Henriette, Lady Abel Smith (Redirected from Alexander Abel Smith)

Lady Abel Smith

Born
Henriette Alice Cadogan

(1914-06-06)6 June 1914
Died3 May 2005(2005-05-03) (aged 90)
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation(s)Lady-in-Waiting, Justice of the Peace
Spouses
(m. 1939; died 1941)
(m. 1953; died 1980)
Children4; including Sir Mark Palmer, 5th Baronet
RelativesHenry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan (great-grandfather)
Stafford Howard (grandfather)

Dame Henriette Alice, Lady Abel Smith, DCVO, JP (née Cadogan; 6 June 1914 – 3 May 2005) was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II from 1949 to 1987.

Early life

Henriette Alice Cadogan was the daughter of Commander Francis Charles Cadogan, a Royal Navy officer of Quenington Old Rectory, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, (a grandson of Henry Charles Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan) by his wife Ruth Evelyn Howard, a daughter of Sir Edward Stafford Howard, a great-nephew of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk.

Career

She held the office of a Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II from 1949 to 1987. In 1987 she became an Extra Lady-in-Waiting. She served as a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Tunbridge Wells in 1955, and for Gloucestershire in 1971. She was invested as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1964 New Year Honours, and was elevated to Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1977.

Marriages and progeny

She married twice:

Death

Abel Smith died on 3 May 2005 at The Garden House, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, aged 90.


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