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Cynthia Spencer was a British peeress and the paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth and a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer, Condessa Spencer (16 de agosto de 1897 — Althorp, 4 de dezembro de 1972) foi a esposa de Albert Spencer, 7.º Conde Spencer e a avó paterna de Diana, Princesa de Gales.
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Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix Hamilton was born 16 August 1897 to James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869-1953) and Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (1869-1958) and died 4 December 1972 Althorp, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom of a brain tumour. She married Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975) 26 February 1...
Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer, Countess Spencer, DCVO, OBE (16 August 1897 – 4 December 1972), known as Lady Cynthia Hamilton until her marriage, and from then as Viscountess Althorp until 1922 when her husband inherited his father's title of Earl Spencer, was a British peeress.
She was the daughter of James, Marquess of Hamilton, later 3rd Duke of Abercorn (30 November 1869 – 12 September 1953) and Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (26 February 1869 – 18 January 1958). Her maternal grandparents were Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox, a daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lady Caroline Paget.
Cynthia Hamilton married Viscount Althorp on 26 February 1919 at St. James's, Piccadilly, London.
They had two children:
•Lady Anne Spencer (born 4 August 1920) who married Christopher Balwin Hughes Wake-Walker, a Captain of the Royal Navy.
•Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (24 January 1924 – 29 March 1992).
Countess Spencer was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth from 1937 to her death, and was the grandmother of Lady Diana Spencer, later the Princess of Wales. Cynthia, Countess Spencer died at the Spencer’s ancestral home, Althorp of a brain tumour, aged 75.
1.^ Williamson, D The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer In: Genealogist’s Magazine, 1981; Vol. 20 (#6) pp. 192–199, and Vol. 20 (#8) pp. 281–282
2.^ Mosley, C (ed.) Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage, 106th edition (Burke’s Peerage, Crans, Switzerland, 1999) vol. 2 p. 2673
3.^ The Times (London), Wednesday, 6 December 1972; p. 32 col. A
4.^ Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story (BCA, 1992) p. 24
12 de jan. de 2023 · Genealogy for Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Spencer (Hamilton), Countess Spencer (1897 - 1972) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
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Cynthia Spencer (1897-1972) was the wife of the 7th Earl Spencer and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Mother. See 12 portraits of her from the National Portrait Gallery collection, taken by various photographers.
Cynthia Spencer was a British peeress and the paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She married Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, in 1919 and had two children, Lady Anne Wake-Walker and Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer.
Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix Spencer, Countess Spencer (née Hamilton; 16 August 1897 – 4 December 1972) was a British peeress and the paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
