Edith Marguerite Harrington

Edith Marguerite Tippet (née Harrington, previously Shand; 14 June 1893 – 3 January 1981), sometimes known as Margot, was the first wife of the English journalist Philip Morton Shand and through her only child, Bruce, was the paternal grandmother of Queen Camilla. Childhood Edith Marguerite Harrington was born at 32 Linver Road, Fulham, London, on 14 June 1893, the second of the six children born to George Woods Harrington (1865–1920), an accounts clerk, and his wife Alice Edith Harrington, née Stillman (1865–1935). The son of a butler, her father changed employers many times during his working life but his modest income meant that he always had difficulty accommodating his growing family, moving first to Putney, then to Acton, London and eventually to Isleworth. As was common practice in large Victorian families, the elder children lodged with their grandparents due to space constraints; by 1901 Edith’s elder brother Cyril was living with his grandfather and by 1911 Edith was living there too. First marriage and issue