Lady Constance Gaskell
Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell, DCVO DStJ was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937 to 1953 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953 to 1960.
Early life
Lady Constance was the second, but eldest surviving, daughter of Constance Caulfeild and Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, who was later Governor of New Zealand from 1897 to 1904.Courtier
Lady Gaskell was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937 to 1953 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953 to 1960. She was appointed Dame of Justice, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.Personal life
On 7 November 1905, she married Maj. Evelyn Milnes Gaskell, a son of Rt. Hon. Charles Milnes Gaskell, MP for Morley, and the former Lady Catherine Henrietta Wallop, an author. Together, they were the parents of:- Charles Thomas Milnes Gaskell, a Lt. in the Coldstream Guards, he married Lady Ethel Patricia Hare, daughter of Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel and Hon. Freda Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, who married Lewis Motley, in 1934.