Lady Alice Egerton (7 August 1923 – 7 October 1977) was a British courtier from the

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. 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

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to the then Princess Elizabeth and became a

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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

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; the suicide was claimed by some to have resulted from being dismissed from the Royal Household, allegedly for warning the Queen about

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's infidelity, although Lady Alice's family attribute it to her history of depression.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Egerton, Alice 1923 births 1977 deaths Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order

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Daughters of British earls Place of birth missing Suicides in England British ladies-in-waiting