Lady Caroline Faber


Lady Ann Caroline Faber was an English aristocrat, political campaigner and philanthropist. She was the daughter of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

Biography

Ann Caroline Macmillan was born on 1923 at 14 Chester Square, Belgravia, London. Her father was the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Her mother was Lady Dorothy Macmillan, daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. She was the second of her parents' four children, and their last surviving child.
Macmillan attended West Heath Girls' School, where she was offered a place to study medicine at the University of Oxford. She declined the offer but served as an ambulance driver in World War II, during which time she met her future husband, insurance executive Julian Tufnell Faber. He was then an officer in the Welsh Guards.
They were married from 1944 until Faber's death in January 2002. They had five children:
The family lived at Birch Grove, the Macmillan home in East Sussex and at Chester Square in London.
Caroline disliked politics but supported the political campaigns of her family members, including her brother Maurice Macmillan and son David Faber, and carried out charity work for the National Blind Children's Society.
She died in Sussex on 14 September 2016 at the age of 93, and her funeral was held at Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk, London later that month.