Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe

Roland Calvert Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, was a member of the British aristocracy. He became Baron Ashcombe on the death of his father Henry Cubitt, 2nd Baron Ashcombe, in 1947. He was the maternal grandfather of Queen Camilla.

Education and career

Cubitt was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant in 1939 and held office as Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Surrey in 1940.

Family

On 16 November 1920 he married Sonia Rosemary Keppel, daughter of the Hon. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel, at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, in London. They were divorced in 1947 after having three children:

Rosalind Maud Cubitt - m. Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand and had three children:
* Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom
* Sonia Annabel Shand
* Mark Roland Shand
Henry Edward Cubitt m. Ghislaine Alexander
Jeremy John Cubitt m. Diana Edith Du Cane and had a child:
* Sarah Victoria Cubitt

Roland married secondly, on 6 August 1948, Idina Joan Mills who died in 1954, daughter of Col. Robert Edward Myddelton, and his wife Lady Violet Wellesley.
He married thirdly, on 2 July 1959, Jean Baylis, daughter of Charles Tuller Garland.

Death and burial

He died on 28 October 1962 is buried in the churchyard of St Barnabas's Church, Ranmore Common, Surrey.