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On 1 June 1954, she mar­ried John Spencer, Vis­count Al­thorp (later the 8th Earl Spencer), at West­min­ster Abbey. Queen Eliz­a­beth II and other mem­bers of the royal fam­ily at­tended the wed­ding ceremony.She was 18 years old and be­came the youngest woman wed in West­min­ster Abbey since 1893. They had five chil­dren: 1. Lady Sarah McCorquodal...

Her mar­riage to Vis­count Al­thorp was not a happy one and, in 1967, she left him to be with Peter Shand Kydd, an heir to a wall­pa­per for­tune in Aus­tralia, whom she had met the year be­fore. His half-brother was the for­mer cham­pion am­a­teur jockey William Shand Kydd (1937–2014), who was the brother-in-law of John Bing­ham, 7th Earl of Lucan...

In 1996, she was banned from dri­ving after being con­victed of drink-driving, but de­nied she had a prob­lem with al­co­hol. She and Diana quar­relled in May 1997, after she told Hello! mag­a­zine that Diana was happy to lose her title of "Royal High­ness" fol­low­ing her con­tro­ver­sial di­vorce from Prince Charles. She was re­port­edly not on s...

Frances died at her home in Scot­land at the age of 68 on 3 June 2004, fol­low­ing a long ill­ness that in­cluded Parkin­son's dis­ease and brain can­cer. Her fu­neral at the Roman Catholic cathe­dral in Oban on 10 June was at­tended by her chil­dren, sis­ter and grand­chil­dren, in­clud­ing princes William (who gave a read­ing) and Harry. Their fa...

In 2004, Max­ine Rid­ding­ton pub­lished a bi­o­graph­i­cal book about her, en­ti­tled Frances: The Re­mark­able Story of Princess Diana's Mother.