Ann Parker Bowles
Dame Ann Parker Bowles was a British aristocrat and Girl Guides leader.
Background
Ann de Trafford was born in 1918 at 29, Portland Place, London, the eldest daughter of millionaire racehorse owner Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 4th Baronet, and the Hon. Cynthia Hilda Evelyn Cadogan, a daughter of Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea. The de Trafford Baronets descend from a pre-Conquest-founded recusant line of lords of the manor who were wealthy in the Middle Ages and restored to hereditary title in the mid-19th century. Ann continued to adhere to the religion of her family, Catholicism.Honours
Ann Parker Bowles was a Commissioner of the Commonwealth Girl Guides Association. For these and other services to the Commonwealth she was invested as Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 New Year Honours, and, five years later, as a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1977.Marriage and children
On 14 February 1939, she married Derek Henry Parker Bowles, son of Eustace Parker Bowles and Wilma Mary Garnault Bowles, only daughter of Sir Henry Ferryman Bowles, 1st Baronet. They had four children:- Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles
- Simon Humphrey Parker Bowles
- Mary Ann Parker Bowles
- Richard Eustace Parker Bowles