Peter Shand Kydd
Peter Shand Kydd was the stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, and heir to the wallpaper fortune built by his father Norman Shand Kydd. His mother was Frances Madalein Foy, whose uncle was the Australian businessman Mark Foy. He was the half-brother of champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd, who was the husband of Christina Muriel Duncan, sister of Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan.
Marriages
He married Janet Munro Kerr, granddaughter of John Martin Munro Kerr. He sold the family business in 1962 and moved his family to "Kooringa", Young, NSW, Australia, where he became a sheep farmer.After selling the property and returning to England, and still married, he began an affair with Diana's mother Viscountess Althorp. She was married to John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later 8th Earl Spencer. They both divorced, and then were free to marry each other, which they did on 2 May 1969. He thus became stepfather to her four children, including Diana, although the Viscount eventually won the bitter custody battle. They lived in Buckinghamshire and West Itchenor, West Sussex, finally settling on a 1,000 acre farm on the remote Scottish island of Seil. The couple separated in June 1988. Frances blamed the pressure of media attention, following the rise to fame of Diana, for the breakdown of the marriage.
In 1993, Shand Kydd married Marie-Pierre Palmer, who ran a champagne-importing business in London, which lasted until April 1995.