Lady Alice Egerton (7 August 1923 – 7 October 1977) was a British courtier from the
Egerton family.
Lady Alice was the youngest child of the
4th Earl of Ellesmere and his wife, Violet. In 1949, she replaced her sister,
Lady Margaret Colville, as a
Lady-in-Waiting
A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom sh ...
to the then
Princess Elizabeth and became a
Woman of the Bedchamber in 1953. Lady Alice never married and remained in service to the Queen for the next 24 years.
In 1977, she was found dead in her home near Battle of Flodden Field, Flodden Field in Northumberland; the suicide was claimed by some to have resulted from being dismissed from the Royal Household, allegedly for warning the Queen about Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip's infidelity,
although Lady Alice's family attribute it to her history of depression.
References
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1923 births
1977 deaths
Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Leveson-Gower family, Alice
Egerton family, Alice
Daughters of British earls
Place of birth missing
Suicides in England