone in
Career
During World War II, she worked as a secretary for MI6.[5][6][7] She was a Woman of the Bedchamber – a mix of lady-in-waiting and companion – to her aunt Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, from 1991 until the latter's death in 2002.[4]
In the
Her autobiography, The Final Curtsey, was published in 2011.[6] She was the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on 3 June 2012.[10]
Rhodes appeared in seven documentaries about her first cousin Queen Elizabeth II.[citation needed]
On 27 November 2016, Buckingham Palace confirmed that Rhodes had died, aged 91, on 25 November following a short illness.
Personal life
On 31 July 1950, she married the writer
- Annabel Margaret Rhodes (born 21 February 1952); she married Christopher James Downing Strickland-Skailes in 1978. They have one son. She remarried G. V. Charles Cope in 1986. Annabel was a goddaughter of the Duke of Edinburgh[citation needed] and served as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Princess Margaret.
- Andrew James Downing Strickland-Skailes (born 1980)
- Victoria Ann Rhodes (born 27 September 1953), a goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II; married Nicholas Deans in 1974
- Simon John Gravenor Rhodes (born 22 February 1957), a godson of Princess Margaret;[citation needed] married Susan Simon in 1983. Susan was appointed as an extra lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II in July 2017,[13] and an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess Royal in January 2024.[14]
- Michael Andrew Gravenor Rhodes (born 8 June 1960)
References
- ^ "Margaret Rhodes". Desert Island Discs. 3 June 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ a b Knapton, Sarah (27 November 2016). "Queen's cousin and best friend Margaret Rhodes dies aged 91". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ ISBN 978-1780270852.
- ^ a b Barry Neild; Nick Glass (5 June 2012). "How Diana's death turned queen into 'proper granny'". London: CNN. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ a b c Grice, Elizabeth (13 April 2011). "Margaret Rhodes: The Queen's cousin". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ a b Brandreth, Gyles (2005). Philip & Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage (First American ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.
- ^ Chen, Joyce (17 July 2013). "I'm "Not Terribly" Excited about Kate Middleton's Baby". US Weekly. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Queen 'will never quit throne' claims cousin". The Scotsman. 19 April 2006.
- ^ "Margaret Rhodes". BBC Radio 4. 3 June 2012.
- ^ Court Circular, 12 December 2016
- ^ Hunt, Peter (27 November 2016). "Queen's cousin Margaret Rhodes dies".
- ^ Appendix to the Court Circular, 13 July 2017
- ^ Appendix to the Court Circular, 31 January 2024
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